FidelioJet Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 19 minutes ago, NoBowles said: Yup, if you look at last year, many of the games were very similar, we just happened to win many of those one score games that we lost this year. Last year could have been a 6-10 year as easily as we could be 7-4 right now. That's the NFL - good teams find ways to win those games and bad ones don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdetroit Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 3 hours ago, bitonti said: @ KC and @ PIT are terribly hard places to play, no matter how good or bad either roster is... the Jets can't even hit a damn field goal in Pittsburgh historically even @AZ is a huge road trip Well Fitz was historically inept in 2 of those 3 games The hamburger I'm eating right now would have been statistically a better qb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 I found them exhausting, depressing, frustrating and yes, they were so tough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoBowles Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 2 hours ago, FidelioJet said: That's the NFL - good teams find ways to win those games and bad ones don't. Ehhh, Pro sports is a game of inches, last year those inches went our way, this year they did not. I don't think we were a better team necessarily last year than this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIJetsFan Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 I think not having an Ivory type hurt a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewilly12 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 4 minutes ago, LIJetsFan said: I think not having an Ivory type hurt a lot! Speed we lack speed at RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio State NY Jets fan Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Worst 2nd round pick ever Folk gave first game to Cinci Bills game was the peak of the season (like Favre vs Titans) 6 interceptions vs KC and the QB was not benched - the end... sh*te happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIJetsFan Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 http://www.ganggreennation.com/2016/11/29/13774634/ny-jets-bring-back-mike-westhoff One of the things that struck me on Sunday watching my beloved New York Jets get beat by the New England Patriots was the blocked field goal attempt of Nick Folk in the second quarter. I thought to myself as I sank into the comfort of yet another futile day watching this dismal team, why don't the Jets ever do that? It seemed like a long time since the Jets had blocked a kick, and that got me curious. When exactly was the last time the Jets blocked a kick? So I thought to myself, I have a computer thingamabob, I can say OK Google. I can do this! So I looked it up. MVP moment for me right there. And do you know what I found? The last season the Jets had a blocked kick was ... 2012. Perhaps not coincidentally that was the last season Mike Westhoff worked for the Jets. That seemed like too long a time, but I thought to myself as I savored the bitter taste of wallowing in another Jets defeat, maybe plenty of other teams haven't blocked a kick since then too. I mean, it's not exactly a common event, right? So I looked it up. Well, OK, technically Google looked it up. But I said OK Google, so yay me! And do you know what I found? Since 2012 only one other NFL team has failed to block a kick, the Washington Redskins. That's not such a good look for the Jets. Well, I thought to myself as I festered in my growing resentment of my childhood self for choosing the Jets as my team without clearly thinking through the grave ramifications of such a decision (note to my adult self: sue my childhood self for negligent infliction of emotional distress), but I digress. Well, I thought to myself, how about punts then? So Google looked it up while I pondered the existential angst of attaching myself like a carbunkle to the hull of a rudderless ship like the Jets. And do you know what Google found? The Jets haven't blocked a punt since 2013. As it turns out no other team in the NFL has gone the last three years without blocking a kick or a punt. Only the New York Jets. Apparently the Jets have the best manners of any team in the NFL and would never dream of such a rude thing as trying to block an innocent opponent's good faith try to score some points. Classy. Google looked up some more stuff while I reveled in the awesome power of having my own personal information superhighway butler hop to it at my every OK Google command. This must be how the Pharaohs felt! Do you know what Google found? Six teams have blocked a kick and/or punt every year for the last three years. One team, the Baltimore Ravens, has blocked a kick and a punt in each of the last three years. Twenty seven teams have blocked a kick and/or punt in at least two of the last three years. And then there's the Jets. Alone among NFL teams with zero blocked kicks, zero blocked punts since 2013. Blocks are hardly the end all and be all of special teams. But they are game changing plays. Pick up one or two per year and you probably change the outcomes of some games the last three years. In addition, standing alone in blocks futility is symptomatic of a larger problem, even if it indicates an admirable independent streak. Such lovable rogues these Jets. Since 2012 the Jets have been anywhere from mediocre to horrible in kick returns, punt returns, kick coverage, and punt coverage. In short, the only thing that's been special about the Jets special teams is they have been especially bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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