Tag Archives: AFC East

College Coaches’ Recent Failure in the NFL–It’s Getting Worse (a Warning to the Jets, Browns and Broncos, as well as Jagodzinski, Stoops and Ferentz)

There was a time when hiring a college coach to join the pros was not a terribly bad bet. But (as I’ve written before) judging from the most recent NCAAers making forays into the pro ranks, that time is long over.

I suggested recently that Boston College’s head coach would be a poor choice to fill [...]

How much longer for Mangini?

Mid-afternoon Sunday, as the Jets were busy trying to hand a stunning victory to the Kansas City Chiefs, I sat at this keyboard contemplating a “time to fire Mangini” article.
It seems to me that Coach Mangini’s career hangs on every Brett Favre pass — each TD prolongs the Mangini coaching tenure, while more importantly each [...]