Honest Review #2.7

Honest Review 2.7: Déjà vu yet again
If losing at home on the heels of a terrible call, losing like this is just worst. I didn’t write this article last night because I was just crushed from this past weekend. Losing a little bit of money at the track yesterday afternoon didn’t help, but the Yankees losing in back to back games in Houston, to Michigan being blown out in Happy Valley on Penn State’s White Out game, to the Jets grabbing defeat out of the hands of victory. An absolutely awful sports weekend for me, and I don’t know if I want to watch sports next week.

If the Jets lose in a rough way at home against this bad Atlanta Falcons team—I don’t know if I can take it.

For the Jets to take a 21-14 lead into the locker room at half, a 28-14 lead into the 4th quarter, and to lose the game like they did—it’s the same old Jets. I’ve seen Jet quarterbacks throw a key interception in the 4th quarter to change the momentum and ultimately lose the game like they always do.

This Jet team apparently learned a lot in the smackdown that they took to the rear end in Oakland in Week 2, they still look like the same team that took that beat down. This team still looks like it hustles and plays hard, but they don’t know how to close teams out when it matters. This Miami game, the Patriots loss last week, and the win that was almost a lost against the Jaguars a couple weeks back.

This game would have been a great road win, and a win in division that would have kept them in the race for the division. In a year that almost every Jet fan wanted the team to lay an egg and just be the worst team in football, they have somehow dragged us Jet fans in this season, and they are breaking our hearts when we knew all along that they would be terrible.

So, my proposition to Todd Bowles and this team is, just be horrible for the rest of the year. They have fought hard for a little while sticking through the madness of the season, but the fun is over, and the tank should be back on in Gotham. Try and get the quarterback to turn this franchise around (please I’m sick of key 4th quarter interceptions), trade Matt Forte for a draft pick that we can use, and let’s roll into the 2018 NFL draft like it’s our Super Bowl and we have to play well. If not, well, this franchise should clean house—getting a group that is focused on rebuilding from the ground floor to try and bringing the Jets a Super Bowl title.

  

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