Over the years, the Jets have given us such dandies rushing for 200 yards while winning the turnover battle, but still losing (also NE, forget what year), and of course the infamous Pittsburgh playoff game where they won the turnover battle 3-0, ran back a punt, ran back an interception, and somehow managed to still lose. Many ridiculous things along those lines. Today, they reached new "heights" , if you will, of futility. 756 games is over 44 years of football games. If one team had done this every single game in a 17 game season for the past 756 games, they would have been undefeated since roughly late 1979 or early 1980. Literally. Until today.
Once upon a time, only 45-50 years ago, teams used to play 6 preseason games. This was BEFORE FA and all the personnel turnover....when you played with most of your teammates for 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 years in a row. And they needed 6 games to jell and get ready...to learn how to get the play in time....to know where to line up....to know where to be...to know where to end up on the field of play....to know what route or run to perform....etc...etc...etc. This was a train wreck in the making that I feared with all the volatility in getting a new QB and new WRs and new OL and new coaches all on the same page. Yeah, and Egypt didn't help, either.
I thought Roger’s threw a pick. Was only half paying attention to the radio broadcast though. Edit: checked the stats, no picks. Figures they would have “looked” better with an interception to their credit, though. Go Jets…
I know teams don't play their starters during the preseason because of the injury potential but, one has to wonder with all the additions to the roster on both sides of the line, perhaps playing them 2 games would have been prudent.
For the first month, I would have agreed completely and accepted the excuse about no pre-season. For the last few years, the good teams have taken 4-5 games to really find their stride. This team just completed it's 8th game, and looks no better than it did in week 3 - when it looked good for the only time all season. There's no more excuses about that crap, there's practice every week, there's been more than ample time for them to get on the same page at least most of the time. At the very least not have multiple timeout called to avoid the lay of game penalties every game. There's no urgency, no creativity, nothing. It's absolutely brutal. This is a complete organizational failure, No matter how many ways we try and explain it, justify it, or excuse it, that won't change.
Zurlein. He’s not getting enough of the scrutiny for why we are where we are. A good kicker is huge. We have one that can’t kick an extra pt
Yeah, Tom Petty was full of shit. "even the losers, get lucky sometimes"-- except the Jets. The Jets do not get lucky sometimes.
He's gotten plenty of scrutiny, and he absolutely should be cut. But at the end of the day, he's only part of the problem. With the exception of the Denver game, we've had a chance to win, and should have won if we're anywhere near as good as we're supposed to be, all of the other games he screwed up. If the offense wasn't inept, if the defense could make a stop, if the coaching staff wasn't as dumb as a bag of rocks, we win those games anyway and he's an afterthought. But of course there's also the fact that he should have been cut weeks ago and wasn't, so there's that. Jets.
They have also went 3 straight games without forcing a turnover that’s what happens when you have a softass coach with softass players
yes but the coach said today.... that even though they are bring in other kickers this week (took them long enough)...that his perception of accountability has to do with the "PROCESS'" not just performance.... Say what? Who does that sound like folks? NOW, you know why this whole effing thing needs to be blown -up. Another season over before 11/1.
Its astonishing that 5 years of building to this "all in season", and were currently 7 draft places higher than last year. If it wasn't so brutal it'd be comical.
