averywhitehall
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pEOPLE HARP ON THE JETS BECAUSE WITH ALL THAT TALENT they have signed they only manage to be barley beaten sub 500 teams.
Teams get amped to play the Jets this season, maybe even more than the Patriots, because of all the yap yap yapping they do. The Jets have been the NFL's most talked about team this past year. Think about it like this: They were on Hard Knocks. They have a boisterous head coach who guaranteed a Superbowl win. They had their all world CB engage in a nasty public holdout. They have 5 games in front of a national audience. They made the AFC Championship game last season. The Jets were talking like they were Superbowl champs and not the Saints. As a result, they are the biggest target of any team in the NFL..the most anticipated match-up. That's why it's hard for actual Superbowl champs to repeat.
The Jets get the maximum effort, the maximum game planning, the maximum everything from every NFL team they have played/will play this season. As a result, the blowout wins that people expect of this talented team just aren't happening. They just don't meet the intensity that those teams under .500 come out the gate with. A perfect example would be the generally slow starts the Jets have had this season versus those same teams. The only games the Jets have scored a touchdown in the first quarter were vs. the AFC East. Those were the teams they were highly motivated to play because Rex Ryan was driving it in their heads to win the division before worrying about anything else.
This is why...I think...the Jets have managed to only barely beat sub .500 teams.
Thank you for your time.