RukiMotomiya

Isn't like half their defense on IR?

Genuinely crazy he isn't in yet, he should be a shoo-in.

Just saw Tune was just a 2 point sneak nvm

Still have no idea how they sent McCoy back out there, even ignoring the awfulness with that concussion he was clearly so out of it he couldn't really play.

(And yeah, I would not say the Ravens have been dirty this year either)

So I still don't get why they started Tim Boyle and not Trevor Siemian.

I'm not saying Siemian is especially good. I am saying Trevor Siemian had 11 TDs in 2021 and Tim Boyle has had 15 touchdowns in 4 years of college and 5 years of the NFL combined.

It's worth noting that at the time, they weren't seen as a mediocre team per se. They had been one game from the Super Bowl 2 out of the last 3 years and a lot of people felt if their offense could just get together they might push over the edge. The defense fell down in 2011 but it seemed like a one year blip. So it felt more like the bottom falling out on a true "what if" team, since despite having guys like Mark Sanchez at QB they were one score from the Super Bowl. Rex Ryan was a hot commodity with a fiery personality who talked trash and beat Brady + Bill in the playoffs (which also made the butt fumble game some sweet revenge for some people). Stuff like that.

As someone who watched it, a big reason is because of the timing. The Patriots went from 7-0 to 28-0 within a span of a minute, got a touchdown early, Jets fumble right at the three yard line, two plays later Mark Sanchez runs into his own lineman's ass and then the very next kickoff is another fumble that gets returned for a touchdown.

Sanchez had always gotten criticism (because he was Bad) but could shield it by saying he won in the playoffs. That game essentially signalled the end of an era of hope for the Jets with their strong defense as Sanchez became too much of a liability to actually win despite their amazing defense and then went on to only have one winning season and 0 playoff appearances since then.

Combine that with the fact that a player running into his own offensive lineman's ass and fumbling is funny and you get something that both serves as a representation of a moment in time, when the Jets lost all hope, and as an inherently funny play.

Pretty sure every Bills fan had a heart attack on that Cooks fumble.

Some one score games are fun, down to the wire, you just don't know how they'll end.

Some low scoring games are tough defensive affairs, where great stops force the offense to fight for every inch.

This game was neither.

This season has been EXTREMELY injury hit as well. I keep saying it but IMO, it would just be short-sighted to completely bail on him when the last three years have been solid and he has a very long track record of success. In my mind, Mike Tomlin is the same: If Tomlin's team just cratered next year, I'd give him the next QB after Kenny Pickett rather than can him instantly.

Shouting into the echo chamber but I feel like less irrelevant guests would do good work. The entire appeal of the ManningCast was that it was two dudes hanging out who also knew their shit about football. The more it gets away from that, the more it becomes just another broadcast.

It's been less than one year. They need to calm the fuck down lol