Posted by Marv:

that's easy pickins. you gotta go deeper than the dj to convince us.

Posted by fishmike:

I thought this post was going to be about our players "MAN-GINAs"

Posted by Queeniepop:

I am sorry, but those who believe Isiah is doing a good job are sorely mistaken. His ego prevents him from playing the right combo of players. The only way he actually was able to was a result of the brawl with Denver and injuries. Sadly, Isiah is a poor talent manager and X's and O's guy. He can only have the box of eight crayons versus the box of 64. Isiah the GM really screwed Isiah the coach. We are strapped with contracts. His past few picks have been less than stellar, except for Lee. Nate is a freakin joke of a player. Frye is now yesterday's news. Balkman should play more but obviously Isiah sees otherwise. Mardy Collins...come on???

I mentioned in a previous post that Isiah is Herm Edwards. Great coach 6 days a week, but on the seventh and most important day (in our case, like every other day), he is just clueless. The time management/time out issues are very similar to Herm as well. He is too conservative to take a chance and he puts all of his eggs in one basket like with Jared or Curry and even Marbury. He relies on broken players like Q and plays them until they are useless (see Chad Pennington). Plus, there is no real in-team competition because everything is a given- like Steph starting or Jeffries or Channing.

Eric Mangini made Chad Pennington compete for his starting spot. Each week he quizzes the players on the gameplan and if they do not pass, they dont play. Sounds LB-ish but Mangini is 35 yrs old and looks like the Bob's Big Boy icon. The players couldnt stand or trust him thru most of training camp and the start of the season. But when they started to see they could win, they believed. Mangini focuses on the little things like minimizing penalties at the line of scrimmage, personal foul penalties, etc. Taking care of the little things in the immediate will ultimately leverage the big picture. Hence a 3-13 season in 2005 to a 10-4 season in 2006 and a playoff berth. WITH A COLLECTION OF PLAYERS, some talent, seven draft picks and a QB who had two shoulder surgeries in consecutive seasons. He motivates thru sport- on Sat nites before games, the team discusses the gameplan and then watches clips of champions a la Jordan, Tiger Woods, Ali. He uses a ton of boxing analogies and brings in guest speakers and such.

Mangini started off as the low of the low...a water boy, an intern in PR for the Browns. He ran into Bill Belichick, the Browns coach at the time who attended Weselyan, his alma mater. Belichick took him under his wing and gave him a very low assistant position- he analyzed film. He eventually ascended up to an offensive assistant. When Bellichick got fired from the Browns and got hired by the Pats, he took Mangini with him. Obviously, we all know what happened from here on with NE and I hate them for it as a Jets fan. But to have THE MANGINI-OUS as a coach is excellent...you know he knows the game, how to coach, how an NFL org runs top-down because he has experienced it all. He comes to the most brutal sports market and succeeds.

Mangini worked for everything. He learned about every facet of the NFL game and business. He wasnt a player or a heralded college coach. He comes from the Parcells lineage via Bellichick. Mangini took a collection of players, no star, and a lot of young fellas and got it to work. He coached the Jets to play within their capacities and he is not afraid to take chances.

THE KNICKS need a MANGINI-OUS...where can we find this guy?