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Here's the big difference between the Jets and the Pats.
On the Jets, Rex selects the team captains in order to create a cadre of appointed "leaders" who take their cues from him. Thus, Sanchez and Holmes being captains even though neither of them have earned any kind of leadership stripes from their teammates.
On the Patriots, the players elect captains who best represent them based on demonstrated leadership on the field and in the locker room. When Patriots captains speak, they do so with the knowledge that their own peers put them in that position.
It's pretty obvious which method is more effective based on what's going on in Jersey right now.
Was it pretty obvious when the Patriots had to have a housecleaning of their own a couple of years ago?
People like to cast stones, but nobody's invented a perfect approach yet.