I liked his speech after we pummeled the colts at home in the playoffs. "you play with your hearts men! And when you play like that you're a hard team to beat!" Something like that. "and the home of the... JETS!"
I wish those clowns who award baseball awards on sabermetrics rather than won-loss records would remember the quote. I wish Woody cared as much about winning as he does about selling PSL's.
You will never see this team rally around a speech like that from Rex. We have way too many bad apples on this team and not enough leaders. Nobody like Curtis Martin or Pennington. When the leaders left from 09-10 this team took a nosedive and will continue to do so until someone changes that and we get leaders from the top down.
how did we rebound from losing 6 of 7 in 2009 to make the playoffs and reach the title game? How did we rebound from 45-3 at NE to make the playoffs, return to NE and beat the Pats and return to the title game?
It didn't hurt that the Colts laid down to the Jets in week 16, at the end of the regular season. Up by 5, they take all their starters out. Curtis Painter immediately fumbles the ball, which the Jets recover in the endzone. And it did not get any prettier. That's a big reason why the Jets squeaked into the playoffs in 2009. Things like that are why the NFL decided to backload schedules with division games. Ask me, the Jets are too far removed from their winning formula at this point, which is to run the ball, play defense, and have that set up the play action, taking shots when they can. Sorry, but your body Sanchez is not good enough to pick up the slack if the run game and defense isn't there in spades. Can't remember the last time I saw a Special Teams beat-down like I did last week, either. The good news for Jets fans is that they have probably already gone through the most difficult part of their schedule. From here on out, all the games look winnable to me, New England being the hardest game...Seattle looks a little tough this year, but the Jets play them after their bye. Rams, Cardinals, Jaguars, Titans, Chargers, and Bills: these are not world-beaters. The Jets are going to have to go AT LEAST 6-2 in their remaining games to make the playoffs.
we got a break of a qtr and a half of Indy backups, in 1993 we faced Houston backups needing one win to reach the playoffs- we lost 24-0. A year or 2 earlier Indy did the same thing and Ten got into the playoffs, Ten lost in the first game while we won TWO playoff games.
I watched the game. The Jets do not win had Indy kept their starters in and therefore do not make the playoffs, IMO. It was Indy that took them out in the playoffs, too. I'm answering your question of how the Jets rebounded to make the playoffs in 2009. That's all. It was this, combined with running the ball and playing defense, first and foremost. Whatever happened in other situations is irrelevant.
The Jets definitely need a jolt like that season. Play to win the game was epic. At 3-5 things aren't looking good, but we have a very good chance to win a bunch during this next stretch. If we can get back to .500 before the Pats game, sky's the limit. Rex needs to take a page out of Herm's playbook. I hope he's ripping them apart this week. No week off, no happy go lucky. I want pain and punishment!
Maybe they need some god damn snacks? Do people really think that speech is what turned the '02 season around?
oh so you know that in a close game there's no way they would have won? Interesting. I bet if the playoff game at SD went the saem way you would have said we had no shot. We were down 4 in the 3rd qtr- no shot but they played the game and we won. Maybe we don't win if Indy doesn't rest starters? but they did and we won the game. it doesn't matter how we turned it around, we did it multiple times under rex and the other poster said it would never happen under Rex.
