JWL wrote:While the Jets do not have the overall talent of teams like the Rams and Saints, the team should not be 3-6 and parading an offense that looks like a 1974 also-ran time travelled to 2018. I understand Bilal Powell was lost for the season a few weeks ago. (Powell is a highly underrated player. He is underrated because the Jets have been allergic to the postseason for his entire NFL career.) Another key contributor, Quincy Enunwa, was out for the Bears game. The quarterback Sam Darnold takes risks by nature and he is a rookie. Risk-taking rookie quarterback missing his two most important teammates on the road with a head coach who doesn't seem to know much about coaching an offense and is no stranger to surrender field goals and surrender punts? Yikes! How did the Jets not get blown out 51-10 by the Bears?
Anyway, that's it. Losing to the Dolphins twice and the crummy Browns? Not good. The team is not showing development this season even though there is talent on the team. 3-6 is not acceptable.
Who is next- Eric Bieniemy, John DeFilippo, or someone else?
It is time for the Jets to enter the present and realize that offense is the name of the game these days. Three of the last four head coaches (Herman Edwards, Rex Ryan, and Bowles) often seemed clueless when it came to coaching the whole team. Edwards would get ultra conservative. He once had the offense backtrack to set up in what area between the hash marks they wanted Doug Brien to kick from in a playoff game in Pittsburgh. Ryan was so out of it in regards to the offense that he once did not even know a key player (Santonio Holmes) was sulking on the sidelines instead of playing. This past Sunday after the game Bowles was more concerned that his defense didn't take the ball away than he was about anything that happened with the offense. The defense played really well and allowed 6 points. The offense directly allowed 7 (interception return for a touchdown). One of the Miami field goals was scored after a Jets turnover, so the offense can take some blame for that score if you like.
As a Jets fan, I can't take it anymore with these one-dimensional head coaches.
I would prefer a good young offensive mind like Lincoln Riley. But if not someone of his ilk bring me an experienced veteran coach who knows what it takes. Even Fox or Mike Shanahan at their ages. I am just ready for some sort of competence and stability and consistency. Order on both sides of the ball. Mistake free football. For all the guff I gave Herm Edwards, the Jets didn't turn the ball over with him. They did not commit penalties. They knew who they were, they had an identity, Herm had his flaws but he got that team into the playoffs three times. For all of Rex's clownishness he got us to two AFC title games and walked into New England after beating Peyton Manning and beat Tom Brady. These guys are Paul Brown compared to the walking dead Jets under Bowles...unprepared, unmotivated, poor use of personnel, getting out-schemed and beaten by mediocre staffs around the league. The most maddening things.
This is truly intolerable. That 10-5 we had going up until Buffalo in week 17 of 2015 I put all on Chan Gailey and our own little run of Fitzmagic with a competent receiving corps. Even that defense under Bowles underachieved relative to the talent we had
Bowles has mishandled and bungled everything with this team. On the field, poor discipline off the field, locker room issues. He may never have a Kotite era 1-15 meltdown season under his belt, but at this moment in time it feels like the low point of the Kotite era. Yesterday we had 3 holding penalties ON ONE PLAY. We had an offensive tackle score a TD on us. We had a fake punt converted into a 1st against us.