Look at the photo I have chosen of Mark Sanchez. Just look at it.

Look familiar?

Richard Todd. Ken O'Brien. Glenn Foley. Neil O'Donnell. Vinny Testaverde. Chad Pennington.

What these quarterbacks all share in common is the look of disgust.

Walt Michaels. Rich Kotite. Bruce Coslett. Pete Carroll. Herman Edwards. Eric Mangini, and now Rex Ryan.

What do these men all have in common?

Nothing but declarations of a better tomorrow, when you know, I know, and even your pets know; that bright shiny days do not exist in New York Jet land.

Once the Brett Favre/Eric Mangini era fell to pieces, only to be picked up by Ryan with his gregarious personality and jovial smile, it appeared that things were going to change. 

Ryan promised a new brand of football.

A physically domineering team that would take nothing for granted and do everything in its power to win a Super Bowl. Hell, Ryan even promised that he would one day shake the hand of Barrack Obama after the Jets won a Super Bowl!

Ryan's bravado and the team's cockiness claiming they would drag the Patriots through the dirt; after the team demolished the Texans in Week One; made people believers.

The coach made personal phone calls to all Jets season ticket holders asking them to come to the Patriots game in droves and drive them crazy. The fans bought into Ryan's talk, coming to the game like a pack of maddened wolves.

The players seemed to buy into Ryan's talk as they played a style of aggressive play that earned the title "Badfellas" from this very writer. They played with a "badass" mentality from the get-go.

But It's amazing how so much can change in a mere three weeks.

Losing to a team like the New Orleans Saints is one thing; the Saints are a great football team that may not lose more than a game this season. However, gift wrapping two games to the Miami Dolphins and Buffalo Bills is another thing.

Those two losses are so gut-wrenching, so inexplicable, that it will leave fans with only one conclusion: these 2009 New York Jets, Rex Ryan's Inglorious Bastards of the Gridiron, are nothing more than the same old Jets of yesteryear. 

To hold a 13-3 lead against a Bills team that can't get out of its own way; a Bills team that loses its promising young star quarterback, Trent Edwards, for a third stringer, Ryan Fitzpatrick; and somehow, someway the Jets still manage to find a way to lose a ball game.

First, Mark Sanchez is clearly not used to the strong winds of Giants Stadium. He was picked off five times, and a lot of his passes were badly under-thrown, or just taken away by the wind.

He has got to develop better arm strength if he has any intention of building a respectable career in New York. In order to throw in this park, a quarterback has to be able to cut the ball through the winds. Eli Manning learned that the hard way last year- when he was plain awful against the Eagles in the playoffs- and that's a quarterback who has a Super Bowl trophy on his resume.

That being said, Sanchez has a lot to learn, and one thing he going to need to learn is that being a starting quarterback in the NFL is a privilege.

He's 22-years-old and it may be time to force the kid to grow up a little bit and sit him down for a game. Let him get the cobwebs out of his mind and refocus. He needs to know that if you don't take care of the football, you are not going to play in this league.

Sanchez has 10 interceptions and six fumbles this year; he clearly doesn't get it right now, and it doesn't help matters that he is playing on a team that expects to be a playoff team in 2009.

That is a lot of pressure on his shoulders; therefore, he needs to take a time out.

This is not to say that Kellen Clemens or Eric Ainge would fair any better. In fact, they might even be worse, but the Jets need to do something to get their young quarterback back on track mentally.

Hence the Jets biggest problem: they don't have an identity.

The Jets want to believe they are a playoff team in 2009, and that they can win the way the Ravens and Falcons did in 2008 with a rookie quarterback. However, it takes time for a young kid like that to truly develop and become something special if he ever does.

It's easier for a team to develop around a young quarterback when the entire team is starting over; its much more difficult when the team has stars on it like Thomas Jones, Braylon Edwards, Bart Scott, and Kerry Rhodes.

The Jets have a roster full of now players, who are at the ripe age to win a title immediately; they have a quarterback who needs to be around other 22 and 23 year-old guys learning the ropes.

In short, the Jets are putting the cart before the horse here, and, as a result, will suffer one gut-wrenching defeat after another this year. Heaven forbid that starting a rookie on a now team sets Sanchez back, but it could definitely happen.

Defense : So much for that big talk/ big hittin' defense, heh? Rex Ryan promised from day one that his defense would be tougher to penetrate than the Red Army, and after six weeks, this group looks really soft.

They gave up 400 plus yards to the Dolphins last week and were not that great against the Bills this week, allowing Fitzpatrick to stand in the pocket and do as he pleased for most of the evening.

Where's the pressure? Where are the blitzes and sacks that were supposed to come with this 46 defense?

Right now, it is nowhere to be found. The defense as a unit has only five sacks all season, and a stingy five team interceptions with zero touchdowns.

Not exactly the Baltimore Ravens, if you ask me.

Ryan will try to tell his fan base, his team, and his bosses, not to give up on this football team. He will try to convince everyone that these last three games are truly a aberration; and its not the Jets team that he believes will come to play every given Sunday.

He will, like every other Jets coach in the past, try to tell us that he doesn't believe in the idea of "Same Old Jets." He already knocked down that notion last Tuesday when he was asked about it by a reporter.

Here's the problem that Ryan doesn't understand, but what Jet fans do understand. Once Ryan admitted that these were not the "Same Old Jets," he is echoing the past of the Same Old Jets, and making it present day, once again. 

For an organization that talked a big game out of training camp and came out like gangbusters in September, while adding to the talk that this was a championship football team, the past two losses are even more cruel.

It's the type of cruelty that Jet fans have gotten used to for 40 years previous, and it won't change in year number 41.