We’re back up and running
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- December
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Sorry again for the gap between posts. Debbie and I have been locked out of the system for the last week. One of the tech guys just emailed me that the problem’s been fixed.
Just in time for another Jets loss, of course. But I’m not going to moan and groan about it. This late in a lost season, I must confess I don’t mind getting beat. All it does is bring us one game closer to a high draft pick. I’m curious as to how much you guys root for your teams to lose when draft position is at stake. This season has basically been a washout since Week 8. Did any of you secretly start wishing for losses then? On a purely logical scale that probably makes the most sense. There are other people who waited until like Week 12 or 13, and others who just can’t root against the Jets no matter what.
As it currently stands, the Jets will own the third pick. Miami is locked in at No. 1. St. Louis, also with three wins, is currently No. 2. The Rams play at Arizona next week. Atlanta also has three wins but is fourth in the draft order behind the Jets. The Falcons, as I write this, are driving deep in Arizona territory tied at 24-24 late in the fourth quarter. A win would ensure the Jets draft ahead of them.
The last obstacle to a top-3 Jets draft pick is our old buddy Herm Edwards and the Chiefs, who come to the Meadowlands next week. As a couple readers have pointed out, it’d be Herm’s perfect revenge to take a dive and move ahead of the Jets. Maybe Cotchery and David Harris should come down with mysterious injuries on Friday.
Speaking of Cotchery, props to him for passing the 1,000 yard mark with his big game today. He caught eight balls for 152 yards in his biggest game since Week 2. With Coles in and out of the lineup—and as we learned before today’s game, now out for the season—Cotchery has broken out as a No. 1 receiver. Still not sure if he can be the lead receiver on a playoff team, but if Coles comes back healthy next year Cotchery will make an excellent No. 2.
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Jane McManus 
I am extremely dissapointed that a jets writer is actually advocating losing out in order to get a draft pick. It’s almost as if I’m listening to a few petty highschool kids quibbling about getting reggie bush last year.
Nothing bad comes from winning. You build confidence; you give the players something positive to work for in the offseason, you show free agents that you are heading in the right direction and not that you have a team full of players with no heart. I really hope you were just playing devils advocate, because i don’t want to beleive true Jets fans are hoping that our team loses games.
This is my first post to this blog even though I’ve been following it religiously since the beginning of last year. I was excited to find a good blog with all different insights into the Jets. Now with Andrew gone, it has lost almost all of its luster. I think it speaks more to how good Andrew was at this blog, rather than where you two are. That said, I just don’t have the same enthusiasm to check the blog, but I will occasionally check to hopefully see if things have changed and their’s more updated posts. Look forward to better handling of this with OJT.
And likewise to Stevan, I don’t know how a fan can root for their team to lose. Just disappointing.
It’s not about actively rooting against them. It’s about not being crushed when they go from 3-11 to 3-12, because you know they just got something out of it (i.e. better draft position). As you can tell from some of the comments on other posts, other fans have been thinking draft position as well. For you two that’s obviously not the case. Which is good to know. It’s why I brought the topic up. Stevan makes a good point about how losing breeds bad players. That’s definitely a carryover from crummy seasons. Although things turn around so fast in the NFL that players are good at shaking off the cobwebs quickly.