When will the Jets bashing ever end?
The unfortunate franchise plays its games in “Giants” stadium and toils in the same division as the perennially mighty Patriots (at least in this decade). The franchise even suffered through two full seasons with Richie Kotite as Head Coach.
It ain't easy being the Jets!
Now that the Jets have posted a strong 8-3 record thus far in the 2008 campaign and (evidently arguably) established itself as a legitimate playoff contender in the AFC, the anti-Jets writers are back at it.
They seem to only be happy when the Jets are struggling. Once the green and white start looking like winners, they sharpen their knives and begin writing their blistering criticisms and unjustified attacks to create doubt concerning the franchise’s hard earned success.
They are outraged by Jets’ fans hubris to actually utter the words playoffs or championship. To them evidently, disgraceful and delusional Jets fans are the only fans who talk about their team’s playoff and Super Bowl prospects.
Why does every anti-Jets sports writer highlight that it has been almost 40 year since the Jets won a Super Bowl? Consider the Cardinals, Falcons, Bills, Panthers, Bengals, Browns, Lions, Texans, Jaguars, Vikings, Saints, Eagles, Chargers, Seahawks and Titans have never won a Super Bowl! Ever! That’s 15 teams!
While 47 percent of the league has never won a Super Bowl, they pick on the Jets for only achieving one SB win? Occasionally reverence will be paid to the achievement of Broadway Joe and the 1969 AFL champions topping the NFL Colts in the Super Bowl.
That acknowledgment, however, is traditionally followed by a condescending footnote that the Jets have not been back to the big game since. Decades of futility!
The Buffalo Bills, who have not been to the playoffs since 1999, were treated as a playoff contender by these same writers earlier this season when they jumped off to a 4-0 record. Those victories were over the hapless (in 2008) Seahawks, Jaguars, Raiders and Rams. It was perfectly acceptable to consider the Bills as legitimate playoff contenders—a team that has not had a winning record this decade. These facts are not listed to pick on the Bills, but to expose the pedantically anti-Jets syndicate.
In comparison the Jets have made it to the playoffs four times since 2000 and as recently as 2006. Prior to last season, the Jets had achieved winning records in five of the seven seasons since 2000. The two losing seasons directly correspond to significant injuries to QB Chad Pennington. These achievements were realized while playing the NFL dominating Patriots twice each season.
Unfairly, the ugly 4-12 record of the 2007 campaign is held over the Jets rendering any improvements this season dubious. Realistically, the 2007 season should be seen as the aberration. In the 12 post-Kotite seasons including this 2008 season, the Jets have amassed a respectable 99-88 record (a .529 winning percentage). Only three of the twelve have been losing seasons. It likely would have been only two losing seasons if not for the 8 - 8 season in 1999 when QB Vinnie Testaverde went down in week one with a torn achilles tendon.
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