NFL (since 2016)

[crystal falace]

"Free agency started last night and was pretty crazy some huge money being spent. Osweiler getting £18m a year for the Texans, leaving the Broncos without a QB, Giants have spent a fortune on good but not great players, Oliver Vernon has more guaranteed money than JJ Watt. lots more deals but cant be bothered to list them all."

[southbankbornnbred]

From 2.08 onwards: Rex's rant.

I know he's not everybody's cup of tea, but the guy knows defense and the guy knew how to coach the trenches. Watch his face when he talks about their blocking fundamentals - he's going to give himself a heart attack!

[southbankbornnbred]

I'm banging on now, but if you listen to Rex Ryan's rant about Sunday he makes some really interesting points about how badly the Jets do even the most basic and fundamental things in football, like blocking on both lines.

This lunacy about Ryan returning as HC aside (he's way past it, and was as bad on offense as Saleh: his final season was 4-12) he is a guy who knew how to coach the trenches - where every game is won or lost.

If you can't get something as basic as blocking right as an NFL organisation, then you will never win many games. It's amateurism.

[southbankbornnbred]

Haha!

TM - I'm generally not one for 'rantcasts' - especially when it comes to the NFL, because 'Merica just seems so full of mad fuckers who think shouting at the top of their voice is the only way to make a point.

That said, I have to agree with Mike Francesca on this one! Made so many correct points about what has gone wrong for 25 years since the baby oil takeover. I'm glad he pointed out the "delay of game" farce on Sunday - that one incident exemplified how utterly amateurish the entire organisation is. That was their chance to draw level in a top-level NFL game, and they let the clock run out because nobody was paying attention and nobody knew what to do. Children playing a man's sport.

That point he made about how it was right to fire Saleh because he was a poor head coach (and, as he said, a very good DC), but then exacerbating the problem by not going outside the organisation to appoint even an interim HC...spot on. That's the Jets in a nutshell. They compound bad appointments by making the situation even worse long after everybody has identified a problem. And Saleh's poor coaching as HC was "just" one big problem, btw. There are so many. It wasn't all on him - as you can see since he left.

It all starts and ends with the owners and the hopeless, hapless culture of ignorance and incompetence they have created. They are effectively an amateur team on the football side, trying to compete in a highly professional and unforgiving league.

[southbankbornnbred]

The Jets are so bad that there is talk of Rex Ryan returning as head coach.

I liked Rex. Like his dad, the guy was a defensive guru and he took us to the play-offs twice: the last coach to do so. But that was 14 years ago!

It would be insane to bring him back. He was clueless on offense when he left New York 10 years ago. The game has moved on, too: imagine how bad he’d be now? He hasn’t coached at all for eight years.

It would be madness. Where’s the bookies..?

[claret on my shirt]

Gardner Minshew is a fool, he's a walking turnover. Getsy is just a cսnt. End of statement.

[Takashi Miike]

[Far Cough UKunt]

"They can’t coach, develop, scout, draft, or compete."

That could be aimed at West Ham.*

Apart from the draft bit*

[Takashi Miike]

[Takashi Miike]

OTB, yes it was a great finish but as I said in that earlier post, I feared we'd let them back in the game and that goal line stop was crucial. I didn't think the youngster was at his best all night, but to launch a 60+ yard ball like that at the death was impressive. That bears defence is very good, but I thought the referees kept it close

[southbankbornnbred]

Anybody looking for indicators of how bad things are at the Jets, need look no further than the delay of game penalty against them when they needed a two-point conversion to tie up the game on Sunday.

That sort of thing has happened time and time again - including under Saleh, for those who backed him - and always when the team needed a clean approach.

They routinely fail to get plays off in time, every week, which is indicative of the chaos and confusion behind the scenes. They didn’t force a single turnover on Sunday.

The Jets are so amateur in approach, and have been under every coaching team for almost 25 years (Rex Ryan aside, incredibly). It is an institutionalised failure that cascades down from the top.

They can’t coach, develop, scout, draft, or compete. And for the first time, I’ve seen it suggested that the parity-obsessed NFL might have to intervene with the owners/GM to force them to become more competitive. 14 years and counting now.

[On The Ball]

Hope you stayed up for that, Miike! What an end!

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

The Patriots beat the Jets !
Well fuck my old burgundy boots 
even my ACCA came in today, so a hat -trick of victories for Moi.

[Takashi Miike]

Defensive battle in Washington, we're letting Chicago stay in this by wasting multiple chances. Cleveland show what they can do without that weirdo at QB

[southbankbornnbred]

Jets now 2-6 after losing to an awful Patsies team.  It’s all over for yet another season. Hard to know how they can improve - at all - until the utterly clueless Johnsons sell the franchise.

EVERYTHING those owners do on the football side in this league is a complete disaster.

Going all in on a (then) 38-year-old QB, who is clearly on the wane, was just the latest massive over-reach. But that’s it for Rodgers: a sad end to a great career (at Green Bay).

If your owners are clueless, they tend to appoint clueless GMs and coaches. It’s the same shit every single year.

I would say tank the season for a high draft pick. But, as we have many times, we’d probably just waste the key pick. So what’s the fucking point?!

[Far Cough UKunt]

We've been sussed, oh well it was good while it lasted.

[Council Scum]

I chucked a few quid on Washington last season at great odds for the title and bowl as felt they were coming good, looks like I was a season to early, didn't bother this year. 

[southbankbornnbred]

It’s not easy supporting West Ham and Jets

Trilby - it’s the perfect combination for making us very thick-skinned!

Keep the faith.

[southbankbornnbred]

SB, I know I keep saying it but we had a quarter of a century of the worst possible owner. With it a succession of shit GMs. Very much like what we've got with Brady and the dwarf cսnt, let's be honest she's his (GM) number two and Steidten's just a pretend figurehead (fucking window dressing), there to accompany the latest signing on the private jet. We retired Darrell Green's number yesterday, it was a week long celebration for those involved and the new owners couldn't have got it more right. Johnson, the Carolina owner, the Cleveland owner, that cսnt in Dallas. All need to go

Couldn't agree more, TM.

Incredibly, it is the Jets - and not the Browns - who have inherited your vacated title as "worst owners in the league". And that really is saying something.

Johnson knows how to make money, I'll give him and his brother that. Despite being the worst-run team in American football, with the longest play-off drought in a league obsessed with parity, the Jets are something like the seventh richest sports team in the world. But they don't have a Scooby what they're doing with an NFL franchise on the management, coaching and playing side - and they need to go.

Dallas can keep their goon. He keeps them down!

[Takashi Miike]

What other NFL owner is a GM, and if that's not bad enough, then feels the need to address the media after every game and probably before they've spoken to the people that matter like the Head Coach and Quarterback. It's no shock that Jones was one of Snyder's few friends in the NFL

[Takashi Miike]

SB, I know I keep saying it but we had a quarter of a century of the worst possible owner. With it a succession of shit GMs. Very much like what we've got with Brady and the dwarf cսnt, let's be honest she's his (GM) number two and Steidten's just a pretend figurehead (fucking window dressing), there to accompany the latest signing on the private jet. We retired Darrell Green's number yesterday, it was a week long celebration for those involved and the new owners couldn't have got it more right. Johnson, the Carolina owner, the Cleveland owner, that cսnt in Dallas. All need to go

[southbankbornnbred]

both need new owners

This is wisdom.

[Takashi Miike]

both need new owners

[Trilby55]

It’s not easy supporting West Ham and Jets

[Joe C]

I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday. Watched the Patriots lose at Wembley and got home in time to watch most of us rolling over the Falcons.  And the Whiners lost. 

Having most of our starting D healthy made us look a different team from the crap last couple of weeks

[southbankbornnbred]

More absolute garbage from the Jets.

Made 148-year-old Russell Wilson look like he was 21 again.

So, at 2-5 now and some daunting games to come, that’s another season effectively over already. It’s also pretty much the end of the expensive, shit experiment with 412-year-old Aaron Rodgers. Which makes you wonder what was the point of trading for Adam’s last week?!

This year was the owners’ attempt at a Super Bowl run. It’s effectively over by week 7. Which tells you everything you need to know about the owners.

Until they sell up, we will continue to be the worst franchise in the league.