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[Beezer34]

they danced around like they won the super bowl after beating the jets, I think they may have forgotten there was still...you know...games to play

..and to Miami, last week was their Superbowl. You can dance and poke fun all you want bro. There's no real reason to put the fish in the same category as the Bears\Texans. Neither the Jets or Dolphins have a winning record. Miami may have beaten the Jets last Sunday, but we split with them for the year. They have 4 wins, we have 3.. there's some huge difference there?

Today had "emotional letdown" written all over it. But this is why you don't spit up in the NFL, because it could come back and bite you in the ass. You had Richie Incognito waiving and blowing the Jets kisses last week. Now they lose a game that could absolutely have playoff ramifications come seasons end.

[Colorado Rockies 1976]

No one is putting the Dolphins in the Bears/Texans category. They are a pleasant surprise though. They have a shot to finish .500 with a rookie QB, and no one was really expecting much out of the Dolphins this year. Considering they were 1-7 at the halfway point last year, they've made some nice strides.

The Jets in Year 4 of the Rex Ryan Era have been a joke...injuries have clearly paid a part, but when you yap away like Rex does, that doesn't help the Jets' cause much. Those two AFC Championship appearances are starting to seem like a long time ago. I don't think the Jets are completely done yet, but there's no way the Jets thought they'd be 3-5 halfway through the season.

The "huge difference" is that one team clearly had expectations, and the other one really didn't.

[MadDog2020]

There's your vaunted Giants defense for you again...shredded as always.

Miami too, another bigtime performance. 500 yards allowed to the Colts. Another overrated sack of sh!t team

. That overrated, sack of sh!t team embarassed the sh!t out of your clown squad last week. And it sounds like it still hurts lmao.

[MadDog2020]

No one is putting the Dolphins in the Bears/Texans category. They are a pleasant surprise though. They have a shot to finish .500 with a rookie QB, and no one was really expecting much out of the Dolphins this year. Considering they were 1-7 at the halfway point last year, they've made some nice strides.

The Jets in Year 4 of the Rex Ryan Era have been a joke...injuries have clearly paid a part, but when you yap away like Rex does, that doesn't help the Jets' cause much. Those two AFC Championship appearances are starting to seem like a long time ago. I don't think the Jets are completely done yet, but there's no way the Jets thought they'd be 3-5 halfway through the season.

The "huge difference" is that one team clearly had expectations, and the other one really didn't.

. Bingo CR. If we don't make the playoffs this year, it's no skin off my back, I never thought we were getting there anyway. The bottom line this year is developing the QB and finding out if the coach can coach. The QB is coming along nicely and the coach is proving he can coach (with the exception of a meh game today- Philbin obviously has more than the 4 collective brain cells that Cam Cameron and Tony Sparano had, that's fairly obvious) so I'd say we're in the plus column whether we make the playoffs this year or not. We have a 1st, 2 2nds, 2 3rds, and $50 mil in cap space this offseason to supplement the roster and build around Tannehill. I'd rather be in our position than a lot of other teams right now for the first time in a while.

[Beezer34]

The "huge difference" is that one team clearly had expectations, and the other one really didn't.

..where was the "clear expectations" of a team that imploded last year?? Because if there was a LOOK OUT WORLD category the Jets were on, I think I missed it. Neither the Jets nor the Dolphins had a winning record last season, and both teams missed the playoffs. The Jets had 8 wins.. Miami had 6. What lofty goals were different between the two teams? When were the Jets the *team-to-watch* going into this season? Was it when they went winless throughout the preseason? Minus Tebow, this team is nearly identical to last years. Our WR corp lost Plaxico, who had 9 TD's, and replaced him with a rookie. Our running game loses LT, and replaced him with...... fill in blank. The Jets had expectations going into 2010 after 2009, and 2011 after 2010.. but not after last season. Especially the little retooling that was done to the roster. The *expectation from the majority of NFL analyst's was; with a new OC system to learn, and thinning depth at both WR & RB, the Jets will struggle offensively. Those expectations have certainly come to fruition. Sprinkle in 11 injuries, including Holmes & Revis, our 2 best players.. and I'm supposed to be shocked we have 5 losses heading into Week 10?? --not really.

EDIT; Back on topic.. the fish have 4 wins, the Jets have 3, and we split our 2 games. Jet fans should talk draft, and Dolphin fans should talk Superbowl.

Edited by Beezer34, 04 November 2012 - 10:18 PM.

[MadDog2020]

..where was the "clear expectations" of a team that imploded last year?? Because if there was a LOOK OUT WORLD category the Jets were on, I think I missed it. Neither the Jets nor the Dolphins had a winning record last season, and both teams missed the playoffs. The Jets had 8 wins.. Miami had 6. What lofty goals were different between the two teams? When were the Jets the *team-to-watch* going into this season? Was it when they went winless throughout the preseason? Minus Tebow, this team is nearly identical to last years. Our WR corp lost Plaxico, who had 9 TD's, and replaced him with a rookie. Our running game loses LT, and replaced him with...... fill in blank. The Jets had expectations going into 2010 after 2009, and 2011 after 2010.. but not after last season. Especially the little retooling that was done to the roster. The *expectation from the majority of NFL analyst's was; with a new OC system to learn, and thinning depth at both WR & RB, the Jets will struggle offensively. Those expectations have certainly come to fruition. Sprinkle in 11 injuries, including Holmes & Revis, our 2 best players.. and I'm supposed to be shocked we have 5 losses heading into Week 10?? --not really.

EDIT; Back on topic.. the fish have 4 wins, the Jets have 3, and we split our 2 games. Jet fans should talk draft, and Dolphin fans should talk Superbowl.

. To be fair, you're right Beez- most Jet fans I know thought they were gonna suck this year. The expectations were coming from the inside, what with Rex saying he thought it was the best team he had in his Jet coaching tenure and the whole super-secret Tebow/Wildcat stuff Sparano claimed to have cooked up that everyone knew would be a joke. My friends who are Jet fans didn't have very high expectations this year at all.

[Daniel]

I gotta say, being a Cowboys fan must be one of the most frustrating things imaginable.

[MadDog2020]

I gotta say, being a Cowboys fan must be one of the most frustrating things imaginable.

. Yeah its gotta suck. They're the most un-clutch (new word?) team I've ever seen.

[Daniel]

. Yeah its gotta suck. They're the most un-clutch (new word?) team I've ever seen.

There's a lot of talent there too. Say what you want about Jerry Jones, but he's pretty good with personnel. The whole is much less though than the sum of its parts.

[MadDog2020]

There's a lot of talent there too. Say what you want about Jerry Jones, but he's pretty good with personnel. The whole is much less though than the sum of its parts.

. Look for them to make a run at Payton. Garrett's toast.

[CRASHER]

I gotta say, being a Cowboys fan must be one of the most frustrating things imaginable.

It's not....you eventually learn and accept that your coaching staff will find a way to screw it up.....keep a shot of Jack Daniels handy and ingest when needed and move on....
(something a certain Bills fan needs do )

[MadDog2020]

It's not....you eventually learn and accept that your coaching staff will find a way to screw it up.....keep a shot of Jack Daniels handy and ingest when needed and move on....
(something a certain Bills fan needs do )

. If anyone knows this feeling of reluctant acceptance in regards to idiotic coaching staffs, it's a Dolphins fan. Wannschmuck. Cameron. Sparano. I feel your pain Crash.

Edited by MadDog2020, 04 November 2012 - 11:10 PM.

[CRASHER]

......as I was saying........

[CRASHER]

If anyone knows this feeling of reluctant acceptance, it's a Dolphins fan. I feel your pain Crash.

I'm grateful for the prime time games so I can drink my OWN JD and watch at home in peace.....

PS, did ANY of you idiots in all your chest thumping think MAYBE the Colts were excited and fired up with Pagano in the building?? Oh yeah emotion doesn't count right???

PSS, Tomlin should be executed for that fake FG trash.......

hey...DEFENSIVE HOLDING.....where's my bottle?

[MadDog2020]

I'm grateful for the prime time games so I can drink my OWN JD and watch at home in peace.....

PS, did ANY of you idiots in all your chest thumping think MAYBE the Colts were excited and fired up with Pagano in the building?? Oh yeah emotion doesn't count right???

PSS, Tomlin should be executed for that fake FG trash.......

hey...DEFENSIVE HOLDING.....where's my bottle?

. Sure emotion counts. But the Fins did everything they could to help the Indy cause.

[Daniel]

PS, did ANY of you idiots in all your chest thumping think MAYBE the Colts were excited and fired up with Pagano in the building?? Oh yeah emotion doesn't count

Maybe it does, but I think the guy throwing the ball had more to do with it. Man is he scary good. The lord is definitely is a Colts fan.

[CRASHER]

The minute I heard Pagano was at the game I called the person in charge of the pool and asked her to change my pic to the Colts, but I couldn't get her and the internet was down at the bar.....grrrr
You guys are underestimating emotion and what it does in an otherwise evenly matched game.....

Still about to go 9-4 this week in spite of that.....

[devilsrule33]

The minute I heard Pagano was at the game I called the person in charge of the pool and asked her to change my pic to the Colts, but I couldn't get her and the internet was down at the bar.....grrrr
You guys are underestimating emotion and what it does in an otherwise evenly matched game.....

Still about to go 9-4 this week in spite of that.....

If I knew Chuck was going to be at the game, I'd never have taken the Dolphins at -1 like I did so early in the week. Either way, Colts are a great home team, so it was probably just a bad pick.

I don't think anyone did much worse than 9-4. All the major favourites won and even covered, which is as rare as it gets, It was the small favourites (Dolphins, Redskins, Giants) that had most of the trouble. No really big upsets at all this week.

Edited by devilsrule33, 05 November 2012 - 02:12 AM.

[MantaRay]

Giants are 6-3 and lead their division.
Miami smoked the Jets in their last game. Should a Jet fan really be killing other teams at this point?

Anyway, bizzarre stat of the day: the Ravens have been outscored over their last six games combined by seven points...yet they've managed to go 5-1 in those six games. One thing that is becoming more obvious with each week: Flacco is not an elite QB, and probably never will be...he's no scrub, and I think a team could win with him, but he's never putting a team on his back to take them to the promised land. I think the question has been answered: he's at the upper end of average, and not the lower end of elite.

They're winning ugly, but all that matters is that they're winning.

The slights against Miami and the Super Bowl Champion Giants are just bitter envy coming from a blind Jets fan.

I am afraid your take on Flacco seems correct. The potenital to be an elite QB is there for Flacco, but for some reason he can't seem to make that hurdle on a consistent basis. We are winning ugly, but will get crushed by NE, or Houston come crunch time.
Our D is weak but we are making some plays when it counts. But without Lewis and Webb it's an illusion of strength.

[MantaRay]

What happened to the Cowboys last night?