NFL: Jets fire Todd Bowles

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[Spring in Fialta]

lol

 

[BKIslandersFan]

Thank god.

Look I get Jets was probably not that good of a team on paper, but it was mind boggling ho undisciplined this team was.

Bowles will probably get a DC gig somewhere.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Come to Pittsburgh and replace Keith Butler

 

[Filthy Dangles]

lol

What is 'lol' about this?

 

[BKIslandersFan]

Come to Pittsburgh and replace Keith Butler

Might be a good fit.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Not surprising

He wasn't given greatest talent to work with but overall his coaching left a lot to be desired especially how undisciplined his team could be

 

[NJDevs26]

Adios Todd

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

His goose was cooked when the Jets blew that game in Buffalo 3 years ago that cost them a Wild Card. All downhill since aside from coaching their underdog team last year to 2-3 more wins than they should have had.

 

[GKJ]

Bowles doesn't strike me as a bad coach, but 3 years in a row of 5 wins or less is a lot of rope in retrospect.

Another franchise that fired the coach within a year of drafting the quarterback. Those teams are just asking for it when you don't get your guy early in your regime, at least you can say you had your best shot.

 

[Troy McClure]

Bowles doesn't strike me as a bad coach, but 3 years in a row of 5 wins or less is a lot of rope in retrospect.

Another franchise that fired the coach within a year of drafting the quarterback. Those teams are just asking for it when you don't get your guy early in your regime, at least you can say you had your best shot.

It really is crazy how many new regimes purposely delay going after a QB. So many of them dress it up as needing to address other needs first, and I think they secretly hope it buys them time. In reality, if you're two or three seasons into being terrible and don't have a QB, it looks like all you did was waste time.

 

[Gene Parmesan]

Bowles doesn't strike me as a bad coach, but 3 years in a row of 5 wins or less is a lot of rope in retrospect.

Another franchise that fired the coach within a year of drafting the quarterback. Those teams are just asking for it when you don't get your guy early in your regime, at least you can say you had your best shot.

This. Bowles will find work quickly.

 

[GKJ]

It really is crazy how many new regimes purposely delay going after a QB. So many of them dress it up as needing to address other needs first, and I think they secretly hope it buys them time. In reality, if you're two or three seasons into being terrible and don't have a QB, it looks like all you did was waste time.

Bill O'Brien has gotten away with it. But they traded another 1st to get Watson, which was a good play to move the goalposts. Nobody wants to hire a new coach and have him waste a year not even having a 1st round pick.

 

[m9]

I think there's a chance Bowles gets another HC job earlier than people think and maybe is even interviewing for a couple jobs this year.

But yeah, I'll welcome him on the Steelers.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

What is 'lol' about this?

The Jets behavior.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Bowles was terrible and they should have fired him a year ago.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Jets request to interview Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy for head coaching job

 

[Fish on The Sand]

Thank god.

Look I get Jets was probably not that good of a team on paper, but it was mind boggling ho undisciplined this team was.

Bowles will probably get a DC gig somewhere.

Hopefully in KC

 

[Fish on The Sand]

Jets request to interview Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy for head coaching job

Chiefs gonna lose an offensive coordinator for the 3rd time in 4 years lol

 

[Fish on The Sand]

Bowles was terrible and they should have fired him a year ago.

They couldn't fire him after last season. The Jets overachieved perhaps more than any team in recent memory. That would have been a horrible message to send.

 

[EpochLink]

Back to the drawing board for the historic franchise that is called the New York Jets.

....me being a Giants fan, I shouldn't talk since we had our own bad apple that was Bob Crapado the last two seasons.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

They couldn't fire him after last season. The Jets overachieved perhaps more than any team in recent memory. That would have been a horrible message to send.

They won 5 games.

 

[NJDevs26]

Thank god.

Look I get Jets was probably not that good of a team on paper, but it was mind boggling ho undisciplined this team was.

Bowles will probably get a DC gig somewhere.

Seriously. Non-Jet fans don't understand just how bad Bowles was and how routinely undisciplined this team was. When you punt the ball down two scores with less than five minutes left (and that happened more than once but the Pittsburgh example a couple years back comes to mind) that's just horrible coaching. When you lose the locker room in Week 3 of a season (2016) that's bad. When you get punked by Rex and a crappy Bills team TWICE in 2015 with an otherwise good team, that's bad.

They won 5 games.

It really is amazing how much the meme about the Jets going 0-16 or 1-15 last year spread to such an extent that people actually thought Bowles was Vince Lombardi going 5-11. I'd like a job with that kind of ridiculous low bar. More like the Jets weren't AS bad as people thought (they arguably could have won another 2-3 games if not for bad coaching) and this year they took a step back with growing pains at QB and the offensive skill players they did have all being hurt.

 

[rangerssharks414]

I would have fired him last year too. Usually, a new regime comes in with a new QB.

 

[NJDevs26]

I would have fired him last year too. Usually, a new regime comes in with a new QB.

It seems to happen more and more after the first year of the old regime. McVay and Nagy were both brought in after holdover staffs coached Goff and Trubisky in their rookie seasons. Most likely the Jets now get an offensive coach to take over for Bowles the way those teams did for Fisher and Fox (also defensive holdovers).