And Tranny failed to draft a franchise QB when he had a shot at Cutler, and Ryan and Flaco. He handed Chad to an arch rival and is not anything more then a lawyer/accountant back stabber who with the Big Woody and a worship of money destroyed our team.

I say we go after Jimmy Johnson. After all he can always use hairspray on Brett’s arm to stiffen it up and force him to hand the ball off to LW or TJ.

If you’re willing to accept that Favre may have a good year next year if the offense is set up in such a way that it suits him better, are you prepared to rethink your comments about KC being a dead loss too?

so based on that rationale (chad likelihood of getting injured), the favre trade DID set the franchise back by preventing the Jets from seeing what they have in KC/Ratliff? (tying back to our previous discussion)

It took you a couple of days and a few different posts, but eventually you came around.

On Sunday night, after the Miami loss, a visibly upset Johnson told a few reporters he was going to take some time to make a decision, that it wasn’t going to be a heat-of-the-moment call. A little while later, like maybe an hour or two, he decided to fire Mangini. If that’s not heat-of-the-moment, what is?”

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/jets/2008/12/hey-woody-wheres-the-plan.html#comments

Very true. Johnson not only repudiated his word on this critical occasion, but also his committment to the type of program that Belichick had brought to New England….which Mangini was trying to replicate here.

Problem. Belichick had Scott Pioli idenifying the players, Mangini mostly had Terry Bradway. (With Tannenbaum to do the contracts and cap work.)

Second problem. According to Cimini, Johnson also decided to inject himself into talent evaluation:

“Mangini never wanted Favre, it was learned yesterday, but he welcomed the future Hall of Famer and tried to make it work. I don’t think GM Mike Tannenbaum wanted him, either, but Johnson, trying to market his new stadium, was infatuated with Favre and essentially told Tannenbaum, “Go get him.” So he did, adding a last-minute wild card and changing the way they played offense.

But, hey, they sold tons of “4″ jerseys.

In the end, Favre cost Mangini his job, throwing nine interceptions in the final five games. You name me a coach that could overcome that many mistakes.”

According to this AP report, Pioli has a meeting with Randy Lerner tomorrow…but the new Ceveland owner is meeting with Mangini today in New York.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/browns/2008-12-30-interviews_N.htm

So, Lerner, not Johnson, may have the best chance to try to replicate the Patriot’s model…with either Mangini or Josh McDaniels (also scheduled for an interview).

Of course, only Belichick has the track record of genius. Not just for his 3 superbowl rings and unbelievable consecutive winning streak. I’m talking about his work as the defensive cordinator for the Giants.

The only time Parcells ever got to the Super Bowl was when Belichick was behind the scene scheming to defeat high powered offenses.

(Mangini certainly learned at his knee, but you also need the personnel –talent and brains– to properly execute complicated schemes.)

The pity of all of this is that Johnson rejected his chance back in January of 2000 to bring Belichick back on board after Belichick lost his lawsuit to take the New England job.

According to at least one published report, Belichick asked if he could have his job back…but was rebuffed, with the lame excuse that the Jets were in contract negotiations with Al (9-7)Groh.

When Leon Hess was paying Belichick a million dollar bonus to stay as defensive coordinator with a contract guarantee that he would succeed Parcells, this wasn’t because he was in love with Belichick’s personality. Leon knew what Belichick had done with the Giants.

It strikes me that if Woody Johnson was a student of the game instead of a Dan Snyder or Jerry Jones wannabe, he would have shown the patience he claimed he had to build the team into a quality product.

After his recent firing, Romeo Crennel had this pertinent observation:

“As it turned out, we were both held accountable, both Phil and myself for our record and we’re both out of a job and that’s the bottom line,” Crennel told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Whatever the reasons are, no one really cares. It’s just like on Sunday — did you win or lose? That you’re playing with the fourth quarterback doesn’t matter. We’re both accountable and we have to answer for that.”

Giving credit to Cimani’s report, Mangini didn’t want Fauve, but tried to make the best of it.

Would a (relatively) healthy Chad put up the same numbers for the Jets under Schott Jr as under Dan Henning? It’s probably more likely than trying to insert Mr. Cannon Arm in a successful way into an offense he didn’t understand and didn’t like.

With Chad’s completion numbers, the Jets would easily have made the playoffs.

There are a lot of culprits at whom fingers can be pointed to explain this season. IMO, by far the biggest is Woody Johnson.