Like Rest of Us, Joe Namath Has Questions About Jets Offense Posted Oct 27th 2008 2:00PM by Ryan Wilson (author feed) Filed under: Jets, AFC East, NFL Fans The Jets offense is not very good. Sure, they hung 56 points on the Cardinals earlier this year, but in back-to-back weeks, they have lost to the Raiders and should've lost to the Chiefs. Brett Favre -- the sensitive, emotional, loving father and husband, not the vindictive, hateful monster created by the media (hi, Sal Paolantonio!) -- has been especially atrocious, heaving a league-leading 11 interceptions (a league, by the way, that includes J.T. O'SmellingSalts), and playing about like you might expect a 39-year-old would after sorta coming out of retirement on three different occasions. Things were so bad yesterday that Jets fans booed Favre, which, if we're being honest, was about a month overdue. Even the famous supporters got in on the act. From today's New York Daily News: "I know they are trying, but today they are making Kansas City look good ... A quarterback is gonna get hit, no doubt about that, but the accumulation of the bumps and bruises must have (Brett Favre) at the most fragile as at any point in his career." That, ladies and gentlemen, was Joe Namath, who made those observations during yesterday's telecast. And Don Maynard, Namath's favorite receiver some 40 years ago, had this to say prior to the game: "You have 106 coaches in the NFC that's never played pro ball, you got 126 in the AFC that's never played pro ball," Maynard said. "You got 64 coaches that never played college football, so now you know why the knowledge of pro football has gone downhill. They don't even do what we did in offenses and defenses." Hey, wait a second, is Maynard a FanHouse commenter? Because I hear that argument, oh, I don't know, a hundred times a week, on average. Whatever, Maynard's not the only person concerned about the state of conservative play-calling in the NFL.
As if Joe and his INTs never helped make a bad opponent looked pretty good. Heck the year they won the SB they lost to Buffalo and Buf didn't win another game the rest of the year.
You saw that game? It was wild. Namath sucked that year we went 11 & 3 and won the SB. That dumb ass actually threw INT's and gave the best team in football buletin board material before the biggest game of the season. We would have gone 14 and 0 with Chad that year. It's amazing that those dopes on the HOF committee that actually saw him play put him in the HOF without checking out his stats.
You can try to twist this into something else but this is about asinine comments by Joe who kept alot of bad teams in games throughout his career calling out the current Jets for doing the same thing. Joe acts like his team won 5 SBs and wasin the postseason every year when he won a grand total of 2 postseason games and if not for a silly rule that ghave the Jets homefield in '68 over the higher seeded Raiders he may not even have a postseason win.
Thanks for the post. I saw when Joe came on, but the sound was off at the bar. It kind of looked like his hair was dyed blond. It could have been the lighting.
Leave it to junc to diminish the one championship this team has in defense of a team that may not even finish .500
Joe spoke at halftime at the stadium, he was struggling to say something good about the Jets there, too. The jist of it was "yeah, we're rooting for them just like you are, let's hope they can do something here, it's been a long time." Looked like he was thinking about going back to the booze after that.
As far as I knew, Favre only retired once. Maybe someone here would be kind enough to tell me about the other two times.
Okay, I get it now... Joe Namath sucked, Herm Edwards sucked, Joe Walton sucked, Mark Gastineau sucked, Keyshawn Johnson sucked, Richard Tood sucked, Ken O'Brien sucked, Browning Nagle sucked, Pat Ryan sucked, Aaron Glenn sucked, Pete Carroll sucked, Boomer Esiason sucked, Hugh Douglas sucked, Pete Kendall sucked, John Abraham sucked, John Hall sucked, Vernon Gholston sucks, Bret Farve sucks, Laveranues Coles sucks, Jerricho Cotchery sucks, Alan Faneca sucks, Eric Mangini sucks, Mike Nugent sucks, Jay Feely sucks... Oh, wait, Feely made his last kick so he's off the hook... Every Jet player who ever lived sucked except for (maybe) Joe Klecko, Marty Lyons Dennis Byrd, Wayne Chrebet, Curtis Martin and Vinnie Testaverde. (Where have you gone, Jonathan Vilma?) And maybe Al Toon... Don't get me wrong. I love the guys I just named in the above paragraph... Thing is, I like the guys in the paragraph above that as well. I am a Jets fan. You know who sucks, in my humble opinion? Jets fans with a negative attitude.
You need to be able to recognize sarcasm better, I knew wb was playing it off by the third sentence. Plus, you need to know the ones that have been around to know what Namath truly meant to them versus the ones who use stats to shit on the past to make the present look so good.
No I don't, I just appreciate the fact that we were a very good team making the postseason all the time which we have never done. From 1987-2000 we made the postseason twice, from 2001-2006 we made it 4 times. That's pretty good, we all want to win it all but you can't win it all if you don't make the postseason and I enjoyed being a playoff team and I hope we turn things around and start paying to our capabilities this year and make the postseason again.
This years team is right in the playoff hunt every bit as mediocre as the teams that went to the playoffs during the period you consider our glory years.
Winston the 1st time I read what you said, I thought you were serious...by the way the 2 beautiful passes to Maynard to win the AFC Championship game were unbelievable, I could watch them a million times....no one else could throw like Broadway joe....
Easy Junc, your treading on sacred ground there, by the way they would have beaten the Raiders in Oakland too...let us old-timers have our memories, every weekend I sit in my yard with my Super Jets CD on listening to Merle Harmon's calls from '68, at least I have my memories...:smile:
