A 6-game losing streak will force you to make changes to your football team. Rex Ryan is still safe after the Jets played hard for their head coach against both the Broncos and Patriots. However, according to Jay Glazer, the Jets have traded a conditional draft pick for Percy Harvin. Through six games this season Harvin has 22 receptions for 133 yards, and rumors are that he wasn't happy with his role in Seattle, after signing a 6-year $64 million contract last year.
There is no doubt that he is a playmaker that will automatically make the Jets offense more dangerous. Harvin can be used running the ball in the backfield and catching it out of the slot, as well as being a dangerous return man (where the Jets have had trouble). However, he is an injury prone player and could become a bad locker room guy, like Santonio Holmes. The one good sign is that the majority of his guaranteed money has already been paid by the Seahawks, so this is a low risk-high reward move.
The bottom line on this trade is that he brings a unique threat that our offense has lacked. On Mike Francesa's show Glazer confirmed that it was a mid-round pick which is cheap for a talented football player. At 1-6 this is a move for the future. Idzik has finally listened to the fans after keeping Woody's money warm all offseason. Maybe if the team can finish strong then Rex can salvage is job, but his future is still very pessimistic.
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Gang Green knew they were playing for their beloved head coach's life. They did almost everything right against Belichick, Brady, and the hated Pats. The Jets ran the ball for 218 yards, while controlling the clock for almost 41 minutes to the Patriots 19. Geno played his best game of the season, throwing for 226 yards and a touchdown, giving Nick Folk a shot at a miracle 58-yard field goal (that was blocked). At the end of the day though, the result was the same, and the sixth straight loss of our season from hell, losing 27-25 in Foxboro.
Rex Ryan was defiant at the podium. He knows that the time is ticking. The stats say that the Jets have a chance at the playoffs still, as does any team just seven games into the season, but in all intents and purposes the season is over. All signs are pointing towards Rex's run with the Jets ending without a visit to the White House, just like every coach since Weeb Ewbank.
The fact of the matter is that the Jets just aren't talented enough to beat the upper echelon of the league without playing mistake-free football. If you told any Jets fan that we would double the time of possession and not turn the ball over, we would bet the mortgage on them. However, settling for 4 first half field goals when just one trip into the end zone would have been enough to win. The Patriots' 19-yard touchdown to Danny Amendola on 3rd and goal with 7:49 left exposed our unexperienced secondary. The margin for error on this football team is simply too thin. Any small mistake will make the difference between winning and losing (Al Pacino is right, football is a game of inches).
The good news is with nine games left, it doesn't appear that this team is going to fold up shop. That is why Rex Ryan earned his contract extension after last season. If Gang Green keeps on putting together performances like this, it will be hard for Idzik to look in the mirror and place the blame on Rex for the 1-6 start. That feel-good karma could change in the blink of an eye though, if losses to the Patriots and Broncos turn into blowouts losses against the Bills and Chiefs, but that has yet to be seen. All I know is my football season is over on October 17th and it sucks.
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