My first post, here following old (VERY old) #4 from GB, so excuse my objectivity. Your season is not over-- not quite yet, anyway. Lots of football to be played, yadda, yadda, yadda, I'm one of those "it ain't over til it's statistically over" types. Things can turn around, breaks can go your way. That said, having watched the game yesterday, there's plenty of cause for concern. Bad O-line play, sloppy receivers, poor play calling, and execrable quarterbacking. Dedicated Jets fans can address most of those better than me, but having watched Favray for 16+ years now, I can tell you one big cause of concern: THE GUY IS NOT HAVING FUN. At the press conf. yesterday he looked 5 or ten years older than at the "Welcome to the Jets" conference. He's tired, his age his showing, and he's getting worn out, both from being old and trying to learn a new offense. One thing I'll tell you about Favre inGreen Bay, when he had fun and went out there with a light heart, he could make magic. When he went out there at times of great emotional upheaval, he could make magic. But when he was angry at himself or his team or whatever, he tended to try to try too hard, force things, make stupid mistakes, and find ways to lose. Hopefully he'll get it together. Next week youse got the Chiefs, should be a rebuilding week to gain back some confidence, for him and for everybody. From there, the Jets could easily turn a corner and start winning. But if they blow it, then I think I'd have to agree, at least in principle, with the title of this post, and offer y'all my condolences.
" Dedicated Jets fans can address most of those better than me, but having watched Favray for 16+ years now, I can tell you one big cause of concern: THE GUY IS NOT HAVING FUN. At the press conf. yesterday he looked 5 or ten years older than at the "Welcome to the Jets" conference. He's tired, his age his showing, and he's getting worn out, both from being old and trying to learn a new offense." Would you have fun if you were playing with Mangini? He's one of those dopey nice guy losers you feel guilty about not liking. When your wife says, "shouldn't we invite the Manginis?" your eyes roll because you can't stand him but you can't think of anything bad to say to him that won't make you look like a jerk. The guy actually names his kids after players, its insane. He's that talentless dork from high school who hero-worshipped the star athletes.
The losses in fact have been disheartening. It's the way the team has lost as much as the fact an L goes in there. Lack of intensity... making stupid mistakes... playcalling that seems to be forcing it... But I agree with the post above about Favre not having fun. I can't imagine him thinking this is what he bargained for in coming back. Tanny sold him on the team, but my guess is Brett did not take a good look at Mangini. My guess is he's got to be somewhat critical of Mangini now. Sure it's only week seven, but at this rate I don't see the playoffs being in the cards. Even last week was an ugly win. Yeah, you take those and all that, but the team has shown no real consistency. Even in the Cards game the D did that el Foldo in the second half. It's like they can't seem to get the whole team playing together and doing so for a whole game. I lay that on the coaching.
Thats the fact, Jack! Happens every season. We'll pull a win out of our butts against the Titans or something like that.
You would think after all the seemingly devastating losses in recent years that we still were able to recover and make the playoffs from that people would be used to it. Apparently not.
I heard it was over after we lost to the Chargers... Hell, I heard it was over after we BEAT the Bengals...
I say it all the time about this team,"different faces, same results". We could have done this without Favre. Too bad we won't see Mangini give Ratliff a chance, if this thing starts to go south.
I think that could be fun but what if Ratliff is not the diamond in the rough that we HOPE he is? Then we're just a shitty team with an unstable QB situation.
You should be working for the FBI if you can profile a person that well based on...w/e the fuck it is you're basing this on.
yeah lets trade for a hall of famer, bench him, ending his iron man streak. if there was ever a team that would manage to do that it would be the jets. if you think this team is laughed at now, imagine the beating the organization would take for ending favre's streak while he could play. sounds brilliant to me.
I have to agree. I was very upset at first. But with 2 games against Buffalo, 1 NE and 1 Mia. we can still take the division if we can string together a couple nice winning streaks. Also, for the 1st time in a while we have a kicker who can make something from beyond 30 yrds. I personally hope that we stick without Nugent. Either way though, with the exception of 2, the games are definitely worth watching this year.
i said (or at least i meant to say) in a later post that it was an overreaction...season's not over unless we lose to KC. missing the playoffs to me is an inevitable at a certain point. if the jets lose to KC, i think that's the point that the season is over b/c missing the playoffs becomes inevitable at that point.
