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Changing of the Guard


LionelRichie

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The changing of the guard is complete - this is no longer the 'same old jets'. the coaches have changed, the players have changed, and the team leaders have changed.

uncle ted's read and react was replaced by hendu's agression and violence. mo lewis and marvin jones - a locker room cancer and former 1st rd. underachiever - have been replaced by vilma and barton. fergy's gone; DRob is becoming a stud; ellis is one of the best defensive players in the game and guys like coleman came out of nowhere.

the slow Defense that let the Raiders run 18 consecutive times for an 80 yard drive is gone. what we have now is a cocky, hard-hitting team that walks on the field like they own it and expects to be not one of, but THE best D in the league; the acquisition of Ty Law cements it. Out with the old (ray, dabe, lewis, jones, robinson, tongue) in with the new (law, strait, miller, barret, barton, drob, vilma, rhodes, maddox, pouha).

on O - hackett and the same old O is finally gone. chrebet will hopefully have a diminished role in favor of guys waiting to break out like mccairens, jolley, and blaylock. the albatross that is anthony becht is finally gone, sideline santana was replaced by a guy with some balls, and dinger is bringing some accountability and fire to an O that has lacked it since Meshawn left town.

the days of punting from the 33 are over. both the K and P have cannons. this is no longer going to be the team that always plays it safe.

i don't know that this is the year to end the drought, but it is definitely a new team and no longer the same old jets. the FO has the killer instinct as seen with the Law signing, drafting a K b/f a C and ending up with 3 starters in the process. i can't gaurantee a SB, but this is the best team the jets have had in my lifetime. this team resembles the Miami hurricanes of the jimmy johnson years more than it resembles the jets of the walton, coslet, carrol, or kotite years. say what you want pats fans, but one thing you can't say is 'same old jets'.

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The changing of the guard is complete - this is no longer the 'same old jets'.

Until the Jets prove that on the football field, it will be "same old Jets" until they at least play in a Super Bowl.

Offseason talk is cheap.

The real games begin in September, then we will all see how this "changing of the guard" means anything.

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Until the Jets prove that on the football field, it will be "same old Jets" until they at least play in a Super Bowl.

Offseason talk is cheap.

The real games begin in September, then we will all see how this "changing of the guard" means anything.

I think this team is already not the same old Jets. There is no longer a losing attitude to this team. For about the past decade, the Jets have been consistently a winning football team. No, they haven't made the Super Bowl, but they haven't been the godawful teams of the past. We go into almost every season now knowing we can compete, and this team could be one of the best Jet's teams assembled in quite a while.

If somebody told you in 1995 that the Jets would be consistent playoff contenders you'd probably laugh them out of the room. But guess what? They are. And yeah Savage and TS and all you rabidly anti-Herm people out there (though as the latest poll shows, you're just a small but loud minority) just reaching the playoffs isn't good enough. But it's hell of a lot better than going 3-13 every year.

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