sc85sis
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That Notre Dame game that year nearly did me in. Back and forth all day--total emotional roller coaster.
As for Pete's time in NY, he definitely wasn't fully formed as a head coach yet and made mistakes. He also was in a pretty much untenable situation. I know Boomer Esiason has said something like he felt he'd gone from PhD to high school after Pete left.
Edit: Here's the actual quote from Boomer.
"He never really had a chance to establish himself,” says Boomer Esiason, who quarterbacked for the New York Jets when Carroll was the coach. Esiason calls the day Carroll got fired “the saddest day of my professional life. I basically went from a Ph.D. to an elementary school education in about 15 minutes.”
Source:
http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2007 ... jets-jets/
As for Pete's time in NY, he definitely wasn't fully formed as a head coach yet and made mistakes. He also was in a pretty much untenable situation. I know Boomer Esiason has said something like he felt he'd gone from PhD to high school after Pete left.
Edit: Here's the actual quote from Boomer.
"He never really had a chance to establish himself,” says Boomer Esiason, who quarterbacked for the New York Jets when Carroll was the coach. Esiason calls the day Carroll got fired “the saddest day of my professional life. I basically went from a Ph.D. to an elementary school education in about 15 minutes.”
Source:
http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2007 ... jets-jets/
