Jets fire Mangini after missing playoffs

[DainBramaged]

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. - The New York Jets fired coach Eric Mangini on Monday, a day after a team that harbored Super Bowl hopes with five games left failed to make the playoffs.

The Jets started the season 8-3 under quarterback Brett Favre, beating New England and Tennessee on the road in consecutive weeks and raising visions among their fans of a Super Bowl trip.

But they went 1-4 in their final five games, losing to Denver, San Francisco, Seattle and Miami and barely beating Buffalo. They did not reach the postseason for the second straight year despite a massive offseason spending spree that included trading for Favre after his retirement and unretirement from Green Bay.

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[SoxFan]

1. Poor Mangenius

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[jobycom]

2. Are you listening, Jerry? Please? 9 and 7. 9 and 7. nt.

[flvegan]

3. I can't believe the Lions fired Marinelli.

He got them into the history books!!

[DainBramaged]

4. HAHAHAHAHA bet the Jets hire him.

The Jets can do no right, ha vent since 1969

[edbermac]

5. They should have kept him for next season.

After all, he can't get any worse.

[NJmaverick]

6. I don't think we have seen the end of Eric

I am sure someone will pick him up as a defensive coordinator and in a few years you will see a wiser and more effective head coach Mangini. I think he was just a bit too young, this first go around.