You really don't understand why he was throwing a potentially game winning TD to one of his big redzone WRs, one that caught 80 balls for 1000 yards and 12 TDs, a guy who he had an astronomical QB rating for balls targeted to him, a throw that he's made seemingly on a weekly basis? You still don't understand why he would do that? Do you think he WANTED to throw an INT? Do you think he was thinking he was "forcing" that throw? Do you always use 20-20 hindsight and the All-22 view to look at every other option available when a QB throws a pick? Maybe he could have thrown it to Marshall. Maybe he could have just run for a first down. Maybe he could have turtled and taken a sack. _
On one hand I get as we all do that the Jets came so close to the playoffs, that in theory maybe if one play had changed the outcome of one loss, then the Jets would have been in it. But that is not the same as saying any one play doomed the Jets' season. It took six losses for the Jets to fall short. Any one of those games were candidates to change the outcome of the season. Now if the question instead is what one play was both awful and was the biggest factor in the Jets losing one of those six games, that is a fairer and more relevant question. By that metric I might lean toward D Smith's fumble in the first Buffalo game. Take that play out, with the rest of the game as it was more or less, and I think the Jets win that one and then would (the rest of the season being unchanged) make the playoffs. But it did not doom the season, or was the only factor in that loss. What makes it a suitable choice here is that it was also an awful play on D Smith's part. It's a good candidate.
Hex of the Rex The players and CS can't forget how he just lives to screw us Next year he will prob tell Rob to stand on the field and start stuff a la j Porter you watch
The voting so far is dumb as hell. We shouldn't have even been in a position where we needed to win Week 17. It's the dumb losses prior to that game that cost us a playoff berth.
The failed pass to Davis/Decker at home v the Bills. Complete that for a TD and we win that one, go 11-5.
My one play that caused the Jets to miss the playoffs? When Tanny's father's sperm fertilized his mother's egg.
When i read the title, without looking at the poll options...the first thing that came to my mind was Marshalls td drop against the pats in that first game...the poll is what reminded me of fitzs endzone pick, i suppose i drank enough that night to slightly erase that little stomach wrenching moment
if bullock makes the kick, then buffalo's strategy complete changes from that point on.....no telling if we'd be up 20-19 at that same point in time. maybe it would have sparked buffalo to play harder and they would have scored more points. if Fitz didn't force it, we would have taken the lead 20-19. but he was 22 tds to 0 int in the red zone heading into the game. can't really blame him. shit happens.
How about on the Thursday Night Game against the Bills being gifted the ball inside the 20 with 3 mins to go and we couldn't get in the endzone. That's what sticks out to me most.
I don't think there is "one" play that deserves that title. There are many plays that would have changed the season. However, if we are looking at the one that definitely shouldn't have happened that did, I would say Brandon Marshall's dropped TD pass vs. The Patriots in the 1st matchup. Not only would that bring the record to 11-5, but it would give the Jets another AFC conference and Divisional win and possibly bring us to Seed No. 5. That being said. Brandon Marshall is also responsible for bringing us this far in the first place, so it's hard to really blame him for the Jets woes.
