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Question #127: So what would have happened …?

December

Isn’t it amazing how ultra-rich guys can say such stupid things. No, I’m not talking about the Steinbrenners.

Woody Johnson actually said this yesterday:

“It’s not a decision we reached (Sunday) or 10 minutes ago. This is a decision that was basically running through the season. We don’t take this decision lightly.”

So Question #127 is for Woody:

If the firing of Eric Mangini was in the works through the season, if it had been reached before Sunday, what would you have done had the Jets beat the Dolphins and won the AFC East and made the playoffs? Was Mangini still going out the door then? What if he won a playoff game or two? Was he still fired?

That, of course, is ridiculous. No way Mangini gets fired if the Jets make the playoffs at 10-6, and definitely no way he gets fired if the Jets win a game or two in the postseason.

So Woody is full of baloney. That decision wasn’t made before Sunday. It was made when the Jets were eliminated, either before or during their game against Miami.

Either that, or Woody Johnson is as dumb as he sounds.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 at 12:12 pm by Carp. |

2 Responses to “Question #127: So what would have happened …?”

sunny615 January 5th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Woody had Mangini fired long before the last game. I believe, that even if the Jets had gotten in, and lost in the first round, Wood would have found a way to fire Mangini. The shot had already been fired and it just a matter of timing on when the bullet hit. Nothing short of a Superbowl appearance (not victory) would have secured Mangini for another year. And probably only one year. I thought Belicheat a coward for bailing on taking over the Jets when Leon Hess passed, but now I see that he may have had some oversight into Wood that none of us had (maybe he had his camera’s stashed somewhere and spied on Wood)!! Like I mentioned previously, the Jets are a poorly run organization and until someone that has an IQ greater than the fat content of a bran muffin starts running the football operations there, they will forever be a fringe organization always looking in on winning a chamionship and up and the Giants.
sunny615 January 5th, 2009 at 10:21 am
correction: and up at the Giants

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