You may have noticed an ‘offseason slowdown’ here at The Bye Week <peanut gallery chuckles>, but we’re getting things back up and running (with a new website on the way in the coming weeks). To get more content up, a lot of the posts will be thoughtful email exchanges between our commentators. Let me know what you think of the format.
Miller Genuine:
There’s lots of love floating around for the Jets this offseason. Even Rex Ryan thought they weren’t going to make the playoffs last season, and now they’re supposedly a Super Bowl darling? I know beating a mediocre Bengals team in the playoffs and catching a porous Chargers defense w/ its pants down will impress some people, but I think we should put away the anointing oil.
Look at the solid citizens from last year’s squad they jettisoned. Look at the malcontents they’ve added to this year’s squad. I smell something terrible brewing in the Meadowlands…
Jimmy from JERSEY, BABY!:
That terrible smell is the Giants.
But I agree with you. They completely purged a great team that gelled at the right moment to make a near Super run for a huddle full of strangers. Now they have more so-called premium talent on the roster but all of these additions have some more serious character flaw. The defense is enough to keep them in the hunt, but an 8-8 season would not surprise me in the least. I think they got too cute this off-season.
I’m all about trying to improve your team in the off-season to get over the hump; sometimes teams really are just a piece or two away. But tearing down half of your sturdy, well-built house to install a “totally sweet” sunroom (something that looks great in infomercials but just isn’t all that practical) doesn’t make too much sense. What’s that old saying? “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The Jets fixed’ed their team real nice.
