In a move that has been expected for days, Jets owner Woody Johnson cleaned house on Monday – firing both general manager John Idzik and coach Rex Ryan.
The firings came after a dismal 4-12 season that started included an eight-game losing streak, tied for the longest one-season losing streak in team history. The Jets beat the Dolphins on Sunday 37-24, but it was too little, too late for Idzik and Ryan.
Idzik's stay with the Jets was extremely brief. He was hired in January 2013, but a shaky draft record, failure to address holes in the roster and an embarrassing midseason news conference doomed him.
Ryan, 52, leaves the Jets with a record of 50-52, including the postseason. He guided the Jets to consecutive AFC Championship game appearances in his first two years, but his teams missed the playoffs in each of the past four seasons. Ryan will be remembered for his bravado, outspokenness and larger-than-life persona as much as he will for his coaching.
The Jets hired Ryan in 2009 after firing Eric Mangini, and Ryan breathed life into the franchise. He vowed to win the Super Bowl in his introductory press conference, the first of many promises that went unfulfilled. He got as close to returning the Jets to the Super Bowl as any Jets coach has since Weeb Ewbank's team won Super Bowl III. Ryan showed his defensive genius and a devotion to the running game that came to be known as "Ground and Pound" in 2009 and 2010 when they went 9-7 and 11-5, respectively. Those factors helped the Jets win four road playoff games, even though inexperienced quarterback Mark Sanchez, Ryan's first draft pick, was under center.
After losing to the Steelers in the 2010 AFC title game, things began to fell apart. The lockout hurt the Jets entering 2011 and the team had a different look. The Jets went 8-8 in a season marked by locker room turmoil and Sanchez's 26 turnovers.
GM John IdzikPhoto: Anthony J. Causi
The following spring the Jets traded for Tim Tebow and Ryan hired Tony Sparano as his offensive coordinator. Things went from bad to worse as the Jets finished 6-10, Ryan's first losing season. The Tebow experiment blew up in the Jets' face and general manager Mike Tannenbaum was fired. Johnson decided to keep Ryan as coach and force the new general manager to work with him. That move looked risky then and foolish now.
After a lengthy search, the Jets hired Idzik to replace Tannenbaum. The move seemed ill-conceived from the start because Idzik's background was in salary cap management, similar to Tannenbaum. He had very little personnel experience, something the Jets needed in the GM chair.
Idzik inherited a bad salary-cap situation and got it in order quickly, but he struggled with roster building. He traded Darrelle Revis three months into the job, a move Johnson pushed for, and got a good return from the Buccaneers for the star player, landing a first-round pick in 2013. That pick became Sheldon Richardson, who won Defensive Rookie of the Year. But Idzik's other moves did not work out as well.
He drafted quarterback Geno Smith , who has been inconsistent and turnover-prone, in the second round of the '13 draft.. In the first round, he took cornerback Dee Milliner in addition to Richardson. Milliner struggled as a rookie and has struggled to stay healthy.
The Jets overachieved in 2013, going 8-8, prompting the Jets to extend Ryan's contract. Idzik and Ryan shared a memorable hug in the postgame locker room after the season finale in Miami when the news was announced that Ryan would return.
Entering 2014, Idzik failed to address a major hole at cornerback after releasing Antonio Cromartie. He did sign wide receiver Eric Decker to bolster the offense, but appeared overly frugal when he entered the season with more than $20 million in salary cap space despite major holes on the roster.
The Jets had 12 draft picks in the 2014 Draft and Idzik used all of them instead of packaging them in a trade. His draft picks have had little impact this season, especially the three wide receivers he picked. The trio has 0 receptions between them and only two remain on the roster. This, despite this draft being the deepest for wide receivers in years.
The Jets lost eight of their first nine games and Idzik's awkward relationship with the New York media became a story at midseason after a strange press conference that began with a 19-minute, rambling opening statement from Idzik.
Shortly after that a fan movement began to get Idzik fired. A group of fans launced the website firejohnidzik.com and raised money to buy billboards across North Jersey with their message. In mid-November, an airplane carrying a banner that read "Fire John Idzik" circled the Jets practice field with the team as well as Idzik, Johnson and Ryan on it.
The Jets managed to win three of their final seven games, but it became clear that Idzik was too much of a lightning rod with the fans to bring back. News broke last week that Johnson had secured former NFL GMs Charley Casserly and Ron Wolf to serve as his consultants in the event he made a change at GM and coach.
On Monday, those changes became reality.
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