The NY Jets were 7-7 last year when the Colts quit. They removed Manning from the game, the Jets won, and then they won their final regular season game v. a Bengals team who was sitting just about everyone. Carson Palmer's little brother was QB, no joke, his little brother.
The Jets are starting on HBO's Hard Knocks this week. The show is awesome no matter who the team is, but it has had its good and bad years. Good years were the Ravens, which was the first year of the show. Bad years were Campo's Dallas Cowboys, b/c they were clearly in it for the show, and not for football.
The Bengals last year were in it for football, and they had a challenging year, but it was clear Marvin Lewis wasnted to win games, while Campo wanted to be on TV.
Everything, every piece of evidence, is pointing towards Rex Ryan joining the Campo club. On a side note, I find it so sad that you were at one time a team's head coach now you are on the sidelines as their Secondary Coach. Thats just really sad, nice career progression, Campo.
The lies that are taking place are partially a media creation, and partially a Rex Ryan creation. The Jets made the AFC Championship, which we know in the case of January 2010 really meant that they played 3 good weeks of football - they didn't put together a season for the ages, they didn't put together a historic run - they played a few good weeks of (defensive) football.
Darrelle Revis is the real deal. I wrote a post last year praising him and it was justified. They enter camp with him on the bench. He is like Troy Polumolu, he is the kind of player that completely changes the way a team plays defense. Without him, the lies of the Jets success will be greatly misprognosticated. They are a bad football team without Revis, period.
Even with Revis, they have their question marks. Aside from Shonn Greene, who looks to be incredible at RB, they have nothing. Tomlinson is toast, and beyond that they cobble a team together. Mark Sanchez hasn't proven anything yet at QB, he doesn't even really have control of the offense, not yet at least.
I don't need to go position by position, but the fact that Rex Ryan wrote a book, is calling the Jets out to be the championship team, and that he cannot get his best player in camp to be with the team as their TV show is about to start - its all the sign of a prima donna team, clutching to the Broadway Joe Jets identity, but this time without actually upsetting the Colts.
The Jets will finish 7-9, any other prediction is a lie.
