The New York Jets proved one thing on Wednesday morning. They proved they are an incompetently run organization, that has absolutely no clue about what it is doing. The firing of Mike Maccagnan as General Manager stinks on so many levels, but the timing could not be any worse.
The Jets fired Maccagnan after he just led the franchise through an entire off-season, signed a number of key free agents including Le'Veon Bell and CJ Mosley, drafted Quinine Williams, and now ... NOW ... the Jets decide it was a good time to pull the rug out from underneath him.
Clearly the rumors of a power struggle between Maccagnan and head coach Adam Gase indeed existed. Gase blew off the rumors during the Jets voluntary workouts, but clearly a rift existed. The rift was apparently too much for owner Chris Johnson to bare that he decided to fire Maccagnan now, rather than wait six months to do after the 2019 season.
If the Jets were so much on the fence with Maccagnan they should have fired him at the end of last season when the kicked Todd Bowles out the door. But, no, that is not how the Jets operate. The Jets operate by doing things ass backwards.
Seven years ago they fired Mike Tannebaum as GM, and kept Rex Ryan as Head Coach, when clearly both should have been fired. They then tried to shoehorn Ryan with John Idzik, a bad marriage from the start, and both were fired at the end of the 2014 season.
Now with Gase as acting GM, and rumors swirling the team could hire NFL Network analysts Daniel Jeremiah as Maccagnan's replacement, copying the Raiders model of hiring a TV personality to run the front office - the Jets are a full blown circus. The only way this can end now is with the Jets announcing that Gase will be fired in January, because that is the circumstance that he now finds himself.
If the Jets play poorly this year, it will be on Gase's shoulders. And it should be, because he has accomplished nothing as a head coach when he was with the Miami Dolphins that would warrant him winning a power struggle with Maccagnan, or any GM for that matter.
The Jets should be ashamed of themselves, but this is the Jets for a reason. Once a circus, always a circus.
The Jets fired Maccagnan after he just led the franchise through an entire off-season, signed a number of key free agents including Le'Veon Bell and CJ Mosley, drafted Quinine Williams, and now ... NOW ... the Jets decide it was a good time to pull the rug out from underneath him.
Clearly the rumors of a power struggle between Maccagnan and head coach Adam Gase indeed existed. Gase blew off the rumors during the Jets voluntary workouts, but clearly a rift existed. The rift was apparently too much for owner Chris Johnson to bare that he decided to fire Maccagnan now, rather than wait six months to do after the 2019 season.
If the Jets were so much on the fence with Maccagnan they should have fired him at the end of last season when the kicked Todd Bowles out the door. But, no, that is not how the Jets operate. The Jets operate by doing things ass backwards.
Seven years ago they fired Mike Tannebaum as GM, and kept Rex Ryan as Head Coach, when clearly both should have been fired. They then tried to shoehorn Ryan with John Idzik, a bad marriage from the start, and both were fired at the end of the 2014 season.
Now with Gase as acting GM, and rumors swirling the team could hire NFL Network analysts Daniel Jeremiah as Maccagnan's replacement, copying the Raiders model of hiring a TV personality to run the front office - the Jets are a full blown circus. The only way this can end now is with the Jets announcing that Gase will be fired in January, because that is the circumstance that he now finds himself.
If the Jets play poorly this year, it will be on Gase's shoulders. And it should be, because he has accomplished nothing as a head coach when he was with the Miami Dolphins that would warrant him winning a power struggle with Maccagnan, or any GM for that matter.
The Jets should be ashamed of themselves, but this is the Jets for a reason. Once a circus, always a circus.
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