The Jets Become the Tank
Man, what has been happening to the Jets? Two years ago they were contending for the playoffs. They had a great WR group, a stellar young defense, and what appeared to be a good coach. They needed to fill a few holes (namely QB), but the Jets seemed primed to actually finally return to relevance. Then…well I don’t really know what happened.
I’ll admit I don’t follow the Jets real closely. Since Rex left the public circus kinda died down and the Jets have kinda gone back to moderate media attention, which is still a lot but I don’t live in NY so I don’t see most of it. If a Jets fan could give a more detailed breakdown of why everything has fallen apart in the comments, I’d appreciate it.
But before that, lets talk about how this season looks like it’s going to suck! re the Jets going to tank?
The Jets lost Fitz (good) and Geno (goodish?). They pulled in Josh McCown, who I think is probably about on par with Fitz. Christian Hackenberg and Bryce Petty are the other QBs, which rounds out possibly the worst QB situation in the league. They lost Marshall and dropped Decker, which means their already questionable WR group is now basically nothing, unless you have an ultra high-opinion of Quincy Enunwa. They still have a solid D, but it’s not incredible enough to save them like Houston’s was.
It feels like the Jets are going full tank. I have to wonder how Bowles feels about all this. Todd is probably a dead man walking at this point unless a miracle happens.
I’d buy the Collin Kaepernick Lego set, except just like his career, it falls apart for no reason.
What happened is the spoiled baby cried when you, the person who actually knows how to build legos, decided to focus on building the Lombardi trophy set instead of the Kaep set. You, tired of the crying, went back to your room to build the X-men set while your paste-eating cousin, the weird vegan kid from down the street, and the ‘genius’ (his mom and dad said he was just because they were) tried to pick up where you left off dealing with the baby, with paste kid and weird kid having no idea how to build either the trophy or the Kaep set and ‘genius’ kid throwing the Kaep set away.
And says awkward things your children shouldn’t repeat.
So funny and so very very true
BUY THE ARENA FOOTBALL LEGO SETS TODAY. Now without the instructions on how to build something that won’t break within 2 weeks, let alone the stuff that was shown on the commercials and were the Lego mascots for over 20 year (Orlando, San Jose, Zona) or the recent stuff that sold well, but we’re discontinued for dumb reasons (J’ville and Spokane). At least you have the orginal set (Tampa), the boring, but working set (Philly) and the set no one has ever cared about, but is still sold for some reason (Cleveland) along with the new, not good sets (Washington and Baltimore).
Here are the recaps for last week.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wHCAJ3ss6CE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_XtWA9L5zM
Next week’s recap(s) will go up early (here anyways; they’re up on YouTube usually within the first hour after the games ended) for a special reason you’ll see then.
The Jets are not really trying to take per-say, but more so tanking will just be a by-product. If you really look at the players they cut then its not really that much of a tank. Brandon Marshall: he had a career low, thats due to the bad quarterback play. We didn’t really want to release him, but he said he was too old to break in a new qb. So the Jets respected him and let him go. Revis Island: 109.8 QBR against him + criminal charge + too much money = cut. Nick Mangold: old and injured + too much money = cut. Eric Decker: Coming off an injury, there are several new WRs, a white receiver not on the Pats, so the jets cut him. David Harris: IDK. The Jets drafted a MLB last year. They drafted two safeties to help the secondary. They have a good back up to replace mangold. Enuwa is good, and they drafted four wide receivers. So if they tank and get Sam “baby Ryan Fitzpatrick” Darnold or Lamar “Im sorry Ms” Jackson. So I wouldn’t say its a direct tank but if they have a tank oh well.
Also Fitzpatrick sucks
“per-se” Borrowing from Latin per se (“by itself”), from per (“by, through”) and se (“itself, himself, herself, themselves”).
also fitzpatrick sucks
This is as an outside observer, as a Bills fan who watched the situation over the last few years. In the last years of Rex, the Jets were in serious cap trouble, so they brought in John Idzik, who immediately began trimming the roster of vets, and brought in a lot of busts in his draft picks. With the notable exception of Sheldon Richardson, he was part of the group that brought in Calvin Pryor, Dee Milliner, Jace Amaro, Jalen Saunders, and of course, Geno Smith.
When Rex was fired, Idzik went with him. McManahon came in and got Bowles, who went out to fix the secondary by bringing back Revis on a huge money deal, and Antonio Cromartie on a pretty big deal too and trading for Brandon Marshall who was in the highest years of his salary on that contract.
In 2015 with a fresh scheme on defense, and a vastly improved secondary, Bowles scheme worked. Chan Gailey went back to the year where his offense worked best (2011 Bills) with the same QB he did it with. He had a lot of spread sets with plenty of short passes with extra YAC. Fitz, for all his problems, never hesitates in gunslinging it, and with a quality defense helping his shortcomings, he had his best year of his career.
However, in 2016, the Jets were really tight up against the cap. Fitz wanted to cash in on what might have been the last year of his career, and they played hard ball with him. To get him cheap, they rolled over the rest of his contract to 2017. To fit a lot of the bigger contracts, they began cutting some of the vets again and let Damon Harrison walk.
Jets fans might be able to tell what happened better, but Ryan Fitzpatrick dramatically went back to the norm. Revis slowed down with age. People had more film on the Gailey/Fitz 5 wide sets.
In the aftermath, they had a lot of bad contracts, including one in Fitz that they had never meant to honor anyway, so they’ve been blowing things up this year.
J-E-T-S SUCK SUCK SUCK
They’re ON TRACK for a RETREAD!
Mike Smith, Jeff Fisher, Marvin Lewis, Mike McCoy, Josh McDaniels, Jim Schwartz, or Rex Ryan; take your pick Jets fans (‘honor’ will be awarded to name booed the loudest)
ooh! why not ALL OF THEM? HC-by-commitee
Switch the T and S on the Jets and you’d get the same thing.
Been done before.
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Why did I have to choose this team to support.
We went from one of the oldest teams in the league, to not having anybody left. If this is a tank job, I doubt McCaggnan or Bowles will survive it.
In that division, the Jets front office realized the only path to relevance was to the top of the draft order. They looked at the potential of the Browns draft haul and thought it looked good. I don’t know. Honestly, it’s baffling. Even the moves that Cleveland has made in recent years don’t seem quite this bad and/or unusual.
Watch the Jets start 4-2/5-1 with McCown, trade their 1st rounder for Garrapalo after McCown goes down, Finish 4-12/5-11, and then New England trades the 2018 #3 overall pick for J.J. Watt after Watson turns out to be worse than Brock Lobster
how did he know what to build without any instructions
So, after the disastrous Idzik era ended in 2015 and we hired Maccagnan and Bowles, the new regime went into a kind of “competitive rebuild,” giving our massive cap space away to resign Revis, David Harris, and Wilkerson and bring in guys like Buster Skrine, Marcus Gilchrist, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Brandon Marshall, etc etc. The idea was to revamp the team through free agency and have success right away. It worked for the 2015 season, taking us to 10-6 and very nearly a playoff spot, our first winning season since the second AFC championship year under Rex. In 2016, however, all the danger that that plan represented came true. Revis played like garbage, $12 million dollar man Fitz was absolute trash, Gilchrist got hurt, Skrine didn’t play well, D’Brickashaw retired, Geno Smith was bad, Matt Forte didn’t measure up, Sheldon Richardson started acting up, we couldn’t rush the quarterback, our young guys were hurt (devin smith) or bad (calvin pryor), all that money we spent became a cap burden, and it was generally a dumpster fire. This offseason, Maccagnan essentially started the rebuild that arguably should have happened two summers ago, and got rid of all our vets (Harris, Mangold, Decker). We have two bad young QBs that have a chance of being decent, Christian Hackenberg and Bryce Petty, some decent young defenders, like Leonard Williams, and a few ok performers on the offensive line. This is a year for getting a high pick for a quarterback and figuring out who can really play going forward. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised to see this regime stick around after this season. There’s a chance that Woody wants to be patient and let them build a new team in their image, but I’d bet on a firing in January and a fresh start going forward. Also, our long snapper is the only player left from the AFC championship teams.
Tanking is really hard in the NFL. The Browns almost managed to screw it up last year, but got bailed out by the 49ers. That said, the Jets do appear to be doing it the way that works best. The coaches and players will never get on board with the tank, so you have to cut every veteran that’s not going to help you long term and stock up on rookies so the coaches can have the players play hard while still losing.