http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/e...parano-continue-search-for-offensive-identity Collectively as a fanbase we might not always be right, but boy did we call it long before anyone else did on what a disaster Sparano would be for them. How they thought Sparano would be the guy to fix Sanchez after what he helped do to Henne I'll never understand. The talk of Norv Turner to Gang Green has me a little concerned...He's a hell of an offensive coordinator despite his failures as a head coach.
Dude has overachieved long enough, had no buisness going from OL coach to a head coach...best thing he could do IMO is find a subpar college program looking for an NFL name.
We called this a mile away. And the fact that (according to Boomer Esiason) the head coach (Rex Ryan) was not on board with the addition of Sparano shows you just how dysfunctional that organization is. Remember how Sparano was also supposed to fix the toxic wasteland that had become the Jets locker room? First of all, that's the head coach's responsibility. If he's lost the locker room, you remove the bad apples or you remove the head coach. Talk about a vote of no-confidence...
I shall always have a soft spot for Sparano, I just like the man and like him even more now that he is outta the joizy bad lands. Think he should land a assistant gig and rehab his career, he's a good coach in my view. IMO, Ryan runs the Raiders like the old school Raiders, Sparano is very much a gung ho guy, he expected guys to naturally fit in and they just did not, wrong culture.
I remember getting in an argument with my brother when the Jets got Sparano and told him that was a bad hire for them. He was so excited when the Jets got him and I never understood it. I think him being a "Bill Parcells" guy, which worked so well in the NFL.
I might call him a good cheerleader. But I really just think he's kind of a dummy. As the article mentions, he's focused for sure. But on all the wrong ****. Stuff that does not correlate with winning. It was the same story when he was here. In the right situation with a very cerebral head coach, he could make a great assistant. Just don't give him play calling duties or let him have any personnel say whatsoever. Just let him "fire up the troops" so to speak.
Can't count how many Jets fans had this mindset. They all thought Sparano was going to set the locker room straight. A disciplinarian. No nonsense. As Muck said that's the head coaches job. And furthermore, we all knew Sparano was terribly unqualified to head an offensive unit. How the Jets couldn't figure that out is one of the craziest things I've ever seen in the NFL.
Rex Ryan, Rob Ryan, Norv Turner. It's a possibility. Sounds like a good staff too, although not sure if having two of the Ryans in one team would work. It would either be great or disastrous, no in between.
I would love Rob Ryan coaching the Jets defense. It's a worse recipe than SParano coaching the offense. Rob Ryan's defenses use a good scheme, but they always underachieve IMO which is a reflection on his coaching. He's never been a DC for a team that went to the playoffs and that trend would continue with the Jets.
Compared to Rex's defenses, it seemed to me that Rob usually had to make do with less than stellar personnel. The Cowboys D in 2012 was probably by far the most talent he ever had to work with. I think Rob is a much better DC than Sparano was an OC. The Jets still don't have a new GM do they? I wonder if they need to fill that vacancy before hiring new assistants.
I hope so, because that means they'll continue to be improperly. IMO, it should always be owner hires gm who hires coach who hires his assistants.
In all fairness to Tony Sparano,it wasn't like he had a very good offense to work with at Miami or NYJ.I know he should be accountable for the record he had, but it's not like he was working with the greatest show of turf.The only decent year he had was when Pennington fell in his lap, after that not agood QB play at all.
Didn't Ricky Williams accuse Sparano of micromanaging and not focusing on the aspects of football that were important for actually winning the game?
Jay Glazer said yesterday that Rob won't be coaching with Rex in NY. As for the Jets OC, it's sort of like our situation in 2011. Everybody knows Rex is on a 1-year tryout and that's not attractive to a lot of people. Plus they'll be stuck with Mark Sanchez. It'll probably be a young guy looking to make a mark or a veteran desperate to rehab his career. We sorta had both in Brian Daboll. A young guy who'd just been fired from his first OC gig.