The Jets

[jms62]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Cavanaugh should've been out a long time ago. Sparano was an unmitigated disaster. Tannenbaum deserved to be canned based on how badly he screwed up what was a top 5 team in 2010. Pettine supposedly didn't get fired.

For everyone clamoring for Rex to get fired, I have news for you: Rex is as good a coach as the Jets have had since Ewbank and is as good as any coaching candidate out there. Look at the stiffs who have been hired so far. For all the criticism, he's still 40-34 overall and 4-2 in the playoffs. Obviously it's not ideal to have great success your first two years and fade down the stretch of your next two, but the guy needs a QB. He put together a top 10 defense this season without the best cover corner in history and has cultivated two studs on the DL in Muhammad Wilkerson and Quinton Coples. Sanchez was too putrid for the defense to even be able to bail him out this season.

There's no way Sanchez can be back as the starter. The fans absolutely despise him and I have to imagine the rest of the locker room is sick of cleaning up his messes too. Alex Smith would be the perfect quarterback for this team, a guy who can make plays with his legs and doesn't turn the ball over, so that's my wish, but regardless of what they do, bringing in a competent starting QB has to be priorities A through Z for this offseason. After that, I'd look at trying to find another RB in the draft. Somebody like Gio Bernard or Eddie Lacy or taking a flier on a home run threat like Kenjon Barner. Contrary to popular belief, the receiving corps isn't terrible, they just had a ton of injuries in 2012.

I will say a prayer for you tonight that you get your wish and get Alex Smith.

[golfer]

And now Dave Caldwell, who appeared to be the top candidate for the GM job, just chose the Jags over the Jets?

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by golfer

And now Dave Caldwell, who appeared to be the top candidate for the GM job, just chose the Jags over the Jets?

Tom Gamble is and has been the top candidate. It'll be a huge upset if he doesn't get the job. I assume Caldwell knew this.

[golfer]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Tom Gamble is and has been the top candidate. It'll be a huge upset if he doesn't get the job. I assume Caldwell knew this.

That's what I had heard and read also, and figured his being able to work with Rex was the key there, but it was Caldwell, and not Gamble, who got the first call-back for a 2nd interview. If Gamble is there guy, they have a strange way of showing it.