Blowout. It's easier for me to brush off mentally. I just say "hey everything that could go wrong, went wrong. Time to bounce back. If we lose a close one I spend time thinking of all the little places the Jets made mistakes and lost the game and what they could/should have done. The only exception is if you are residing in an area or have a lot of fans that the Jets just lost too. I be miserable if I lived in Chicago and Chicago won 49-0 and I had to hear about it day in and day out. In this scenario, I would rather the Jets lose 29-26 or something and get the "well it was close" "we got lucky" talk from the other team and their fans day in and day out.
I'd rather see them lose close if they had to lose. It means the team competed, and didn't just lay down and look like punks. It may be less maddening to get over a blowout immediately after the game, but the blowout most likely is a sign that there are problems with the team that they can't overcome later in the season. And my mental well being right after a game isn't the reason for being a fan, it's the chances of success for the team. There are certainly exceptions, like 45-3, but they are just that. Anomalies.
I guess I'd rather lose 35-33 to a power house playing well than beat a shit team we should have lost to on a bad call by the refs.
In the 2010 home opener at the Meadowlands the Jets lost to the Ravens 10 - 9. The takeaway they played a solid defense but, still an agonizing loss. Then there was the Patriots debacle where the Jets were at the losing end of a humiliating score of 45-3. So the choice is either agonizing or humiliating, I'll just take a win please, perhaps several in a row and see you at the Superbowl.
I agree with everyone else who said "I prefer a Jets win", but I voted blowout. I prefer losses where there's nothing that goes right, where the other side was going to win no matter what. It saves the woulda-coulda-shoulda part and gets the loss out of your mind that way. None of this "but for the butt fumble" or "but for the ref on that one penalty" stuff. It's true, close games can be exciting---even exhilarating---but when they don't go the wrong way, it's more irritating. That being said, blowout losses can signal weaknesses in the organization, and I don't like that either.
There is something in how you lose a game. You get blown out it pretty much says you suck and were out classed. You lose a close game, at least you were competitive in, it shows you have fight in your and a some what talented squad.
STFU & GTFO, do you see a SOJF flag hanging around here? Its a question gauging the emotions of a loss
Thank you. Too many responses here are a strictly a function of how a fan "feels" after one of two types of losses. As a true and reasonably sensible fan, you should always want your team to win and, it the team must lose, then better it to be by a small margin because it generally reflects on the quality of our team's overall competitiveness and its' better chances of winning future games because it sucks less. A team that's always getting blown out typically has profound weaknesses and shortcomings that may not be remedied for a long time. The way i interpret the question at least, it seems childishly selfish because it focuses more on which types of losses we would prefer to endure based on one 'hurting" less than the other whereas the all growed up fan response should be the type of loss that reflects the least badly on the current state of my team and its chances to improve in the immediate term.
who the fuck votes for a blowout? At least if you lose a close game - there are positives you can take away from that and hope it continues to the next game.
Or if you are a good team, you can brush off a blowout saying it's a one off where everything went wrong and go from there. Like in 2010, losing the Bears and Miami game was much worse to me than losing the 45-3 game because I knew we were a good team
45-3 was worse for me because the Patriots taunted us and humiliated us. There were some positives to take from the Bears game - Mark played well on the road during the regular season, and I thought there was a chance he was turning the corner. I'd rather lose knowing we put up a good fight. Not many teams recuperate from a blowout like the one we received from the Patriots.
Okay how about 2012 to take division rivals out of it? SF blows us out and TEN beats us in a really close game. Again, SF I could just brush off mentally, the TEN game I was reliving all the missed plays in my head. For me it's just easier to brush aside a blowout. Everything that went wrong did go wrong and the game was over. For me, the worst losses that still are stuck in my head, that aren't playoff losses, are all close games. The blowouts don't stick. I barely remember what happened in that NE blowout or the SF blowout. Just make an example, I thought close losses and pulled TEN from my head. I had to then search the 2012 game log for a blowout/bad loss, I just don't remember them. 45-3 is probably the one I remember the most (but not the details just the score) because it ties into the playoff game
I remember getting embarrassed by Cincinnati last season, hell plenty of AFC teams kicked our asses last year and to me those hurt more because we aren't raising our level of play. Your one game example also displays 2 different teams from 2 different conferences. I'm naturally going to care more about the Titans loss over the 49ers loss. I understand what you are saying - but I brushed off the Packers game last week and if we get blown out by CHI, I think the CHI game will hurt me more.
When you look back at some of those blowouts it can be bothersome. I don't remember each play but Dalton setting a career high in TDs in game really sticks with me.
I can't vote but my nightmare is we are behind by 6 and on the last play of the game inside the 10 Rex calls the Wildcat.
