Changing the mindset
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Brett Favre said no one sat down and explained it to him, but he had the impression when he arrived that the Jets carried the burden of their own team history. He didn’t want to put too fine a point on it, but he made it clear that it was something the players have had to fight.
“Maybe from the outside looking in, in the past, you saw a lot of potential, but it was almost like they anticipated something bad happening,” Favre said. “It’s kind of hard to change that way of thinking.”
Last year the Jets went 4-12 in coach Eric Mangini’s second season, and maybe Mangini would prefer it if his new quarterback weren’t quite so honest, but many on the team have agreed that the Jets need to change that mind-set.
“I think we’ve had an opportunity to get some different players,” offensive lineman D’Brickashaw Ferguson said, “and our offseason focus is really, hey, we can’t have another season like we did last year. That was with the losses. No team wants to experience that. I think we’ve made a conscious effort to put ourselves in the best position possible to be successful. And that’s what we try to do.”
Favre said the same was true in Green Bay the year he got to the Packers, who incidentally went 4-12 in 1991, the year before Favre’s arrival.
“They had lost there for so many years and Mike Holmgren was trying to change that way of thinking, whether it be getting rid of some of the guys that thought that way or being able to change the mind-set of those guys,” Favre said. “I think if we continue to believe that we can win any game and that we can make every play and not anticipate something bad happening, but rather anticipate good things happening – I’m not going to sit here and make predictions, but I think people can see there is some improvement from this team.”
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