I think he should have a mentor at his side, as well.

This was a serious and crucial decision made by someone among that leadership.

If, as you say, WHOEVER decided to steal from ST to bolster the D vs. the ‘Cat, fine. I can go with that. It didn’t work, but I can see the value in the idea going into Sunday.

But two things:
1) You drop other names off your ST roster, not your top guys;
2) Be MAN enough to come to the podium, and say, “Hmm, it looked like it was gonna be an OK swap going in, but I guess it didn’t work. We weakened our ST unit too much, and that’s MY responsibility. I goofed, and that’s what cost us.”

Simple. Then, everyone yowls for a day, and you move on.

They’d rather go down with the ship, saying there’s no hole so they shouldn’t be sinking, rather than admit they hit an iceberg.

What I sense from the Ryan Bunker is that stale air of “My stuff doesn’t stink! We’re better than anyone! It’s all just unfair.”

I don’t mind the bravado. It’s the extreme of the pride and the hubris that hurts us, because it makes our leaders blind. I like the cojones. But you have to know what’s broken, and admit it’s broken before you can go ahead and fix it.

And lopping off your top 3 kick coverage guys when a 4th is already injured to fill another hole is ‘broken’.

I don’t think I’ve ever said something bad about the guy, but this is Westhoff’s fault. From everything we’re told, he has autonomy when it comes to special teams, so this falls on him. Rex needs guys to combat the wildcat (and anyone who gives a “he only cares about the defense” rebuttal is a joke because we needed those bodies so we wouldn’t get embarrassed again) and Westy should have guys ready to fill in at those positions.

I am not one to play the blame game, but unfortunately it’s clearly the fault of the special teams units that this game was lost.

This will come as a shock to some among the Jets’ leadership, I know, but this was the unit — and the decision — that cost us the game.

Now the question is, WHO made that decision that cost us the game? Whose call was that? Was it Sexy? Tanny? Woody? Westy? Sleepy? Grumpy? Doc? The board of directors of Johnson & Johnson? A committee of the above?

THAT’S the bozo(s) everyone should be pissed at. And THAT’S the fool I want to be MAN ENOUGH to step forward and say, “Damn, that’s MY bad. Everyone else did enough to win this game. MY decision cost us this game.”

It wasn’t “Special Teams” that lost this game — it was the person who ripped its guts out on Saturday night who lost this game for NY.

Didn’t Bent, I and other people have a discussion just this week on the differences of running back-types (a la Leon, which Ginn isn’t) vs. straight-line speed guys (a la Miller’s ghost, which Ginn is) after the change from three-man to two-man wedges?

THAT is the question that will dog this team during the Bye Week:

“WHO SAT the Four Horsemen of the Kick-off Team? AND WHY?”

Do you have something of substance to say? Or do you just want to bash Ryan for his weight, which he does to himself on a regular basis.

“The jets are finding ways to lose the complete opposite of what Mangini has preached and taught the jets the last three years”

You’re right, Mangini did preach and teach the Jets to lose the last 3 years with class. Whoopty doo. It’s still losing. And go read interviews with players about Ryan’s talks. They are apparently profanity-laden tirades that pump up the players to the point they want to go kill someone. I’d take a Rex Ryan pep talk over a Mangini gum-chew anyday.

Aided and abetted by fellow members of the National Football League, of course.