OK, I'm at work listening to WFAN and Francesa just had an awesome rant. I took notes (yeah, slow day). This is not 100% word for word exactly or all of what he said but gets a lot of it. Enjoy:
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(Message to Rex): Everybody chases the Super Bowl; everybody who is attached to an NFL team chases the Super Bowl every year. There is a difference between chasing a Super Bowl, and talking about it every time you open your mouth. ...
In three years they don't have a division title, they've never had a home (playoff) game. They've chased a lot of character guys out of the building.
What has to change now is Rex has to grow into a full version of being a coach. You cannot stand there and say "I don't know anything about (Holmes being benched)." To say you don't know anything about it is embarrassing. .. Are you running the place or are you not running the place? It's either an out and out lie or the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life.
(Points out that when Holmes was benched they didn't know know Tennessee wasn't going to OT. IE, Jets were still in it for all they knew.)
You are not in control there. You're admitting you're not in control.
See, the idea of well it's Rex and it's Rex's way .. that's all gone. It's all gone now.
This year they were 8-5 and they couldn't finish. They were an awful team with a bad quarterback (when the season finished).
They chased character guys out of the building, and they replaced them with guys who have talent but no character. .. this has become a front-running bunch that has no toughness. They talk tough, they aren't tough.
The head coach ... has to get smarter and better. He has to change his words. Otherwise he comes off looking like a clown, like a fool. ... He has got to pay less time worrying about what his talk, his what his message is and getting commercials, and worry about running a team as good coaches do. .. It's a big step backwards for the Jets. Do they have to do anything earth-shattering? No. ... Ryan has a plus body of work here, but he took a big step backwards. His grace period is over. When you're 8-5 and you make huge statements and you don't back them up, it's time to be quiet.
Holmes has shown himself this year to be a slefish me guy who doesn't care about anyone else. That's why he was given away.
Bottom line right now is Jets have crashed and burned. Can it be fixed? Yeah. They have to be smart enough to fix it. Not care about how it plays in the media, they have to fix it. The offensive coaches have to go. (Not all Schotty's fault) .. it's a bad mix (of coaches on O).
Let's not forget, this defense was very ordinary. .. And that (Dolphins) 21-play drive ... speaks volumes about this season. Westhoff had a terrible year with special teams. It's not just offense and QB and playcaller, it was the netire team. There's a lot that has to be fixed. But the first thing is knock off the tough guy talk and figure out how to coach better.
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