In what is quickly turning into a game of 'who wants to be first,' multiple platforms are running with the story that Jets Head Coach Adam Gase has either A) been told he is being fired or B) will be fired after Sunday's season Finale in New England.
First a website called "uStadium" issued an unsourced claim on Monday that Gase will be fired after the Patriots game. Then on WFAN, on Tuesday afternoon, shock-jock host Craig Carton claimed he had sources who say that Gase has been told by Christopher Johnson that he will not be back as head coach.
Neither Carton, nor uStadium cited their sources.
To date, not a single Jets beat reporter has officially reported anything of the like or contrary to those rumors.
There has also been silence from the likes of reputable sources like Jay Glazer or Ian Rappaport. No one, outside of Carton and uStadium has issued a similar report as of this minute, 3:38 p.m. on a Tuesday, December 29, that Gase has indeed been fired.
We did come close to getting such a report on Saturday, when CBS Sports reporter Jason LaConfora tweeted out that Gase could have been fired after the Cleveland Browns game had the Jets lost. They didn't.
Either way it sounds very likely that Gase is coaching his final game as HC of the NYJ after two horrible seasons at the helm of the franchise. The Jets are 9-22 under Gase in his two years, but his inability to develop quarterback Sam Darnold; his inability to work well with the Jets star players like Jamal Adams and LeVeon Bell, and his inability to put together and manage a competent game plan were just a few of the many short comings that Gase had in his hideous tenure.
The facts are the Johnson brothers owe the fanbase a huge apology. They wasted two years of everyone's time with a coach who was clearly in over his head despite the fact Chris Johnson called Gase a "brilliant mind."
It was Johnson's lack of brilliance that got the Jets stuck with Gase in the first place. He had Mike McCarthy, Matt Rhule and Kliff Kingsbury all at his fingertips as potential candidates and passed on each one of them in favor of Gase. In fact the reason Rhule and/or McCarthy didn't get the job, is because they wanted say in personnel, something Johnson and then GM Mike Maccagnan were not willing to give up.
Instead, Johnson hired Gase, allowed Maccagnan to sign free agents and run his 2019 draft, before promptly firing him thanks in big part to Gase's urging. If anyone is looking like a huge clown this week, and all season it is defiantly Chris Johnson and his brother Woody, the embattled Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
This is the mess they created. Now they got to stew in it. Who in their right mind is going to trust them to get it right this time?
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