Rex Ryan said it himself after last nights 38-3 embarrassment against the Buffalo Bills in Detroit, “Unless it changes drastically, I will be the head coach here for the next five weeks” were the words spoken by Ryan.\u00a0 He knows that no matter what, based on the effort, or lack thereof, put forth by his team last night that\u00a0there is no way owner Woody Johnson can retain\u00a0him for a seventh season.\u00a0 Ryan started his tenure with a bang, leading the Jets to consecutive AFC Championship games in his first two seasons, but it’s been a downward spiral since then.\u00a0 Last night in Detroit was the low point for the franchise under Ryan\u00a0and it’s hard to imagine any of the key decision-makers\u00a0in Florham Park are safe.<\/p>\n
Ryan will be let go at season’s end (if not sooner) and Woody Johnson will have to evaluate the job John Idzik has done as General Manager over the past two seasons.\u00a0 Seasons like this don’t happen to teams with talent, and providing the talent is Idzik’s job.\u00a0 Unless\u00a0the GM\u00a0told Johnson before the season that this was going to be a tank job, there’s no way Johnson can’t put Idzik under the microscope and determine whether or not he has a competent GM.\u00a0 Even if\u00a0Johnson were to do that, would he know what he’s looking at?\u00a0Johnson isn’t a football man and he knows it.\u00a0 He has leaned heavily on outside sources when making critical decisions for the franchise in the past\u00a0and there’s no reason to expect that to change with the next round of housecleaning that awaits.<\/p>\n
The Jets have spent a large portion of the past several decades being a bad football team, but\u00a0 this kind of bad,\u00a0much like the stock market, is the worst kind of bad.\u00a0 When you’re just bad enough to miss the playoffs, you think there’s a shot that only a few changes will be made and\u00a0 you can focus on the things that are going well and move forward.\u00a0 When things are going great, there’s no need to make drastic changes.\u00a0 However, when the wheels come off like this, nothing can be ruled out, and the fans are left to speculate and hope, with any real answers possibly being months away.<\/p>\n
If Johnson allows Idzik to hang around, it’s possible that he has an old Seattle assistant on speed dial or that\u00a0Johnson has contacted other owners or former coaches (Bill Parcells) to get their opinions.\u00a0\u00a0Several names\u00a0have already been thrown out by fans and media alike.\u00a0 Bill Cowher, John Gruden, Nick Saban, Darrell Bevell,\u00a0etc.\u00a0 Either way, the fans will now sit and wait out the uncertainty.\u00a0\u00a0Scoreboard watching once again will be\u00a0for the sole purpose of draft position instead of\u00a0 playoff position, while Woody Johnson decides how to bring some level of stability to a franchise that has lacked it for so long.<\/p>\n
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