I agree and it does not excuse their actions. But Gastineau was one of the first crossing the picket line in week 4. He was a big name and should have been a team leader. His actions made it easier for others to cross and screwed over everyone. He was a scab and traitor. How is it possible to ever trust a player after he betrays his brothers.
The Sapp one was way worse. I understand that Ken O'Brien wasn't close to Dan Marino, but he did play in the NFL for ten years, and was a two-time pro-bowler.
Sometimes one play can be enough to turn you against a player. I have never been able to forgive Reggie Tongue for giving up a TD to Jerome Bettis in a 2004 regular season game, even though he returned an interception for a touchdown in the playoffs later the same year against the Steelers. Maybe I should cut him some slack. But he was a big guy, and there was a replay that showed him just bouncing off Bettis' shoulder with a look on his face like 'well, there's nothing I can do here', and it really pissed me off, because if he'd tackled low, like everyone knew you HAD to do against Bettis, he would've stopped him and the Jets might still have had a chance. And of course, the whole thing played into the 'Bus' narrative and what a great player Bettis was, when really it was just a veteran safety looking like he'd never played the game before and 'what was he expected to do anyway'. It was a roll-over-and-die play.
Brett was damn good here until he got hurt. They beat the patriots in a game that they would not have won without him. He threw 6 TD's against the cardinals and his injury is what lead to us eventually getting Rex. If he did not tear his bicep, they were a playoff team and a dangerous one at that.
Thanks for this post, I can now say my least favorite Jet is Devin FUCKING Smith. He returned a kick out of the endzone and fumbled it, giving the Bills a free touchdown in that game. On the way out of the stadium I kept saying "This game will be the reason the Jets don't make the playoffs." @dawinner127 can vouch for that, I think I said it 100 times from our seats to the parking lot.
Let the record show that I was calling for Devon Smith to be cut immediately after that play. It would have been nice for management to actually enforce some discipline on this team, but whatever.
I just thought it was a stupid move by the Jets to bring someone in on a 1 year rental who never really wanted to be here and was using it as a way to get to the Vikings as such I never liked him as a Jet
one of a long long run of bad second round draft picks by the Jets: - Mims - D Smith - Hackenburg - Amaro - G Smith - Hill - Ducasse would probably be worse if we hadn't traded away so many....
Meh, he wasn’t a bad player for herm. Bone on bone condition in his knees made it so we should have never traded up for him, the switch to the mangini 3-4 ended his usefulness here.
-I disliked Doug Brien for a long time. He had ONE job! -2011-2014 Rex Ryan. Drove me nuts. Despite the 4 playoff wins, I may have fired him after 2012 if I was Woody. -2015-16 Darrelle Revis was definitely annoying to me. Literally stole from the Jets. -Jamal Adams for sure. His final season/off-season was off the charts pathetic. Probably the most I have ever disliked a Jets player by a mile. -Recently it has been Greg Van Roten, but I shouldn't be mad at him for being terrible. I should be mad at Douglas and the coaching staff for not finding a better option faster. I did not even really like Darrelle Revis and Jamal Adams when they were playing at elite levels for the Jets. I strongly dislike Me-First players. Always have.
One of the reasons I disliked Farve was, as a condition of signing with us, he insisted we release Pennington so he didn't have to compete with him. We all know how that turned out.
I remember that being a far more mangled sentence that was actually difficult to comprehend: “Can’t nobody block me.”
