You don't think picking the wrong "franchise QB" prospect can set a team back 10 years? Todd Blackledge, Akili Smith, Matt Leinart, Jamarcus Russell, Joey Harrington, Mark Sanchez, Vince Young, David Carr, Byron Leftwich, Tim Couch, J.P. Losman, Cade McNown, and a ton of others serve as the contrary example. Of course, if you move on from them quickly, it lessens the damage, but you've still wasted a pick (or more if you traded up, or if you missed on other QBs in the next few years), so they will continue to haunt you for at least 6 or 8 years.
Every single game since the 1968 AFL Championship Game has set us back, including Super Bowl 3, because not one single game has helped in winning another subsequent Super Bowl. We would have been better off having lost every single game since that '68 championship game and maybe we'd be closer to a franchise QB and a Super Bowl winning team.
I'm not going to sit there and watch the games like I do every Sunday they play during the season and not root for them and root for them to lose.. I can't do it. It's not in me. Lose isn't an option.
ESPECIALLY NOT VS DIVISIONAL OPPONENTS. we must beat the Phins', Bills and the fucking Pats at least once. Any jet fan that prefers the jets lose to those teams or gets sad about losing draft position after beating the pats or somebody out of some misguided notion that we need to fail to succeed shall be excommunicated. and then kicked in the balls.
I'll always watch every Jets game (barring emergency) and I will always root for them to win. How, as a fan, can you root for your team to lose?
I can remember many years ago I wanted us to lose the last game of the season so we would be in position to draft Reggie Bush. My opinion was unswayed by the thought that a win is always a good thing and I (incorrectly) viewed Bush as once in lifetime player. A franchise changing player and we had to lose in order to get him. Well we won and ended up with some guy named D'Brickashaw. I'd say that worked out pretty good for us.
it's one thing to understand that there is positive value to a losing season...after the season is over and you are interested in the draft. it is another to actually want the team to lose during the season. by that logic, every win in every season we did not win the Super Bowl put us in a worse position to draft any player that year, and we would have been better off, up to this point, having never won a game just so we would be in the most optimal position possible to draft a specific player that we believe will be the player that turns us into champions. it sounds stupid just typing something so asinine, and yet there are many people whose whining about wins are forced to defend such a position if the basic element of their whining is valid -- that if you aren't going to win a Super Bowl you may a well lose enough to have your choice of players in the draft.
The Steelers looked like they didn't wanna get off the bus yesterday. I've never seen a "good" team play more lackluster and uninspired. Big Ben looked like he was on the take, seriously. Very bizarre game. Of course this game doesn't help our future. It's about as meaningless a win as you can get, unless you're a desperate coach trying to save his own ass.
Not necessarily. Say jarrett becomes a stud off of this game? Not likely, but could have some meaning.
