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I don't think everyone is remembering clearly. He gave his mentor BB a big FU as soon as he got a sniff of an HC opportunity. BB counseled him to not take Jets in the division. The Rat started poaching assistants and coaches right away. He was trying to steal the playbook. He basically did everything that said he didn't appreciate the mentor ship and extraordinary support he had been given. This was all before he reported NEP to the league office for doing exactly what he had been doing two weeks earlier.
Look at how Josh has handled himself. Or Bill O'Brien. High principled men. Not a disloyal juvenile Rat.
I will never forget or get perspective on him.
Agreed.
I was at the Pats-Jets game in the Meadowlands in 2006 (AKA, Chad Jackson's finest hour). It was clear from the postgame "handshake" that these two truly had problems with each other. And that was a year BEFORE Cameragate.
IIRC, BB had Mangini's desk locked several months earlier so that he could not access his stuff on the way out.