EVER DOWNWARD

It is hard to win when you lose your best players. Managers and Head Coaches do not make all that much of a difference except when they have a unique playing philosophy.

Billy Martin had ‘Billy Ball’ and Rex Ryan has ‘Ground & Pound’. Both can work and both can fail. The philosophy is only as good as the players and playmakers. You can talk a good season before hand and then you have to back it up.

The New York Jets have a tough season in store for themselves, with their best offensive playmaker in Santonio Holmes gone for the season and the best player in the league in Derrelle Revis gone from the defensive side this season, due to season ending injuries.

The players looked so out of sync against the 49er’s I was rooting against them they were so bad. The idea of bringing Tebow in to confuse Mark Sanchez and have him looking over his shoulder was stupid as stupid gets. That move was in response to the Giants winning the Super Bowl, and both brothers had a hand in it: Peyton for going to Denver and chasing Tebow and Eli for winning it all for the Giants.

There is one lingering question I have. How much of an influence did Eric Mangini personnel have on the first two years of the Ryan regime? Was the reason the Jets got to the playoffs in ’09 and ’10 was because there was a large contingent of Mangini players on the roster and in 2011 that finally dissipated to the point that the Jets weren’t as good as they used to be?

It is just 4 games into the season and they are as good as the Patriots until the next week when the records change. The Jets share first place with the Patriots and Bills at 2-2 and something might give. The Jets need to win and winning is all they need. They are up against the Houston Texans, with a 4-0 record, and the Jets can’t afford to be blown out again after the fiasco in Met Death Stadium.

That’s all I wrote, folks!