JUST SAYING

In ’09 when Rex Ryan took over for the Jets as head coach, he inherited a team that marched to the very edge of the Super Bowl, and with that same team followed up in ’10 by doing the very same thing. Then ’11 reared its ugly head and they were an abysmal flop of a team going 8-8 for the season and missing the playoffs. In all three seasons Ryan made bold predictions and became the sweetheart of the media. After his flop of ’11, the press has suddenly turned on him.

Mark Sanchez

In watching the pre-season, particularly against the Super Bowl champions, the New York Giants, the Jets truly embarrassed themselves with poor timing, and bad play making and management. Although the game has no meaning except to get the team in playing condition, the Jets weren’t anywhere near ready to play that game on the same level as the Giants! The difference was like night and day and I begin to wonder about the coaching.

Tim Tebow

It is important to have a team prepared to play under any circumstance, and it is equally important if you are a NFL team to be ready as a pro on an equal level as your opponent, the Jets were not. What gives?

The team has been called a circus, and Ryan has lost favor of players and coaches around the league. The opposition has heard enough about the Jets and the Giants to their credit, don’t respond, they just go out and beat the Jets. Just reference last Christmas Eve and this past pre-season game to see what I’m saying.

I think Ryan as a coach is a good coach when he is involved, when he is not, the team falls off its potential. The team has confused things by bringing in Tebow, and I wonder if it wasn’t done to offset the Giants off-season glow of their miracle Super Bowl win? Sanchez is the starting quarterback, or is he? Sanchez is the leader, or is he? How do you build confidence in a young man like Sanchez by bringing in a high-profile player like Tebow and expect the team to jump whole-heartedly behind Sanchez? Every quarterback has his ups and downs in a season, all of them, Sanchez in his youth will have many, but the thing about leadership is to command the respect of those that follow you, and Jets took that away from Sanchez when they took on Tebow. If they brought in a veteran QB behind Sanchez, I think people would understand that and say that Sanchez will learn from the veteran, but Tebow may not have the talent that Sanchez has and will develop in the future, especially with a team that is willing to follow him to the fires of hell and the ends of the earth.

That’s all I wrote, folks!