Nice find. some decent points made, and they flat called out Mehta for being a hack. the media has finally begun eating their own (and rightfully so). what amazes me is how many Jet fans feed into the media contrived drama, and are crying one conspiracy or another.
Well said. Most of the 'dysfunction' i see is the media circus and public that feeds on it like sheep.. This team has been and will continue to be competitive. i just hope they have the balls not to fold under the scrutiny for 'perceptions' sake.
a valid point. but, the management of the jets caused this , not the media. it wasn't the press who announced an "open competition" for starting qb, then restricted it to only 2 players. you shoot yourself in the foot, and then expect me to feel sorry for you cause you are unable to walk?:sad: ain't gonna happen. ( example) i spent 3 seperate days ( including the scrimmage) in cortland, and both mcelroy and sims looked better to me than smith and el taco. did those two guys get a fair shake- no! :sad:
Yeah he's certainly become public enemy beat writer #1. The bitterness has just been oozing from every single one of his tweets for months. Takes a jab at the organization every chance he gets, even when it's completely unprompted. We get it Mehta, you're pissed they shipped your anonymous source (cough Pettine cough) out of town, but is that really grounds for constantly bad-mouthing the team you cover?
You know why they didn't get a fair shake? Because they suck. You'd make a great GM over in Oakland though...
The big circus in town is the tabloid media. In the runup to the new stadium the Jets joined the circus. They didn't do this with Brett Favre, he was a second tier thing in the wave. They joined the circus when Eric Mangini went Hollywood, or more accurately North Jersey with the Mangenius thing and the Sopranos tie-in. Then the floor fell out from under the team in 2007 and they made a bunch of moves to solidify things in the media and competitively. They'd have been roadkill going into the new stadium with a bad team right after the Giants won the Super Bowl. So they signed Favre and Faneca and Pace and really began promoting. That's how they wound up in the circus. Bringing in Rex just sealed the deal. The problem is you don't get out of the circus very easily once you've joined it and when the Jet's fortunes turned south and they started to try to back away the circus came looking for them again. "Hey Jets, where ya going? Ya don't get out of the circus that easily, it's a my livelihood kind of thing, ya know?" So the Jets threw the circus a big bone with the Tebow acquisition. The problem is that Tebow is not really an NFL property. He's more property of ESPN, who really wants to sell to folks that don't care that much about football but loves some Tebow when they can get it. That made the NY media circus into the national media circus as well. By the end of the season things were just really bad for the Jets in terms of image, style and presentation. So they hired a nice low-key guy to rebuild some and get the franchise back on track. And here comes the circus again, sensing that the Jets might really get off the hook with this guy. A few of them, the biggest clowns in the circus, have taken to personally attacking John Idzik, because he's enough to make a clown cry when that clown needs the Jets in the circus or he has to actually work for a living for a change.
Anyone who knows me here knows that I am anti media and absolutely cringe at the idocy of these so called "Journalist". The sad part about it is when you see out of market reporting try so hard to sound like NY Reporting and even sadder they look at getting a reporting job in NY as making it big time.... Fukin sad...
DUDE STFU - you are obviously totally clueless as to the topic in this thread - the absurd constant negativity of the media. The point is that the Jets are in fact 2-1 in the Preseason and appear to be improved - and yet all the NY media wants to do is trash the team, the CS and the fan base. Your comments indicate that you a) don't understand this thread or the points made herein and b) you are just as idiotically negative as the rest of the darksiders. Go find something else to do if you are so negative and miserable.
whitlock and oberman coming off as rational. I like whitlock but it seems so weird to see oberman not acting like a moron.
Add Mark Kriegal on NFL net. Kriegal is especially bad. And, FWIW, while they are douches...they kind of get it right. Their job isn't to educate people about the Jets, its to generate media revenue. And they all just stir that SOJF mentality to do so. Look at it this way, this team won 6 last year with a guy that wasnt an oc, had three key skill players miss 30 games, and was older and slower on defense. They perform addition by subtraction, get younger amd nastier on defense. They bring in a REAL OC for the first time since Rex got here. They bring in two better RBs and Powell comes on. Yet....the team is worse :rofl: They vacillate between the Geno-Diva stories early, to the "how can Sanchez survive" stories, then Rex goes full on Kotite, and feeds the beast by getting Sanchez hurt. Here's what happens next. If...IF[ Sanchez is healthy week one and the Jets are winning early..(and they should be) ....the collective douchebags will use "surprising" "shocking" "unpredictable" in every column they write or segment they tape. And, also predictably, it will be the first time they start using "offensive coordinator" in the context of the functioning of the offense. See how that works. Offense fails, QB sucks. Offense Succeds, MM will be the new Mangenuis. Except QB is the constant in the equation, I like to predict so heres one. Should Sanchez play, and the offense succeed as it has in the preseason, articles comparing Schitty,Sparano and MM...will still be non existent. If Sanchez doesnt play for a couple weeks, and Geno isnt winning, it will all be about RexKotite, and the SOJs. Jackals.
Honestly, the circus perception was just starting to go away until Rex decided to act like a fool in the presser. He could have handled Manish's bitch tirade by saying 'I'm not going to answer the question' over and over. Instead, he's turning his back and whatnot after making a stupid decision in the game. That destroys a franchise's credibility which (believe it or not) is a pretty important facet of football.
No, RexKotite earned it. However they all got the story wrong. What was Peterman, a guy that had been playing Center for 4 days...doing on the field in live action, with ANY of the four QBs?
why is everyone piling on rex for saturday? sanchez got hurt, it happens, you cant foresee that sort of shit and if he didnt get injured then nobody would have anything to say about playing sanchez at that time rex to me seemed like a guy who really wants so badly to tell manish to go fuck himself, but cant. i mean lets think about it here, hes face to face with a guy whos basically campaigning to the sports public about how pathetic rex and the jets are, and rex has to just sit there and take it... personally im happy with the way he handled that shit, fuck mehta, he doesnt deserve anything more than he gives, so a childish exchange is fine with me. mehta is a child, at least he is no more mature than a high school chick that needs to find some way for her to be involved in everything that ever happened at the school
No, he still should have been called for Peterman playing Center. Even if disaster doesnt happen, its retarded.
Here is Olbermann obliterating Manish. Olbermann is a blowhard but he got this right. mediaite.com/tv/as-i-was-saying-keith-olbermann-makes-return-to-espn
