NY Jets fire coach Eric Mangini
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Bill Jempty | Monday, December 29, 2008 |
The NFL regular season isn’t 24 hours old when the first coaching casualties are already taking place. From ESPN-
Eric Mangini is out as head coach of the New York Jets after the team lost four of its last five games to finish out of the playoffs.
The clincher was the Jets’ 24-17 loss to Miami on Sunday that gave the Dolphins the AFC East title.
“We don’t take this decision lightly,” Jets owner woody johnson said at a Monday morning news conference. “We respect Eric for what he’s done but we want to build on the successful foundation he has laid.”
Mangini, 37, was 23-26 in three seasons with the Jets, including 0-1 in the playoffs.
“We’ve made the decision to move on,” Johnson said.
The Jets acquired Brett Favre before the season started and ran off to an 8-3 start. But losses to Denver, at San Francisco, at Seattle and Sunday to the Dolphins left New York on the outside of the playoffs for the second straight season.
The Favre maneuver didn’t work out short term for the Jets, and could be a long-term disaster is Pennington has a few more good years in a Miami uniform. Mangini paid the price for the dumb decision made by Jets management.
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