I love this. Honestly though, the odds of missing then playoffs 14 seasons in a row in the salary cap era are probably pretty god damn high as well. The odds of a team not being able to develop a QB for 3 decades are pretty high. The Jets excel at failure and ineptitude so it’s hard to dismiss even the craziest sounding statistics.
Crazy isn’t it? Since Namath, we have drafted and developed exactly TWO QBs. Since the 1970s. 50 years. That’s it. Kenny O’Brien (and we passed on HOF Marino for him) was I’d say a very good QB … maybe not quite great, but very good. And Pennington was probably also in that “very good” type of class…too bad injuries eroded what wasn’t the strongest of arms to begin with. But both guys while maybe not Great QBs like top 5 type guys, were still very good and you can win with them. That’s it. Two guys. Crazy to think that just pure chance would be better.
All it says is that the short a few spans of competitive years, the NY Jets are shit tier organization. I think if the Jets managed to draft Marino, they'd even have managed to mess him up. I mean, Marino got to get drafted under a team coached by Don Shula.
Apparently, the odds of getting four royal flushes in a row in Texas Hold'em has better odds at somewhere around 1.16×10−16.
Nothing beats the Vinny Testaverde run where we got the phantom TD against the Seahawks in 1998 when he was clearly short of the goal line and replay upheld it.
