11-01-2021, 01:10 PM
Now I don't think this was a "good" loss (not sure any loss could truly be called "good", but perhaps some are less bad, e.g., the Packers loss). I believe this one was just plain a bad loss.
I don't take much stock in the long, drawn-out process that often describes the motion from losing to winning, or the idea that a team needs to "learn how to win". It is not at all uncommon for teams that suck to immediately cease sucking and go far. The Super Bowl 49ers of a couple years ago had been 4-12 the previous season. They didn't have to spend years "learning how to win". They just won.
I don't even care much about the Jets record. They're an NFL team, and any NFL team is capable of winning any NFL game. What bugs me considerably more is that they blew an 11 point lead with under 8:00 remaining. Quite simply: the defense can never have another game like that if this team wants a realistic chance to make the postseason. Likewise, Burrow cannot continue to throw interceptions every single week. He has been so good, and I love him at QB -- but that could have cost them in Baltimore and did cost them in NY.
I don't take much stock in the long, drawn-out process that often describes the motion from losing to winning, or the idea that a team needs to "learn how to win". It is not at all uncommon for teams that suck to immediately cease sucking and go far. The Super Bowl 49ers of a couple years ago had been 4-12 the previous season. They didn't have to spend years "learning how to win". They just won.
I don't even care much about the Jets record. They're an NFL team, and any NFL team is capable of winning any NFL game. What bugs me considerably more is that they blew an 11 point lead with under 8:00 remaining. Quite simply: the defense can never have another game like that if this team wants a realistic chance to make the postseason. Likewise, Burrow cannot continue to throw interceptions every single week. He has been so good, and I love him at QB -- but that could have cost them in Baltimore and did cost them in NY.
