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The New York Jets are going nowhere this season. With the behavior exuded the last couple of days, you wonder, why is this team even being talked about?
Fights happen at every training camp so why is it the Jets are covered for an altercation that is normal?
Simple, attention.
Since Rex Ryan has been at the helm, all the Jets have been about is attention. Nobody is including the Jets in Super Bowl contenders discussion and neither are they talked about as a threat in their division.
They are not acting like a football team, they are acting like an advertisement.
Firstly, there is no confidence in Mark Sanchez, which is shown when he plays on the field. You cannot put all the blame on Sanchez when his own team does not believe in him. If they did, why bring in Tim Tebow?
Granted, changing the game by switching in Tebow for Sanchez on a 4th and inches or a 2-point conversion can make the Jets look like geniuses, but it also validates the claim of having no confidence in your starting quarterback.
Right now, everything spoken about the Jets is negative. No one is saying they are favorites in any sense of the word favorite. All that is spoken about the Jets is Tim Tebow, Rex Ryan, Mark Sanchez, and who is their number 2 receiver behind Santonio Holmes. Tebow runs with his shirt off and he is plastered on the back pages of the New York Post. Two fights break out and bam, all New York is talking about is the Jets in a negative light.
Jets, do you know why your rival, the New York Giants, has won two Super Bowl titles in the last 4 years?
Three things. Confidence. Resilience. Disregard.
Confidence, because when everyone else downgraded Eli Manning and said how he would never be as great as his older brother Peyton, the Giants organization stood steadfast with Eli as their quarterback. 2012, Eli has brought New York two Lombardi trophies as a result of that confidence and has emerged as the leader of the team.
Resilience, because even with head coach Tom Coughlin on the hot seat and barely making the playoffs in both seasons they won the Super Bowl, the Giants backed down to nobody and earned every victory through resilient play. Even an undefeated New England Patriot team could not deter the Giants from Super Bowl glory.
Last but certainly not least, the Giants had disregard to whatever anyone else said about them. Nobody is talking about controversy in the New York Giants rank and the reason is because they focus on playing football, not pandering to media publications. For Coughlin and the Giants, football is first, fame is second. They are paid to football players not entertainers and the Giants embrace that thought.
The New York Jets do not possess any of those three qualities and this off season shows it.
No confidence in Mark Sanchez by signing Tebow and adapting a Wildcat offense specifically for Tebow.
No resilient play and certainly no disregard for media attention shrouding anything positive.
In order to be taken seriously as a Super Bowl contender, this ridiculousness needs to cease immediately. To be taken seriously, you must act seriously and be a threat to your opponents. The Jets need to find this or otherwise, they will take another backseat to the Giants this year.
The New York Jets will become like the Miami Marlins if this continues; All hype and no result.
