Monday, December 31, 2012

December 30 at Bills (9-28)

After a painful season, the Jets were finally able to pull the plug yesterday, letting the dust settle at 6-10. For the first time in the past seven meetings, they lost to the Bills. The caliber of play was on par with what had happened the rest of the season; no fireworks here.

The offense refused even for the season finale to come out from its invisibility cloak, registering yet another game this season without a touchdown. Once again, the team failed to capitalize during trips to the red zone, just managing three field goals. And even those we had trouble with: one was blocked again. But when drives did not end in field goal attempts, Sanchez made sure he did whatever he could to stop them on his own. In case we forgot why he was benched last week, Sanchez reminded us by throwing a pick-six and fumbling, throwing two more turnovers onto the pile of them he has stacked up all season.

Overall, it was another terrible game but unfortunately was not very surprising. In fact, it followed the same exact pattern of bad play this team has come up with all season. It has been embarrassing for fans, who now have a 6-10 team to complain about. At least it was a meaningless game. With this latest loss, we will get a better spot in the draft which will hopefully help us next year. But expect a lot of personnel changes to happen this offseason.

They already started today with GM Mike Tannenbaum being let go. But it needs to continue. Next needs to be Tony Sparano, the non-offense offensive coordinator. After that we should trade away Mark Sanchez, let Tim Tebow finally escape, and get a new starting quarterback. My recommendation would be to get Alex Smith, who was only demoted for getting a concussion.

Now that the season is over, I won't have any games to write about for a long time. However, I've decided to start up a new "Timeout" segment, the first post of which was put up last week. Here I will keep offering my own analysis on any major offseason news concerning the Jets, such as personnel changes, the NFL Draft, and training camp. Keep coming back for new posts.

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