Patriot Way spreads to Miami: Is that bad news for Jets? – New York Jets Blog

The practically once-a-year torment of Super Bowl Sunday produced a cruel twist for the New York Jets and their beleaguered fan base. Not only did they have to endure an unprecedented sixth championship for their No. 1 rival, but they observed their most beloved player, Joe Namath, current the Lombardi Trophy to the New England Patriots. It was not his fault — it was a hat-suggestion to the 50th anniversary of the Jets’ historic Super Bowl victory — but it still had to be soul-crushing.

The Jets’ No. 2 rival also was celebrating. The Miami Dolphins on Monday hired the latest star pupil from the Monthly bill Belichick Ending Faculty: defensive whiz Brian Flores, who done his degree by befuddling the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII. It sets up a interesting circumstance study amongst the Dolphins and Jets, each of whom — along with the Buffalo Charges — have been taking in the Patriots’ dust for two a long time.

In their try to overtake Belichick and Tom Brady, the Jets acquired into the leaguewide craze by selecting the offensive-minded Adam Gase — a Miami cast-off. The Dolphins acquired into the Patriot Way, bringing a single of Belichick’s leading lieutenants to South Seaside.

Offense vs. defense. Recycled head mentor vs. contemporary face. Mediocre report (23-25) vs. profitable pedigree.

Flores has much more box-business office attractiveness than Gase for the reason that he has the unmistakable glow of a Super Bowl championship, which makes it a lot easier for the people in the internet marketing office, but the reality is Flores is a larger question mark than Gase.

For all his assure, Flores is the product or service of a procedure and a tradition that does every little thing well except create head coaches. Have you researched the branches of the Belichick coaching tree? It has yielded the likes of Eric Mangini (a groan from Jets’ lovers), Charlie Weis, Josh McDaniels, Romeo Crennel and Monthly bill O’Brien, the only a single who has accomplished achievement on his personal.

A calendar year ago, the Detroit Lions believed they were being acquiring a chip off the ‘ol Monthly bill in Matt Patricia, but The Pencil was a mess and completed 6-10. One of his veterans complained about his draconian means to a Jets player immediately after their blowout loss to New York … and that was only 7 days 1, for crying out loud.

This isn’t going to suggest Flores will convert into another Patricia. But it isn’t going to suggest he is not going to. Flores is strolling into a rough condition, a single that was created in element by Gase, who went 13-19 over his final two seasons. The Dolphins will reportedly dump quarterback Ryan Tannehill and start off to rebuild, which indicates they could seem a good deal like the 2017 Jets.

Flores, 37, is considered a brilliant mentor with powerful management qualities, but he is aware only a single way, obtaining invested his full vocation under a single male. This smacks of the Jets and Mangini in 2006. He, as well, grew up under Belichick, landing the Jets’ gig when he was only 35. Operator Woody Johnson was so desperate to emulate the Patriots that he and his correct-hand male, previous common manager Mike Tannenbaum (later Gase’s manager in Miami), persuaded Mangini to defect. They got a single terrific calendar year out of out the so-named “Gentleman-genius” ahead of it all went to parts.

The Jets realized a tricky lesson: You can employ a Belichick Mini-Me, but that isn’t going to suggest you happen to be acquiring Belichick. And that is the issue about Flores that makes him a wild card.