Fitzpatrick gets the Jets job
Well that was a hilarious story outta nowhere. Geno Smith out 6-10 weeks from a broken jaw after a teammate punched him? Yes. Good stuff. Comedy Gold. Rex Ryan picking up IK, the guy who punched him, after getting cut? Fantastic. Sure, IK played a year under Ryan already, so there are legitimate football reasons why IK and Rex would join up, but man, that is sweet revenge trolling isn’t it. I will never stop loving Rex Ryan. Anyway the fight was apparently over something like a bet and Geno taunted IK right before the punch. No one deserves to have their jaw broken, but it’s still pretty funny. Fitzmagic has the starting job now, and I can’t wait for the 2 games when he looks like an All-Pro and gets everyone in the fanbase excited before turning from Fitzmagic into Fitzputrid.
Also yes, I saw the Sexy Rexy news, I’m not going to touch that unless it actually happens. I hope it happens. I’d love to see Rex release the dragon to Brandon Marshall.
Now that I’m done with that I’d actually like to address something related. This is a comic about the Jets. In the 3+ years I’ve been mocking football for a living, I’ve received exponentially more hate from Jets fans as opposed to anyone else. More than Chargers fans for Ringless Rivers jokes. More than Pats fans for deflategate jokes. It’s honestly astounding the level of hate I get from the Jets fanbase compared to anyone else. I know I’m going to piss someone off with each comic, some people take their fandom far too personally so any joke made about their team from an opposing fan is automatically a horrible attack on them. I’ve never operated under that philosophy, I believe everything can and should be mocked. I’ve accepted that at least one person will consider me an unfunny dick for every comic I make. One person will take apart the joke with pointless nitpicking and facts, ignoring that it’s not supposed to be 100% accurate. But the Jets hate is kinda strange.
I would like to mention that I am certainly not talking about all Jets fans. Many are nice and I have pleasant interactions with lots of them, and plenty are capable of laughing at their team. It’s just a weird trend I’ve noticed. Even on twitter, any Jets crack is instantly flooded with hate in my mentions, where most team jokes get no hate at all.
If I think about reddit in particular, I get accused of bias all the time, that I hate the Jets. I don’t get it. At first I wondered if they were right and I looked back upon my Jets history. The Jets appear here slightly more frequently than average, but most of the gags are right on par with my usual humor, the only one I’d even consider above my normal level of mean was the Geno Suicide comic, which coincidentally also happens to be one of the most popular comics I ever published, and probably one of my better executed jokes in general. I do not hate the Jets. Yes, I am a Giants fan, but I am not from New York, nor do I live there. I was not forced at a young age to pick a side. I have no built in bias towards the Jets. In fact I probably like the Jets more than I hate them. They have one of my favorite uniform schemes, I’d much prefer them to win over the Patriots, and despite the comics about him, I loved the hell out of Rex Ryan. Lastly, I admire how passionate their fans get at games, most Giants games are boring old farts who think Brandon Jacobs is still on the team. Jets fans will get loud and boisterous with fury during games, Giants fans will tell you to shush.
One of the reasons I seem to get accused of bias is the large amount of jokes I made about the Jets back during the infamous Buttfumble season and immediately following offseason. Yeah, I made a bunch of comics about them. Because that whole thing was funny as hell. I’m sorry, it was. I was far, far from the only person cracking frequent jokes that year. I can understand being bitter about that season, but to hold grudges about jokes made during that era, well it’s just a waste of energy because all of us were cracking jokes. That’s too much grudge to hold onto.
So anyway, if you are a Jets fan, and you are convinced I hate your team, try to shake that idea out of your head. I’m not mocking you or your fandom, I’m mocking this silly game with people throwing egg shaped balls and giving each other brain damage, and your team sometimes does something silly that is worth laughing at.
Also if you are mad about the 7-9 joke, it’s a joke, but it’s also probably not that unreasonable a guess for a team in the surprisingly beefy looking AFC East with severe questions at QB, under a new coach and system, and the best player on defense out for 4 weeks. I think 10 wins the absolute ceiling here and that the Jets will probably be in faint wildcard contention for a few weeks but never quite get close enough to get it.
Just when you think the Jets can’t catch a break… Geno proves otherwise.
I quote “I should probably stop picking on the Jets so much” from that Geno suicide joke you mentioned… lol.
It is fun to pick on the Jets, as it is any other team really… All teams have can be mocked and I so much thank you for what you do Dave.
At the time I wrote that I was being harassed by a lot of Jets fans, so I wanted to throw them a bone. The Jets were also the first team I ever picked on slightly often because my first season doing this was their buttfumble year.
There are five kinds of Jets fans: The kind who know and accept the pain and misery that is being a Jets fan and laugh about it, the kind that know and accept the misery that is being a Jets fan and hate the world for it – those are the bitter schmucks bitching at you – the naive kind who actually think that Fitzpatrick will take them to the Superbowl, the ones born into a family of Jets fans(This includes the old-school folks who actually saw Namath’s guarantee), and the poor saps who’re from New York and chose Jets instead of Giants because it was one of the years the Jets were good or everyone they knew was a Giants fan and they wanted to be different, and regret every minute of it. (These folks are probably as likely as the bitter schmucks to be angry with you because you’re a Giants fan)
So in other words, the 5 types of Jets fan are: Browns fan, Raiders fan, Rams fan, Bears fan, and Titans fan, respectively?
Yep, that sounds about right.
While it’s highly unlikely Fitzpatrick is taking them to a Super Bowl, you can’t deny he’s done extremely well this season.
Geno Smith, just another victim of the Curse of Ryan Fitzpatrick. No one ever holds onto the starting QB job with Fitzpatrick on the roster. The Curse of Ryan Fitzpatrick is probably more consistent than the Madden Curse.
Here’s to hoping that the sex cannon is more than a camp arm.
Can we really be surprised that the Bills, with their recent predilection for recruiting dickhats, have grabbed Enemkpali off the wire? Is Incognito not enough of an asshole for ya, Unsexy Rexy? Or are you just pissed that we beat you to Suh?
Call me pessimistic, but I think Suh will be just like Albert Hanesworth. (Yes, I’m a fins fan)
I’m doubtful.
Suh’s problem has never been work ethic, but discipline, particularly as enabled by Schwartz for many years. I think the bigger worry is that Suh will eat one of the Refs on game day than that he’ll eat his way off the roster.
Suh is nothing like Haynesworth. Haynesworth just wanted to get paid, and when he did, he stopped caring. Suh on the other hand is intense and has an extreme love for the game. He took Jordan Phillips, the DT with motivation issues that Hickey drafted in the 2nd round, under his wing and the kid’s motor has not been a problem all off-season and into training camp. I hated the Suh signing at first, but if this is the kind of leadership he’s bringing to the team, I shan’t complain about it again.
I live a little farther north than Miami (Tampa), but if he can motivate and teach younger guys, them maybe he can convince Dion Jordan to get his head out of his ass.
Don’t worry, I hear that there will be an abandoned stadium in Week 3 where your precious Suh and Incognito can fight it out.
Fight. Pfft.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Suh is a phenomenal bellend and has to seriously prove otherwise at the Fins, but he’ll have Rick the Dick for breakfast.
It’s too bad the stadium will be empty.
Honestly, as a Bills fan I laughed so hard at the “sweet revenge trolling”. A friend imagined how the conversation went down.
Rex: Hey, Geno Smith cost me my job too!!! Want to come play for the Bills where you can pound him again twice a season?
IK: Hell yeah! &^&$ Geno!
Rex!: Amen. Now about those tweaks Bowles is doing…
Geno has a lot of character flaws and he needs to get it together. He hasn’t convinced those who look down on him to do otherwise yet.
The most interesting thing to me is that the Jets players allowed this to happen. Their starting quarterback got in a heated argument with some guy on the roster bubble and not of them one went to Enemkpali and told him not to mess with their guy. It tells us a lot about what the Jets locker room thinks of Geno.
I don’t think this is fair. There are fights and such in every single locker room. It’s inevitable in that sort of testosterone ego environment. We don’t know if anyone did say anything to defend Geno or IK, and I’m not going to assume Geno has no friends because of what little we know. It’s very likely the fight went down so fast that there was no time to defend anybody.
From what I read from Geno, and what I see, I’m not terribly high on him. He seems kinda arrogant. But I don’t think it’s fair to condemn him this much when we don’t know enough.
As I understand it (I haven’t followed real closely tbh) there was a dispute over a $600 plane ticket for a camp, and IK was known to be wound very tight about money. He got in Geno’s face about it, and Geno put his finger in IK’s face and told him, “You’re not going to do anything about it.” Then, IK did something about it…
All in all, it wasn’t so much a fight, just a single punch, which would be next to impossible for a teammate to stop. Maybe when the discussion gets heated you step in, but it’s not like this was a 4 minute MMA style brawl so it all could have happened in 10 seconds or less, and how do you stop that?
The thing is… he should have been tightly wound about money. A $600 plane ticket isn’t a big deal to Geno, but it is a lot of money to a reserve linebacker likely to be cut at the end of camp regardless.
I’m not justifying the punch, but for it to even be an issue in the first place does not reflect well on Geno. A good officer doesn’t gamble with his enlisted men unless he means to lose, because the alternative involves taking money away from subordinates who already earn less than you.
I wasn’t talking about friends. I was talking about Smith being (nominally) the most important player in the team and NO ONE thought to break up the argument before it got serious and he could get hurt. Players tend to get protective over their franchise cornerstones. Geno clearly isn’t viewed as one.
I see what you mean, but at the same time, if IK walks up, says “Geno, where is my money?” and Geno puts his finger in his face and says, “I’m not going to give it to you and you’re not going to do anything about it” and IK responds by punching him in the face, the whole exchange takes 5 seconds. Nobody could have stopped it. I don’t know the details, so I can’t really say how it happened, but it definitely sounds like it all happened very quickly so it might not be fair to say nobody would have stood up for Geno.
It’s ‘vested’ not ‘invested’. 🙂
For a second I thought that was a sad face.
Not a Jets fan, but “vested” means “secured in the possession of or assigned to a person,” while “invested” means “expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial schemes, shares, or property, or by using it to develop a commercial venture.” In other words, church officials have power “vested” or “secured in the possesion of” themselves to grant marriages, so clearly you made that mistake on purpose because of your relentlessly vitriolic and poisonous bias against the Jets, you hack. (just kidding)
A Ryan Fitzpatrick comic with no mention of Harvard? Is that… is that legal?