Posted by MikeT23 on 4/27/2012 1:39:00 PM (view original):
I'll put it another. It's easy for me and you to scream "TAKE CHANCES!!!!" because our jobs don't depend on the success rate of those chances. As you know, Belichek can go for it on 4th/2 in his territory and everyone shrugs while saying "I guess he thought that gave him the best chance to win." Mike Smith does it in Atlanta and everyone goes "WTF WAS HE THINKING?!??!?! PUNT THE BALL AWAY AND MAKE 'EM DRIVE THE LENGTH OF THE FIELD!!! ******* IDIOT!!!"
I dont disagree with that statement at all. but we're talking about the thirtieth pick in the draft, Mike. Thirtieth. Looking at other Jet disasters.... how bad would it be if he never even played a game? LOL
30th pick. Not 2nd (Blair Thomas, Lam Jones), 4th (Marvin Jones, DeWayne Robertson), 6th (Vernon Gholston), 8th (Dave Cadigan), 9th (Kyle Brady), 10th (Russell Carter), 14th (Jeff Lageman), 15th (Ron Faurot, Johnny Mitchell), 16th (Hugh Douglas), or 21st (Roger Vick). Rex Ryan is not as safe as Bill Belichick by any means.... but coming off a season where he had just led the Jets to back to back AFC Championship games, he was not in jeopardy. And at the 30th spot in the draft, he could have chosen to gamble on the best defensive player in NCAA division 1 football who had an injury that allowed him to slip from one of the 5 worst NFL franchises to one who could afford to wait for him to heal and contribute and not be fired.
If he wasn't fired for licking women's feet, he wouldn't have been fired for taking a gamble on the best defensive player (when healthy) in the NCAA ranks the season right before.