The Jets won the game, but there is absolutely no reason to celebrate. That happens when you look that bad, barely beating what many consider the worst team in the league, who are playing their third-string QB and backup RB.
Favre keeps throwing ugly picks. The play calling is inconsistent - conservative when they should be aggressive, fancy when they should be conventional. It's like the coaching staff is outsmarting itself. On top of that, the team never plays a full and complete game. All three areas rarely execute well all at the same time.
To sum up how Jets fans feel, let's take a sampling of the text messages sent between me, Matt, and Greg (Jets fans dispersed across the country):
MATT: One year we'll gt a kicker, but we'll be 0-16 w/ the best kicker in the league
DAN: We should draft one in the second round ... Oh, wait
GREG: I don't even want to watch the second half
DAN: Tyler Thigpen! Fuck me in the face with a hammer.
GREG: He is 15 of 20 for 179 and two TDs. I'm glad I bought that gun yesterday.
GREG: I have nothing to say. They are getting worse as the year is going on. I can see 5-11 at this point.
DAN: I am getting tired of this shit. Can Favre not throw into double coverage? Is that possible?
GREG: Fucking bench him.
MATT: What kind of a play call was that? ... Favre's a moron bring Chad back!
DAN: Bring back Glenn Foley
MATT: I quit
DAN: The season is over
GREG: How can you not laugh at this point? It's all just too fucking typical.
DAN: Same old Jets
DAN: Way to not lose to the shittiest team in the league
MATT: I feel like I just fucked an ugly fat chick
And they won this game! This is what Jets fandom is.
And yet, here we after week 8 with as many wins as they had all of last year (and as many wins as the two years of the Rich Kotite era combined, lest we forget from whence we came.)
The next four are rough - at Buffalo, home for St. Louis, at New England, at Tennessee. They have to go 2-2 at a minimum to stay in the playoff race. After watching this team barely beat Cincinatti and KC, and lose to Oakland, do I feel confident in this? No. I'd be surprised if they weren't 0-4 during this stretch.
Then again, maybe this wakes them up and they pull together and go 3-1 or 4-0 in that stretch. Of course, if they did that, then they'd lose their last 4 games and miss the playoffs.
At this point, with this, team, anything is possibe. Especially mediocre football.
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The worst part of that game was watching sportscenter highlights later that day and hearing about how Favre came through with another heroic drive to save the game...are you kidding me? I am officially off of the Favre bandwagon and will be nothing but critical from here on out. I can completely understand throwing a pick here and there but the ones he's throwing are basically punts that can be fair caught by the opposing defense. On top of that our offensive coordinator (i'm not even using his name anymore unless he changes it to moron) decided that it would be a great idea to use a spread formation, with Favre in shotgun and no backs to block or at least pose a threat to run the ball, against the worst run defense in the league. This after a week when they made the same mistakes in Oakland. It's like they feel the need to out smart everyone and do exactly the opposite of what everyone expects. Sometimes you need to just keep it simple and punch the other team in the mouth...they'd rather play rope a dope for some reason. Favre's last interception is an example of such. Calling a shotgun play with no rb in the backfield on 3rd and 2 with a three point lead and the ball on the 12 makes no sense in Madden let alone the NFL...Then to watch the special teams knock a ball into the endzone after it stopped rolling at the three...I really wish they lost so the Bill Cowher rumors can begin.
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