Joe Namath isn't the only former New York Jets quarterback willing to bash the new Jets regime. Boomer Esiason held nothing back during an interview with WEEI on Wednesday, taking a blow torch to Rex Ryan, Mark Sanchez, Mike Tannenbaum and Santonio Holmes.
"I think that Rex Ryan's ways have come back to haunt him," said Esiason. "And Mike Tannenbaum, the general manager down here, has a lot of responsibility in this regard, because they have put a lot of bad guys together in this locker room. There's a good core of players for the New York Jets. But unfortunately, all it takes is one guy. And Rex Ryan giving Santonio Holmes the captain's 'C' on the chest was an absolute embarrassment. It's a slap in the face of all the good guys in that locker room.
"They have a major problem with him, because they're going to owe him $15 million guaranteed over the next two years if, in fact, they keep him on the roster next year. They can't cut him, I don't think. And I don't think anybody's going to want to trade for him. So, they've got themselves a handful.
"And then this morning in the paper, Jets fans don't want Mark Sanchez back. But this is the world of the Jets. It stays together for a little bit, and then all of a sudden it spirals out of control. And then they have a head coach that kind of exacerbates all of it."
Asked about the possibility of the Jets adding Peyton Manning, Esiason said the Jets would likely look into it because they don't feel comfortable with Sanchez at the helm.
"But first of all, we don't even know if Peyton's able to play," said Esiason. "If Peyton is able to play and the new general manager and whoever they hire to run that team out there decides to go without Peyton Manning, then I'm sure that the Jets will be sniffing around. Because that's what the Jets do. They're trying to find their Tom Brady. They're trying to find their Aaron Rodgers. And I don't think in their mind they think that they feel like they've found the kid.
"If you watched Mark Sanchez the last month of the season, he was like a chihuahua standing on Madison Avenue and 36th Street entering the Midtown Tunnel, eyes bigger than you-know-what, and just so shaky."
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