Oh, I am as serious as a heart attack. After last week I was thinking playoffs and it could still happen but in the end you are only as good as your record. Right now that record is 4-4 and we would have to upset a strong team with a lot of good skill players to avoid going into the bye at 4-5. Our defense has been stout and our special teams gives up some big plays but wins more than it loses. Our offense is our weak link, our offense is the source of our inconsistency. Even when the defense plays badly it is usually when our offense fails to maintain time of possession and fails to provide them time to rest. It all starts and ends with our QB, every time he makes a bad decision leading to a turnover, punt, or field goal try these games slip further out of control. Even when our offense has done well enough to win the game, our QB has at some point turned the ball over putting that win in jeopardy. We lost 49-9 this week. It wan't just a loss but a complete butt kicking (Rex said as much). At some point we really have to look at Geno and measure his performance for what it is and compare him to other starting QBs. Good enough for a rookie or better than Sanchez just isn't going to cut it. We have a top five defense. We do not need a top five QB but without better play from the QB position that defense will watch the playoffs from home.
I stopped watching the game, started watching the red bulls win their first trophy instead, (much happier because of it) but just so we're clear- its a week before an odd week so we hate geno again right? right. he'll always be terrible except the times he's not, we should draft that guy, put in simms yada yada- oh simms did go in? huh thats new.
The defense didn't look so "top 5" today.... I will agree they are better than the offense, but the offense and smith didn't lose today's game. That was on the horrible d. The offense also won its fair share of games too tis year. Everyone sucked today though. This team isn't going to the playoffs and I suggest tempering expectations the rest of the way with the team as a whole as well as Smith. You will be less likely to throw this rookie under the bus if you realize this team is probably a .500 ish team anyway
He's played 8 games, and he has a bottom-third group of WR's. I consider this to be a developmental year for Geno. Let's see how he does next year when we put some weapons around him.
The offense scored a net total of negative 5 points (9 scored - 14 pick sixes). Even with a goal line stand and an interception, nothing our defense did was going to overcome that,
Rex put the D out on the field first to set the tone they shit the bed Special Teams was shit Offense was shit but not as shitty as the D because the D dictated the aggressiveness of the O due to playing like shit Geno was 20/30, 2 picks(1 on Kerley), sacked 4 times, hit 7 times and the play calling could have been better but we need to improve at QB, NO the entire team needs to regroup and learn from this because the only player I could say had any kind of good game was Wilkerson and maybe David Nelson
Not sure I understand this. So basically...you don't think Geno is the answer at QB b/c he's performing like a rookie...WHICH IS WHAT HE IS. Why doesn't he get the benefit of growing pains & learning the ways of consistency in the NFL? Of COURSE the offense is holding back this team...we knew it would all along. The Jets are not only implementing a new system w/ a rookie QB. They are also doing so w/ a shorthanded skill group decimated by injuries that really wasn't that great to begin with. We knew that BEFORE Geno even became the starter. So why does that all fall on him? Why isn't he given the benefit of the "learning curve" like every other QB in the NFL who starts as a rookie is?
:rofl2: tempering expectations isn't on the agenda, he's got to be Namath NOW, no matter how illogical that is. :up: and I think the playoffs are still on the table, its more about the second half of the season than the first. (@ BUF, @ BAL, VS MIA, VS OAK, @ CAR, VS CLE, @ MIA) they can win 4 or 5 of those goes come in 9-7 and win the WC... maybe, they're 7th now so its not impossible. geno should be fine for most of these games too, the hardest defense is arguably carolina's.
So what you are saying is that you are going to let your unrealistic expectations of last week rule your perception moving forward. The Jets had a small chance at a playoff spot after last week. They still have that same small chance after this week. They'll have it after the Saints game as well, win or lose. Our defense lost the game today. They lost it early. The first pick 6 made the score 35-6 after the first drive of the second half. AYFKM? Don't think like a child. No, this year it all starts and ends with the defense. Next year when the QB has some experience under his belt he'll be a bigger part of the solution. Joe Flacco went to the playoffs his first season. So did Mark Sanchez. Why? The defense.
yup, see you when we win again and the boards aren't ready to dive off a cliff!:smile: and hey no loss the next week to worry about either, so bonus!
Oh no, Geno isn't dominating the league with his awful offensive line, "meh" running game, and bad group of WR's/TE's, he must be the worst QB to ever play football.
my biggest issue is the bitching and constant need to replace guys we played bad, move on and continue to progress not put in Simms, draft a QB, Milliner is a bust, fire Rex, trade for this guy, Sanchez is back into the fold even though he's had season ending surgery and will be cut come the first day of the 2014 season
Dissapointing but expected. We had nothing today in any phase.... I would really like to assess this kid with some more talent around him. It's hard to pinpoint what went wrong today. Bad decisions, a lack of physicality, WRs getting no separation. It was just a bad day all around. We do that half the time.
