Cowher will talk to Jets
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- December
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Despite reports to the contrary, a source close to the team said the Jets and Bill Cowher have agreed to talk about the head coaching position. A time for the meeting has not yet been set up.
Yesterday team owner Woody Johnson said that GM Mike Tannenbaum was not going to be let go, but Cowher would like to bring in a personnel director, which currently is Tannenbaum’s job. Apparently, that isn’t an impasse.
Fans on this blog and elsewhere have been clamoring for Cowher, who has a year left on his contract with CBS. He will likely talk about his future during the show on Sunday.
In other news, yesterday afternoon the white bus that normally sits behind Brett Favre’s home in New Vernon, N.J. was out front and being loaded up. Several players said the quarterback wasn’t crazy about Eric Mangini’s coaching style. Mangini might have realized that he needed to win over more players during the 1-4 slide to end the season, and he reached out to some of them on a personal level.
This was after a history of creating strict boundaries between himself and players, which could go as far as not offering a simple hello if they passed in the hall. Still, players like WR David Clowney said they respected Mangini’s smarts.
“He’s a tough guy, he’s a hard hitter,” Clowney said, “but at the same time he gives you everything straight up and makes sure you’re prepared for the game.”
Clowney, by the way, will stay in New Jersey during the offseason with his little brother, Jordan, who he has custody of and is enrolled in school there.
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Jane McManus 
Improve the Jets …Need total change…..........
Among others with longevity, trainers, equipment staff and
security personel need to be replaced due to their addiction
of being asscociated with and contributing to years of loosing and dissapointing seasons…Their actions and insecurities of being on the hot seat breed an atmosphere of fear, discontent and negativity which is transmitted to the players and coaches who they are in daily contact with…....Eliminate the negatives and the positives will surface…........Thks…A long time Jet fan…...
Well, at least we are moving in what I hope is the right direction. My main argument against my beloved jets was the lack of a pass rush on defense. It was glaringly obviuos week in and week out that the defensive scheme was terrible. The O was up and down…I can live with that if we had a stout D. We’ll see. GO GREEN!
After watching this distaster of a draft pick, I’m thinking that the Jets may want to think about putting Ghoulston back at his natural position. This move should be made by the new D coordinator. I am so sick of Sutton’s conservative schemes.