Be prepared for the the Jet fan whine about losing their 2 top players due to injuries. What they don't understand is that the Jets have just gone through an almost unprecedented stretch of about 4 years where they had remarkably few injuries to key starters. IIRC they went through 3 complete seasons before losing Woody at the very end of the 2010 season, without the loss of a single offensive lineman. You can count on one hand the the games Revis and Cromartie have missed before this year.
Between the relative lack of injuries and other fortuitous events like teams giving the Jets games at the end of the season, and teams missing FGs and dropping picks, etc. The Jets recent stretch of relative success has been built on more image than substance. Their rapid decline back to embarrassment has been hastened by that swing of the "luck" pendulum.
The cries of Jet fans proclaiming Rex's coaching greatness are now but dying echoes in the marble halls of Jet Nation. Most of us saw past the bravado and saw the flaws in him that are becoming so clear to even Jet fans now. The poor personnel decisions. The lack of accountability, The failure to coach the entire team. All the noise without any substance. They were all there to see. Rex' message is always going to be one with a short life span. He simply just wrote too many checks that he asked his players to cash, and never gave them the long term funds to cover them.
Personally I'll miss him. He was so likeable yet so easy to hate. Still I have at least the rest of this season to watch him squirm in, and if I'm lucky he'll be dragging the Jets down for another season.
This is just soooo good.,
