Media Coverage

L3JET · Apr 28, 2013

LAJet said: ↑

Idiotic comment by Maycock.
So EJ Manual in Florida and M Barkley in LA are cold weather QBs? I guess if Minnessota drafted him it would have been a steal. Comments like this after the fact makes you wonder why these folks dont get real jobs.
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He's an overpaid weatherman! Forecasting BS crap in the NFL.

If he was so damn good evaluating talent he would be running a scouting department in the NFL already.

Enough said!

mezzavo · Apr 28, 2013

Win4ever said: ↑

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.
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This was a FANTASTIC post!!

The bold part is very true. My wife is born and raised CA lady and has never been to NY. She is CONVINCED they are all smart ass, brash and rude and the media portrayal doesn't help and neither does anything I say.

And I'll add a number 8:

It doesn't help that a good majority of Jets Fans are so flippin' fickle! I am forever amazed at how quickly we flip flop and overreact. The media smells that and utiizes it to sell more coverage.

DimsAllmighty · Apr 28, 2013

http://www.nfl.com/photoessays/0ap1000000165058/2013-bold-rookie-predicions#photo=22

New York Jets
The last team with three first-round draft picks went to the Super Bowl (St. Louis football club in 2001)! Yeah, that string comes to an end this year.
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