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A week earlier, Jets coach Eric Mangini came to the postgame podium and talked rough and tough in defeat. His voice trembled with anger. He warned he was putting everyone in the organization, coaches and players, "on notice." He intimated cage-rattling changes might be made before yesterday's game against the eminently beatable Buffalo Bills. Then the game began and Mangini had nothing up his sleeve. Nothing.
The Jets are now 1-7. But contrary to what the hollow-eyed Jets players were whispering after yesterday's dreadful 13-3 loss, the Jets' fifth straight, not all of the losses are the same. This one was on Mangini.
The Jets weren't just out-played by the visiting Bills in a game that was sitting there, still screaming to be taken, with four minutes to play. The Jets were also outcoached.
Jets quarterback Chad Pennington didn't explicitly say that. Not exactly. But the longer he talked about what a "great game plan" the Bills' defense had yesterday, and the more he elaborated about how the Bills, now 3-4, have re-invented themselves as a team since the last time they played (and beat) the Jets a few weeks ago, the more damning the Jets' inability to change and adjust - not just within a game, but over the course of this season - looked.
And again, that's on Mangini.
The Jets are not just a team that is suffering from poor execution or a bad bounce here, a fluke play there.
Yesterday, the Jets were once again undone by Mangini's stubbornness and inertia.
Like the Jets' game plan for their first loss against the Bills, which Pennington admitted, "didn't quite work out for us the way we thought it would," the defensive tendencies the Jets' offense prepared all week to play off yesterday "didn't show up quite as often as they had in the past." And the Jets never adjusted.
The Jets were outcoached. Again.
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