There are different laughingstock groups in skilled sports activities, in fact. The White Sox simply misplaced extra video games than any baseball group in historical past. But it surely’s additionally value remembering they have been a playoff group three years in the past, successful 93 video games. The A’s shall be enjoying their subsequent three seasons in Sutter Well being Park in West Sacramento, presumably the Yankee Stadium of West Sacramento. And, let’s face it, the Giants preserve attempting to show themselves into amusing riot
However there isn’t any greater joke group than Woody Johnson’s Jets, even when different groups within the NFL have gained fewer video games than they’ve.
Oh, positive. Woody fired his coach this season. He has now fired his common supervisor. The offensive coordinator misplaced his job. The defensive coordinator is now the pinnacle coach. In case you imagine the current report in The Athletic — and why wouldn’t you, these are Woody’s Jets we’re speaking about? — the proprietor additionally talked about benching Aaron Rodgers after simply 4 video games. That might be the identical Aaron Rodgers to whom Woody had given the whole lot besides the naming rights to the group’s Coaching Heart in Florham Park.
May the Jets win a couple of video games the remainder of the best way? They’ve obtained the Jaguars, one other professional soccer embarrassment this season, on the schedule. If the Giants may clip the Seahawks in Seattle the Jets may be capable to do the identical in Jersey. However the Payments in Buffalo are on the schedule and there are two video games left with the ascendant Dolphins. There’s additionally a sport towards the Rams, who’re beginning to come on.
Simply to get to the 7-10 report they’d final 12 months, when Robert Saleh was nonetheless the coach and everyone besides Joe Namath obtained an opportunity to play quarterback, they’d should go 4-2 the remainder of the best way, and what have you ever seen that makes you suppose they’re able to doing even that?
If you’re maintaining rating at dwelling, the proprietor of the Jets simply fired the overall supervisor, Joe Douglas, who assembled a roster that the proprietor proclaimed was one of the best he had seen in 25 years. He fired Saleh as his coach earlier than that, saying he thought the Jets wanted a spark, and has proceeded to see the Jets win one sport since then; that isn’t only a spark, it’s a home fireplace. And the worst a part of all of that is that Jets followers could not have reached the underside of the barrel but, as a result of Woody is now within the means of looking for any person to run the Jets soccer operation as a result of, hey, who wouldn’t leap on the likelihood to work for a grounded proprietor like this?
You retain listening to that each one he has to do is rent the proper man to run the soccer operation. When has he?
Simply to do a reset right here: The Jets are within the means of going 14 straight seasons with out a single postseason look. By the way? In that point the A’s, who’ve now develop into the Bingo Lengthy Touring All-Stars, have made it to baseball’s playoffs on six totally different events.
Within the 14 seasons that we’re speaking about, the Jets have had one successful season, 9 years in the past. Their report beginning with the 2011 season is 80-142. For the reason that final successful season, their report is 44-98.
Then the Identical Previous Jets grew to become the Jets of outdated Aaron Rodgers, who turns 41 on Dec. 2 and who, earlier than he took his first snap as a Jet, had develop into essentially the most highly effective participant within the historical past of Woody Johnson’s tenure, Ambassador Woody giving him no matter his coronary heart desired: Offensive coordinators, backup quarterbacks, broad receivers. The consequence has been 3-8.
Is that this all Rodgers’ fault? No, it’s not. The Jets can’t cease the run, haven’t been in a position to run the ball on a constant foundation, can’t go previous the 30-point barrier Rodgers retains referencing, can’t sort out, have misplaced video games to Jacoby Brissett and Bo Nix on a day when Nix had 60 passing yards. They obtained rolled the best way they did by the Cardinals a few weeks in the past.
Earlier than they get to Thanksgiving in what was by some means described as a Tremendous Bowl-or-bust season again in September, they don’t know who their quarterback goes to be subsequent season, don’t know who the overall supervisor goes to be, actually don’t know who the coach goes to be, though outdated good friend Rex Ryan is attempting to persuade the entire world that he’s the one to Make the Jets Nice Once more.
Can hiring the proper common supervisor flip issues round? Completely it may well. I used to be on Michael Kay’s present on Wednesday referencing how if James Dolan may discover his technique to Leon Rose that Ambassador Woody may by some means do the identical factor, considerably like a soccer squirrel discovering an acorn. However once more: Off what we’ve got seen from him, why would any Jets followers suppose that’s the best way to wager.
What he ought to actually do, if he’s able to truly being accountable, is just not waste everyone time with one other assertion about one other firing. He ought to increase a hand in public and say that the one most guilty for the chaos of this season, for the embarrassment this model of the Jets has develop into, is him. Not Fall Man Saleh. Not Douglas. Not even this wounded and diminished model of Rodgers, who thus far has seemed just like the 41-year outdated model of Willie Mays with the Mets. And guess what? Even on the age of 42, Willie performed in a World Sequence.
So right here we’re. Mike Tannenbaum was fired after serving to assemble two groups ok to go to AFC championship video games. John Idzik changed Tannenbaum and Mike Maccagnan changed Idzik and Douglas changed Maccagnan. Now Woody Johnson is requested to not solely begin another time — once more — he’s charged with making crucial rent he has ever made. The proprietor is charged with doing this after he has by some means managed to make himself the face of this mess, each bit as a lot as Rodgers has been.
Yeah, there are different awful groups. Yeah, the Jets may nonetheless have it in them to win some video games earlier than this season is mercifully over. It doesn’t change the truth that this has changed into as embarrassing a second as they’ve had since Johnson purchased the group. This time the one doing the Butt Fumble is the proprietor.
The proprietor is the one one who can cease the Jets from being this sort of comedy. And perhaps, simply perhaps, it is a second when he may lastly cease blaming everyone for the present state of the New York Jets besides himself.
YANKS CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT SOTO, BRUNSON IS MIK (MOST IMPORTANT KNICK) & CC SHOULD BE FIRST-BALLOT HALL OF FAMER …
Alex Rodriguez left the Mariners and the subsequent 12 months they gained 116 common season video games.
Peyton Manning, one of many nice quarterbacks of all time, left the College of Tennessee and the subsequent 12 months they’d an ideal season and gained a nationwide championship with out him, with Tee Martin as their quarterback.
The purpose right here?
It gained’t be the tip of the world if Juan Soto doesn’t return to the Yankees, as fantastic a hitter as he has been his entire profession, and as fantastic a hitter as he was for the Yankees hitting in entrance of Aaron Choose.
It’s by no means about only one man in baseball, the game simply doesn’t work that means.
It was a basketball coach named Invoice Fitch who as soon as mentioned, “In baseball it doesn’t matter whether the left fielder knows the catcher’s name. It’s not basketball.”
The assertion isn’t fully true.
But it surely’s not fully false, both.
It is usually value remembering that though numerous issues occurred with the Padres after Soto left them, they have been 82-80 with Juan Soto in 2023 and 93-69 with out him in 2024, a season during which the Yankees have been a sport higher than the Padres with Soto.
Not solely did the Soto-less Padres have the report that they did, they gained yet another sport of their division sequence towards the Dodgers than the Yankees did within the World Sequence.
I’m watching Jameis Winston fling the ball round within the snow on Thursday night time and considering, You already know who may use a quarterback like that?
The Jets and the Giants, that’s who.
Jalen Brunson continues to be crucial Knick since Patrick Ewing, which implies he’s one of many two most necessary since Clyde and Willis and Earl and Greenback Invoice and Dave DeBusschere.
There’s a terrific e-book out concerning the nice Jimmy Breslin referred to as “The Man Who Told the Truth,” written by a terrific outdated Newser named Richard Esposito.
Ichiro is a lock to make the Corridor of Fame on his first strive, little doubt.
However so, too, ought to Carsten Charles Sabathia Jr. make it to Cooperstown on his first strive.
There’s not a single NFL analyst on TV higher than Dan Orlovsky.
Another factor about Soto:
Not solely may the Yankees lose Soto, they could lose him to both the Dodgers or the Mets.
As soon as the one factor that might have stung greater than that was dropping him to the Purple Sox.
No matter occurred to the Purple Sox, by the best way?
To paraphrase Dan Jenkins, there are however two issues I do concerning the Emirates NBA Cup, and each of them are care.
Lastly right this moment:
A cheerful birthday shout-out to our daughter, Hannah, who continues to reside a life stuffed with journey, and pleasure, and enjoyable, and make the world a extra lovely place as a result of she is in it.
One factor by no means adjustments:
I’m nonetheless blissful each time she walks into the room and unhappy when she leaves it.
