12-28-2021, 11:19 PM
(12-28-2021, 11:10 PM)leonardfan40 Wrote: They said before the game they were going to rest starters. Pretty sure Marvin at some point also said they played it as vanilla as possible to avoid showing anything in week 17 vs the WC game.
He didn’t play well the next week, no argument. I’m just saying that was historically bad because of circumstances. Otherwise it probably would have just been regular bad. One team on a glorified bye week knowing before hand they had nothing to play for and were going to rest starters. The other playing for their playoff spot.
Maybe you're right. Just always struck me as odd that we'd even play our starters if we weren't trying to win. Why risk injury just to play "vanilla offense" and not even try to win? The Jets were clearly not going to lay down.
That was either an awful day for our guys, or a horrible decision by Marv. Depending on whether you believe that we were giving half effort.
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