http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/new-york-jets-rex-ryan-should-be-fired-now-082513 Rex Ryan needs to be fired now, Jen Floyd Engel says. Share This Story Jen Floyd Engel Jen Floyd Engel, selected as the top columnist in the 2012 Associated Press Sports Editors annual contest, started working at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 1997 and became a columnist in 2003 before joining FOXSports.com. Sports opinions? She's never short of them. And love her or hate her, she'll be just another one of the boys. Follow her on Twitter or like her on Facebook. MORE>> New York Jets coach Rex Ryan needs to be fired. THAT HURTS Jets' QB mess just got worse with Sanchez injury, Peter Schrager writes. No really, fired. This is not reaction trolling. I’d actually really fire him before Week 1 if I were Jets general manager John Idzik. Playing veteran quarterback Mark Sanchez in Saturday’s fourth quarter, behind a second-string offensive line, after their only other viable option, Geno Smith, had absolutely proven himself not ready for NFL action feels fireable. But for a coach with a football HR file as big as Rex’s and a coach who barely avoided getting axed this offseason, this feels last straw-ish. Because what happened Saturday at MetLife Stadium speaks to a bigger issue at play for the Jets this season: Their coach and team have divergent interests. Rex has to win now to stay employed and, in lieu of that, which seems an unlikely scenario judging by everything we have seen so far, Rex at least needs an alibi. He needs to be able to say, “How was I supposed to win with Geno Smith?” What the Jets need is to start determining if winning with Smith is likely. Saturday’s results — three interceptions and an inexplicable decision to step out of the end zone — suggest patience is necessary. Only that may not be an option, not if Sanchez is seriously hurt. He is having an MRI on his shoulder this morning. And whatever the results, what Rex did goes down as one of the dumbest coaching moves in NFL history. There is no good reason for Sanchez to be playing Saturday, and Rex did not bother coming up with any during an epic — even by New York standards — press conference. Instead Rex invoked his constitutional right to free speech, turned to deliver his non-answer sideways during an especially combative exchange and just generally did nothing to dispel the idea that he is fraying under the pressure of being a mostly fired coach. This cannot abide, and keeping Rex around for this season may set the Jets back years. Plural. I say this despite mostly liking Rex. I like his moxie, his style even if I believe his bravado had long since outpaced his team’s ability. Listening to Rex defiantly fight at the NFL owners meetings in Arizona, I thought he might be able to use his limbo to rouse his team. He has not. He has made them vulnerable. There is no worse combo in sports than a coach with nothing to lose leading a team with everything to lose. Even if Sanchez had not gotten hurt, even if the injury does not turn out to be that serious, the decision making by Rex was so flawed that you have to question the motives behind it. Smith had been so abhorrently bad, which was kind of to be expected, if we are being fair. There is a reason he fell to the second round in April's NFL draft, and it was not because teams thought he’d be ready to go in Week 1. What was best for Geno, as well as the Jets, was for him to hold a clipboard for a year, learn and get a fair shot at winning the job a year from now. Why he was competing for the job Saturday speaks to how poorly Sanchez had been playing this preseason. And then they got a fortuitous bounce with Geno's flailing performance. All New York had to do was bring in Matt Simms, have this third-string spare finish out the game like what was happening in every other NFL city and afterward announce that Sanchez was the starter. It was perfect for everybody, and that Rex somehow screwed this up is a fireable offense. He has somehow done the impossible. He has made an already screwed-up Jets quarterbacking situation even worse. This is fireable. And since everybody believes it is going down anyway, the only play is to put everybody out of their misery and give the Jets a chance to have a chance in 2014. It is a bluff (for now)
Man I wish the mainstream media was as hard on our politicians as sports beat reporters are on head coaches.
Kevin Patra NFL.com: NFL.com's Gil Brandt said Sunday morning on SiriusXM NFL Radio that the New York Jets will work out QBs Matt Leinart and John Beck Leinart was Sanchez's decorated predecessor at USC (winning the Heisman in 2004) (Beck was a 2nd Round pick out of BYU in 2007. Beck spent time in the New Orleans Saints' rookie camp after the 2013 NFL Draft.) While bringing in some fresh bodies for practice and the final preseason game likely is necessary, Leinart and Beck aren't names that should be on any final 53-man roster list. After Saturday night's decisions, it seems pretty simple for the Jets : If Sanchez isn't healthy, throw out Smith and let him work through his struggles -- as painful as they appeared Saturday.
(not to highjack this thread) Jamarcus Russell was never a serious problem at LSU ^ not to mention the win over Notre Dame> Ole Miss < #2 Alabama OT 16-13 2005 > LMiles got more out of Russell than anyone else /
Well the higher one moves up.... Over 10K yards passing, I'd say his HS coach got more out of him. Set Alabama High School Athletic Association record that still stands today.
Only played 2 and a half years for LSU, while he played 4 for high school Best year in high school was 219-of-372 passes for 3,332 yards and 22 touchdowns. Best year at LSU was 232-of-342 for 3,129 yards and 28 TD...didn't come back to LSU for his senior year LSU turned him out as the #1 QB prospect of his class, his high school failed to do that
I saw on another forum that somebody ran into him in Baton Rouge and he had a knee injury (crutches, knee was wrapped, something like that) And then two days ago, Fox Sports reported: "his comeback has hit a few bumps, multiple sources told FOX Sports. Russell hit his target weight after months of training and eating right, but he has had trouble keeping it down since dropping a total of 51 pounds. Russell has always been a big body and often eclipsed 300 pounds, so this will be a constant battle for him. In addition, Russell has also had issues with one of his knees. Russell has experienced swelling in the joint, and that has limited his ability to work out at full strength. It's surely also a factor in the aforementioned weight gain. That said, Russell is back in Alabama, telling friends he's working hard and that he hasn’t given up hope of resurrecting his career"
NEVER SEEN A FINER WARRIOR QB UNDER PRESSURE....ASU 2005, #2 ALA 2005 {OT 16-13). TENN 2006, OLE MISS 2006 {OT 23-20}, ARK 2006, NOTRE DAME 2007
