The End is Here

After an "ass-whipping" by the hands of the San Diego Chargers on Sunday, Rex Ryan started his press conference by apologizing to Jets fans "...if there are any left". Rex however, shouldn't be the one apologizing. Rex is right, this loss is on "one man" and it's not the jolly not-so-fat man. Instead, John Idzik's failures to put a competitive football team on the field the past two years turns the temperature up on Ryan's hot seat.

This Jets season is teetering on the brink at 1-4. A team that we thought would be different, even when neon lights as bright as the Vegas Strip were telling us otherwise. The secondary is ATROCIOUS and the lack of playmakers on offense lead to a lethal combination.

I'm going to hold off Rex's obituary until Idzik decides to bring the hammer down on him, even though it isn't fair. This franchise hit a high point in January of 2011. It hit a major bump in the road when Victor Cruz went 99-yards on Christmas Eve of 2011, hit another bump when Sanchez butt-fumbled on Thanksgiving of 2012, and before Halloween of 2014 the back-to-back AFC Championship Game appearances feel as old as Joe Willy wagging his finger in 1969.

The tragic R-word seems to be where the Jets are headed. Rex is going to be gone, Geno is going to be gone, but the architect (not George Costanza) John Idzik is going to get a free pass. It's insane to me how a team playing in the swamps of East Rutherford, just a few miles from Manhattan are saving over $20 million in salary cap space when there are clear holes on this football team (Idzik have you met Mr. Wilpon?).

I'm not going to go into go into the franchise's long term plans yet. We still have 11 games left on the schedule for this season. The first question we need to answer is who should start at quarterback the rest of the season? Geno Smith has been under a lot of fire both for his poor play and off the field incidents. After snapping at a fan last week, Smith forgot how to tell time and missed a team meeting this past Saturday, inexcusable for any player (let alone a quarterback under siege).  Smith was benched for the second time in his career on Sunday, this time for Michael Vick.

Vick is some fans' wet dream, but at 34 years old he isn't a long term solution. If Rex is going to try making a move now is the time to do it though. At 1-4, with games against the Broncos and Patriots 4 days apart, Gang Green can't afford to go 1-6 behind a shaky Geno. However, Vick looked either rusty or old himself against San Diego, going 8-19 for 47 yards, but was held until his last drive with the game clearly out of hand. If you keep Geno in for these next two games, a quarterback change at 1-6 doesn't make any sense. I'd rather just die with our second year player and then go after someone in the 2015 Draft.

At the end of the day though, it's clear that the offense the way it's currently constituted isn't ready to start winning football games (no matter who's at quarterback) . Eric Decker, who we brought in to be a major playmaker, has been hampered with a hamstring that continually gets worse instead of better. Chris Johnson has been a huge disappointment, with his fumble on Sunday pretty much ending any chance we had of a comeback. While Chris Ivory has ran the ball hard, we abandon the run too early because of the early deficit we dig ourselves into.

There's no denying that this team has one foot in the grave, but this NFL season has been crazy so far, and any team can win on any given Sunday. That's what I have to keep telling myself at least.