Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted in 2005.
Let’s give Todd Bowles the benefit of the doubt and assume he has not lost his football mind.
That he is not, as WFAN host Craig Carton called him in a vitriolic, six-minute monologue first thing Tuesday morning, “an incompetent zealot,” “a failure,” “a moron” and “a stoic, mumbling incompetent leader of men.”
That he still is the guy who through 15 games in his rookie season of 2015 looked like a coaching find for the Jets.
Here’s the problem: It would be BETTER for the Jets if all of the above were true.