Super Nomario said:
I don't disagree, but this leads me to "Rex needs help on the offensive side of the ball" rather than "Rex can't be a HC." Maybe he refuses to cede any authority on the offensive side of the ball, in which case you have to fire him, but if I were GM I'd try to make it work.
I've been at "Rex can't be a HC" for a while.
That team is all over the place and so is Rex.
Think about:
- Rex's admission a few years ago (or was it last year?) that he had lost the pulse of the team.
- Tthe Santonio Holmes insubordination and melt down on the field.
- The 1-10 record after wins. That speaks to a lack of discipline and not just problems on the offensive side of the ball.
- The 1-4 record after byes. Same.
- The public handling of the scapegoat (I mean offensive coordinator) Brian Schottenheimer. "Brian is my man; Brian is gone."
- The bizarro press conference before this season began when he kind of lost it in response to questions about who would be the starting QB.
- Putting Mark Sanchez in harms way in the 4th quarter in an effort to win a pre-season game against the Giants.
- All the checks he wrote about the team being a SB contender early in the first few seasons (though to his credit, he finally cut out that crap).
There's probably a lot more one could list.
My take is that Rex is a genuinely nice, likable guy, a man whose players want to play for, and a very good defensive coach. But there's just too much high comedy and bumbling for him to be taken seriously as a leader, in my view.