Daily Links: Time to Regroup
- Reactions from the coach and players the day after the loss.
- Manish Mehta goes good bad and ugly.
- A pretty good recap of the game from David Hyde for SI.com, and here’s one for his hometown paper.
- You need to go to Cotchery’s big event next week!
- Short time Jet punter Pak-man was signed by his ninth NFL team.
- If Junior graduated the first time he played with the Pats, I guess this is grad school.
- Fergie is the next potential limited partner for the Phins? Well at least they’re getting more attractive.
4 Responses to Daily Links: Time to Regroup
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miketaliaferro says:
Junior is turning into NE’s version of “VINNY!!!!!!!”
Which reminds me… it’s mid-October. Shouldn’t Testaverde be popping up in Jets camp sometime soon?
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Seeing the way Rex is continuing to respond to Monday’s debacle is also a rookie mistake. He’s acting like a DC whose job is in jeopardy.
He needs to act like the Head Coach he’s wanted to be.
When it’s new, you over-react to crisis, as Ryan is doing here. You go from 0 to 100 without realizing that the true response, the effective response, lies somewhere in the 60 – 70 range:
“Hmm, OK, that didn’t work — they were really good. And yep, we weren’t ready for ‘em. Now, what do we need to do to make sure we’re ready for them next time? And to make sure no one else does this to us?”
Sackcloth and ashes at the podium and grand emotional pronouncements aren’t going to fix things, and may actually cloud your vision even more. It makes you a victim.
It’s time for Rex to step away, take a deep breath, gather his wits (and the best advisers he can collect — both on his staff and off), decide what the new plan is, then tell the team clearly and calmly: “OK, boys, this is what we’re gonna do.”
Relaxed, confident, funny. Just like before.
Just like a seasoned coach. Like a Head Coach…
As the man said to the rookie, “Act like you’ve been there before… .”
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dmazz says:
you need to give the coach some slack – I think the whole fanbase and the press were shocked that the defense laid this big of an egg not to mention Rex and the players.
I put a dent in my remote control from slamming it on my desk and that was the next day watching jets extra point on SNY.
I dont blame Rex for timeouts or anything trivial like that. bottom line is that Miami threw and converted on two 3rd and longs under a minute and that was the deflating factor. Chad Henne was unbelievable – truly and thats the difference in our game and Miami Indy.
http://smartfootball.com/
Discusses the wildcat a bit. They calculated about 7 yards per play via the wildcat! This just boggles my mind. How stupendously bad did our defense play to give up that much yardage?