[Cman55]

Taken from today's NYPost.com:

Plenty of blame to go around for Jets
By MIKE VACCARO
Last Updated: 11:10 AM, December 18, 2012
Posted: 3:21 AM, December 18, 2012
Jets Blog

NASHVILLE — The record will show the 2012 Jets season expired 32 yards away from the end zone with 43 seconds left in one of the ugliest football games the mind could possibly conjure.

The record will show that Nick Mangold flubbed his snap, that Mark Sanchez couldn’t pluck the ball off the ground, that it glanced off Bilal Powell’s foot and finally came to rest under the delighted torso of Titans linebacker Zach Brown.

The record will reflect that Tennessee quarterback Jake Locker took a knee, let the clock melt away, cinched a 14-10 victory that would have made Amos Alonzo Stagg weep, catapulted the Jets into what would surely have been their longest off-season ever, now grown extra large thanks to two meaningless games.

The record will insist losing this game snuffed the Jets’ playoff hopes, that whatever combination of fortuitous breaks and bounces they would have needed even with an escape, none of it matters any more. The record will insist this all became official at 10:39, Central Time, when the final gun finally shattered the Tennessee night.

Of course, the record will tell only part of the story. It won’t include the woefully thin roster the front office tried all summer to sell as playoff-worthy. It won’t give voice to the string of horrendous performances that buttressed this buffoonery — blowout losses and thrown-away losses and even a gaggle of wins that felt like losses.

Yes, the record will reflect the destruction of a quarterback, will detail the decimation of Mark Sanchez’s career, capped by the four interceptions he threw last night, what may well be the last night of his career as a franchise centerpiece.

But it will give scant justice to the carnival into which he was thrust once his owner (or whomever) became hopelessly enchanted by Tim Tebow, a sideshow that hijacked the summer and never let go, even to last night; Sanchez was actually playing well, had led two substantive drives, and that’s when Tony Sparano decided to finally give Tebow his first full series of the season. In week 15. Beautiful. We now officially know Sparano’s record in Miami was no fluke.

Was it a coincidence Sanchez only started throwing picks last night after the Tebow interlude? Maybe it was. Sanchez hasn’t needed specs to start flailing the ball all year long. Or maybe it was just one more shovel of dirt piled on top of a once-promising career.

Sanchez is the easy target. He always is. But it’s the whole operation that’s on the clock now. Sparano is the first one out the door; if a playoff-bound team can whack its offensive coordinator, as the Ravens did to Cam Cameron last week, Sparano’s comedic stylings should be exiled as soon as possible, with little need to wait for Week 17. Maybe he wasn’t graced with Hall of Fame talent but Sparano’s body of work this year has been amateurish at best, incompetent at worst.

Ryan? I would give him one more year, with a specific task: enough with reciting facts and figures after losses, enough benign detachment from the offense, enough living vicariously through the defense. If he wants to be a coordinator again, that can be arranged very easily. If he wants to be a head coach, prove it. Force-feed accountability. And hire someone who can tell an X from an O on the offensive side of the ball.

As for general manager Mike Tannenbaum, he delights in presenting the Jets’ record in the big picture, delights in reminding everyone how this is, in many ways, the golden age of Jets history. If that’s so, it is only a reminder of how truly wretched much of that history is. If this season has taught him anything, it should be this: He and the other men who run the Jets have not cornered the market on football wisdom.

Let the record show the Jets’ season died on Dec. 17 but was a calamity in waiting from July 17. This is on everybody. If everybody pays, it’s a bill they’ve earned. All across five brutal months.

Hard to dismiss as just another article by another hater. Especially after last night.

Thoughts?

[soxxx]

Putting tebow in was a disgrace. You cant do that to your starting qb if he is playing fine up to that point,

[Br4dw4y5ux]

Condensed truth is easy to read.

[GQMartin]

I don't know why people are broken up over the loss last night.

If the Jets made the playoffs it would have given the false sense of success to the fan base. Meanwhile, the infrastructure which needs to be replaced would have remained because you "can't fire them because they made the playoffs". Of course that's IF they made the playoffs.

The Jets need as high of a pick they can earn.

[stinkyB]

Originally Posted by Br4dw4y5ux

Condensed truth is easy to read.

yep. That was this season in a nutshell......

[SufferingJetsFan]

Good read. I can't disagree with much in the article. Not sure at this point if Rex deserves another year though.

[46Defense]

Originally Posted by Cman55

Taken from today's NYPost.com:



Hard to dismiss as just another article by another hater. Especially after last night.

Thoughts?

Sounds like a Sanchez defender and Fanboi.

Notice how quick he is and deflects all the blame away from Sanchez onto Rex, the front office, etc.

Trent Dilfer does the same thing.

[soxxx]

Im more confused why so many people are so upset? People had high expectations for no reason, The Jets are just going through a process, we peaked 2 years ago, are declining now, and will probably be back on the rise next year. Giants missed playoff in 09 and 10, after peaking in 08. Next season im expecting a rise again.

[Cman55]

Originally Posted by soxxx

Im more confused why so many people are so upset? People had high expectations for no reason, The Jets are just going through a process, we peaked 2 years ago, are declining now, and will probably be back on the rise next year. Giants missed playoff in 09 and 10, after peaking in 08. Next season im expecting a rise again.

Soxx, remember back in TC how we were sold the stories about just how great this team was and how they had some kind of "secret offense" that would include Tebow and revolutionize and terrorize the league? Remember how the CS went through all these gyrations to conceal this "offense" to keep opponents offguard?

You wanna know why everyone from the fan on down to the hotdog/beerguy is pissed? Its because we were stupid enough to believe that this FO/CS were telling us the truth. Once again we bought into The Rex Ryan Show. Now we know it was all a steaming pile of wet bullshit with flies.

It's not THAT they lost and didn't make the playoffs over these last several funfilled seasons, its HOW they went about it that has everybody PTFO. Its one thing to lose professionally. Quite another to lose in circus fashion.

Now you know why we all can't wait for the circus to leave town. A lot of us are just sick and tired of being sick and tired.

[dr.velociraptor]

Originally Posted by soxxx

Putting tebow in was a disgrace. You cant do that to your starting qb if he is playing fine up to that point,

Playing fine? Sanchez had 18 yards and an INT the first half...

[Br4dw4y5ux]

I think people are also unusually upset because there was a glimmer to Sanchez the first two seasons. The idea that maybe the Jets had found an unusual QB who could win gritty when the going got tough at the end of the season.

Instead Sanchez was exposed as just a bad QB who had gotten lucky a few times at just the right time to make a big impact. To have him turn into one of the worse QB's in recent memory over the course of a season and a half was very hard to watch. He's not all-time bad by any means, but he's definitely bad by the standards of today's NFL.

It's another situation in which a QB tantalized us by doing things early on that he could never repeat again. That's like the kiss of death for optimism. The next guy could come in throwing darts all over the place for triple scores and I wouldn't believe it was real until about season 4 or so.

[vanpelt4prez]

All the crap about Rhythm is ridiculous. Tebow's series started with 8:53 left in the 2nd Q. Sanchez returned to the field with 4:03 left in the 2nd Q. Do teams never go on 4 minute drives? How does a QB ever find a way to get into rhythm after the other team team goes on a 4 minute drive. Sanchez also knew Tebow was going to play the 3rd series.

How did Kirk Cousins do it. In the game out of the game back in the game. Still didn't stop him from torching the Ravens on the last drive. How did RG3 do it In the game (gets hurt)..out of the game..back in the game.. Still torched the Ravens on the last drive.

[wa2k99]

Vacarro is one of the best. He's right on again

[RevisAndHarris]

Originally Posted by soxxx

Putting tebow in was a disgrace. You cant do that to your starting qb if he is playing fine up to that point,

You're going to blame the horrible, horrible play of the starting QB on the backup who barely plays?

[soxxx]

Originally Posted by RevisAndHarris

You're going to blame the horrible, horrible play of the starting QB on the backup who barely plays?

no i blame the coaches for not operating like a normal nfl team.

[46Defense]

Originally Posted by vanpelt4prez

All the crap about Rhythm is ridiculous. Tebow's series started with 8:53 left in the 2nd Q. Sanchez returned to the field with 4:03 left in the 2nd Q. Do teams never go on 4 minute drives? How does a QB ever find a way to get into rhythm after the other team team goes on a 4 minute drive. Sanchez also knew Tebow was going to play the 3rd series.

How did Kirk Cousins do it. In the game out of the game back in the game. Still didn't stop him from torching the Ravens on the last drive. How did RG3 do it In the game (gets hurt)..out of the game..back in the game.. Still torched the Ravens on the last drive.

The only reason Rhythm is talked about is because guys like Trent Dilfer hate Tebow and want to try to bring him into the discussion to say that somehow destroyed Mark Sanchez mentally.

This is the NFL, if you are that mentally fragile that you cave in because of the backup QB, then you really shouldn't be in the league in the first place.

[xxedge72x]

Originally Posted by 46Defense

Sounds like a Sanchez defender and Fanboi.

Notice how quick he is and deflects all the blame away from Sanchez onto Rex, the front office, etc.

Trent Dilfer does the same thing.

Serious question... Do you think putting Greg McElroy in place of Sanchez makes this team a Super Bowl contender? Tim Tebow? Hell, Philip Rivers???

Football is a TEAM sport. Peyton Manning is the best QB of this era and only has one ring. Tom Brady has become infinitely better since his last Super Bowl... why haven't they won more?

Sanchez is gone for sure, but this team has many many more problems than him.

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[ArmandJ]

Not that much more.

Sign two good WRs, a good RB, and SOMEONE to get to the QB and we're right back in the thick of things. Obviously, get a stop gap QB.

[46Defense]

Originally Posted by xxedge72x

Serious question... Do you think putting Greg McElroy in place of Sanchez makes this team a Super Bowl contender? Tim Tebow? Hell, Philip Rivers???

Football is a TEAM sport. Peyton Manning is the best QB of this era and only has one ring. Tom Brady has become infinitely better since his last Super Bowl... why haven't they won more?

Sanchez is gone for sure, but this team has many many more problems than him.

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Super Bowl. No.

But all they needed was a Game Manager to make the playoffs. McElroy probably could have got them there. Even Tebow they could have ran him 50 times a game and they would have been better off than the Turnover Machine Mark Sanchez.

[xxedge72x]

Originally Posted by 46Defense

Super Bowl. No.

But all they needed was a Game Manager to make the playoffs. McElroy probably could have got them there. Even Tebow they could have ran him 50 times a game and they would have been better off than the Turnover Machine Mark Sanchez.

Making the playoffs is pointless if you can't win a Super Bowl.

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