Day 206

Fresh Start_206: Quitters?
Reading articles in several places today, it is clear that the New York sports media do not like the way that the Jets have conducted their offseason so far. I have some disagreements with what Mike Maccagan has done, but for the most part I have come to terms with the rebuild process. I saw the word “quitters” a lot in each article that I read, and that is simply not true. You can’t try to do what the Yankees did and sign a few older players and try to rebuild at the same time, it doesn’t work that way. Maccagan is doing what he is being ask from Woody Johnson and that is to rebuild this team.

Maccagan is trying to trade for more picks, not spend that much money—so they have to spend next offseason, and he is getting rid of big aging contracts. Maccagan is doing everything he is being told and he is getting slaughtered for doing his job. I understand that rebuilding is the sexiest thing to do, especially in New York. Brian Cashman last year was being asked from some fans to resign from his job.

There is pressure to win in New York, something the Jets have become tone deaf to over the years. You can see it with the Knicks right now with the way Phil Jackson is running the Knicks. Maccagan is not doing that, he is retooling the best he can with young talent so he can build this team in the draft.

If you look at the past couple of Super Bowl winning teams, they have built through the draft. Sure, there was some free agents that were added to the core that was already there. What the New York sports media and Jet fans need to understand is building that core takes patience and time. If what Maccagan is doing doesn’t work, well then you can call into Boomer and Carton or the Michael Kay Show and rant about how the picks didn’t work out and Maccagan should get fired. Not before, it is ridiculous and immature. If the Philadelphia 76’er fans have taught me anything, it is to “Trust the Process.”

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