Season Over as Jets Embarrass Themselves...Again
Edition #730
Good morning!
What do you say about this team?
Firing Robert Saleh did nothing, the Jets are 0-3 since his dismissal and the defense has regressed considerably.
Trading for Davante Adams did nothing. His impassioned post-game speech did nothing and that famous connection with Rodgers is MIA.
Getting Haason Reddick did nothing. He had a handful of snaps and he worked in the run-game but it wasn’t enough.
This is a bad football team from head to toe.
Joe Douglas must think he has a baseball team, as his patience in trying to help Greg Zuerlein get out of his funk has cost another game.
But let’s be clear, this Patriots team is awful. Not only are they awful, they lost one of their own bright spot Drake Maye in the first half.
The Jets still found a way to lose the game.
Michael Clemons personal foul. Greg Zuerlein missed kicks. Sauce Gardner not being able to tackle or cover in key situations. Aaron Rodgers forgetting that there is a play-clock in football.
Stop me if you’ve heard all this before. The Jets suck!
There is no other way to put it. I like to look at the positives in life, but outside of spending my weekend in bed with a sickness bug all weekend, watching this team kills me.
The Jets season that started with Super Bowl aspirations is yet again over by Halloween. We’re 2-6 and will be 2-7 by Friday morning. We have the 4th pick in the draft and this thing is about to get blown up.
Joe Douglas may as well start looking to sell his house, whether he wanted Aaron or not. Whether he wanted to go all in or not, that doesn’t matter now.
The choices he made directly led us to this point.
Convince Aaron into retirement, the man doesn’t have it anymore. Three timeouts used in the first quarter because we couldn’t get the play in and the ball snapped.
I understand that Rodgers likes to take the clock down, but I hate it. To be it’s like giving the defense the perfect jump, they know it’s getting snapped when the clock is on one second.
New GM, new HC, new coaching staff, everything.
Will that change anything? Probably not. You can’t convince me that this Jets team isn’t cursed. it is.
There are a handful of players who you’d want to keep, but a lot of them don’t show the effort and commitment you’d expect. The tackling issue is a mental one and if you approach the game a certain way you’re going to have issues.
Jeff Ulbrich called this a “moment of darkness”, this isn’t a moment of darkness this is a era of darkness. No playoffs since 2010, that’s not a moment. Aaron Rodgers continues to just talk nonsense “I’ve been in the darkness. You’ve gotta go in there and make peace with it.”.
Ulbrich said "Right now, the product that we're putting out there on gameday is not the product that's conducive to winning." but the product hasn’t been good for a long time. He also confirmed he’d consider giving up defensive play-calling duties, the damage has been done.
If Robert Saleh was on as short a leash as he was, then he should have been fired in the off-season. Instead Woody threw the team into upheaval in week five and it’s been an absolute disaster since.
Is this roster talented? Yes. But talent only gets you so far. We don’t have a team, we have a collection of individuals. We also happen to be the worst coached team in the NFL and we have been for a long time.
Here’s a stat to brighten your morning courtesy of Rich Cimini:
Jets had 0 turnovers, held the Patriots to 247 yards -- and still lost. They're the first team to lose a game in which they did not turn the ball over and held their opponent under 250 yards since Week 3 of 2012. In 2012, Aaron Rodgers and the Packers lost, 14-12, to the Seahawks in the "Fail Mary" game. Since that game, teams to do that had been 220-0 until today. (ESPN Research).
Not for the first time with this team I’m lost for words, and after spending all weekend in bed ill…I’m going to leave it right there and let it breath for 24 hours.
But we’ve got a long road ahead of us. We're about 50% of the way through the season. What should the Jets do? That's going to be the focus this week, but right now i imagine you want to read about the Jets about as much I want to write about them.
When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers became an NFL franchise, they hired USC HC John McKay.
Mckay was a very successful HC who was known for his morbid sense of humor.
At his hiring, he answered a question by saying it would take a 5 year plan to build a successful winning franchise.
The Buccaneers lost their first 26 games. A reporter asked McKay it seems your 5 year plan isn’t working. He responded, no problem, we will just start another 5 year plan.
He won the division title the following year.
Here lies the problem with the NY Jets under Woody Johnson.
Since he has owned the team, there have been 7 HCs, one division title and two AFC Championship games.
That’s a lot of failed 5 year plans.
This year is without a question of a doubt, the worst season in Jet history.
Based on the supposed talent, this was going to be the magical year. The year that would be remembered for years. It will be remembered for years but not for the reasons you think.
Rodgers the 40 year old quarterback plays just like a 40 year old quarterback. He is hurting and that has caused his skills to erode
Zuerlein is a 36 year old kicker who has kicked like a 46 year old kicker.
They cut 27 year old Austin Seibert in September. He was picked up by Washington, started kicking for them in the second game. He leads the NFL in field goals, he is 23 out of 25 plus has made all 19 of his extra points. Imagine where the Jets would be with him.
You just got to like Ulbrich’s quote about Zuerlein after the game. Ulbrich said he doesn’t regret sticking with his kicker.
Bye bye Brick, we hardly knew you, that quote should destroy your future HC interviews.
Why is Clemons still on this team. Why isn’t McGregor on the game day roster.
It would be total redundancy to point fingers at any coaches, players or Office staff at this point. We have seen it all, we have heard it all.
The problem lies with the one person who can’t get fired.
NFL expert Woody Johnson, until he sells or actually brings in a football man that has shown he knows what he is doing, this team is doomed.
One of the training camp surprises who won over the fans was Brandon Codrington who the Jets traded to Buffalo. We really don’t know how he felt being traded, but I will be willing that today he is ecstatic to be on the 6-2 FIRST PLACE BUFFALO BILLS.
By the way before yesterday’s game, he was averaging 10.7 a punt return, the Jets Gipson 5.75.
Lastly, a stock tip for any Torch and Pitchfork Brigade member who likes to dabble in the stock market.
Mayflower Van Lines, a professional moving company, their trucks will be causing traffic jams once the season is over in northern New Jersey.
As a fan you always have hope for your team. The jets have even taken that away for this fanbase. Therte is no hope. Not for this year nor for future years. Imagine if the kicker made all his FGs. The Jets would be 6-2 at worst 5-3. Does that get rid of the mind boggling "too much time" senarios, poor offenseive game plans, poor tackling, a defense that has become pourous, some of your best players regessig ? No it doesnt. Then everyone would be saying "thats the worse 6-2 ecord in the league - The Jets still stink - we can't win.