I've never understood why they think it's a good idea to have helmets that are the same color as the field.
I still think this team could have been a playoff team with good coaching. Having said that, I've been fooled for years by JD and Bob. I believed for years that the team was just a QB away from being great. This season revealed JDs weaknesses and even more so, the weaknesses of Bob and his staff. This team has decent talent, but unforced errors by JD have kept the talent level from being great. It has become obvious this season that the coaching staff is abysmal, even to fans that are easily fooled, like me!
SB rings were won by a different Jerry. One who focused on business of the team, hired an elite coach/GM in Jimmy Johnson, and let him cook - including making some major gambles like trading Herschel Walker. Today's Jerry is perhaps a slightly more competent Woody, but the core DNA is the same.
Maybe it's just me but at least Jones, in Dallas, TRIES to understand the pro game. I never get the feeling that he is doing something too "insane" off the cuff without the prerequisite due diligence. However, I'm sure if you talk to a Cowboy's fan, it's probably already wore thin. Then again, I'd take a winning team, losing in the 1st/2nd round of the playoffs, all day long and twice on Sundays. Right now, the only other team who I think compares to the Jets is Carolina. OMG, I think Jets fans would literally split in half with that dude as an owner. He's owned the team, what, 6...7 years and he's already gone through two times as many coaches as the Steelers have in 50+ years! I have a Carolina fan who works for me (he was also a linebacker for Alcorn St.) and every time I talk Jets he can actually one up me on most occasions. Never a good thing when talking about ineptitude for NFL teams. LOL!
Team has a good WR, a good RB (when he shows up), a very good DT, and good CB, and some serious potential on the OL. I don’t see the playoff part, even on paper. They can be competitive with a healthy Tyrod. Beat other bad teams, hang with fringe playoff teams. Seems like the ceiling to me.
Being an old timer, this is nowhere near the lowest I've ever felt as a Jet fan. Try the 2-14 Kotite season when the only tv option available in most Chicago sportsbars was the smallest one in the back of the bar. That was IF the bar carried the game at all.
Rich Kotite and former nitwit jets GM Mike MacCagnan share one distinction--After their jets tenure, neither ever worked in pro football again--no NFL team wanted either, not even to fetch coffee. Tells ya something!
The Jets have never been in this long of a playoff drought. At least to me this is rock bottom. 2010 was a long time ago. There are now people in their late teens or early 20s that have no memory of the Jets ever even being in the playoffs. The last winning season was now 10 years ago. Maybe not the worst season like kotite but this period between 2011-2025 has been brutal especially really since 2016 it's been impossibly bad especially when the league expanded playoffs from 6 teams to 7. Every single team has been in the playoffs since 2015 except the Jets. It's really not that hard to make the playoffs yet they havent even been close.
The one advantage we old timers have is the perspective of time. We were all alive in the better years unlike youngins that have only known misery. We saw the SB. We saw the Mud bowl. We saw the Denver collapse. We saw Kotite. We saw Parcells and Belichek shit on the Jets back to back. Point being, seeing things these days we've become numb because we've seen it before. We've learned not to let things get to us and how to manage emotions when it comes to this team. We manage expectations thru the Lense of experience. In other words, we know better than to believe the hype aka: Show me mode.. Until they do? Its just another year in JetLand. The hardest lessons are the ones that stick with you...
Yup. Before getting carried away everyone should go read post number two in this thread. And probably at the start of every season.
I’m realizing with the incredible length of futility, there are alot of adults headed into their 30’s that have only really experienced the awful futility we’ve endured. It’s crazy, but from a monetary standpoint when does it truly hit ownership in the wallet? What is the avg age of a STH? There’s gonna be an entire generation of STH aged men and women that will not be Jets fans at all once these young folks hit that age. For me this is like the 10th spin of futility. My memories start in 81 really.
Well, living in a different city kinda makes a person homesick during sports season. I got to see the Mets when they came to Wrigley, and the Jets made like 1 appearance to Soldier Field. Other than that, it was sportsbar Sundays if I wanted to stay with the NY sports scene.
So far this season, I have not been watching the games. I figure I'll have a life and watch the highlights later. For this past week, I didn't even watch the highlights. What's the point?
YouTube has the cliff notes version on Mondays so its not like you don't have options.. YouTube was still in its infancy along with broadband in general back in the day. "You've got mail.." ring a bell?
But you have to agree this 15 year drought has been long and difficult. Im glad I got to see the Jets win a bunch of playoff games and play meaningful games in December and January. I feel bad for the younger fans are in there late teens or early 20s that have never experienced even one playoff game and for some a single winning season.
It's pretty bad for sure. Sad thing is, when you stop expecting anything other than the worst? That's a pretty dark place to be in as a fan. You either learn how deal with it OR find another team to root for. I feel bad for the youngins and frankly, I doubt if I'll be on this earth if and when they win another SB. In the meantime, I hope for the best, but I also expect the worst. Keeps me grounded as a long time Jet Fan.
