How did the Jets lose this game?
They became the first team on record (since 1941) to lose a game with ...
* Holding opponent to less than 200 yds (199)
* Opponent having 100+ penalty yds (133)
* Positive turnover margin (+1)
Entering today, teams were 44-0 in that spot.
#Jets
The “LOL Jets” narrative is mostly a recent invention for casual fans and non-ball knowers. That said, the Jets have been incredibly bad recently. Fifteen years is a long time to go without the playoffs. But ownership matters. This is not a historically bad nor irrelevant NFL franchise. Just look at the response to Stan Kroenke’s purchase of the Angels. One good owner can turn a franchise around very quickly.
And speaking of the franchise, Joe Namath became pro football’s first 4,000-yard passer in 1967. 1967. Then the Jets beating the Colts in Super Bowl III helped legitimize the AFL and shape the NFL we watch today.
From 1997 to 2010, the Jets were routinely competitive. They made the playoffs in 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2010. An AFC Championship Game under Parcells. Back-to-back AFC Championship Games under Rex Ryan. In their last home playoff game, they beat two-time Super Bowl champion Peyton Manning and the Colts 41 to 0.
Mark Sanchez, known more for the Butt Fumble and other items, also won four road playoff games in his first two seasons, including against Carson Palmer, Philip Rivers, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. On the road. They were a couple plays from a Super Bowl.
Darrelle Revis has a legitimate argument as one of the greatest CBs ever.
Meanwhile, Miami hasn’t won a playoff game since 2000 and Buffalo has never won a Super Bowl. The Jets aren’t even obviously the historical laughingstock of their own division.
They’ve had terrible seasons, spectacularly bad moments and decades of questionable ownership. Absolutely.
But the Jets aren’t some historically irrelevant poverty franchise. They’re an important, successful at times, unbelievably chaotic franchise whose worst moments happened to become memes during the social media era.
There’s a difference.
The internet compressed 60+ years of Jets history into the funniest 10-second GIF it could find.
@ConnorJRogers@JCaporoso
STAY. FUCKING. PUT.
the deaths of many college athletes resemble one another
Poffenbarger could’ve gone down in UAlbany history and possibly drafted as a Great Dane
he led UAlbany to 11 wins & its only FCS semifinal appearance. now a very talented arm will be selling insurance