44 years of pain and misery with this team. It started in my very first year following them, 1981, where they started the year 0-3, fought to get to 10-5-1, and then SOJ'd away the wild card game against the Bills. The next year was the Mud Bowl. I was indoctrinated into SOJ immediately. I have gone through all the stages: optimism, anger, hope, dejection, depression, etc. Now I am at the point where I am starting not to give a shit. I just laugh at the insanity, I hardly ever get angry anymore. I get angry more because it's just the same stuff, but I don't have nearly the same passion. I could never ever root for another team, so it becomes not caring about this one, and ultimately the sport itself. Some of you old dogs who have been through these wars, many of you longer than me, which direction do you find yourself going? Do you stay angry? Do you lose interest? Are you able to maintain the passion? Could you give up on them and move to another team? That one is doubtful. But do you find yourself losing interest completely and slowly withering away? Sent from my SM-F956U1 using Tapatalk
Root to lose. Idc. These guys are barely tied here and I’m sure when we turn it around, most won’t be here. Tank for the QB security at 1
I've already got a foot out the door. I can only watch the same exact show on repeat for so many years in a row. I almost completely walked away after the Rodgers injury and honestly I should have. It's the same show, no matter who the players are, no matter who the coaches are, no matter who GM is.
Not really. The Jets aren’t the first team in league history to experience this level of futility and probably won’t be the last. There are lots of ways to enjoy football without crying every time the Jets suck. There are up to 15 other games every week to enjoy the sport with.
I am 57 years old and have been a Jets fan since I was a little kid. I go back just a little further than you. I am pretty bipolar with the Jets. Either I am fully invested and I live and die by their games or they are so bad that I can't bring myself to give a shit. I have been in that latter mode for what seems like ever since they got rid of Rex. I can only rarely bring myself to watch their games live. In my mind, this season was over before it started. I hoped for the best but expected the worst and my expectations were spot on. When I was younger I used to be incredibly passionate about this team to the point where it would literally ruin my Sunday and sometimes even Monday. I eventually realized that you cannot let yourself get so worked up about things in life you can't control. These days, the most enjoyment I get out of watching Sports is from teams I'm NOT emotionally invested in. I like following the Ravens because they are talented, fun to watch and have players that I find easy to root for. I also LOVE watching College ball. This is how I bide my time until the Jets are able to put an actual NFL caliber team on the field.
Games like yesterday when we routinely shoot ourselves in the foot are the one that push me out the door.
I mean it's early days yet, but look at the Patsies. There is _nothing_ common between the 2018 and 2025 seasons across either the Pats or the Jets except ownership. They look like they've found a semblance of a QB, a coach, and an O-line. Their games appear interesting, even though they are not a very good team (_four_ fumbles and a pick in one game? Jets-ian levels of incompetence). And they are still having a better season than us. Sigh....
Yeah, about that... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_franchise_post-season_droughts Although teams have had 25 year droughts in the past, so you're right. It's just startling how bad we are compared to the dregs of the league today. And I wasn't alive for any of the really horrible teams in the league, so in my lifetime, this is unequalled levels of suck.
I know of perhaps 4 posters here older than I am. Seen so many losing seasons that they don't bother me anymore like they used to. Poorly played games piss me off but again, that doesn't linger like it used to. I'm not a Jet FANatic anymore. More of a follower nowadays. After last night, I'm good with letting Glenn get the majority of his contract. Mainly because NOBODY of any note would take on this rebuild under this ownership. If by the end of year 2 we're looking at this same level of ineptitude, then Glenn should be put on notice that his time is short.
The Jets have some pieces to work with here. The fact that it looks like we have bookend tackles provided they stay healthy and a really good receiver is a hell of a building block. The problem is that they decided to put one foot in the rebuild water this offseason and keep one foot out of that pool. It’s plagued us for 15 years. Woody doesn’t ever want the roster to be ripped to shreds so we usually end up in this perpetual cycle where we pick 7-15 and don’t have a shot at a top QB. He also puts conditions on any hire he makes so we get meh talent in the front office and coaching ranks. Instead of really trying to turn the roster over this past offseason, it remained largely intact including 3 big extensions. It realistically made no sense for a “rebuilding” team with no high drafted QB that needs support.
This team hit rock bottom with Rich Kotite and two consecutive number one overall picks. It took that level of failure for Leon Hess to break the rules and risk punishment from the commissioner by stealing Bill Parcells. The man brought in hall of fame free agents and found other starters on the scrap heap and in later rounds of the draft. Hess didn't have to sell the team for it to get fixed and neither does Woody. I just don't know what has to happen to shake the man to the core so that he will finally rake things seriously.
I said before the start of the season that they are a borderline playoff team and I still think that's a realistic projection. They clearly have their QB and Campbell looks like a stud.
Meh. I'm not in that camp and never have been. A teardown isn't necessary for a rebuild. Plus we have drafted plenty high in the last five years, just that they were in terrible years for QBs. And I agree Fashanu looks legit, but JJ McCarthy or Bo Nix would have looked awfully good here - and we could have gotten our LT this year. But no tanking please! This, right here. Somehow I wish somebody would smack him upside the head and tell him to get his grubby paws out of the football department. Just go count your money somewhere. Yeah, but we could have been a "rebuilding" team with a high drafted QB. That would have been a great strategy
Completely agree with this. Who would want this job? If Glenn were to fail with an abundantly talented roster, that's another matter. The mistake Jets fans constantly make is thinking "It can't get worse" because it often does.
Fantasy Football ftw. While everybody else was having their weekly "omg we suck" meltdown last night, within a season that was realistically designed to suck, I was jumping up in down in celebration of my miraculous come from behind victory our boy Garrett Wilson got me with that last minute TD *AND* latteral catch to secure we the W by .4 lol Like you went to note though the real core problem here/atm is that we never seem fully committed to any rebuild even when it's clearly a rebuild. Which just constantly breeds delusional expectations among the fanbase. Also not worth having any nuclear level reactions to how the offense looks until we give this unit until at least midseason to gel more. Fields for example didn't have a great individual game by any stretch, but the exaggerated hate in the game thread suggesting "he can't throw the football period' stuff was overly rage'y imo.
The only trouble with this is, if you start enjoying the sport or other games, then you may as well swap teams and enjoy the games more often. I stopped enjoying PL soccer a long time ago, I only watch Manchester City now because I have always done so The only live games I watch in the NFL involve this stricken franchise because that is who I support. I don't mind watching the highlights packages, of course, but that is a slightly different scenario. Again, plenty of people watch as much live soccer as they can, it is just my own take, rightly, wrongly or even weirdly
