I try to avoid reading too much of the board after awful losses like this one, as I don't feel doing so does me any good because things tend to get insanely irrational. But before that happens, I feel like this needs to be said: we've been in this spot before. You won't remember them now, but over the last two years we've hit low points just as low as this one. We started off 4-6 in 09, and things looked worse than they do now after the loss to the Jaguars at home and the Pats loss a week later, but this team turned it around and went 5-1 down the stretch to make the playoffs. Things looked worse after the Falcons game that season too, but this team fought back and won its final two. Things looked just as bad last year after we followed the 45-3 drubbing in NE with the 10-6 loss to Miami in a game that was more ugly than this one. The Jets fought back again. Every time we think we've hit a new lowpoint and the world is ending in the Rex/Sanchez era, this team has turned it around. Tonight was an awful, awful loss, but it was a loss on three days rest and a west coast trip—perfect conditions for an "anything can happen" situation. Over the past 2.5 years with Rex and Sanchez, we've tended to lose one or two weird games to a team we should beat, lose to teams that are definitely better than us, but for the most part beat up on the bad teams and also beat teams who are about at our level, like PIT last year in the regular season. Sanchez and the offense have had worse games than this, when we question whether Mark is the long-term answer, but he always ends up winning back our hearts by the time the season's over. There is thus no reason to count this team out yet. I know things look terribly bleak right now, but the AFC is such a mess this year that 10 wins should almost definitely assure a playoff spot. And based on this team's history, if you don't think this team can win 5/6 against the Bills, Redskins, Chiefs, Eagles, Giants, and Dolphins, than you haven't been watching the past 2 seasons. The Jets are better than all of those teams (Giants included), and winning 5 would likely put us at 10-6 and the #6 seed again—then who knows what will happen. But I'm not going to go jump off a bridge because if this team has taught me anything the past two seasons, it's not to count them out. So I'll keep believing. :jets: Now go ahead, flame away. :grin:
Well we are about 8th in the playoff hunt at this point? We also didn't have Wayne Hunter at tackle last year.
This is a great post. I appreciate it is extremely unlikely to happen, but given the schedule, they could win out. Season's not over. Even if tonight was torture.
They did for the final three games of the season. We're only a game behind the Bengals/Ravens once one of them losses this week, and I just can't see the Bengals keeping it together with their schedule. I can't see two teams getting in from the AFC South or AFC West getting in either.
This team has clearly lost it. They constantly find new ways to blow it when it matters. Sanchez looks like a deer in the headlights. They deserve what they get if they keep admitting Schotty's not the problem.
Why don't we look at the team we are facing next instead of acting like they're going to run the table all the time. We can just as easily lose 5 of 6 based on how this team is playing.
Everyone was saying the same thing last year after we could only score 3 against NE than 6 against MIA. Or after we got shut out by GB or only scored 7 in 09 against ATL. I don't know why, but this team just has games like this when they can't move the ball. And then they get their shit together and put it together again. The same exact thing has happened to us the past two years.
You're retarded if you think we can win out. Too many afc losses. This isn't 09' or 10'. This is 2011.
Difference is were 5-5 this year in a competitive AFC scene this season and we already have too many AFC losses. We are done this was a game WE NEEDED TO WIN.
The Giants are exactly the type of team the Jets will beat down the stretch. Good team, but not great, and when the Jets play their game they are better. The Giants lost to the Seahawks and Redskins already this year, and very nearly lost to the Cardinals and Dolphins. We can absolutely beat them at home.
I love the optimism, but this jet team is in allot of trouble. I dont understand the giants reference (other than it being blind loyalty to the jets). lol Sanchez needs to be benched, hes been awful all year. we cant score, move the ball. Brunell couldn't be any worse. Time to make a temp change fr this season, before the team quits
I like how the OP goes to the trouble of pointing out how this situation is analogous to other points in recent Jets history, and all the subsequent posts completely ignore that those situations were met with the dire outlooks they promote now.
