Comments on: Some Jets bash Eric Mangini

By: cnpeters

cnpeters — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:53:35 +0000

*sniffle*

poor nfl players

By: terje

terje — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:20:16 +0000

yo chris, i was quoting the guy above me. that's what " " means…douche.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:36:40 +0000

yo terje they didnt beat arizona to go 8-3 they beat tennessee, arizona was like week 5 douche

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:27:04 +0000

To me, Mangini seems like the fat kid everyone picked on at school, and now he's trying to get back at everyone by showing he has ultimate control. And you know what usually happens to little punks like that? They get their face punched in by someone who quickly gets fed with dealing with a snot-nosed jerk who hasn't proven a darn thing in the NFL.

A little humility and humor might serve this coach well.

By: terje

terje — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:11:24 +0000

yeah, there's only two ways to coach professional football players. completely hands off like romeo or micromanaging piss breaks like mangini.

give me a break. read the article frank. coughlin had to change his style. of course he didn't become a clown but the man had to make concessions to keep his job. the marine corp version of tom coughlin was a failure.

By: frank ulrich

frank ulrich — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:45:44 +0000

I remember when Coughlin took over the giants and all of the whining and crying that came from the players….. and the media. I would much rather have a coughlin , that some of the players dislike to a , Romeo who got nothing but complements from the players but whose team was undisciplined and never played together as a team.

By: tbrawn

tbrawn — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:49:22 +0000

From the article: "… "He tweaked a few things," said right guard Chris Snee, who happens to be Coughlin's son-in-law. "He's established a better relationship with the players. Now he'll hear both sides of an argument.

"But he's still the same at the core."

Indeed, the strident rules are still the rules — three minutes early is still two minutes late — but Coughlin, by all accounts, has been less peevish and petty. He's still hopelessly anal-retentive — just no longer to a fault."

Doesn't sound like a Romeo-esque country club to me….bottom line is football is a team game and someone has to be at the top of the heap setting the rules to keep everyone pointed in the same direction.

It is amazing how the people around here are already getting on Mangini's case. He's going to be here for a couple of years no matter how bad the team is so quit your crying, put down your pitchforks and torches and relax.

By: terje

terje — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:29:16 +0000

another guy who thinks coughlin won playing the "tough guy" role.

wrong!

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs07/columns/story?columnist=garber_greg&id=3200779

By: Mr. Obvious

Mr. Obvious — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:58:32 +0000

What a laughably flawed point, Patrick. "Most restrictive regimes fail…oh, but don't count Belichick." That is like saying, "No men are evil but don't count Hitler." Ridiculous.

What is more, have you ever heard of Bill Parcells or Tom Coughlin? My memory is perhaps a little fuzzier than yours but what I recall is that both run extremely restrictive regimes and both have Superbowl rings. How many does Rex Ryan have as coach? Sure, all players love playing for coaches who let them speak their minds and express themselves, Romeo Crennel did that, remember?

As for me, I think I will go ahead and side with Mangini's tactics, for they fall in line with successful coaches in the past – Parcells and Coughlin to name a few (but not Belichik, remember?).

By: terje

terje — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:49:40 +0000

"And after they beat Arizona to go to 8-3 I didn't hear a single person complain."

yep, and when mangini took over the playcalling from brian schottenheimer shortly after you heard lots of complaining. the fans and media were wondering who was behind the baffling play calls and why the running game was abandoned so a sore-armed qb could toss interceptions all game.

well, brian schottenheimer is still with the jets and mangini is coaching one of the worst franchises in the nfl. there's going to be a lot of complaining before this coach is through.