To the original point - I kinda thought that’s where the Jets were going. Locking down key pieces on both sides of the ball until a long-term QB1 solution presented itself. 2025 really changed my whole perspective on the Jets and our place in the universe as Jets fans. The breaking point: watching a Patriots team go from NFL busboys to playing in the Super Bowl in one year, and watching Sam Darnold develop into the guy I thought he’d be - with another team. It occurred to me, as much as I hate-on Jets ownership and management, they’re doing a fucking fantastic job. I mean that. Totally on the level. As a Jets fan, I can be ripping-mad about it - and I am - but what else can you call it when management produces a shitty product year after year, they increase ticket prices, demand still goes UP, and all of us spend hours entertaining ourselves, blabbering-away, 365-days a year, about what we think is wrong with the team. The truth is: nothing. Team management aren’t Jets fans. They’re essentially Dunkin’ Donuts executives. They may have started out running a donut joint, but they thrive now being the default stop for quick, shitty food and overpriced colored water, which folks will buy daily because it’s right-here-right-now, even through every house and every workplace has a coffeemaker. The Jets have reached that same level of business success, where they can produce a shitty product, continuously raise prices on it, and still maintain a loyal consumer base. Here we are - the consumers - all pissed off and animated about Jets management, but they’re doing exactly what they’re paid to do, and winning really isn’t part of that. I don’t doubt they would prefer winning, but only because it would sustain things for another couple decades. Because eventually, in theory, that business model is doomed to fail. Just not anytime soon. Apparently.
Yes, let's not take a prospect like Will McDonald at 15 and make him a healthy scratch on game day as a rookie. And I totally agree NOT to address QB until pick 44 at the earliest. The jets need those first three picks to address their massive holes on defense and WR.
Up to this point, you are correct. The one thing I've never understood is the INSANE thought process of "loyalty" to a professional sports franchise. There are generations of fans who live and die by the singular team they root for. As if they had some vested financial interest. Even worse, getting called out as "fair weather" fans or "ship jumpers." Pick your analogy as people finally decide they are done with the abuse and move on. However, even THOSE people have to be coming to the end. You can only take getting poked in the eyes or kicked in the crotch so many times before it finally settles in that you are smacking your face against a titanium wall and there is NO end in site. We'll see....
