I mean, inescapably the article covers Rex's failure as a head coach, because, well, it's about Rex's former job. You can't get away from that. But I'm far more in the camp of SJH than I am Rev on this one. The words are one thing, but the tone seems to be another. Everyone one of Rex's successes is met with an attitude of "Look what that guy did!", whereas most of his failures are attributed to things out of his control... he knew the Gonzalez play... Sanchez's interceptions... Injuries... Marty Mortinwheg's TO.. All of his losses are couched with clauses assigned to other people. Hell, look at how he defines Rex's three signature types of games: "Along with shocker-underdog wins and absurd act-of-God losses, the quarterback-ghoulishly-crapping-himself game would become a staple of the Rex era."
The 3 signature games are... shocker underdog wins, act of God losses, and terrible QBing... but I would argue that he blew past the other Rex-signature game: The "Come out looking flat and unprepared, and play lazily". For all the talk of the players loving him, nobody ever seems to go into that. It's possible to love him in the wrong way, like the Boss you always grab a beer with, and you love because he's fun, and you know you can dick around on SoSH all day and can dodge heat from when you miss a deadline. Players didn't love Rex enough to show up for the games they were supposed to win with alarming frequency. When he describes the Giants game that he said marked the downfall of Rex's team, the point where it all got worse from, this is how he summarized what came after. "From that point forward for the Jets, it’s been bad bounces, bad juju, and one too-colorful debacle after another. ". Nothing attributable to Ryan.
Taibbi describes the various people in the Jets organization in less than glowing terms. Idzik is "disingenuous", Johnson is "Magooish", "miserable", Mangini was "frumpy". As for the players, Holmes gets "Notorious Locker Room Killer", Sanchez and Geno get too many to count, but Rex? Rex gets "underdog", "defiant", "transformed". There's also a lot of revisionist history that isn't terribly accurate.
He described the team Ryan inherited with " Ryan deserves at least equivalent praise for twice just missing the Super Bowl with Darrelle Revis, a nice blitz package, and the horrifying blooper-reel fixture Sanchez under center." That's hardly an accurate representation of the team. The Jets were excellent on both sides of the line of scrimmage (Rex's offensive line seems to have gotten progressively worse every year since), with Mangold, Faneca, Ferguson, and Woody all playing. The secondary had talented help for Revis with Kerry Rhodes, and his linebacking corp was more solid than mentioned. It's not like he had one pro-bowl caliber player and a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
Long story short, for me, the whole story reads with the subtext of "Look at this guy! Wow. Just imagine what he could have done with a real team".