Look dude, I know we have appearances to keep up and stuff, but this is almost as ridiculous as when you said in the offseason that Garrett Wilson was going to be a bust. Your bolded post is not rooted in reality.
The most critical game is coming up now. We are on a two game losing skid, but confidence is high because we lost close games by one score, which we could and arguably should have won, against #1 and #2 teams in their conference on the road. Now we are at home against a hot team, but a beatable one. A loss here, and wheels might fall off. Absolutely critical to win this Sunday.
I get that the prevailing notion with fans is we're just going to keep having offseasons and improving like last year. What fans aren't realizing is we already did go all in the last 2 years. In two years: We cashed in 7 top 35 picks, including 3 in the top 10. We used a near record 135 million in salary cap space. That was the rebuild. Do people think it just goes on forever? We're down to less that 5 million in cap space and only one top 35 pick - currently pick 18. On top of that we had free agent break outs this year, which means our FA's this season are going to cost considerably more to retain. Retaining Quinnen and White alone are going to cost considerably more than we can afford. At LB, resigning Quincy and Kwon will be much more expensive (current cost is a steal at 2 million combined). They will command at least 5 million a piece on the open market. Joyner may also likely command more. On DL, Rankins, Hall, Curry and Thomas will need new contracts, and at least two of them will get more from someone, if not us, than they got this year. On the o-line Fant, and maybe McGovern, will get better deals than they had, with Fant potentially getting someone to pay him LT wages. This year has been a nightmare for o-lineman around the league and they are going to be in high demand this offseason. Our roster is getting more expensive, not less, which is the cost of success. We have nowhere near the money to retain the roster we currently have. Expecting to make up for this stuff with pick 18, and magically freeing up a mountain of cap space, is a stretch. What we do have at the moment are a few solid core skill players, though not at QB. The chance that our roster is as good next year as this year is unlikely, moreless it becoming even better. Then again, you never know. Maybe JD gets a great deal on Zach - or we trade Q? Lightning could strike and we keep the ball rolling with an amazing low round draft and finding some inexpensive diamonds in the roughs in FA. But its best to understand that's not a likely scenario. If you want postseason play, this is the year. Thats being real.
This season, thus far, is more than I thought this team was capable of record-wise, the Jets are clearly an ascending team. I do think they can hang with any team, next year will be the year that hopefully they win these games they're losing this season. I feel like Saleh and JD are the right combo to get this team over that hump...
I never said Garrett would be a bust. I said I doubted he would be worth the 10th pick, and that we should have taken a linemen with that pick, and gone WR in the 2nd with Pickins or Metchie. Garrett has been worth the 10th pick. I was wrong about that. But in a rebuilding way, meh?
You said "serious overdraft", so no you didn't call him a bust, but that was kind of preposterous. The guy was a consensus top 10 pick and flawless on film. Skill players are actually part of football teams that rebuild, you know? Some of them even become elite. You don't always have to start in the trenches.
I agree - original post doesn’t make any sense. The Jets window was closed for years and just started to open this season - a crack anyway. The Jets should have at least a good 3-4 years to do something with this current group of youngsters. In fact if JD handles the offseason right I think the Jets can contend for a championship in 2023 …
Not over yet. If Miami loses to Buffalo this upcoming week and the Jets beat the Lions, they're back in a WC spot.
There are probably 24 or 25 teams I'd rather the Jets be playing than the Lions. Its definitely a winnable game but they're the first of 3 top 10 offenses we face down the stretch. If you include the Bills and Vikings, then 5 of our last 6 games were/are against top 10 offenses. The defense has held up its end of the bargain for the most part. The offense needs to put points on the board.
We loose tie breakers to the fucking pats and Cincinnati. We need to win out. We can do it. Our last game has to be for the last playoff spot by beating the fish.
Detroit is a must win game , we lose to Detroit its over. It's a shame because we lost so many winnable games this season and should be coasting right now.
There are 5 teams vying for 3 wildcard spots: Jets, Patriots, Miami, Chargers, and the division loser of Cin/Bal. The Patriots will win tonight only because AZ lost Murray. I think the Patriots will actually be underdogs in all 4 of their remaining games. Miami’s schedule isn’t exactly favorable to them either. I don’t see them beating the Bills. GB they may handle but I wouldn’t call it a slam dunk. Then they play in NE. So that’s an automatic loser for either them or NE. Then they close against us. The Chargers remaining schedule is pretty easy. So you may be right Jets at Dolphins for the last spot …
The Chargers could lose to the Titans this upcoming week. But yeah, the rest of their schedule looks easy beyond that.
should have? No. No way. If we blew leads late you could say that. But wecplayed from behind all game twice. No should applies.
We shoulda won both New England games, Saleh's incompetence in not realizing Zack is not the answer and not starting White instead of Flacco the 1st 3 games of the season to see what we have in him is what will probally cost the team the playoffs this year, if White showed out the 1st 3 games the JEts would have been forced to Go with Mike White much sooner, what the hell was the point of starting a old has been the 1st 3 games huh?
The Pats won last night so we are out of playoffs right now right? Do we still have a shot at playoffs?
The Chargers look like they should win at least 3 of the final 4 games which means the Jets likely have to win out to have a shot to jump over the Chargers. The better scenario is Jets going 3-1 with 1 win against the fish and the fish going 2-2 with one of the wins being against NE otherwise no playoffs for the Jets.
