You are truly clueless. Mangini mis-handled the defense. Favre sucked too. But I'm blaming it all on Mangini. He was fired for a reason!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No good coach would have allowed that collapse to happen after the Jets were 8-3.
How did Mangini mishandle the defense? Give specifics.
Of course he was fired for a reason. He was fired because the clueless, reactionary, chicken-little NY media was calling for his head and Woody Johnson is too much of a spineless idiot to actually follow through and execute on a long term plan. Most importantly, he was fired because the ownership needed to drum up some excitement so that they could sell their PSLs. That's where Ryan and Sanchez come in.
And why are you blaming the collapse on Mangini? Was Mangini the one that threw 2 touchdowns and 9 interceptions? Was he the one that was unwilling/unable to execute the plays in the playbook? Was he the one who has had a career-long resistance to actually studying the game, instead relying on physical gifts that deserted him at the midpoint of last season?
Yeah, that was all Mangini's fault. The funny thing is, I don't even like Mangini and I don't think that he's an excellent coach by a long shot. But he did have a long-term plan for building a successful program, and he paid the price for it by being tampered with (hello, Brett Favre) and fired prematurely. If you want to know why Belichick didn't want to coach for your joke of a franchise, that's exactly it; he knew that he could never build a program there, because idiot fans, idiot ownership, and the idiot media were too shortsighted and petulant to let it develop. Looks like Belichick was right (he always is).
Have fun rooting for a 6-10 team this year. I wonder who you'll blame in 2009...
