no, you can simply believe that the deficiency of the offense is so great that the greatness of the defense will not be able to overcome it. or is it your contention that every team in the history of the NFL that has had a very good defense has always ended up a winning team?
2000 Ravens come to mind. You think Trent fucking Dilfer could have made the Ravens a playoff contender, let alone SB winner, had they not had an all-time great defense? And no, I am not putting the 2012 Jets D on the pedestal of the 2000 Ravens. However, I feel that the analogy is great enough that I could use it as a proper comparison. I think the 2012 Jets offense will be better than that Ravens O and this year's Jets D will be slightly worse than theirs.
It shouldn't surprise anyone since RR and players talked shit in 09 and 10 and got away with it with some impressive road playoff wins but after last year the chips are down, and we're heading about it. Fuck em. Get wins.
The daily news has them at #25...the offense may struggle at times, but a top tier defense can compensate for that in some games. If the defense was better last year they would have been in the playoffs even with an offense that treated the first quarter like it was not a real game.
that isn't the point. of course there are teams throughout history that have been good despite having bad offenses. your position is that it is unreasonable that they can think the Jets will be bad despite having a potentially great defense, which would require you to show that no team with a bad offense and a great defense has every been a losing team. pointing to the one example of a team that won a Super Bowl despite that dynamic doesn't make their position unreasonable.
Said it before and will say it again, this will be Rex's best defense. Though it will need to be for the team to get into the playoffs.
I don't think our offense can be worse than 09. We led the league in rushing but we ran an absurd amount of plays and had a ton of turnovers. Our number 1 wr was Jericho Cotchery and our number 2 was stuckey. I'd take Holmes and Hill over those 2 any day even though we did trade for Braylon that season.
This year the NFC is much better then the AFC. That's a positive for the Jets who have a relatively easy schedule in a weak confrence. We have time to gell on both sides of the ball and make a late run. The healthy team playing well at the end wins the race. The NFC is going to punish the top teams ever week. This might be one of those years where everything falls into place. Pre-season power rankings are pretty meaningless but I would much rather play in the AFC this year and take my chances late.
they aren't "pretty meaningless" they are absolutely meaningless. in the NFL no team has ever won a division, made the playoffs or been awarded a Super Bowl championship because of an opinion. the only purpose they serve is for curiosity or conversation.
