I swear, I have never seen a fanbase celebrate a loss so much in my entire life. I can understand it to a degree in regard to a board like this: There are lots of people here with a range of emotions and perspectives. But when Rich Eisen is waving pom-poms over a defeat, Jets fans have officially lowered the bar to a point never before seen. I just lost a lot of respect for him.
I understand your thoughts as I am not a moral victories guy myself. If this continues for months I’d be more concerned, but, as is, first game in a rebuilding year, I think it’s ok to look at the positives.
The team did a lot better on offense than I expected. Where the hell was the secondary? Excited to see game two. I hope we have an answer for the Bills O.
I'm not melting down on a website because people are breaking down what happened in a football game and finding positives in it. So I'm fine.
That's good to hear, because if I ever posted something that you disagreed with in even the slightest, I would be emotionally devastated. That's how important you are.
So, I'm working my way through all the games thanks to my trusty NFL+ subscription. The Jets looked a LOT better than a whole crap ton of teams and that includes the Chiefs, Lions and Vikings. All playoff teams from last year. They looked WORLDS better than the other two teams, not named the Bills, in our own division. So, after a whopping 60 minutes of football, I've read everything from A.G. shit the bed to Mougey didn't do enough for our WR room, on and on and on. As a decades long Jets fan, I was simply tickled that they didn't embarrass themselves and, by extension, we fans. I walked into work on Monday and was able to speak proudly about the progress they seem to be making. All that with a rookie HC, rookie OC and Wilks. By the way, Wilks was coaching in a Super Bowl not but a couple years ago. On the topic of Tanner, I think we have FINALLY found an O.C. Yeah, he had his "cute" moment with that second 2 point conversion that should have looked more like the TD run only with Ruckert or Mason rolling out with him for the RPO. Don't know what it is with these NFL coordinators, just when it looks like they are dropping the hammer they ALL call these weird "cute" plays when they should have just dropped the hammer. I remember a play, in a Super Bowl that included the Seahawks, where a coordinator got cute and cost them the game. So, no one is immune. Again, ONE game but that single game looked a WORLD different that what we've seen the last 5-10 years. As I have stated a few times, the "positive needle" is moving in the right direction. I hope they build on it and this Sunday's game looks like they belong in the same building as the Bills, whom, by the way, is my SB pick this season from the AFC.
Yup….I do the same each week on NFL+ and I agree…there were plenty of teams that looked way worse than we did. Plenty. But loved seeing the Dolphins get worked. Loved seeing the Pats lose as well. Early returns on Tanner after only one game are good…hope he keeps it up. I got the feeling as I was watching that he was calling plays to our strengths… Agree on coordinators getting too cute…I remember for us when we had Brian Schottenheimer as OC way back when, he would do this like every other game…we’d be moving the ball, pounding it, then he’d call some trick play like a receiver reverse and we’d lose like 12 yards and kill the drive. Never understood it…even announcers will sit there and say hey, keep doing it until they stop it. And yeah, let’s hope this positive needle keeps moving. Cutting Gipson was a strong move by AG…they could have just sat him or benched him for a game…hopefully this sends the right message but it does follow up on his specific words when he said if you do stuff that makes us lose you won’t be on the team. Here’s exhibit A. Can’t do that with Stephens as he plays a critical role, has a big contract, and is brand new, so wouldn’t expect him to get cut, but will be interesting to see what happens if he shits the bed again. I’d assume he’d start losing playing time? Anyway, I think this team will be better at the end of the year than it is now, just with a hard early schedule and needing time for the team and coaches to gel. But I’m happy with the OL play which we haven’t been able to say in a long time, and I’m happy with how Fields played…if he can play like that we should be in a bunch of games
Discipline, the O-line and Fields are the keys. I'd have to go back but, in those blown 4th quarter leads, last year, I wonder how many of those losses came at the hands of a stupid ass pre-snap penalty killing the drive. ESPECIALLY the O-line holding. If they can eliminate 99.9% of the dumb ass pre-snap stuff and continue to gel, this team might actually "be" something at the end of the year. There is an explicit article, on nfl.com (of course I can't find it right now), that speaks to Tanner game planning to Fields strengths. The article makes a distinct point that he's the first. They didn't do it in Chicago or Pitt. Maybe that could be a reason why the kid hasn't progressed as he should have? Who knows. All I do know is if we can get what we saw on Sunday for the rest of the season, at the very least the team will be competitive and not embarrass themselves. But, as you and I both pointed out. There are a LOT of teams that really didn't look anywhere near as good as the Jets so I'm going to hold on to that for as long as I can. Looking forward to seeing if these guys can upset the Bills.
I do think that we will be a better team later in the year than early in the year as the coaches learn the players better, the players learn the system better, and the team in general just gels We’ll see… I don’t think we beat the Bills this week but then we have two on the road against the Bucs and Dolphins…we’ll need to win hopefully both of those games and then go from there…TB is a good playoff team but I don’t feel that they are unbeatable…the Dolphins can be good once they get Tua going with Hill and Waddle, but if we can pressure Tua we can beat them too
I see nothing, absolutely nothing wrong with people taking and objective view and highlighting the many positives that transpired on the game last Sunday. There where lots of positives that should be recognized as the vector going in the right direction. Don’t get me wrong, no one is happy with the heart breaking loss to a game we should have won had we executed as coached in a few areas. Bottom line, we missed a golden opportunity because of un acceptable mistakes on the secondary and special teams. But it was still a game that absolutely left me with the thought. “ By God we got a leadership that is moving us in the right direction, this team plays damned hard, adjusts on the fly and sure as hell will not be intimidated. And above all, they don’t put up with too my critical errors in judgment or execution. I’m hoping this is the begging road to a brighter future.
