KRAC Blog

Watching the Bills get pasted by the Jets a few weeks ago it would have been reasonable for anyone to doubt that the Jets were still the Jets, but I had faith. The New York media are saying that it's the coaching, and when you consider that the Peagreens had the talent to beat the Titans and the Patriots this season, perhaps there is something to this evaluation. The Bills haven't beat anyone good all year (probably the best team they've beaten is Denver, actually), but I'd say that coaching is probably the root explanation for the Bills' season as well. Coaching is why they lost to the Jets. Indeed, swap "Jauron" for Mangini, and this quote might be a macro on Jerry Sullivan's computer:

"And all the while, Eric Mangini has taken exquisite pains to betray no sense of alarm or urgency. As has been his wont since day one, he has remained the very picture of outward calm, tirelessly repeating his ever-familiar mantra about avoiding mistakes and moving forward. To witness his manicured media persona is to think him as always in control, never given to the whims and folly that mark the behavior of many other coaches around the league. But the bottom line belies the façade."

There is a difference between the two teams: the Jets are in the largest media market in the country. Their owner is under 100 years old. They are moving into a new stadium, and will continue to sell it out. They will always be able to do stufff like signing Brett Favre. They will also always suck-- this is an article of faith with me-- but they won't suck in Toronto.