The article is way too long, depressing and left me left me cold with the message. The most depressing part personaly is having taking the time to almost read the whole thing. The blurb about Detroit is lame, as the fans are still in high heaven….should we be so lucky.
Ive felt that way since Rex Ryan. I haven’t been excited at all, especially when we hired Gase. I really wanted to stop watching football at that point. I wasn’t excited about Rodgers. At any point. I was hoping for good but I didn’t really think it would be. Saleh was always, meh. We’ve been a shitty team for a long time. For good reason. It’s never looked like we had professionals at the head of the table. Now. I truly think we do. I think JF will be a top 15 QB this year. I think this team surprises. I think AG is the real deal. I’m allowing myself to be excited. It’s scary. It’s so fucking weird that it feels so right for me now. Yet. NOW is the time most NYJ fans check out? Just feels like I’m in the twilight zone most of the time. In just about every facet of my life. This is no exception. lol I’m just gonna quote Nate Diaz at the end of the season. “I’m not surprised, MFKERS!” lol
Love it man. Keep your excitement please. Who knows. Maybe playoffs happen for us and we can all celebrate here together.
That’s cool that you feel the excitement…me personally, I’m not there, just because I don’t think there is any tangible reason to feel it other than we all like AG…he was a great Jet for sure. But to me, there is nothing tangible to put my faith in that he will finally be the guy. To me, he’s like the next DC in line that we’ve tried, and Herm, Mangini, Bowles, Saleh, they all failed. We’ve tried this route so many times before. Rex was the one guy who had some success, and that was as much due to his personality and force of will and inspiration as it was to his defensive schemes, but he also had a top OL to help the offense. And then we have a rookie GM as well, just as we’ve also done over and over. AG didn’t build a top 5 defense at Detroit, did he? Mougey hasn’t proven he can turn around a franchise. So on both guys, we are relying on faith. The talk is good, I’ll agree. AG’s style seems to be no nonsense and that’s good after the fluff hype of Saleh. But the blueprint we are following is exactly the same. Rookie DC for HC, hotshot rookie OC from a good offensive system (MLF was SF, our guy now is Rams). But it’s not like this blueprint has proven out to be full of success. In fact, it’s only really ever failed for us. So I’m having a hard time putting any faith in this approach. I hope I’m wrong. I hope that AG, having been a Jet and knowing a bit of what it’s like for this team in NY, can finally succeed where others have not. But I just have a hard time believing it until I actually see it. Or maybe said another way, had we gotten a GM with more experience in the seat (and yeah I know that’s hard to do for GM roles), or having gotten an HC with a proven track record (guys like Jim Harbaugh, Sean Payton, and Mike McCarthy) have all been available in the last couple of years…proven HCs with playoff / Super Bowl successes and offensive backgrounds…had we gotten any one of them I’d feel like ok…these are proven coaches who know how to do it. But we didn’t. We rolled the dice again on a rookie DC. A good enough choice of DC in AG, but still. So no, to me, there is no real benefit of the doubt here for this team. I’m in full on Show Me mode.
theres defo LESS BS... so that's a great start Sauce still needs to learn silence and humility... "accomplished a lot" 3 INT 0 TD
To be quite honest, the more the years go on the less I'm into football in general. The college game absolutely blows monkey ass and I don't bother wasting my time. This will be the last year I even bother to "scout" or look at players for the draft. Why bother. It's not my job and the entire process brings no satisfaction, no winning team and countless hours of wasted energy. At this point, I feel it would take a Super Bowl for me to even give a shit. I comment where I feel like commenting but even that is vastly far and few between. The Jets do not have an ownership group capable of doing anything more than dragging it's fan base down the same old tired ass road of rookie everything. HC, GM etc. There is apathy. Apathy born of a shit product that continues to be shit. If they wanted any more than that it would be so.
good the idiot news reporters and idiot fans have done nothing to help in my lifetime. keep it quiet and go play. dont need any drama or bullshit.
sorry to hear that. i enjoy college football much more than nfl. the nfl feels almost staged drama these days and college isnt far behind but below p4 it is still the great game that i love to watch.
The minute they introduced money, like everything else in the world, it went to shit. Yeah, I get it, the college athletes put their ass on the line so they deserve a few bucks for leaving their blood, sweat and skin in "x" number stadiums all over the country. However, the manner in which they "solved" this item, has destroyed the game. Not only that but there is even LESS incentive for these kids to actually finish school. Not that they could form two declarative sentences in a row before but, now, it feels like the only words these kids know is "like" and "you know." Oh, and somehow the word ask has been transformed to aks. Just sad. I remember the standards I was held to in college, while playing football, and what qualifies as standard, today, are a joke. 54.4% of the country has a reading comprehension at 6th grade levels and below. Just shaking my head.
I don’t agree everything in your post but the main point I do, college sports is at its worst in 2025 I can understand how young athletes like the idea of getting money flashed at them and I can understand how lawyers want in on that too. What I don’t get is why the NCAA seemingly wants to become a minor league system. And a shitty one at that, where players can come and go with no continuity or marketable momentum
I would suggest that the NCAA does not in any way want to operate under a system where players change schools at will but knows that, if left in the hands of the courts, may very well be forced to accept a less acceptable format or alternately, cease to exist. It seems that the day of writing their own laws is over.
I disagree, because they opened the transfer portal on their own years ago, and they approve every waiver, even the flimsiest
The transfer portal was an early step in keeping the feds out of their game. I don't for a minute believe it was devised for the benefit of the game or of the players.
I haven’t read this Nania article and couldn’t give a shit Here comes a new GM, a new head coach and a new team? Somebody surprise me
Tell that to Jay Bilas then at ESPN, their top college analyst. He spends his days tweeting about how good the transfer portal is for the sport and the players. There are more people who believe that, he just comes to mind with a big megaphone
I read a lot about: "Can Fields and Glenn deliver a good season??". But I think a 'good season' will fall on our Defense. Our D will become the reason to watch, if we are to have fun this year. I think back to '09 with a rookie HC and a rookie QB....no hope for the season. But Rex had his D ready to play...the Merry Band of Lunatics milling about the LOS, no one knowing where they will be coming from. Our D was top 5 (higher in some categories) and always kept the games within reach. Sanchize didn't have to do much beyond looking at his RED-YELLOW-GREEN wrist band. Taking down the Pats in the POs was our high-water mark, but what a mark that was. And on top of our good D, we also had a good O-Line and Running Game. So back to '25. Again, we have a good O-Line and Running Game. Can our Quinnen, Jermaine, Sauce and company keep games close enough for Glenn/Fields to save the day? SNEAK into the POs? Win a few road games? Get us to the dance? Maybe!
