The Double Standard

If the Jets tried to sell this, they would likely get ripped apart. Often there is a double standard at work. I’m sorry, I’m just not buying his theory.

New Giants coach Ben McAdoo announced his complete coaching staff today. Here is part of the press release.

“McAdoo’s first staff will include 20 assistant coaches, including eight on offense, seven on defense, two on special teams, and three in strength & conditioning.

“Twelve of the assistant coaches were on Tom Coughlin’s 2015 staff, including all three coordinators. Mike Sullivan will assume McAdoo’s former position as offensive coordinator after spending last season as the Giants’ quarterbacks coach. Steve Spagnuolo (defense) and Tom Quinn (special teams) will remain the coordinators of their respective units.

“The other coaches who were on the staff last season are Craig Johnson (running backs), Kevin M. Gilbride (tight ends), Lunda Wells (assistant offensive line), Ryan Roeder (offensive assistant), Tim Walton (secondary/cornerbacks), David Merritt (secondary/safeties), Rob Leonard (defensive assistant), and Markus Paul (assistant strength & conditioning) and Joe Danos (performance manager).

“The eight new coaches include Frank Cignetti Jr. (quarterbacks), Adam Henry (wide receivers), Mike Solari (offensive line), Patrick Graham (defensive line), Jeff Zgonina (assistant defensive line), Bill McGovern (linebackers), Dwayne Stukes (assistant special teams) and Aaron Wellman (strength and conditioning).”

So what is my issues with this. Here goes. This is what McAdoo said about his new staff.

“This is a new staff,” McAdoo said. “Nobody was retained, there were no holdovers; everyone was hired. When I sat down with everybody on the staff, that was one thing I wanted to make clear. No one was retained, no one was a holdover. Everyone was hired here as part of a new staff.”

So let me get this straight, he retained 12 coaches from Tom Coughlin’s staff, but he claims, “nobody was retained,” and this is a “new staff.”

I have been covering the Jets for 20 years, and I’ve seen a blatant double standard in this market. The Giants are almost always given the benefit of the doubt, and the Jets aren’t.

The Jets are constantly the butt of jokes.

I’m telling you right now, if the Jets claimed that they have a new staff, that including 12 coaches from the old staff, it would turn into a punch line.

Nobody was retained?

Let’s look up the definition of “retained.”

From dictionary.com –

1)to keep possession of.
2)to continue to use, practice, etc.:
to retain an old custom.
3) to continue to hold or have:

So to you, does it sound like McAdoo “retained” this 12 coaches or they were new hires?

When I read the quote on the internet, I went right to the story to see this new staff. I like to see the make-up on new coaching staffs. Then I’m reading the names, I’m like, “what’s up with this?” One name after the other that was already there, like David Merritt, a former Jets assistant.

The Giants have had three losing seasons in a row, including a pair of 6-10 campaigns. Clearly the concept of keeping so much of a staff that was in-part responsible for this trio of bad seasons, might not sit well with their fan base.

So maybe they are trying to sell this to their fans as a new staff and that nobody was retained.

But you really need to have been living in a cave your whole life to think that keeping 12 coaches from the former staff isn’t a case of “retaining” them.

Can you imagine is the Jets tried to sell this?

There is a huge double-standard in this market.

What a strange thing for McAdoo to say.

February 16, 2016

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