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"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."
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RBshorty wrote: 17 Oct 2025, 18:18 You want injuries. The 49ers are the ones with the Walking Dead. Most of their 1st team are out. And they are still getting it done. KC are the worry at the top end of the pyramid. No one injured. And they are running silent. Like a Nuke Sub. Vikes beat Philly. Then it’s meltdown in the city of Brotherly Love. Won’t be many NFL fans complaining about that.
I admire your positivity, Shorty, but I'm long past the point where I think the Jets' draft moves help the franchise.

Don't get me wrong, we've actually drafted OK - and well at times - in the last few years. Garrett, Sauce, Membou etc. We've done OK at picking good players with high picks in more recent years. Could have been better, but certainly could have been worse.

The problem is what we do with those players once we start training. It's a franchise that under-utilises its assets in a big way. And that's all because the shit trickles down from the ownership. Poor owners appoint poor GM's and (often) poor (or, more specifically, inexperienced) HCs, who appoint poor (or inexperienced) coaches, who underperform when coaching players, who then fail to maximise their potential or gel as a unit.

I have a lot of time for Todd Bowles and Rob Saleh, for example. But at the time they were appointed as HCs they were not ready to do the job. I like Aaron Glenn - he's a proper Jets fan and a smart man. Maybe he'll buck the trend. But the early signs are not great.

The lack of a coherent, highly professional and working Owner/GM/coaching culture at the Jets has long been the franchise's downfall. Like West Ham, it's run like a circus by the ownership and poor, cheap and ill-informed decision-making by Woody Johnson and his board constantly hinder the Jets. As with West Ham, it's not until he goes that the culture will change. 15 years without a play-off appearance, in a league obsessed with parity, is not a coincidence. It's indicative of woeful decision-making at the top.

For David Sullivan read Woody Johnson.
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You want injuries. The 49ers are the ones with the Walking Dead. Most of their 1st team are out. And they are still getting it done. KC are the worry at the top end of the pyramid. No one injured. And they are running silent. Like a Nuke Sub. Vikes beat Philly. Then it’s meltdown in the city of Brotherly Love. Won’t be many NFL fans complaining about that.
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southbankbornnbred wrote: 17 Oct 2025, 17:46 Do we have to play again this season?!

Resurgent Panthers up next. Then Flacco’s resurgent Bengals.

We could be 0-8 going into bye week. Which will now be dubbed “bye, bye” week.
 
 
You get to zip-8. You can start looking forward too the draft south. Try watching some of the big college games. See who’s getting picked high. And who you like.? It was the only shoot of hope I got last season. Also check out the coaches and see if ownership start doing something right. Still don’t think you finish last. Saints and Titan’s are worse all round.
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Do we get this Prime Vision option over here?

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Vikings have a horrific injury list, not good when your next game is the Eagles.
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Do we have to play again this season?!

Resurgent Panthers up next. Then Flacco’s resurgent Bengals.

We could be 0-8 going into bye week. Which will now be dubbed “bye, bye” week.
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Yeah. The Pensioner Bowl wasn’t a bad game. But if you’re a Cincinnati fan. You gotta be asking the question.”Where the fuck did that running game come from.?”

GO G MEN.
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The Browns QB saga gets more hilarious by the day.
Nice one Joe Flacco.
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Fields is a busted flush, btw.

Was prepared to give him a chance. Somewhere in there was a talented youngster. But whatever he had, it’s long gone. Watched all games he’s played, and his mechanics, and ability to read the field, are poor.

He wants to throw on the move constantly. So he often throws off balance, off the wrong foot, holds onto the ball for far too long etc. His checkdowns are atrocious. Once his primary receiver (usually Wilson) is double-covered, he can’t read the field quickly enough to recover, then he panics, takes off, runs into a clogged up area and is forced to try a risky throw.

Repeat ad nauseum. Part of it is not knowing the system well enough. 

But much of it is that he’s just poor.
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“Indiana Jones.!I always knew. Someday you come walking back into my life.”

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Arf!
It was a very tough watch. Both defences played well but, also, both QBs were terrible which not make mush of a spectacle. Justin Fields is not the answer; I can't remember him even trying to move out the pocket until the first defender touched him and it is too late at that point.
The faked punt was fun though - nothing wrong with the Jets special teams either. Your punter looks great and pinned the Broncos back nicely.
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Was at the game with a Yank friend and, as we were leaving, we heard one New Yorker say: “That game was the worst thing we’ve done to the British since 1776.”

Fucking love West Ham and Jets humour.
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For context, -10 passing yards is the worst performance in Jets history. And the worst by any NFL aside for 27 years.

Things are not getting better. Yet.

Patience is key, of course. But you have to show you’re moving in the right direction. Today, literally and physically, the passing game went backwards.
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cygnet24 wrote: 12 Oct 2025, 19:08 I thought the Jets played especially in the 2nd half and were a bit unlucky to lose. They put the Broncos QB under a lot of pressure throughout the game.
Defensively, we were better than in past weeks. But offensively, that was among the worst performances I’ve seen. And I watched teams coached by Kotite and Gase!

Astonishingly, we finished with -10 passing yards. Because Fields was sacked 9 times for big losses.

That’s pretty abysmal by any measurement.

I like Glenn, and am prepared to give him time (multiple seasons). But he’s got to start showing some improvement by the end of this season. Things are moving in the other direction right now.
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I thought the Jets played especially in the 2nd half and were a bit unlucky to lose. They put the Broncos QB under a lot of pressure throughout the game.
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Barely have the words to explain what I’ve just seen from the Jets.

So poor.

Breece Hall summed it up best recently, when he said: “Teams shoot themselves in the foot, then we come back and shoot ourselves in the head.”

Did it yet again today.

We’ve invested in Aaron Glenn for multiple seasons. And we do have to stick with him and show some patience. Jimmy Johnson went 1-15 in his first season in Dallas (although, it was before the salary cap and when the Cowboys bombed on purpose). So patience is key.

But we are getting worse, not better, right now.

At least we didn’t give up many points this week.
 
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I was in Dublin for Minnesota Vikings v Pittsburgh Steelers 2 Sundays ago.
Never had any interest in NFL but went as I’d never been to Croke Park. (And it was corporate)
Fantastic 4 hours of entertainment, great atmosphere with 40,000 yanks there. Actually enjoyed the game and may even go again
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This season is unreal open, literally not a single team who looks a cut above the rest.

I mean fuck me the niners are 4-1 whilst having they're entire pro bowl set of players out for the season.
 
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Will be at Jets/Broncos tomorrow.

It could get painful.
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FFS.!

“Just when I thought I was out. They pull me back in.!”

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RBshorty wrote: 07 Oct 2025, 23:33 Old Man Flacco traded from Cleveland too Cincinnati.! With that OL proctecting you. You must of pissed off somebody inside the Browns building.?

GO G MEN.
 
The Browns QB situaton is hilarious and completely of their own making. Havind said Dillon Gabriel did OK in his first game.
Poor Joe Flacco is going to get battered. I'd be amazed it he makes it to Christmas without getting broken.
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plenty of us wanted him before the draft, couldn't believe he was still there in the 7th

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Fun stat. 
In the past 10 seasons. Only 2 teams have more than a 100 loses.?

New York Giants.
New York Jets.

Race to the bottom my friends.!

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