NFL Open Thread: You’ve been GASED
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A new low for the NFL’s most inexplicable coaching career:
Adam Gase is either too dumb to realize that the Jets are tanking or too selfish to care. Thursday night’s disaster of a matchup against the Broncos made clear that even if Gase tries to win, his actions won’t matter. He’s bad enough at his job that his team might finish 0-16. He’s a lame-duck coach who will almost certainly be fired at some point this year. But after watching Gase voluntarily jeopardize the health of the team’s brightest young star in the hopes of winning a game in an already-doomed season, I’m not sure the Jets can risk keeping Gase around for even a few weeks longer.
In April, the Jets used their top draft pick on offensive tackle Mekhi Becton. He’s been wonderful, a plug-and-play stud who’s capable of dumptrucking defensive linemen regardless of what dingus is standing on the sideline. (We knew this when he dominated at Louisville despite being coached by noted dingus Bobby Petrino.) What Becton needs to have a successful Jets career is not to get more reps, but to stay healthy until the team actually has an offensive infrastructure worth protecting. Instead, Gase sent Becton into Thursday’s game despite the fact that Becton was clearly dealing with a shoulder injury. Becton had been hampered all week by his shoulder; he was listed as a limited participant in practice and was supposed to play only in case of emergency. Gase sent him into the game as soon as his replacement, Chuma Edoga, got hurt on the game’s opening drive.
Sherman doesn’t get into what happened at the end of the game, when Gase (who turtled on fourth-and-inches late in the fourth quarter) decided to use all of his timeouts on defense down two possessions with less than a minute left, allowing Gregggggggggg Williams’s defense to get two 15-yard penalties for taking head shots at the QB. (Speaking of people in their last seasons as NFL head coaches, I also have no idea what Fangio was doing calling passing plays in garbage time with the league’s most notorious goon as the opposition DC.) Fangio led his team off the field without shaking Gase’s hand.
Oh, and Gregggggggg’s defense gave up 37 points, at home, to an 0-3 team starting an undrafted third-string QB making his NFL debut on a short week, missing his top wiedout, RB, and (in the second half) TE. The Johnsons!