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Ya know... it really isn't that bad.
If this weren't the Jets Suck thread, I'd say: don't make me laugh.
Go ahead. Make me laugh!
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If this weren't the Jets Suck thread, I'd say: don't make me laugh.
Go ahead. Make me laugh!
The purest form of suckage is sustained mediocrity, at which the Green Beans have proven quite adept. They need to win from five to eight games. Right now, they appear on track for zero to four wins, which is extreme suckage.With McCown's banishment to NJ we have to wonder how their overall suckage will be affected. Does McCown suck enough to keep the Jests at the highest level of suckage?
Hey, they will win eight games. Over the next three years..The purest form of suckage is sustained mediocrity, at which the Green Beans have proven quite adept. They need to win from five to eight games. Right now, they appear on track for zero to four wins, which is extreme suckage.
If this weren't the Jets Suck thread, I'd say: don't make me laugh.
Go ahead. Make me laugh!
What -- giving up already? I thought this was your time of year for optimism.
There is nothing more optimistic than finally getting a QB.
So based on the above assessment, the Jets will not suck enough to get a top draft slot - and instead will continue to wallow in mediocrity indefinitely.
Bobby Layne's 1958 curse on the Detroit Lions will be broken before the Jets curse on the Jets ends.
@JetFan79 deserves some credit for his consistency and foresight of the Jets and their gaffes. He recognizes this is a QB driven league, so you are probably better off going 2-14 than 5-11 in hopes of landing a franchise QB. Not every year has produced a stud QB that was an obvious high pick, but some very high QB picks have changed the fortunes of franchises. Newton and Ryan played in the last two SBs. Stafford isn't bad. Even Bradford looked good before his injury. Luck would likely be at least a postseason regular if it weren't for that joke support system. Mariota is looking very good. He has been consistent in saying your are better off bottoming out then going after some real ****tease QBs who have a 50% chance of going .500 and a 0% chance of being a real contender, like Cutler or Fitzpatrick.
It may be difficult to respect teams tanking for better draft capital, but (a) the Colts did it and no one cares, and (b) in the NBA it is an openly popular strategy; even Danny Ainge was willing to tank on hopes of landing a superstar to build the team around.
The problem with the Jets is they seem dysfunctional in many areas. Their hope would be landing a sure-fire franchise quarterback and then have a top coach/GM get on board.
Ha, oh.
Well I didn't mean "exertise" in a good way. It was meant to mean he's skilled at getting his teams to be the worst in the league.
So based on the above assessment, the Jets will not suck enough to get a top draft slot - and instead will continue to wallow in mediocrity indefinitely.
Bobby Layne's 1958 curse on the Detroit Lions will be broken before the Jets curse on the Jets ends.
He has a $300 limit on his Discover card.@JetFan79 deserves some credit
No, I didn't "miss the point." He said McCown brings "expertise" to the quarterback position and that's where I disagreed with him.Indeed, Tunescribe missed the point. It was a great post.
No, I didn't "miss the point." He said McCown brings "expertise" to the quarterback position and that's where I disagreed with him.
ex·per·tise
ˌekspərˈtēz,ˌekspərˈtēs/
noun
noun: expertise
expert skill or knowledge in a particular field.
"technical expertise"
synonyms: skill, skillfulness, expertness, prowess, proficiency, competence.
This should go over well. LOL
This is the first year I'm accepting the possibility of tanking. It's a combination of being beaten into submission by decades of crap QBs, and the fact that next year's available QBs seem to be top notch. Unlike this year's draft.
Why spend years/decades fighting for mediocrity in a QB driven league w/o a QB? The Colts were smart. Time for the Jets to do the same.
If this was the 70s, 80s, or 90s? No way, don't tank. Build a great defense and running game.
Now though, it's all about QB. And with the rule changes, they can easily play into their 40s! Imagine getting Darnold. Think he'll be 20. That's 20 like years of having a good QB. You'd be set! Hell by then, the rules will probably even be more QB friendly.
Now you get flagged if a pinky grazes their helmet and you can tackle 'em hard. In 15 or 20 years, they will probably be wearing red jerseys and have to be gently held in order to sack them. Darnold could play into his 50s.
Yeah, I don't know about Darnold. Nothing specific against him. I've heard so many QBs being overhyped now one year before they are eligible for the draft. Every single year there is some enormously talented kid who is a sure fire Hall of Fame quarterback, until the next season when said player does not meet impossible expectations and then runs the gauntlet at the combine. He has thrown a grand total of 366 passes in his career. I'm telling you, there is no better quarterback in the history of the league than the one who not yet eligible to play in it. I remember talk about teams tanking for Jake Locker as the obvious best QB in a long time, and every year at about this time we hear about how next year's draft has a couple of no brainer top quarterbacks, as opposed to this one.
Not even "the great annointed one" Andrew Luck has come close to living up to his NFL projections...unless someone biased advanced analytics nerd/Luck apologist can really say with a straight face that through five years of his career, he is all they hoped him to be with a career passer rating of 87 and a completion percentage below 60.
I'm not saying you shouldn't draft the best rated quarterback (I've made the point above that it's the best way to go), just that there doesn't appear to be a sure thing anymore.