The season is only half over, and yet this team has already committed its greatest offense to its fans.
It has rendered all the rest of the games this year utterly irrelevant.
Nothing they do the rest of the year will particularly matter one way or the other. They won't play a relevant series of downs again until 2008.
Fans look forward the entire year to the football season. This team ended it prematurely for everyone. It's not even Halloween and the NFL is done for Jets fans.
Sure, they will spout rhetoric about still trying to win games and play for today and not the future, but that is fiction, spin, what they have to say in this media culture. In truth, this is about going through the motions, until the year is over, and they can figure out what to do next.
There is really only four things they have left to do this year:
1 - Start to figure out what they have in Kellen Clemens. Is he going to be good enough to count on to start next year?
2 - Figure out if there is anyone worth keeping on the defense, and if so, how best to use these people.
3 - Beat the Dolphins. If the Dolphins go 1-15 and the 1 is against the Jets, then the entire team, including the coaching staff, needs to be not only fired but actually lit on fire.
4 - Do not get humiliated against the Patriots. Belichick will be out for revenge against Mangini. Everyone will expect the game to be something like 77-3. They have to show up for that game and protect that small and tiny shred of a thing called the pride of the franchise, whatever may be left of it by the second to last game of the year.
That's all that's left for the 2007 Jets, this most frustrating and inexplicable of teams. Allow the fans, who have been robbed of half a season, to at least maintain some degree of dignity and hope, however misguided or fragile.
If they can't even do that, then, then, I don't know. Blow everything up, again, and start all over again, again. And we can wait until next year for another three years, again.
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Hopefully for Jets fans the Pats will already have everything wrapped up by the time they play.
But you are right, I can totally see the Dolphins going 1-15 and beating the Jets just so Cam Cameron can rub it in your face, that would be cool.
It would only be cool if after beating the Jets, Cam Cameron turned to the camera and said "That was for you, Dan Filowitz."
Because then I would become a vigilante like Charles Bronson in Death Wish and travel the country by Greyhound bus looking to exact my revenge against Cam Cameron.
And I would be wearing an eye patch.
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