Going there

According to

to Fansided’s The Jets Press website, Adam Schefter said on the ESPN pre-game show before the Jets-Patriots game: “Adam Gase will not be the head coach [of the Jets]” at the end of the season.

The author of the article was a gentleman named Justin Fried.

I did not watch the pre-game show, but what Mr. Fried heard is certainly newsworthy.

Now you can say that Schefter is being “Captain Obvious” by making that statement, but I don’t look at it like that.

Of course most people assume Gase will be let go after the season, but as a reporter, I can’t report on assumptions.

Assuming something is going to happen really isn’t journalism, is it?

So if Schefter, who has impeccable sources, did indeed say: “Gase will not be the head coach [of the Jets]” that is certainly newsworthy.

Because it’s a definitive statement.

If this is true, it makes it kind of unusual to have a lame duck coach for this long.

Because the Jets still have seven games left, but you could make the argument, that Gase might have been in lame duck status, even before the Jets’ recent loss to New England.

It’s a little odd to have a supposed lame duck coach maintaining a job for such a long stretch.

But this isn’t a situation where the players hate the coach, and can’t stand working with him for one more second. Most of them like the coach. The issue isn’t likability.

It’s also not effort. This team is playing hard. They aren’t always playing smart, but they are playing hard.

So they like the coach. It’s not a toxic work environment. They are playing hard.

Reading the tea leaves, I get the sense the attitude of some in power about Gase seems to be, “You made this bed, and now you sleep it in (for the rest of the season).”

So if Christopher Johnson wants to kick the can to the end of the year before pulling the plug, you aren’t going to have a mutiny on the bounty. The players don’t loathe the coach.

And plus, as I have said before, if you don’t make Gregg Williams the interim coach, a position he’s held before, he will likely go ape-bleep, and might check out. His son is also on the staff, as is Gase’s father-in-law, so if you fire Gase in season, and don’t make Williams the interim, which he probably doesn’t deserve since the defense has been subpar, you could lose four coaches – Williams, his son, Gase, and his father-in-law, and then you would be understaffed the rest of the year.

So this will likely happen after the season.

And the Schefter’s quote, according to Fansided, certainly makes it seem like it’s fait-accompli that Gase will be fired after the season . . .

John Franklin-Myers, who had been playing very well, had a rough game against New England.

He finished with one tackle, and didn’t make much of an impact as a pass rusher.

And I will tell you a BIG reason he didn’t play as well as the previous few games – the Patriots’ 6-3, 350-pound right tackle Mike Owenu.

It looks like the Patriots struck gold again on another sixth-round pick from Michigan.

Oh my goodness is he impressive.

He got the best of Franklin-Myers, but don’t feel bad JFM, he’s doing it every week..

This dude is a technically-sound powerhouse who mauls people out there . . .

People wonder why Frank Gore is still playing so much with the Jets at 0-9.

Aside from the fact that he’s still pretty good, it could be milestone related.

He continues to move up the all-time charts in different categories, and perhaps the head coach wants to help him in this regard . . .

November 11, 2020

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