There is no more defense of the New York Jets.
The excuses and mental gymnastics can stop.
The Aaron Rodgers Experiment has been a total failure.
The only way to fix this team is to trade and/or fire everyone involved with this team.
This is the new rock bottom.
The only thing Jets fans had to cling to over these past 13 years of losing has been hope.
Hoping Geno Smith would be good.
Hoping Sam Darnold would be good.
Hoping Zach Wilson would be good.
Then getting Aaron Rodgers and almost knowing they would be good.
They were never good.
They were never average.
They were only bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
I’ve reached the point where I kind of hate rooting for this team a little bit.
It sucks watching other teams make the playoffs.
It sucks even more watching bad teams like the Bills and 49ers become great while we stay awful.
You see dynasties rise and fall while you put up another 5 or 7 win season.
How do you even fix this?
Trade every asset for draft picks and start from scratch?
you’ve got the option to’t go into another season wishing on Aaron Rodgers.
He’s not even good and who knows if he can stay healthy?
I also have no confidence anyone on this team is good.
The defense and especially Sauce Gardner seem to have taken a huge step back this season.
I can’t drink the green Kool-Aid anymore.
Yes, Greg “The Dead Leg” Zuerlein has missed all sorts of kicks this year.
The Jets have also now lost 5 games in a row.
I’m not even really mad anymore.
I’m just bummed out and getting more and more apathetic with each passing week.
Why make an effort to watch this team when all they do is let you down.
I don’t even mean not winning a title.
31 NFL teams have their seasons end and let us down.
Every franchise has ups and downs.
That’s part of being a sports fan.
It’s like they say in Vanilla Sky, you might’t have the sweet without the sour.
But what if it’s only sour?
What if it’s just constant disappointment?
I am tired of hoping.
I don’t want to hope the next Jets QB is good.
I just want him to be good.
I don’t blame Joe Douglas for the moves he made.
I liked them at the time.
But they didn’t work.
Maybe one day it will?
They can’t be awful forever.
I’m likely more than halfway through my life.
I’ve never seen this team even make a Super Bowl.
At some point, you have to wonder if that’ll ever be in the cards.
This is the new rock bottom for the Jets.
It’s one thing to miss the playoffs.
It’s another thing to lose hope that they ever will.
