Jets Head Coach Rick Bowness Rips Into His Team Following Playoff Elimination: 'We Had No Pushback' 

Tort's ones are still shorter, but I gotta give this guy props

It's up there - maybe not at the top but it's close.

Torts has better and im totally on ricks side here bet he wanted it done as fast as that

Oh man!!! This is definitely up there with some all time greats!! Love it!

turned the game off, a sad game :(

Fuelled by passion.

Also fuelled by respect for the game. I like it

Yeah, he’s right!

I agree. The Jets over in the 2nd half of season and playoffs were the mist unpassionate; unmotivated, undriven, and simply no care team I’ve ever seem. I think there’s a few players that need to be shipped out

Right or wrong. He threw his team under the bus and took no blame on himself. Part of a head coaches job is to adjust and to motivate your players. Rick along with the players failed miserably.

@TheVindicator Just Assuming the Jets hasn't stopped thinking about the Paul Maurice Resignation ? What would happen had he remained as the Coach?

If he were being totally honest he would mention his absolute failure to motivate his players and how HE was out coached.

A big part of a head coaches job is to motivate the players. When you fail in your job you should not throw everyone under the bus to the media. No sympathy. Bowness should retire already.

@@deansmith6593 I love the brainless perspectives from the other fanbases that think they know the jets better than the coach and fanbase. This is the SECOND coach to imply this core is uncoachable. PoMo literally resigned MIDSEASON. Name me another major league sports team that had TWO coaches share the same issues in two CONSECUTIVE seasons. The coach "job" only goes so far to "motivate" these quitters. Rebuild or we are done.

@@bobk.995 The team was doing alright under Monty. Now, they had some of their worst times under him (ye olde 1-7-1 start), but I think he could have done good things if he had stayed sober. I don't think very many fans think poorly of how he was doing when he was fired.

No respect for his payers though. It will be interesting on how much respect they have for him next year.

The media love him, so he knows he can throw his players under the bus and keep his job.

And if there aren't proper changes made, I can truly see Bowness choosing to walk away. He put off retirement to take this job. And he's not going to put up with another season like this.

@@pomerlain8924 I hope he walks away, not because I dont lkke him but to embarrass TSNE and Chevy. Two resignations in a row? That will reverberate throughout the league and make this organization a jokez

Needs to blow up the core. Their softness isn’t a new thing

@@Bentami Looks like there's no other option but to relocate to Houston

@@Meemitalo_ Or Saskatoon lol

Probably because he told the players to push back, instead of giving useful, specific coaching.

Good thing they don't have pride, or else they're all going to hell. It's the deadliest sin you can commit.

No motivation. A big part of a head coaches job is to motivate your players.

​@@deansmith6593no motivation? 😅 are you serious...the motivation is to win playoff games and a cup possibly.. be a professional NHLer. This isn't elementary or high-school, grown ass men don't need motivation. You win the dumbest comment of the month 😂

@@deansmith6593 Shut up, you dont dont the jets nuances and issues for the past 5 years.

@@deansmith6593 The coach can give all the coaching and motivational speeches but it is up to players buy in and commit to giving their best effort. The coach can't make them play with heart. And considering Paul Maurice stepped down from this team for pretty much the same reasons that Bowness has been pointing out all year, it's not the coach that's the problem. It's the players in the room.

cx

I have, u heard of Torts???

Just after an elimination, I don’t remember something like that, even by Torts.

Yeah im trying to think, in any sport if a coach went off like that.

Is it pain? I feel it’s so needed it’ll be a breath of fresh air. I can’t wait to see Scheifele shipped off. Hopefully we get a good haul

@@winnabango rebuilds are usually a slow and painful process and Winnipeg is in a terrible position to start a rebuild, it’s going to be even worse than a normal rebuild for them too. Most teams who are beginning to rebuild have been prepping themselves for it years in advance as they usually have aging cores that make it obvious a rebuild will be needed soon. Those extra few years before truly starting the rebuild make the process so much easier and Winnipeg does not have that at all. They’ve been pushing hard and giving up lots of good assets in an attempt to be a “win now” team and just completely abandoning that and going for a rebuild instantly now is going to hurt them and make that process so much harder (I do agree rebuild is still their best call though). Not to mention so many of their top guys have no movement clauses, couple rough contracts, and now with all the locker room drama the value of almost every single jets player is going to drop big time in the eyes of teams trying to make trades with the jets. All in all it’s looking like a really really bad situation for the Jets unfortunately. Sure, maybe they can get extremely lucky and some young guys will have breakout seasons out of nowhere, or maybe they’ll fleece a couple teams in some trades, but I predict a slow and painful rebuild coming over the next few years. Hate to say it but I’m guessing they are basically going to become the new ‘Buffalo sabres’ of the league and are going to have about a decade here of attempting to get the rebuild properly done, with very minimal regular season success throughout and around 0-2 playoff appearances over these next 10 years. I just don’t see how this situation is a positive in any way. A rebuild is what’s needed, but this is not a team set up to make rebuilding easy at all.

@@Brandon34300 True.. The best example of "Doing a rebuild right" is looking at Yzerman and the Red Wings... When that dude starts to see even the slightest bit of "losing" in the season, he sells, and acquires draft capital, in a smart manner.. The Jets were literally buyers at the trade deadline.. They are in such a tough spot right now, if they were to sell off all their studs, and just build around a few guys, man Jets fans will be waiting a very long time before things get better. You guys have the exact same Draft capital as a team who is a cup contender, that's a horrible sign.

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Dude he won't be back...c'mon!

Looked like the same thing happened in Dallas at points when he was there, any idea why?

@@AureliusProject Bones’ system in Dallas kind of ran its course and the team (and Bowness) realized the Stars needed a new voice. But this tone and severe reprimand of the whole team definitely didn’t happen in his time in Dallas.

Agree 100%. I don’t have any bad words to say about Bones, but I don’t miss him either. Easy to say when Stars are up 3-2 against Minnesota.

​@@BornCalmStars aren't going anywhere with deboer either. He coached two stacked pacific teams always outclassed, outcoached in the playoffs.

Leaders don't quit like Byfuglien did. Byfuglien is a LOSER.

There are 29+ better NHL cities. Why wouldn't they want out?

@@kennyg1358 It takes quite the clown to take millions and grumble about the location. Who the hell plays hockey in California.

Schiefle is quite the golfer I understand.

Well, Big buff would rather just be ice fishin and drinkin beer so....

buncha softc.cks. especially schiefele

This core is done lmao

Well especially when the past coach just ended up leaving saying he had lost the room and stepped down. It's the core of players not giving it their all. Canucks are in that similar situation. Time to sell and retool/build

Agreed 100%. He's a very likable coach, but I wasn't mad at all once we got him out of Dallas.

@@TXAray89 He made some great adjustments in Dallas. The new D rollout in the bubble cup run was remarkable. But he tends towards too conservative for the modern NHL. Thank God we had him when whatever happened with Monty happened, though. What a season save.

Totally agree.

Get rid of 55, let Wheeler retire... That would be a good start. Im starting to think Shelf is the issue

55 kind of reminding me of Taylor Hall's career rn. Will probably be well paid for a year or two as a UFA and then end up on a 3rd line somewhere stacked to try to win the Stanley

What's rotten is Jets fans.

@@MikeySkywalker clown

@@codybaley6266 lol

Chevy excluded the only sweating modern day players do is on the big checks they cash at the bank. Most care about the money. Winning and accountability is secondary.

💯, get those guys out and we will soar. Schief is a toxic crybaby, wheeler is past his prime, and Chevy... I just never really liked him...

They are all sitting pretty. amazing what guys who get to play a game will never have to work a regular job. Worry financially are set for life with no education. Unbelievable.

@@AlGrundau1890yeah except one deserves it and the other doesn’t. The Jets have had a similar problem to the flames in terms of major underperforming. Difference is with the Jets it’s the players being unmotivated and with the flames it’s the coaches unwillingness to change his game plan with a strong team. So context matters when looking at when coaches get mad at their teams

@@AlGrundau1890if the kings beat the oilers I’m 100% sure WC would have some choice words for the oilers, right now he has the best team in the league, so he has no reason to be upset. The jets have been slacking for half the year and the flames have been slacking the whole year. Pent up anger that is around a year old is different than a coach with nothing to complain about. I still don’t understand what point your trying to make

@Al Grundau The jets had Paul Maurice who was the opposite and they did nothing for him either. No fight, no drive. Enough talent to make it look like it would be a good season and no desire to push through when it got hard.

@Al Grundau you haven’t seen Woodcroft win anything despite having McDavid and Draisaitl.

@Al Grundau glad you consider the Battle of Alberta your Stanley Cup, because you got smoked by the Avalanche.

Completely agree. This team lacks energy, passion to win. I don't like blaming specific players as it is a team sport, but more than half of our team didn't play to win. Dubois, Connor to name some. They weren't good after game 1

​@@AlGrundau1890Vegas is by far a better team, did you look at the standings? You made it seem like WPG had won the division and Vegas snuck into the playoffs..

@Al Grundau Edmonton is as dead as Peter Pocklington. Remember the 80s?? Because those are the only cups you'll ever win. Even the Leafs fans laugh at you and your hapless two player team. Toronto 14 cups. Edmonton 4.

Blames everybody but Rick Bowness.

A coach that fails to motivate his player, gets out coached, throws them under the bus and takes no blame for his own failings after the series is over?

Fire Bowness? Not going to happen. They need to dump the passengers on this team.

@@RBR-lo2ei hope you're right. Its easy to make him the scapegoat then nothing changes.

Well after this video I'm sure he will find a new job and even a better team if they fire him. and not a lot places worse than coaching the jets.

Nah it can't be this time. It's undeniable that its this sh1tty core at fault. He just got here, he took them to first before they stopped trying. Chevy can't pretend it's not his players anymore. That little b.tch schiefele HAS to be gone. This can't go on any longer.

@@editingbasket9728 Or he'll retire. He's pushing 70, so he's earned it.

Probably both.

@@pomerlain8924 yep

As a Canes fan I support Bowness & what he did for the Jets. Sad they couldn't get them into the 2nd round

Hard for teams to compete against low income tax states like Texas and Florida. Small markets have it the worst.