(10-08-2019, 07:46 AM)PF* Wrote: This year has been a real eye-opener for Gase so far.

Hiring him in the first place was a head-scratcher. Making him the de facto GM was the sort of move that makes you scratch your head so hard you hit skull. I don't think he'll pull a Bobby Petrino and be gone during the season, but at the rate he's going, one and done wouldn't be a surprise. Choosing him over Mike McCarthy didn't make sense at the time, and still doesn't. The only defense I've ever heard of the Gase hire came from Mike Florio, who argued that Gase was able to survive a couple years of Peyton Manning, and if Manning thought you weren't keeping up with him, he could very easily have you fired. The fact that Gase worked with him effectively for a couple of years suggests that Gase is at least mentally capable of handling the job.

Now, if you believe the rumor that was circulating around Denver radio stations when Fox and his staff were fired, Manning supposedly had a pretty big hand in that happening, so there's that as kind of a counterpoint to Florio's point above. Regardless, Gase was a terrible hire by the Jets, and I think they're seeing what the Dolphins (and maybe the Broncos?) saw: X and O smarts don't make you field smart.

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