All I have been reading and hearing all day is how the Jets season was a failure because they fell short of the Super Bowl again. How can the media be so clueless and how can they not understand Jets fans at all. Yes the game yesterday was disappointing. But we Jets fans are not miserable, as the media would like to believe. That is because we can see that this team is building something. This is not a win now team. The Jets are being built for a long run and that is what results in a championship. It is hard to win a title with a one year playoff run. But what we have is a team that is improving and should be a playoff participant on a yearly basis for years to come. Another thing to note is that the Jets are not losing playoff games they should win. The Jets have played 14 playoff games since 1998 and have been home twice and favored twice. In the other twelve games they have been on the road and have been underdogs. Yet they are 7-7 in those 14 games. Recent history is even better. All 6 playoff games in the two-year Ryan era have been on the road and the Jets have been pretty significant underdogs in all 6. Yet they are 4-2. Think about it - 6 playoff games and 4 playoff wins in two years!! The Jets have gone full decades without playing a single playoff game (the 1970's) and have gone long stretches without a playoff game (12 years -69 to 81). The Jets won more games (24) and more playoff games (4) the past two years (24) than in any other two year period in Jets history. In 2009 the 9-7 Jets beat the 10-6 Bengals who were 6-2 at home; the 13-3 Chargers who were 6-2 at home and lost to the 15-2 Colts who were 8-1 at home. This year they beat the 10-6 Colts who were 6-2 at home; the 14-2 Pats, who were 8-0 at home and lost to the 13-4 Steelers, who were 6-3 at home. In total, they faced teams who were 75-23 overall and 40-10 at home and the Jets won 4 of 6 of those games. That is impressive. The message in all of this is that the Jets need to keep improving and win the division, win more regular season games, and play some playoff games at home. If anyone said the day after the horrible 2008 season ended that the Jets would hire a new coach who would completely change the culture of this team , draft a franchise QB who would win in the clutch, build a defense that is among the best in the league, and play in consecutive AFC Championship games, we all would have signed on immediately. This team is on the rise. The SB will come. I feel it. And I have been a fan since 1966. I have never felt as confident in the future of this team as I do now. So all the media who are saying the Jets were a failure this year and that this lost was the "worst" - you have no idea what is going on the heads of Jets fans. We are proud of our team, we love the coach, we love the attitude, and we can see where this team is going. We have enjoyed the ride the past two years, and we are running to the front of the line to get on that ride again next year.
All i heard and feel is that this team is in the best hands its ever been in. Defense had a bad half. It happens. It has happened before (45-3). Does it suck? Like no other.
But they're experts! But...Rex HAS set the goal. Even he says the season ended too early. If he's disappointed, so am I.
Hey john elway and the broncos were chewed up because they couldn't win the super bowl for years and guess what? they won 2.... We will get there and we will win it one day there is no question about it.
That's why I'm not crazy about all of this. Elway lost THREE SBs before he won 2. Imagine that heartbreak? Holy shit. We'd have 10000 dead Jet fans before they win their next one. Mass suicides everywhere.
shit good point. It would darwin our fanbase into an elite one. Rex and Sanchez need to go the Elway or Cowher route. Sadly, Cowher needed a different QB and Elway needed a different coach. Then fuck those examples.
Is that really a bad thing? Edit: I didn't see Ace's reply.......I read this and replied, rest of thread be damned.
The sports media loves to reem the Jets because we can never deliver when it comes to the AFC Title game. Because Rex promised a Superbowl anything short of that in their eyes is a failure. Of course the season isn't a failure. I think the New York sports writers are a bit more fair. Look at the way everybody pounced on Cutler. Bunch a dicks out there. One sweet Superbowl victory and there will be joy in Jetville.
Not sure if I'd wanna trade places with the Bills though. Losing mulitple SB's vs 1 win in 42years? Tough choice there..Getting there multiple times and lose them all or win once ever other generation.
It's a good thing we are all pissed off and we are seeing failure articles b/c we lost in the Title game again. That means qwe have a pretty damn good team w/ SB expectations.
1968 - AFL Championship game 14 years later 1982 - AFC Championship Game 16 years later 1998 - AFC Championship Game 11 years later 2009 - AFC Championship Game 1 year later 2010 - AFC Championship Game Oh what a failure Tanny and Ryan are~!!1
I am a miserable Jets fan right now. All this positive pep talk gayness can wait until next season starts.
It certainly would be difficult to endure. The "new Jets" players need to feel the heartbreak the "SOJ" felt to get to another level. After Sanchez's performance in the playoffs the last 2 seasons, he has me sold 100% that he can deliver a SB Championship. I was fully confident if Sanchez got the ball back in the Pitt game he would have stormed down the field. So in future situations, I know he will succeed under pressure. That is the biggest X-factor, answered for us already.
Rex's talk distorts the media's perception about what is or isn't a "successful" season. "But but but but...he said they would win a Superbowl this year!!" Um, get used to it. He's going to say it next year too. And the year after, and the year after, and every year with every team he's with til someone runs him out of the league. Ask the Texans if the Jets had a successful season. Or the Bengals. Or the Cowboys. All those teams had sky-high expectations this year too. It's friggin hard to win a championship in this game, but people's perception over the last decade has become that dynasties are the norm. The Steelers and Pats are the exception, not the rule. Hell look at the Colts. Winningest team of the decade. Been to the playoffs nine straight years. ONE RING. And it was four years into the run. Meanwhile we're two years into a regime of relevancy, competiveness, and over-achieving, and everyone's already jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge. The window's not closing guys. Mike T. and Rex are just getting warmed up.
I like how the media puts success in terms of what they think a team should do. Like they need to justify to themselves that people really care about what they think. I guess SEA or KC had the most successful season to everybody except the SB champs because they far exceeded any media expectation. Every team but 1 fails every year.
When rex writes "soon to be champs", when he tlaks about us being the best and winning SBs that is the goal and that is what the team is judged on. This team did not reach their goal, thye had a good season but they did not reach the goal.
Why would you ever put any weight on anything the media writes if the writer is not a former player? Most of these guys know nothing about the game. They couldn't tell you what a 3-technique or a 9-route is if their lives depended on it. These guys are journalism majors who weren't in the game because they weren't capable, so now they tag along thinking they're one of the boys when really they're looked down upon and snickered at because they don't know their role. Look into who wrote what you are writing and then decide if you are going to take it seriously.
The ultimate goal is to win the championship, so this season was a failure in that respect. You have to remember that a team fielded one year is nearly entirely different the next year in both style and personnel. Who knows what we'll have next year. All I know is that we've had two straight shots to win the Super Bowl and failed on both occasions. As far as entertainment value goes, this season has been an unbelievable success. Winning the Super Bowl would have been icing on the cake, but it was a fun ride and fans have enjoyed every second of it. I know it sounds corny, but last season's win over the Chargers and this season's over the Patriots are two of the greatest games in Jets history, and the memory will last a lifetime. I'm just rambling about the big picture here. You get the idea.
