It’s time to take a second and look at all the sports news. Ohtani’s translator has been indicted. The NBA is chugging along. Hockey is… hockeying? The Eagles beat the Chiefs 40-22 in the Super Bowl? I hate both those teams, so whatever.
Oh, and the Jets and Aaron Rodgers are done.
Now, you see, I’m not a New Yorker. I don’t get up in my feelings when I realize that it is, in fact, all about the Mets. Love the Mets. I don’t think about the Mets at all, except for when Steve Cohen steals another free agent I was really hoping would sign with the Diamondbacks. All I do is laugh when the Mets implode after spending the economy of a small country on a mid-tier baseball team.
I also don’t really think too hard about other N.Y. sports. I’m sorry, the Knicks, Islanders, Rangers, and Nets are bad? Who cares, New York could sink and I’d probably celebrate.
Except I really, really like watching the Jets suffer. I am a Giants fan, but more than that, I’m a hater. It’s in my DNA. So boy, oh boy, do I hate the New York (but really it’s New Jersey) Jets. And I am ever so excited to see them suffer and fail at the hands of good ol’ Aaron Rodgers some more.
The Jets basically destroyed themselves out of desperation for Rodgers. They bent over backwards to accommodate him, bringing in his favorite old, bad players, his favorite sad, incapable receiving core, and his buddy, the terrible, awful, no-good coach Nathaniel Hackett. And Hackett he could not when Nate’s offense was so anemic that he got head coach Saleh fired and turned Woody Johnson, the man with two innuendos in his name, into an impotent leader who couldn’t handle his team. Rodgers destroyed the Jets, and in return, the Jets destroyed him.
It’s hard to forget the ACL tear Rodgers suffered four plays into the Jets’ 2023 season. It shouldn’t have happened, and it was in a game that reminded the Jets that while their offense was good for one or two good games occasionally, they had a defense worth standing on and a cougar hunter at QB. That defense, now playing with a rested and healthy Rodgers, was dogwater, because now there’s tape and Sauce Gardner isn’t nearly as good with tape. That’s the fundamental issue: the Jets were not able to do much when faced with teams prepared even a little bit for them. Their defense, under a famed ex-49er defensive-minded head coach, regressed significantly, the chemistry between Rodgers and his receivers was so poor, it looked like a loveless marriage from a sitcom, and the entire team seemed to just be calling it in. The Jets crashed, burned, and left the entire sport behind in another futile season, which really reminds you that there is good in the world as long as New York sports fans are sad.
Except the Giants. That just makes me depressed. Can we fire the entire team? Into the sun, preferably?
Leave a Reply