Leonard Taylor blocked FG

because they are super dumb?

 

This will be just the latest Super Bowl participant who started the season for the Jets and now looks like Andy Dufresne at the end of Shawshank.

 

Didn't you just ask me or examples of why Mougy should be fired?

And then we trade Quinnen.

This FO was never serious about stopping the run or generating interior pressure.
The defense on this team heading into '26 is straight up awful from a personnel perspective.
Mougy and in part Glenn managed to destroy anything of value.
He's on the JD 6 yr plan to nowhere.

 

I understand you were being facetious, but you do have a point and I agree with you on it.
We had bad interior DL depth and Taylor's play last year and in preseason was enough to roster imo as well.

There's just been so many head scratching decisions this year.
I fear we are repeating the JD debacle again.

 

Ex Jets tasting the Super Bowl:

Patriots
Leonard Taylor III
Morgan Moses

Seahawks
Sam Darnold - Yay for him.
Leonard Williams
Jason Myers
Charles Surratt

There may be others who I'm not aware of. Who says you'll never reach the SB if you play for the Jets?

 

Shitty WR Hardman, we got from KC and then he went back to KC and caught a catch in the SB

 

Yes, he caught the biggest pass in the game, however, I meant my post for SB LX. Over the years, there have been numerous ex-Jets to play in the SB.

Great read on Sam Darnold in today's NY Times. I will cut and paste because I realize a lot of you may not have a subscription to read it.

Max Browne played quarterback with Sam Darnold for two seasons at USC, in 2015 and 2016. He is now a commentator for college football games on ESPN.

I was a redshirt sophomore at USC when Sam Darnold showed up in the summer of 2015.

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Cody Kessler was the starting quarterback at the time, one of the top returning signal callers in college football. I was the former Gatorade National High School Player of the Year and Kessler’s backup. That summer, two freshmen joined the QB room: Ricky Town, a five-star quarterback who was the next big USC recruit. And this high-ceiling, late-riser named Sam Darnold.

Everyone in that position room knew exactly what they signed up for. When you sign to play quarterback at USC, you are choosing competition on a daily basis. And there was a real pressure to carry on the tradition. Every USC starting quarterback that century had been drafted: Carson Palmer, Matt Leinart, Mark Sanchez.

We all envisioned the same path: We’re here to be the best quarterback in the country, win a national title, win the Heisman and get drafted in the first round.

It was a highly pressurized environment, and every QB I played with at SC had that competitive edge, that chip on their shoulder. Understandably so. I felt that from Kessler, I felt that from myself, I even felt that from the walk-on quarterbacks in the room.

I just never felt it from Sam — even when we competed for the starting job in 2016.

Sam was certainly competitive — he wasn’t there to hold a clipboard or anything — but I never sensed the stress that young quarterbacks are often under. The stress of learning a new playbook. The stress of throwing an interception at practice and becoming gun-shy. That never, ever happened with him. I admired that.






From the time I first met him, he always had perspective. Football never felt like life or death to him, and it allowed him not to be so intense, like the rest of us USC quarterbacks. It allowed him to just play freely.

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I remember a fall camp practice early in his true freshman season. It was a late-night practice, and there was this off-script play where he was running around in the backfield and threw a 50-yard bomb down the sideline. I was on the sideline and Tee Martin, our offensive coordinator, did a little dance, and his line was: “He’s a young Brett Favre!”

You would have never gotten this out of me back then, but I remember after that play thinking: Oh s—. I’m gonna have a battle on my hands.

Sam had an ease and humble confidence about him without even saying a word. In college, he was a real gunslinger. I played with a lot of quarterbacks who had confidence, but Sam’s speciality was that he almost didn’t process the downside of a mistake. He was almost like: If I make a mistake, all good. He never let it impact his next throw.

I also never sensed that he got into any of the political games that a lot of us played in our heads: How many reps did this guy get? Oh, he got that play call, I wish they called that one for me. What was his completion percentage in this QB battle?

A lot of times, quarterbacks are too insecure to ask questions to the other quarterbacks. They don’t want it to be perceived as a weakness that they don’t know something. There was none of that with Sam. He asked me questions: What’s the coverage here? How are you reading this?

Ahead of the 2016 season, Sam and I battled for the starting job. To the outside world, it was very much a “me vs. Sam” thing. Between us, on a personal level outside of football, it never felt that way. We always understood the deal. When Sam got the news that I won the starting quarterback job before the season, his temperament didn’t change at all. The very next day, you would have never known. I still felt that ease from him. I admired that, too.

I got benched for Sam after the third game of the season. A couple of weeks went by, and Sam settled into his role as the next great USC quarterback.

Sam and I ran within the same friend circle within the team. My condo had the parties after the games, and one night we had a couple of beverages in our system. I was on the little mezzanine, and I’ll never forget that he gave me a bro hug and told me, “Appreciate the way you’ve handled this. Just know that I think you got screwed, too.”


I don’t share that story because I got screwed or want your pity. That’s not my point. I share it because, a decade later, I still appreciate that comment. It came at the lowest point of my life. I had arrived at USC with huge expectations, then spent years waiting and working for my opportunity. So when I lost the job, I was devastated. It was a lonely chapter in my life. A lot of people around me didn’t know what to say, so they wouldn’t say anything. The fact that the guy who did acknowledge my situation was the very guy living out the other path really cut through, like true friendship often does. He just had a levity about him.

I saw that play out in his NFL career, too. He said to me one time after his challenging rookie season with the Jets, “Hey, at the end of the day, I’m a quarterback in the NFL. Life is pretty good.” That wasn’t just lip service. He truly lived that at each stage of his career.

People ask me sometimes: If you could do one thing over again in your career, what would you do?

My answer oftentimes is: “I wish I had more fun playing football.”

People would tell me that in the moment, but I was never able to fully get myself there. It was always so intense for me. You know, the Mamba mentality. The work. The process.

When I think about guys who were not that way, Sam is the first one that comes to mind. And I think that’s why Sam never lost himself when things got tough during his first eight years in the NFL. He stayed light and kept perspective. That mindset didn’t just help him survive the challenging times — it propelled him to the Super Bowl.

— As told to Jayson Jenks

 

That's a great story, thanks for sharing.

Totally tracks with the personality we see from Darnold too. That might be why the Jets (and others) got rid of him. The coaches these days they want you to be robots, they want everyone to be like Kobe Bryant, a confident dick (I say that lovingly cause Bryant was one of my all time fav players).

There isn't room for nice guys with "perspective" in this league. So Darnold gets tossed aside by the Jets for a hotshot confident prospect from BYU, then he gets tossed aside by a hotshot confident prospect from Michigan with the Vikings, etc... These coaches put players in boxes and end up damaging themselves.

 

Thanks for that, and sorry I misunderstood your other post lol

 

That was an excellent read. Makes me want to hunt down Douglas and slap the smile off his smug, dumbass, know it all face.

 

Remember when we forced Leonard Williams to play in the wrong position for two years and then traded him for a 3rd.

 

but he was still fat

 

I saw the replay and it looked like Taylor just got lucky when he blocked it. Maybe the kick was low because of the weather.

 

Taylor was already in the air before the ball was kicked, there is always an element of luck but come on, give the guy some credit here
https://x.com/HurwitzSports/status/2015558341448057293?s=20