His Jets team is rather mediocre, had a real soft schedule and didn't really beat anyone except the Pats. It was a mismatch. Pennington is not very good (comeback player of the year, I think not). The Mangini talk about coach of the year was rather foolish. They won't make the playoffs next year.
In all fairness, most folks had them winning between 3 and 6 games, WITH that softy schedule. Of course, that was predicated on Noodle Arm Pennington being terrible, and he wasn't. I agree that it's too early to jump on the Mangina train, but he definitely had a nice season.
Yeah well welcome to a playoff caliber schedule next year Mangina. Good luck with a 7-9 outcome. The honeymoon will be over before it gets started.
no, much to the contrary. I knew they were one and out. I just didn't get all the hype on the guy when he really didn't accomplish much. His team won a lot of relatively close games against pretty bad competition.
coach of the year is definitely payton's, but i dunno if i would say that you could call mangini's first year anything other than a success. the jets were really terrible last year, and now they are a playoff team, thats not bad.
mangini is an excellent coach and had the jets in it much longer than he should have. Pennington is the heart of that team and proves he can deliver. They were just outmatched. I was quite impressed by their play and coaching. Coughlin continues to have no plan. i think i remember 4 times hes within the 3 yard line on 3rd down. never did he run it both times. his playcalling shows hes confused at best. he should be fired even if hes friends with whats his name. no one is stopping brandon jacobs on two running plays from the 2. They ran him all year in that situation but he fell victim to tiki calling him out last year for not using mr barber enough. some coaches outthink themselves way too much.
My Patriots roll, baby! Amazing that at 12-4 and with Belichick and Brady leading the way (there's no better coach/QB combo in the playoffs right now) they are surprisingly flying under the radar. Not going to predict a 4th Super Bowl (although I'm certainly not going to be surprised if that's what they accomplish) because they have some questions in the secondary, but if there's one defense that can over-come all of that and still gameplan with the best of them, it's the Patriots.
With you being a Pats fan, did you question Bella-check playing Harrison only to get him injured again in the last game of the regular season? I didn't think that made any sense whatsoever. He is the emotional leader of that defense and the glue. They aren't anywhere close to the same defense without him.
