It’s a topic that riles up many Jets fans. But it really shouldn’t. The team has underachieved under the stewardship of Mike Tannenbaum, a cap-and-contracts specialist who finagled his way into the position of General Manager.
Last year, Tannenbaum was able to lay the blame onto the man he hired to coach the team, Eric Mangini. This year, will Tannenbaum be able to escape accountability again?
PFTV explores.
oh, i thought this was going to be a story about the jets getting caught cheating again and finally getting punished instead of the league sweeping it under the rug.
That team is stacked, no way he should be fired. They’ll work it out
The phrases “Let’s start a rookie quarterback” and “Let’s win now” really don’t go together. I see Mark Sanchez being a good quarterback in the future. He’s got growing pains now.
Tannenbaum has no clue on how to run a team.
“A cap-and-contracts specialist who finagled his way into the position of General Manager.”
Good luck!
The very fact that you refer to the Jets’ failures as underachievement suggests you can’t blame the GM. His job is to acquire talent. If their talent level suggests they should be better than mediocre, then you can’t really lay much of any blame on his doorstep.
Every GM has hits and misses. I’d say Tannenbaum hit pretty hard with Darrelle Revis, David Harris, Shonn Greene, Calvin Pace, Kris Jenkins and Jim Leonhard, all players acquired by him in just the last few years. Gholston seems like a miss, and Sanchez, Braylon Edwards and Dustin Keller seem to be too early to call. But I’d take this roster over a lot of other NFL rosters.
Disco thats why you are a Jests fan. He has hit with Revis & Harris. How many misses in the draft has he had?
How much $$$ was thrown at FA’s for a 4-6 team??
You are what your record is and this year has been another failure for the Jests.
As a Patriots fan , please keep Tannenbaum as GM. But to say you cannot lay blame on his doorstep is being a blindless homer with his head in the sand.
Tannenbaum has been good and bad.
Tannembaum was th one who got us into salary cap hell with parcells which caused the Jets to have dismantle the team in 2002 and then push out the salary cap debt for 4 years. Which meant 4 years of not being bale to resign their own players or sign FA’s. He seems to have not learned that lesson spending freely as soon as he became GM.
Tannenbaum is also responsible for hiring Mangini and overseeing one of the most corrupt and unethical FO’s a NFL team has ever had. How much of that was Tannenbaum and how much of it was Mangini? I think the evidence seems to be coming in it was mainly Mangini but that was Tanny’s hire and he did nothing to stop the abuses.
Tanny has overpaid for FA’s. That is not necessarily bad as the FA’s have been mostly good pickups.
He has been aggressive in trades and proactive a big plus over Bradway. Dealing Abraham was a wonderful move. Trading up in weak drafts for the players the scouting department liked (Revis, Harris, Sanchez and Greene) were all smart moves in my opinion.
In term sof drafting players I don’t believe Tanny deserves any credit or lack of credit for the picks. Tannenbaum is not a football guy and has no clue about talent. The draft picks are made by Bradway and his scouts and the coaching staff. Tanny just handles the negotiations.
In summary I like Tanny’s agressivesness but he seems to more concerned with the short term future than managing the team and the salary cap for the long term. Here he could learn from Bradway.
My biggest problem with tannenbaum is I do not trust him. I like many things about him but he is to much about himself.
But regardless Terry Bradway is the star of the Jets FO. He is the one who heads the scouting. he is the one who makes the draft picks. He is the one with connections. Tanny is a smart guy but Bradway is the star and the one who does the work.
It will take more than a year to judge Rex Ryan, but so far the defense is playing well even after losing Kris Jenkins and some nagging injuries at CB behind Revis, the run game is solid even with Leon Washington injured, and they have played well enough to win most games, with 3 tough losses at the buzzer.
Sanchez has had an up and down year, thats what is expected of a rookie, even a talented one. He will learn from this year, and should come back better and more consistent next year.
Given the talent that Tannenbaum has assembled through FA and drafts (with Gholston being the only flop among many solid picks), he deserves to stick around. Too many times a franchise pulls the plug on a new regime before the new players and schemes have time to gel. Look at the best and worst teams in the league, a major part of success is continuity, nobody can succeed with a new coaching staff and new philosophy every year.
He’s a failure on all counts.
You start with the head coach hires, and Mangini and Rex Ryan are just clowns. I get the feeling they only hired Ryan because he was really the only 3-4 defensive guy available and it would have been too much to transition back to a 4-3 after they gave away Vilma and Robertson because they couldn’t play the 3-4. And to consider he could have stuck with Manginious for one more year and have guys like Gruden and Shannahan available this offseason.
Now look at his drafting. Sure guys like Revis and Harris are great players, but its cost the Jets a ton to move up to get them.
They lost a second (and more) to move up to get Revis.
They lost a third (and more) to move up to get Harris.
They lost a third for a one year Favre rental.
They lost a second and 3 players for the Sanchize.
They lost a fourth to move up to get Keller.
They lost a fourth for a washed up player in Lito Sheppard.
And of course there’s always these great deals:
Chad Pennington – 1st round pick – released, NO COMPENSATION
Dwayne Robertson – 1st round pick – traded for condtional pick that wasn’t met, NO COMPENSATION
Pete Kendall – 1st round pick (albeit with the Skins) – traded for 4th rounder TWO DRAFTS after the trade
Johnathan Vilma – 1st round pick – traded for a swap of 4ths and a 3rd TWO DRAFTS after he was traded.
And already the Jets are down to only 4 picks in next years draft, supposedly one of the deepest in years.
The Pats and Dolphins are run by COMPETENT people, and they’re doing a lot more to improve their teams than the Jets are. They’ll be perpetual 3rd place – or worse – finishers for years to come as long as this clown is allowed to run this franchise.
The phrases “Let’s start a rookie quarterback” and “Let’s win now” really don’t go together.
Rex Ryan has been a bit disappointing, but he did lose some star players in Jenkins and Washington.
The hiring decisions have been horrible. The draft choices have been horrible. The trades have been horrible. There is no sense that this team is building to anything. every year they seem to hire a bunch of people in some new strategy to beat the Patriots. You aren’t going to get to the playoffs and superbowl by building your team to beat one other team in the league, and by using a reactionary strategy to team building. Build your own identity. Don’t build your team based on someone else’s identity.
Sanchez was a bad move. Ryan was an AWFUL move. Mangini was a move based on one thing only, trying to hurt the Pats, what a way to go about hiring a head coach. Ryan is just a classless jerk who is never at fault. A coach needs to own up when his team loses, and not blame it on anything but himself, even if it wasn’t his fault.
I think the move that defines how bad this franchise is, and what state it is in is the move to get Favre. They had a great quarterback in Pennington, who was arguably one of the best quarterbacks in the league at the time. They trade to get Favre, thinking somehow Favre would bring this team to the playoffs all by himself, and then they RELEASE Pennington! Not trade, release! Pennington goes on to show why he is so good. Look at the Phins and their wildcat. When was it successful? You guessed it: When Pennington was QB. It doesn’t work for them when they don’t have a passing game, and Pennington gave that to them. Stupid move of stupid moves, and it forced the Jets into having to get a QB in the draft to try and salvage the team. They pick Sanchez, who admittedly looked good in his limited time starting. The problem was it WAS limited. They placed all their hopes, and a great deal of money on a QB who started only 16 games in his college career? STUPID, as were the decisions that led them to have to make that choice.
What about the guys he let go? How about James Farrior as one–a couple of Pro Bowls and Super Bowls later—you think he could have helped this sorry team? Farrior was one leader they sorely needed and he just let him go because he is football clueless. He came in as a cap guy with no football and weaseled his way into the position by backstabbing. Get rid of him.