Sunday, December 21, 2008
HELP! Another season vanished poof with another collapse and misplaced hope. Clearly, I care more than the JETS do. As well I should, as I have wasted more money, more time, and more energy, where as the JETS had another season of making money and mass raping their fans!
The team continues to proclaim its just one season. In doing so they declare to their fan base how unimportant they are. This is after all a fan base that has waited for the JETS to win with as much anticipation as they have awaited the coming of the messiah. Many if not most JETS fans, have craved a super bowl contender their entire adult life.
Anyone reading this that is not a fan will have no idea what I am conveying and will surely be convinced I am borderline insane.
I sit here once again in very real pain. Not much different than if I lost someone close to me. (Which in fact is the case, as I have lost yet another part of me?) Once more time, after another season, in a life time of horrific seasons, that ends in total and almost always complete heartbreak. (There is yet a chance the JETS can make the playoffs next week, and I can’t even go to the game as it hurts too much.) I remain incapable of much in the way of articulate communication as the pain and disbelief is too real and fresh.
In lieu of trying to write to a public that will not understand, I write to the very few unfortunate JETS fans that will.
This season the JETS had seven players voted to the pro-ball to lead all NFL teams, (The most in team history) yet somehow this team will still miss out on the playoffs. This team, that had its fans and most of the best analyst in the NFL convinced this team was one of the top few teams in football, is likely not even playing for a playoff spot in the last week of the season. For an organization that has done nothing but crush its fans, this may go down as perhaps the worst collapse in team history.
How did it happen? It’s really simple, this team has played scared to lose, instead of confident they will win. They are the least aggressive team in football, and are horribly coached in general. Going forward this team is also going to be an aging football team as well. The future in fact is bleak. The QB might and hopefully will retire. The offensive line has several older players, and the defensive line is old as well. The WR stink, and the RB are at best average.
An organization that cares about its long suffering fans, would fire its GM, Coach, and all its assistant coach’s, as well as clean out as many players as possible, to allow the team a new start. It would than hire the best available talent to run the team at all cost. It would also do everything in its power in this economy with so many of its fan base struggling, keep game costs down.
What will the fucking NY JETS do? They will raise ticket prices to astronomical levels, charge insane licensing fees, and continue to put the same fucking shitfaced losers on the field year after year at higher prices.
I GIVE IN. THAT’S IT FOR ME. I HAVE BEEN PRICED AND PAINED OUT OF FOOTBALL.
What is frightening and scary to me, is that football has been perhaps my reliable and most enjoyable escape in an otherwise bitter life. How sad I really am! How little do I really want out of life, and even that I cannot get.
In astute pain I once more write to the only person who has, ever will, or ever did give a damn about me at least a little bit. Yes me of course. So dumb ass dick face you have been suckered once more!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Same Old Jets, unlucky, or just plain stupid?
As a life-long Jets fan, I feel this season is one of the most painful ever. That is a big statement for a franchise that has shown so much promise and lets its fans down each and every time since the 1960s. Before we analyze the current disaster of a team, we must put into perspective the Jets as an organization. This is a team that has won the AFC Eastern division twice, once with a 9-7 record. Even with a five-team AFC East division until 2000, they should have won 9 or 10 times. In 38 years, the Jets have never finished first in the AFC, and have finished 2nd only once, in 1998.
The Jets however, unlike many loser franchises, have had numerous teams that looked on paper to be super bowl contenders. These would include the 1981 team that blew numerous games before losing at home to Buffalo in the wild card playoff round, the 1982 team that was cheated in Miami in the mud bowl, the 1986 team that started out at 10-1 and then lost one of the worst playoff losses in history after a ridiculous rash of injuries. The 1998 team, which was the only well-coached team in this 38 year time period, turned the ball over in Denver 7 times to lose, the 1999 team lost when Vinny went out for the year in the first half of game 1, and the 2003 team blew a game in Pittsburgh by missing two very makeable filed goals (a conservative coaching error, not a player error) which would have brought them to the AFC championship game.
Now for this year's team: This team went out and acquired a hall of fame QB who can still play, a top Offensive line, and several excellent defensive players to comprise a real solid roster; they started slow and looked incoherent. Then the team got hot, and looked like a threat to win the AFC.
Now back to the present: unfortunately the Jets defensive coaching staff has yet to figure out how to play a 3-4 defense. In fact what the Jets play is a 3-8 defense, routinely lining up outside Lb on WR and leaving almost anyone out of the back field completly uncovered. When a team rushes three players in the NFL, even if all three wore capes on their backs, this guarantees little to no pressure. Even horrible QBs in many high schools can pick apart a defense this way. This team sucks. The following steps urgently need to be made to turn this team super next season.
1. Brett Favre should not retire. To keep him in place please see 2-5 below.
2. Fire Mangini and all defensive coaches today.
3. Hire Belichick at all costs. Tamper, cheat, offer him millions, do whatever. He is obviously obsessed with NY anyway.
4. Draft and acquire WR play makers.
5. Sign a free agent CB, there are enough bad guys out there. Take a one year flier on one of them.
There are an unlimited number of potential loser Jets fans who will continue to fund the team. However, if this franchise does not see it as an absolute emergency to produce a consistent winner at all costs, I, and hopefully tens of thousands of other longtime suffering Jets fans, will come to their senses and follow this team from afar if at all.
The Jets however, unlike many loser franchises, have had numerous teams that looked on paper to be super bowl contenders. These would include the 1981 team that blew numerous games before losing at home to Buffalo in the wild card playoff round, the 1982 team that was cheated in Miami in the mud bowl, the 1986 team that started out at 10-1 and then lost one of the worst playoff losses in history after a ridiculous rash of injuries. The 1998 team, which was the only well-coached team in this 38 year time period, turned the ball over in Denver 7 times to lose, the 1999 team lost when Vinny went out for the year in the first half of game 1, and the 2003 team blew a game in Pittsburgh by missing two very makeable filed goals (a conservative coaching error, not a player error) which would have brought them to the AFC championship game.
Now for this year's team: This team went out and acquired a hall of fame QB who can still play, a top Offensive line, and several excellent defensive players to comprise a real solid roster; they started slow and looked incoherent. Then the team got hot, and looked like a threat to win the AFC.
Now back to the present: unfortunately the Jets defensive coaching staff has yet to figure out how to play a 3-4 defense. In fact what the Jets play is a 3-8 defense, routinely lining up outside Lb on WR and leaving almost anyone out of the back field completly uncovered. When a team rushes three players in the NFL, even if all three wore capes on their backs, this guarantees little to no pressure. Even horrible QBs in many high schools can pick apart a defense this way. This team sucks. The following steps urgently need to be made to turn this team super next season.
1. Brett Favre should not retire. To keep him in place please see 2-5 below.
2. Fire Mangini and all defensive coaches today.
3. Hire Belichick at all costs. Tamper, cheat, offer him millions, do whatever. He is obviously obsessed with NY anyway.
4. Draft and acquire WR play makers.
5. Sign a free agent CB, there are enough bad guys out there. Take a one year flier on one of them.
There are an unlimited number of potential loser Jets fans who will continue to fund the team. However, if this franchise does not see it as an absolute emergency to produce a consistent winner at all costs, I, and hopefully tens of thousands of other longtime suffering Jets fans, will come to their senses and follow this team from afar if at all.
Monday, November 17, 2008
MNF AKA comedy night NFL style
I had no intention of blogging about the Browns vs. Bills game as my only rooting interest was for a Bills loss to further the Jets position in the AFC East. But this game was special.
The Jets coaching staff has been bugging me all season by playing scared to lose instead of to win. The Bills and Browns game tonight was such a comedy of coaching and player errors, it will be hard for me to ever bitch about the Jets again.
Memo to Browns defense: in football it’s legal to tackle the running back. Okay, the Broncos can’t stop the run either but they are tiny by NFL standards. The Browns’ front three are Corey Williams (6'4", 320lbs), Shaun Rogers (6'4”, 350lbs, although his mama must be weighing him, because he is at least 450), and Shaun Smith (6'2", 325lbs). None of these guys are small by horse stable standards. How the Bills, who have had one of the most anemic running games in all the NFL, were able to get well over 100 yards after initial contact is mindboggling.
Now for the fun stuff: idiotic play calling all game long by the Browns. Hey fat coach, Jamal Lewes can’t run anymore. LT’s mom can outrun him in her Chunky soup commercials. How many 1 yard plows do you need to see!
The Bills have no clue how to run screens. It’s almost comical. No faking the defense, just look at the RB all the way. And since the Browns can’t tackle anyway, the screens worked out okay.
Let’s get to late in the game, which by the middle of the forth quarter had already solidified itself as one of the worst coached games in professional team sports history. Then the fun starts. Cleveland kicks a go ahead field goal with 1:43 left in the game. Playing petrified of getting beat on a kickoff return, (another was returned for a touchdown earlier in the game by the Bills) Browns coach (for the next six games anyway) Romeo Cornell, in spite of being up by less than one field goal, elects to pooch kick with a gale force wind at his back, virtually assuring the Bills no worse than their own 40 yard line as a starting position. With 1:39 left and the ball on the Buffalo 44 (35 yards from a sure loss), the Browns then play prevent defense, which is intended to exchange approximately a yard per second of game time. You do the math. You can’t make this up! Yes, real NFL nationally televised football. And it gets worse.
Naturally, Buffalo gets a T. Edwards pass deep up the middle of the wide open prevent defense to R.Royal to the CLE 34 for 22 yards. Close to field goal range but kicking into a 20-30 MPH wind, the Bills totally brain lock and start running the ball to position for a field goal. The Browns, not to be outdone, and refusing to look a gift horse in the mouth, start calling timeouts to preserve the clock should the Bills score (like if the Bills do get a first down, the Browns think they have 50 more timeouts?) Instead of using the Browns’ timeout to rethink running the ball into all eleven waiting Brown defenders, the Bills run the ball up the middle twice more, with the Browns complying and calling timeouts again after both plays. Again instead of rethinking what they were about to do, the Bills attempt a 47-yard field goal into gale force winds to try to win the game.
Rumors have it the league is investigating how Herm Edwards ended up coaching both these moronic teams in the last two minutes of the game. Surprise: the field goal just missed wide right by ten yards or so and short by twenty yards or so. The kick was so far off half the fans were heading to the exits before the kick landed!
This is only a tiny sample of the complete and utter nonsense this football game was.
These guys have jobs in the NFL? Are you kidding me? Someone please collect all copies of this tape and burn them! Many NFL teams give IQ test to prospective draft choices. I think it's about time NFL teams did the same for the head and ass-ist-ant coaches!
The Jets coaching staff has been bugging me all season by playing scared to lose instead of to win. The Bills and Browns game tonight was such a comedy of coaching and player errors, it will be hard for me to ever bitch about the Jets again.
Memo to Browns defense: in football it’s legal to tackle the running back. Okay, the Broncos can’t stop the run either but they are tiny by NFL standards. The Browns’ front three are Corey Williams (6'4", 320lbs), Shaun Rogers (6'4”, 350lbs, although his mama must be weighing him, because he is at least 450), and Shaun Smith (6'2", 325lbs). None of these guys are small by horse stable standards. How the Bills, who have had one of the most anemic running games in all the NFL, were able to get well over 100 yards after initial contact is mindboggling.
Now for the fun stuff: idiotic play calling all game long by the Browns. Hey fat coach, Jamal Lewes can’t run anymore. LT’s mom can outrun him in her Chunky soup commercials. How many 1 yard plows do you need to see!
The Bills have no clue how to run screens. It’s almost comical. No faking the defense, just look at the RB all the way. And since the Browns can’t tackle anyway, the screens worked out okay.
Let’s get to late in the game, which by the middle of the forth quarter had already solidified itself as one of the worst coached games in professional team sports history. Then the fun starts. Cleveland kicks a go ahead field goal with 1:43 left in the game. Playing petrified of getting beat on a kickoff return, (another was returned for a touchdown earlier in the game by the Bills) Browns coach (for the next six games anyway) Romeo Cornell, in spite of being up by less than one field goal, elects to pooch kick with a gale force wind at his back, virtually assuring the Bills no worse than their own 40 yard line as a starting position. With 1:39 left and the ball on the Buffalo 44 (35 yards from a sure loss), the Browns then play prevent defense, which is intended to exchange approximately a yard per second of game time. You do the math. You can’t make this up! Yes, real NFL nationally televised football. And it gets worse.
Naturally, Buffalo gets a T. Edwards pass deep up the middle of the wide open prevent defense to R.Royal to the CLE 34 for 22 yards. Close to field goal range but kicking into a 20-30 MPH wind, the Bills totally brain lock and start running the ball to position for a field goal. The Browns, not to be outdone, and refusing to look a gift horse in the mouth, start calling timeouts to preserve the clock should the Bills score (like if the Bills do get a first down, the Browns think they have 50 more timeouts?) Instead of using the Browns’ timeout to rethink running the ball into all eleven waiting Brown defenders, the Bills run the ball up the middle twice more, with the Browns complying and calling timeouts again after both plays. Again instead of rethinking what they were about to do, the Bills attempt a 47-yard field goal into gale force winds to try to win the game.
Rumors have it the league is investigating how Herm Edwards ended up coaching both these moronic teams in the last two minutes of the game. Surprise: the field goal just missed wide right by ten yards or so and short by twenty yards or so. The kick was so far off half the fans were heading to the exits before the kick landed!
This is only a tiny sample of the complete and utter nonsense this football game was.
These guys have jobs in the NFL? Are you kidding me? Someone please collect all copies of this tape and burn them! Many NFL teams give IQ test to prospective draft choices. I think it's about time NFL teams did the same for the head and ass-ist-ant coaches!
Thursday, November 13, 2008
NY JETS 2008 season defined later tonight!
New England Patriots versus New York Jets football game.
The significance of this game cannot be overstated for either organization. Both franchises enter the game with six wins and three losses in the AFC Eastern division and are tied for first place.
The patriots have had an injury plagued season, with star quarterback and reigning league MVP Tom Brady going down for the season in the opening game. This past week the patriots have lost their best, and one of the leagues premier defensive players, in Adalius Thomas. In spite of this, the remarkable Patriots have competed weekly, and have in recent weeks been improving steadily, and are now once more considered serious contenders to win the AFC's Eastern division and perhaps to receive a bye in the opening round of this year's playoffs. The patriots schedule consists of home games with the Jets the Steelers and the Cardinals, and road games versus the Dolphins, Seahawks, Raiders, and Bills. The Patriots are considered favorites to easily handle the Seahawks and Raiders and have a very good chance of beating either the Dolphins or the bills. Their home games are considerably more difficult, but they are likely to be “Vegas” favorites to win those games as well. Considering the Patriots’ schedule, it is extremely likely that they will end the season with between 10 and 12 wins this season. If they beat the Jets they will have beaten them twice this season and have the tiebreaker against the Jets. If they then beat the Dolphins in Miami later this season, they will more than likely win tiebreakers against all AFC East opponents, thusly winning the AFC East with as few as 10 wins and almost for certain with 11.
The NY Jets signed many big name free agents during the offseason. These include three new offensive linemen and three defense players on the front seven, including Mr. Jenkins. Several acquired players are former Proball players. In addition, the Jets traded for Brett Favre, the former Green Bay Packer and future Hall of Fame quarterback. The Jets began the season slowly and disappointingly, at times looking like they were terribly coordinated and not prepared to play. This was no more apparent than during the week two loss at home vs. the New England Patriots with a score of 19 to 10. As the season has gone on, however, the Jets have shown some improvement. During the last two weeks the Jets have looked like a super football team with a huge divisional road win against the Buffalo Bills by 26 to 17, and a home blowout by 47 to 3 over the lowly St. Louis Rams. It should be noted that two weeks earlier the Patriots struggled to beat the Rams at home, eventually winning a hard fought game 23 to 16.
The New York Jets have home games versus the Denver Broncos, Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins left on their schedule. The Jets’ road games are tonight at the New England Patriots, next Monday night at the undefeated Tennessee Titans as well as December games at San Francisco and Seattle. San Francisco and Seattle are both weak teams whom the Jets should handle with relative ease. Denver, Buffalo, and Miami are decent teams but once again teams the Jets should be able to beat from home.
Should the Jets lose to the Patriots tonight they will have to win two more games than do the Patriots during the rest of the season in order to win the Eastern division. This means that if the Patriots were to win 11 games this season, the Jets would need to win 12, requiring them to win all their remaining games. Should the Jets win tonight's game, they will have the best record against AFC Eastern division teams, with the remaining two games against the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins to be played at home in Giants Stadium. It is entirely likely that if the Jets win tonight’s match up, the Jets will win the AFC East with as few as 10 wins this season due to having the tiebreakers with all AFC East opponents. (If the Patriots lose tonight it then becomes more likely with their schedule that they will not win more than 10 games this season). Furthermore, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens, both of whom are tied and leading the AFC North division with 6-3 records, have a very difficult schedules remaining for the last seven games of the season. It is most unlikely that either of those teams will be able to do any better than win four out of the remaining seven games. This would mean that 11 wins will in all likelihood get either the Jets or the Patriots the second seed in the AFC and the bye week that comes along with the second seed.
The importance of tonight's ballgame cannot be overstated for either the New York Jets or the New England Patriots. For the New York Jets it is essential and imperative that they win this football game for this season to end successfully. This game alone can propel the New York Jets from a possible wild-card team to a division winner with a possible bye in the coming playoffs.
The game itself should be a hard hitting and low-scoring event with both teams attempting to control the ball as much as possible. The New York Jets are entering this game somewhat healthier and should have an advantage, with its ever-improving offensive line, and recently dominant defense against a rookie quarterback. However, any game involving the New England Patriots, and it’s genius head coach Bill Belichick, has an equalizing factor. Belichick has been the master of game plans devised to make even the most steady quarterback throw interceptions and to take a quarterback out of his rhythm, thereby greatly reducing this quarterback's ability to put up big points. From a Patriot’s point of view the main concern would be that the Jets offensive line is capable of taking control of this game, which could tire out the Patriot’s very strong but older front seven on defense when matched up with the Jets behemoth offensive line. Additionally the Jets defense has been far more aggressive of late and it is on a weekly basis creating turnovers that have been resulting in defensive touchdowns. This combined with the Jets ability to stop the run would appear to present a situation in which the New England Patriots will be forced to throw the ball up the field. The New England Patriots coaching staff has made every effort to avoid having inexperienced Matt Cassell take chances with the football since he has taken over for the venerable Tom Brady. The Jets main concern in this ballgame will be covering Randy Moss and not giving a big touchdown, as well as a very real concern that Brett Favre, who is extremely susceptible big mistakes, will throw one or more interceptions that can be returned for touchdowns.
It is my opinion, that this football game is the New York Jets game to lose. Should they play a clean and aggressive game on both offense and defense, the game could be one-sided with the Jets winning by ten points or more. This is somewhat unlikely, but as a big Jets fan, I am hopeful.
Football scores are impossible to predict but ill take a shot: Jets 24, Patriots 21.
The significance of this game cannot be overstated for either organization. Both franchises enter the game with six wins and three losses in the AFC Eastern division and are tied for first place.
The patriots have had an injury plagued season, with star quarterback and reigning league MVP Tom Brady going down for the season in the opening game. This past week the patriots have lost their best, and one of the leagues premier defensive players, in Adalius Thomas. In spite of this, the remarkable Patriots have competed weekly, and have in recent weeks been improving steadily, and are now once more considered serious contenders to win the AFC's Eastern division and perhaps to receive a bye in the opening round of this year's playoffs. The patriots schedule consists of home games with the Jets the Steelers and the Cardinals, and road games versus the Dolphins, Seahawks, Raiders, and Bills. The Patriots are considered favorites to easily handle the Seahawks and Raiders and have a very good chance of beating either the Dolphins or the bills. Their home games are considerably more difficult, but they are likely to be “Vegas” favorites to win those games as well. Considering the Patriots’ schedule, it is extremely likely that they will end the season with between 10 and 12 wins this season. If they beat the Jets they will have beaten them twice this season and have the tiebreaker against the Jets. If they then beat the Dolphins in Miami later this season, they will more than likely win tiebreakers against all AFC East opponents, thusly winning the AFC East with as few as 10 wins and almost for certain with 11.
The NY Jets signed many big name free agents during the offseason. These include three new offensive linemen and three defense players on the front seven, including Mr. Jenkins. Several acquired players are former Proball players. In addition, the Jets traded for Brett Favre, the former Green Bay Packer and future Hall of Fame quarterback. The Jets began the season slowly and disappointingly, at times looking like they were terribly coordinated and not prepared to play. This was no more apparent than during the week two loss at home vs. the New England Patriots with a score of 19 to 10. As the season has gone on, however, the Jets have shown some improvement. During the last two weeks the Jets have looked like a super football team with a huge divisional road win against the Buffalo Bills by 26 to 17, and a home blowout by 47 to 3 over the lowly St. Louis Rams. It should be noted that two weeks earlier the Patriots struggled to beat the Rams at home, eventually winning a hard fought game 23 to 16.
The New York Jets have home games versus the Denver Broncos, Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins left on their schedule. The Jets’ road games are tonight at the New England Patriots, next Monday night at the undefeated Tennessee Titans as well as December games at San Francisco and Seattle. San Francisco and Seattle are both weak teams whom the Jets should handle with relative ease. Denver, Buffalo, and Miami are decent teams but once again teams the Jets should be able to beat from home.
Should the Jets lose to the Patriots tonight they will have to win two more games than do the Patriots during the rest of the season in order to win the Eastern division. This means that if the Patriots were to win 11 games this season, the Jets would need to win 12, requiring them to win all their remaining games. Should the Jets win tonight's game, they will have the best record against AFC Eastern division teams, with the remaining two games against the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins to be played at home in Giants Stadium. It is entirely likely that if the Jets win tonight’s match up, the Jets will win the AFC East with as few as 10 wins this season due to having the tiebreakers with all AFC East opponents. (If the Patriots lose tonight it then becomes more likely with their schedule that they will not win more than 10 games this season). Furthermore, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens, both of whom are tied and leading the AFC North division with 6-3 records, have a very difficult schedules remaining for the last seven games of the season. It is most unlikely that either of those teams will be able to do any better than win four out of the remaining seven games. This would mean that 11 wins will in all likelihood get either the Jets or the Patriots the second seed in the AFC and the bye week that comes along with the second seed.
The importance of tonight's ballgame cannot be overstated for either the New York Jets or the New England Patriots. For the New York Jets it is essential and imperative that they win this football game for this season to end successfully. This game alone can propel the New York Jets from a possible wild-card team to a division winner with a possible bye in the coming playoffs.
The game itself should be a hard hitting and low-scoring event with both teams attempting to control the ball as much as possible. The New York Jets are entering this game somewhat healthier and should have an advantage, with its ever-improving offensive line, and recently dominant defense against a rookie quarterback. However, any game involving the New England Patriots, and it’s genius head coach Bill Belichick, has an equalizing factor. Belichick has been the master of game plans devised to make even the most steady quarterback throw interceptions and to take a quarterback out of his rhythm, thereby greatly reducing this quarterback's ability to put up big points. From a Patriot’s point of view the main concern would be that the Jets offensive line is capable of taking control of this game, which could tire out the Patriot’s very strong but older front seven on defense when matched up with the Jets behemoth offensive line. Additionally the Jets defense has been far more aggressive of late and it is on a weekly basis creating turnovers that have been resulting in defensive touchdowns. This combined with the Jets ability to stop the run would appear to present a situation in which the New England Patriots will be forced to throw the ball up the field. The New England Patriots coaching staff has made every effort to avoid having inexperienced Matt Cassell take chances with the football since he has taken over for the venerable Tom Brady. The Jets main concern in this ballgame will be covering Randy Moss and not giving a big touchdown, as well as a very real concern that Brett Favre, who is extremely susceptible big mistakes, will throw one or more interceptions that can be returned for touchdowns.
It is my opinion, that this football game is the New York Jets game to lose. Should they play a clean and aggressive game on both offense and defense, the game could be one-sided with the Jets winning by ten points or more. This is somewhat unlikely, but as a big Jets fan, I am hopeful.
Football scores are impossible to predict but ill take a shot: Jets 24, Patriots 21.
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