After the Weeb:
Charley Winner(hah!) - 9-14
Ken Shipp - 1-4
Lou Holts 3-10
Mike Holovak - 0-1
Walt Michaels - 39-47
Joe Walton - 53-57
Bruce Coslet - 26-38
Pete Carroll - 6-10
Rich Kotite - 4-28
Bill Parcells - 29-19 (He was never the same)
Al Groh - 9-7
Herman Edwards - 39-41
Eric Mangini - 23-25
Rex Ryan - 46-50
Todd Bowles - 24-40
Adam Gase - 6-9 (and plenty more of that to come)
I hate Mangini for obvious reasons, but the Jets were so, so stupid to let him go. He inherited a 4-12 team and immediately went 10-6 with Pennington. They went 4-12 in 2007, the Crygate year, as Pennington’s shoulder fell off again, and then they signed Favre. That team was 8-3 before the drama and Favre’s injury ruined it and they crashed. So 23-25 over three years, overseeing a clown show with dik picks, Pennington’s up and down shoulder, etc.
In three drafts he got D’Brickashaw Ferguson, Nick Mangold, Eric Smith, Brad Smith (the pesky WR/returner), Leon Washington, Darrelle Revis, David Harris, and Dustin Keller. He whiffed on Gholston, but that is one mighty impressive draft record.
Rex Ryan inherited a great nucleus of young players and just brought on some high paid sizzle big names to take credit for building the team. In actuality it was Mangini, and he probably had better vision/expected future results of any HC there in the last 40 years. In an alternate reality, Mangini stays at the helm and isn’t dumb enough to draft Sanchez. That Jet team had arguably the best young nucleus in the NFL.