This.
Ryan is an excellent defensive coach. He's no more than average in any other aspect of the game. He has to take some responsibility for the Jets mediocrity over the last three years. His team basically failed to show up in a number of key games, particularly the Miami game four weeks ago.
It's really nice that the Jets finished strong. But really, so what? A good NFL GM considers circumstances in making performance evaluations. Performance is usually discounted when coaches are coaching and the players are playing with no pressure and nothing to lose.
Ryan used the potential loss of his job to motivate his team to win. It's as if BB said "please do your job or I'll get fired." Can anyone imagine that from BB or the Harbaughs or Coughlin or Carroll? That won't motivate the Jets in Week 12 of 2014. It's a crazy way to coach and I'd rather than my team just work on getting better than have greater motivation because I might get fired.
I don't think we disagree all that much.
Ryan seems to be lights out with his Defense, but his apparent deficits on the other side of the ball have been complicated by his failure to be a good judge of talent for the OC job; three in the last three years, including the "Tony Sparano Error" and I'm not sure that Mornhinweg is anybody's answer...just ask the Eagles. Does he stick with him for one more season or does he go with his fourth Coordinator in four years? That's probably the most important decision he has to make, assuming that it is his to make.
Also, even the New York press is very tepid towards Geno Smith, who seems to be winning in the "nice guy" and "A for effort" categories (and deservedly so), but who turns the ball over way too often and seemed to be making the same mistakes in judgment in December that he was making in September...shades of the Sanchize. In fact, the personality similarities between Smith and Sanchez, drafted by two different GM's, do make me think that Johnson is calling the shots and making his GM go after players with whom he is personally comfortable; in other words, Colin Kaepernicks "need not apply."
This all gets back to my main point, which is that the "rot" in the Jets organization starts at the top.
Idzik makes BB look like a Chatty Cathy, so it's hard to tell how much of the blame he should shoulder and how much goes to Woody
"Is the Ball Stuffed with Feathers?" Johnson. My guess is that most of it probably belongs at the desk of the man who is living off of his Granddaddy's money, bought an NFL Team as a status symbol but hasn't worked a real day in his life; he strikes me as a maddening guy for whom to work. Idzik's predecessor did put together the team that went to the AFCCG twice in a row (once with a lot of help from the Colts), but Tannenbaum will forever be remembered for trading up to draft Sanchez. Idzik and Johnson now have to decide whether to risk another season on Smith or cut their losses.
For me, the bottom line is that Rex has changed his tune/style and does deserve one more season to show that he can contend for the Division.
:rocker: 
