At what point will NY Jets fans realize its all hype?

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Lifer
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the jets have all the pieces to become a great NFL team, all they have to do is draft a franchise QB and they are set!

Last night I had al the pieces for night of great sex. All the time in the world, romantic music, delicious food..
all I needed was a piece of ass.
 

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Lifer
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Who's my daddy?
RexRyanCrying.jpg


I am!
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NL5

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the jets have all the pieces to become a great NFL team, all they have to do is draft a franchise QB and they are set!

And a decent head coach. Ryan put them in the hole against the Pats. He's all talk and no substance.
 

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i seem to recall that with this no talent coach of their's, they seem to have split both seasons against the patriots. before him, not so much.
 

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i seem to recall that with this no talent coach of their's, they seem to have split both seasons against the patriots. before him, not so much.

We don't know how good or bad Rex Ryan is... our sample size is too small. Yeah, he might have split the season series with the Patriots, but if that's what you're going to rest your hat on as a franchise, you really aren't going places.
 

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i seem to recall that with this no talent coach of their's, they seem to have split both seasons against the patriots. before him, not so much.

Well shoot, if they beat the Pat's he must be a great coach.........
 

lupi

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We don't know how good or bad Rex Ryan is... our sample size is too small. Yeah, he might have split the season series with the Patriots, but if that's what you're going to rest your hat on as a franchise, you really aren't going places.

tell that to michigan or ohio state.
 

Gyhrg71

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Maybe this article will get through to them ;)

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/columns/story?columnist=cimini_rich&id=5924363

Sal Alosi acted alone? Yeah, right, Jets


Tripgate fiasco furthers Gang Green's growing reputation as an undisciplined franchise

Sal the Tripper became the fall guy, the casualty of a transparent cover-up attempt by the New York Jets. This was a hoot, even by Jets standards.

Three days after Sal Alosi tripped Nolan Carroll, incurring a rest-of-the-season suspension and a stiff fine, the Jets announced Wednesday they had discovered "new information" -- information the rest of the YouTube world had known from the outset of Tripgate.

The Jets admitted they used an illegal "wall" formation on their sideline to deter the Miami Dolphins' gunners on punt coverage -- oh, really? -- and they said Alosi cooked up the entire thing by himself and ordered five inactive players to stand with him shoulder-to-shoulder, toes touching the boundary.

That's a no-no, according to the NFL.

Coach Rex Ryan and special-teams coordinator Mike Westhoff both tried to distance themselves from the controversy, claiming that Alosi acted unilaterally. So they expect us to believe that a strength and conditioning coach, a guy at the bottom of the coaching-staff food chain, was doing something illegal and they knew nothing about it.

Sorry, but that doesn't pass the smell test.

In the everything-is-choreographed world of the NFL, it's hard to believe a strength coach was a solo rogue. One of Alosi's Gang of Five, a rookie tight end named Jeff Cumberland, said good 'ol Sal had been ordering the inactive players to stand that way since the beginning of the season.

And his superiors didn't know about it?

"Where it came from, I have absolutely no idea," Westhoff said with a straight face, refusing to admit he ordered the "Code Red." (Sorry, just some Col. Jessup humor from "A Few Good Men.")

Ryan, GM Mike Tannenbaum and owner Woody Johnson -- the Jets' version of the Warren Commission -- decided after their investigation to suspend Alosi indefinitely. This came two days after he was suspended without pay, and fined $25,000, for tripping Carroll.

Why didn't they fire Alosi immediately? After all, he misled the Jets (or so they claim) into believing this was an isolated case of poor judgment -- a bad trip -- not an orchestrated effort to crowd the sideline. Maybe, just maybe, the Jets are reluctant to fire him because they're concerned he might tell the whole truth and nothing but. Plus, they could be worried about a potential lawsuit.

Alosi gets no sympathy here, because, after all, it was a despicable act, tripping an opposing player. But this story transcends Alosi because it underscores the Jets' image as a undisciplined franchise.

The head coach flips the bird to drunken fans at a wrestling match. The star receiver is arrested for drunk driving. Players and coaches act like fraternity boys when an attractive TV reporter from Mexico attends practice. A coach trips a player. The team tries to cover up an illegal sideline tactic.

What's next, a coach impugning another team by claiming it does the same thing?

Oh, wait, that actually happened. Westhoff, in an interview Wednesday with a Chicago radio station, accused the New England Patriots of employing sideline walls. Later, in the Jets' interview room, he didn't back down, saying, "Just watch the tape. You tell me."

That's just wrong. Maybe Westhoff is right -- maybe the Patriots have done it -- but it was downright reckless to bring them into the mess. The way their season is going, the Jets should worry about scoring a touchdown, not napalming the enemy to the north.

Westhoff said he didn't suspect the Patriots until the Tripgate fallout, when he wanted to see if it was prevalent throughout the league. So he popped in a DVD and noticed the Patriots' allegedly crowded sideline. Westhoff also said he and assistant Ben Kotwica reviewed every punt from the Jets' first 13 games, determining there were no walls "for the most part."

Interesting. On Tuesday, a personnel executive from another team told ESPNNewYork.com that the Jets have used the wall technique in recent weeks. At the same time, the Jets' sideline always is clear when they're doing the punting, the executive said.

Yet the Jets plead ignorance. Right. There's a term for this; it's called institutional knowledge.

Westhoff said his initial reaction to the accusations, including the Zach Thomas bombshell from Miami, was "This whole thing is ridiculous." Then he watched The Trip. His reaction then?

"You didn't have to be Sherlock Holmes to see [they] were lined up," he said.
 

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Lifer
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Well, once again my brilliant sports knowledge has served to both educate and, in some cases, caused, Jets fans to go suicidal.
 

Red Dawn

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Hardly if ever root for the Squeelers but against the Jesters..err Jets I think I will.
 

crownjules

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Can we just stop with appending "gate" to every controversial thing that happens? The building's name was Watergate. It makes sense there and no where else.
 

Red Dawn

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And what point will Techs stop being a mouth breathing moron?

Hey Jay, you and your wife going to be watching the game and if the Jets win are you going to be sleeping on the couch? (his wife is from Pittsburgh and is a big Squeelers fan)
 

jman19

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Hey Jay, you and your wife going to be watching the game and if the Jets win are you going to be sleeping on the couch? (his wife is from Pittsburgh and is a big Squeelers fan)

I'm heading out for the evening to avoid the wrath... :cool:
 

Argo

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Second easiest schedule in the NFL as well.

One and done in the playoffs.

I don't know about that. They played Pats twice, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Green Bay and will play Chicago.

That's 6 quality teams (ok, Chicago is arguable but they do have a good record).