brInterestingly enough, Battista , which ran the afterward day -- "You PLAY to WIN the GAME!!!" didn't actually arrest fire until it strike the airwaves, What Battista caught,whatever was a coach quite much compelled to differentiate his players that they were never out of the race no matter how cloudy things may have looked by the phase.brbr"There is no situation so dire it would acquaint Jets Coach Herman Edwards curse she wrote. "But to Edwards, 'quit' is a four-letter word, and while he was asked today whether there were any risk of the Jets giving up as the season spirals toward disaster, he reacted with more anger than he had formerly displayed publicly amid his season and a half as brain consultant"brbr''Oh not they're never going to do that,'' [Edwards] said. ''Not on my watch. It's inexcusable. Don't even think almost it. It's called being a professional. They're going to do that.''brbrIf they are never professional, Edwards said, ''coaches, players, management, anybody,afterwards they need to work somewhere else.''brbrHe added: ''They're going to conduct themselves that access When I perceive they don't, everybody want know nearly that. I ambition make that decision. That's unthinkable as me to even think that.''brbr''That's unthinkable to me, that you have an opportunity among your lifetime to be a professional, that you would think almost quitting. You don't quit among sports. You retire. You don't get to discontinue It's never an option. I don't need to relay it to them. They know who their guide namely They know they've got not alternative When you lose,folk start assuming they discontinue This team ain't doing that. Retirement? Yes. Quitting? No. You don't do that within sports. It's absurd.''brbrThose who thought it was absurd that the Jets could somehow rebound from that terrible begin were from now on obtain an education among the value of Edwards' motivation. The Jets finished the 2002 season with a 7-2 run,blow the Indianapolis Colts within the wild-card round of the playoffs, and lost to the Oakland Raiders among the divisional boundary It was an of the few cases in recent memory where a team's drastic turnaround can be tied to an characteristic quote -- whether intended alternatively not.brbrDespite what the tone of the quote may have some thinking, Battista told me that Edwards always got along well with the media covering the Jets, and went out of his access to acquaint their jobs easier.brbr"The whole period he was there, he and his staff were really open and accessible to us," she said. "To their honor they always tried to educate us aboard football. When things went wrong the coordinators would come among and explain things. We were allowed to watch all practices meantime Herm was there, which as you know,is entirely foreigner [these days]. His relationship with the medium was always actually agreeable and quite open. They would do things favor come amid and show us membrane -- not from that game week,merely onward the season -- and educate us virtually the Cover-2 defense and things prefer that.br
