So....you just believed they'd win but you're not a blind optimist? How optimistic were you when schotty called passes and the clock stopped when we could have run off time on the last 2 possessions? How optimistic were you when the D gave up big chunks at a time on the final drive? It was a great team win and one we needed, and it's hard to win on the road, but after 14 games the same flaws continue to repeat themselves and they do get exploited. It's not good when you can be predictably attacked the same way on a weekly basis.
Congratulations on describing every team in the NFL. Do you think that coaches spend huge chunks of time watching film for shits and giggles? Every team has weaknesses that can be just as predictably exploited as the Jets do. The difference is you don't pay as close attention to those teams so you don't know what those weaknesses are the same way you know what the Jets weaknesses are.
I never once said I thought the game was in the bag from start to finish. However I never wavered in my belief that the team could win, because, as others have said before me, on Any given sunday, anything can happen. After all, in the early game the Eagles scored 4 TD's in about 6 minutes. You blame Schotty for his mistakes, but for most of the game, save for about 10 plays, he called a very good game. The D had just gotten a Safety, What reason was there not to be optimistic? I keep the faith until the clock says 00:00, That's my point. How am I a blind optimist for not giving up when we were down 7 points with a quarter and a half to play?
That pretty much sums up the SOJ definition that the elders passed down tome: build your hopes up to dizzing heights, and then smash them into the ground like a nasty cigarette butt. Personally, I'm trying not to give in to the temptation.
I never give up hope that they can win, and always stay with them to end. On the other hand, I'm always prepared form them to do something stupid, and for disaster to strike. Then again, there are probably fans in 30 other cities (and the Giants) who feel the same way.
Build up hope, yeah sure. Make the playoffs? not so much. Unless SOJ is something that came about since 1998.
No you wouldn't. And SOJ are teams that don't finish games like this and are irrelevant teams with nothing to play for in December. When will SOJ morons get it right? Relevance killed SOJ
Who gives a flying fuck about any of that, what, Leonhard doesn't count? This is the first Jets win ever in Pitt, enjoy it
Maybe I'm missing something. The SOJ permits playoff appearances, no? At least that's in the definition I go by. The Mud Bowl, Gastineau, Doug Brien, etc.
I don't think your missing anything besides what my original post was in response to. He said that SOJ should be expected to make a late season push and make the playoffs only to lose once there. If that is what SOJ is then it only could have been happening consistently enough to have a name in the last 12 years or so. SOJ is a mindset brought about by constant losing during the regular season not getting beat in the playoffs.
Can't stop having faith man, thats what makes you a REAL Jet fan. No matter the heartbreak they put you through, which over the years has been sickening you pull through and look forward to good days and with this team, and Rex at the helm good things are here
gang green def. making it interesting yet again and it proves that we do have what it takes to make a run...on the road where we've never won - in the snow - on the back of 2 terrible games...it was a guttsy win and we still probably didnt play to our potential...we really need to put it all together .... roll on
Ah, okay. Thanks. I don't remember when we officially named the phenomena SOJ, but I know the feeling has been with us for a long time. To me, the concept always included the idea that the Jets would do something great to build up your hopes (playoffs appearances included), and then do something stupid to bring it all to an end. I'd have to think the 86 season at least planted the seed for the idea. I can remember people wearing papers bags on their heads, with Just End The Season on them, too. But that was in a time when there was no hope.
They quit in New England and played like a slapdick team. Today they sacked up and won a big game, so it was different. I know I never "quit" on the Jets. But they're not a Super Bowl team and the season went from being something special to me realizing where we're going to end up falling short once again.
The jets have always done this. The gms there suppose 2 win they lose and the ones there suppose 2 lose they win or play a hell of a game. Either way great game we grinded out a big w. Jets 4 life !
You gotta love Jets fans. 10-4, just beat the 10-4 steelers on the road in the snow and there are still some fans who insist on being negative and insisting its not going to "special" for him. I think its time for some supposed Jets fans to sack up and realize that a team that can do what the Jets did today - can beat anybody in any given game. Special is not running the table and breezing your way through to the Lombardi presentation ceremony. Sometimes special is watching a team that has gotten knocked on its ass, pick itself up and dust itself off and go out and win a game when everybody was saying SOJ and counting them out. What they did today in Pittsburgh was pretty fukking special in my book.
That's when it was. It was during years of total mediocrity when this team was a sorry afterthought in the NFL. That's why the SOJ is dead. This team isn't an afterthought in the NFL, and hasn't been for quite some time.
