Wisconsin ran a pro-style, run-first offense. Not a pro-style offense like USC. WV runs a Airraid offense that allows the quarterback to make adjustments and respond to the defense. It gives them the freedom to read defense at the line, and just to get out of bad plays but also to find the right ones. People said the same thing about Aaron Rodgers’s when he was drafted on how he handled himself. I remember him saying that he still thought he was the best quarterback in that draft when they interviewed him. I guess no one could argue that point anymore. I think they drafted him to compete for the starting job. Anyways, time will tell if he'll be the starter for the Jets this year.
I think the last 2 links to the "Circus Era" are Tebow and Rex. Once they are gone, the media will move on to something new.
Good post. Thinking about Bradway, a lot of people lauded him for two seasons for his aggressive negotiations and player acquisition philosophy. I tried to stay neutral about it, but I did see some people here criticize the short-signed approach he took. Now we have a guy who might be the pillar opposite of Bradway, our he might be a balanced type of guy. Hard to tell at this point. I think my main problem with the hiring is Idzik is the same problem that I have with the Jets as a whole for the entire Woody Johnson era. They hire these guys for very important roles, and almost never allow them to assemble their own staff. How many FO guys have we heard that Idzik hired? The entire scout team stayed intact. How many offensive assistants has Morninweg brought in? This is the most disturbing trend I have seen with this team, and the only common factor in all of those years is Woody Johnson. And maybe some back room braintrust or secret advisor type of situation. They never show any trust in the men they hire to do these jobs.
I know what you are saying, but the media looks at Sanchez as pathetic right now. As long s Rex is here, his mouth, his empty guarantees and stupid tattoos will always mean the circus is in town whether we like it or not. (by that, I mean as far as press and media go)
Its not just the tv and radio media, everyone (even the public) on twitter constantly calls us a joke team and crap team or a bunch of fools,. It got so bad i quit reading Twitter and no I pretty much just read here or watch netflix movies when I go online
It's a circus only in the mind of the shitty media that licks some teams ass no matter what. I'm amazed for example that A Reed does not seem to do ever anything wrong, even though his drafting and free agency deals were dismal, or BB, who has pissed away more picks than anyone. What pisses me off more than the media is the sorry ass Wanna be Jet fans that continue to perpetrate this crap at the first sign of a media comment.
To me it is more on all the fodder this organization gives them. I mean butt fumble heard round the world was really the single worst moment in Jets history. We have been digging our way out but the only way to do that is WIN.
do you even know anything about the offense Geno ran he had about 3 or 4 options within every play depending on how the defense was playing them and had to make that read and had 100% control of the play but again if you listen to the biased journalists and analysts we would only think he ran a simple offense Geno made plays to win games which were get Tavon and Stedman the ball, he was doing what was best for his team not trying to showcase NFL potential. He's also showed flashed of making the difficult throws all based of timing and touch and will only get better as his career goes along because he's a hardworking kid, determined and intelligent. His favorite player is Aaron Rodgers and who better than to watch and emulate. We got a football loving, film junkie, potential packed Quarterback fuck whoever hates the pick
You just no figured that out... it is the most aggeravating thing about being a jet fan... we get based 24/7 i just wanna punch the fuck outta all of them
The media rips us for picking him, and well they should, this is a circus and Geno is the new act, the new main attraction. The new way for Woody to fill the seats. It hurts more because deep down you know they are right. In case no one has said it yet, let me be the first. Geno Smith will be a BUST! I applaud the Giants on grabbing Nassib in the 4th round. As a Cuse fan I was hoping we would get him in the mid rounds, but Philly passed and we jumped on Geno. Philly didn't want him anyways, they got the QB they wanted. We were the only team interested, we got played.
If any other team would have picked him it would have been a great pick, then we wouldn't have been able to draft him. Horrible pick, it being the Jets makes it much worse.
I remember posting about this before, but I'll restate it again... There are multiple reasons why we get shit on. 1) Not a one team town. Usually the local papers have to placate to the fanbase because they are the customers, so some of the negative stories get hidden. But having the Giants in town hurts us because not only does this eliminate the need for beat writers to be somewhat positive about us, we look terrible against them in comparison. Also, as with any rivalry that's formed, Giants fans will drive up revenues because they would love to hear about the Jets demise. And it works in many ways. How many of you go and read articles about something bad about the Pats? How many of you check out Pat's blogs when they get eliminated? Misery always loves company. Same with the Yankees-Mets as well. Knicks-Nets as well. Rangers-Islanders. This in itself is unique, since there aren't a ton of two team states, let alone ones that actually share the buildings. 2) Media bias. We just covered why the local beat writers can go nuts on the Jets. Now the national media. Where is the National Media? Boston? I'm pretty sure we know why media from there would go out of their way to bash the Jets. Washington? Rex connection there, when Rex made a big deal of being passed over for the Ravens job. Miami? Another Jets rival. The Eastern seaboard has 4 major media centers, and each one of them have an incentive to bash the Jets. Then we have the drama queens in the west coast that only really care about the ratings and jumping on the bandwagon. 3. People hate NY in general. There is a perceived aura of brashness, unfriendly people inhabiting NY/NJ (Helped by stupid reality shows) so there is a general dislike for NY anyway, so anything associated with it is going to get swept up in the hate flood as well. Look at how many people hate the Yankees, even with all of their success. 4. Nothing sells sports papers like ridicule. And when you can get united in ridicule, it sells even better. This is more about marketing. If you can create story lines because of preconceived notions of futility about a team, then every time the team struggles, both you and the reader feel smarter, because you "recognized" it early. It's the same phenomenon in fantasy drafts, where people love picking sleepers and fallers. 5. The Jets were brash. Ryan was brash. We made a brand out of it. We wanted attention. We got the attention, both by the brashness and by winning. Unfortunately the tide turned, and we have to deal with the downside as well. 6. We deserve some of this, not all of it is unwarranted. The Sanchez extension was a debacle. He never deserved the money he was getting and what we should have done is the same things TB is doing with Freeman right now. Draft a young QB with potential, that will sit for one year. And give your incumbent QB, the chance to sink or swim. Instead, we babied and coddled Sanchez as much as possible. We put a very good team around him in his developmental stage, with the belief that once he's developed, he'd be able to cover for the lack of talent around him, but he never developed. Signing a WR two weeks after he publicly insulted your front office? Not the greatest PR move. 7. Tebow. Here's a lesson to learn. When a team goes to the playoffs, gets talked about on national TV constantly, has high ratings, wins a playoff game in amazing fashion, with possibly the most popular QB in the game..................and they can't WAIT to get rid of him.........SOMETHING IS WRONG. Tebow was generating money for the Broncos left and right. He was winning, and they traded him for a 3 round downgrade from what they acquired him for in the first place. That was one of the worst moves you could make. Something that was pre-fabricated to blow up in our faces. And it did. If you combine all this, it's not wonder why we get ragged on. And it's not going to stop if we fire Rex (unless we hire someone like Cowher- and even then we'll have to deal with the "He's here to clean up the circus" BS for a year or two). It only stops if we win. Geno Smith is the perfect example. Half the nitwits were talking about TRADING UP in the first round to get Geno Smith, and how so many teams need QBs and how valuable they are. Let me ask you. Would you deal Geno Smith for Alex Smith? I certainly wouldn't. Yet, you hear nary a peep about the Alex Smith deal after the initial talk about it. Best solution. Shun the negative media as much as possible. Not because it's going to drive them bankrupt. It's not, they'll survive and thrive without any of us. But it'll save your sanity. We are not going to hear anything positive until we start winning.
Rich Eisen who I usually like pretty much ruined the NFLN broadcast by continuously stirring up their big topics of Jets circus and Manti Te'o Pretty much started with Favre watch years ago, but not the repitiion of certain stories and biases is out of hand.
http://www.newyorkjets.com/photos-a...Playbook/9674d097-9e29-4273-823f-e3b333f1cdf7 45 seconds into this video, it's SUCH a circus. Gary Myers will write an article about Rex Ryan lingering in Idzik's office and Idzik giving Geno Smith a man hug. Is Geno Smith always so...stoic? It wouldn't kill him to break a smile, would it?
Eisen pissed me off as well. his little jokes weren't funny, he joked we would take Barkley with our 3rd round pick.
As a fan base though we need to support our team, hey if a guy is playing bad let it be known but we literally called every single pick we made a bust, every single one
