FLORHAM PARK, N.J. - The New York Jets fired train Eric Mangini yesterday, a broad daylight after a line-up that harbored Super Bowl hopes with five games fist failed to perform as the playoffs.
The Jets started the opportunity 8-3 under quarterback Brett Favre, beating New England and Tennessee on the low road in consecutive weeks and raising visions mid fans of the team's essential Super Bowl tumble since 1969. "I don't consider it was one thing," possessor Woody Johnson said at a despatch conference. "We had to go in a original direction. There's nothing specific. It's just a gather we made. Hopefully, it's correct.
" The 37-year-old Mangini was called by Johnson one of the league's up-and-coming coaches, but he went 23-26 in three seasons in his in front command coaching job. He had another year outstanding on his contract. "For the present-day New York Jets organization, we've made the steadfastness to impel on," Johnson said. "It's a judgment call.
" Mangini held a body congress yesterday matutinal to claim farewell. "I valuable the occasion that Woody and [GM] Mike [Tannenbaum] gave me for the one-time three years as the turn teacher of the New York Jets," Mangini said in a statement. "The system has terrible men and women and I fancy the Jets nothing but success. The span and work invested by the coaches and players was tremendous and I value that beyond words. "We worked unyielding to carry out two friendly seasons out of the on three.
I bewail that we could not go our goals for this year. I will always rise the yen and support of the fans as our focus was dispiriting to build them a championship-caliber foundation and team." "I seem that we let him down and we could have done a better job of making plays," major receiver Jerricho Cotchery said. "It's tough." The Jets went 1-4 in their ultimate five games, losing to Denver, San Francisco, Seattle, and Miami and scarcely beating Buffalo.
They did not influence the postseason for the go along with plain year undeterred by an offseason spending binge that included a traffic for Favre after his retirement and recur at Green Bay. The 39-year-old Favre had just two TD passes and nine interceptions in those fixed five games. Favre led the combine in interceptions with 22 and complained after Sunday's 24-17 set-back to Miami of hurt in his advantageous margin and neck.
The acquire gave the Dolphins the AFC East subtitle under Chad Pennington, the Jets' longtime quarterback who was sign when the duo obtained Favre. As a rookie coach, Mangini took a set that had been 4-12 the above-named year to the playoffs with a 10-6 note in 2006 and earned the moniker "Mangenius" from the tabloids. However, the Jets went 4-12 hindmost season.
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