……going into the season I’d have my team focused on one goal! Winning the division. It’s so easy to get distracted by Indy going 7-0 or the teams that will be fighting for the wild card.
But the fact remains, you win the division, not only do you get into the playoffs, you get a home game in the playoffs. And what does it take to win the division? Just being better than 3 other teams.
That should be the only goal! The division games should hold so much more importance.
Fans starting thinking, “we can’t win the superbowl so who cares” Which is BS.
The only goal should be grabbing that division title. Once that’s reached you can move on to the next goal, which is securing a first round bye and then Home field. After that, your goals are winning playoff games one at a time.
It seems that we forgot what the main goal should be. Hell people around here were happy in week one because our wild card competition had lost. Maybe this happened because NE has been so good for the last few years that we see winning a division title as being impossible. Maybe we just have relaxed standards. But just a few years back in 2002, the Jets won the division at 9-7. We haven’t won the division since I believe 1997 or something.
And now here we are, 7 weeks into the season and we’re a half game behind the division lead. The Jets and Dolphins look terrible and have basically no chance at winning it. So it’s a 2-team race for 1 playoff spot, a playoff spot that guarantees a home game. It’s Buffalo and a New England team that lost a ton in the off-season and has been ravished by injuries.
But because we looked bad on a west coast game in Oakland, our season is over! Makes sense!
This is a huge game for us. And I’ll even go so far as to say that even if we don’t win, we still have a chance! While we’re on our bye, NE gets Indy. Even if they beat us, they’ll most likely be 4-4 after 8, which will put us 1 game behind them with 8 to go. We can get that game back by beating them here! Add on wins against Miami and NY and 5-1 in the division could give us a nice tiebreaker.
And save the talk about run defenses and bad coaching. 90% of the teams in the league have those same or different problems.
But the fact remains, you win the division, not only do you get into the playoffs, you get a home game in the playoffs. And what does it take to win the division? Just being better than 3 other teams.
That should be the only goal! The division games should hold so much more importance.
Fans starting thinking, “we can’t win the superbowl so who cares” Which is BS.
The only goal should be grabbing that division title. Once that’s reached you can move on to the next goal, which is securing a first round bye and then Home field. After that, your goals are winning playoff games one at a time.
It seems that we forgot what the main goal should be. Hell people around here were happy in week one because our wild card competition had lost. Maybe this happened because NE has been so good for the last few years that we see winning a division title as being impossible. Maybe we just have relaxed standards. But just a few years back in 2002, the Jets won the division at 9-7. We haven’t won the division since I believe 1997 or something.
And now here we are, 7 weeks into the season and we’re a half game behind the division lead. The Jets and Dolphins look terrible and have basically no chance at winning it. So it’s a 2-team race for 1 playoff spot, a playoff spot that guarantees a home game. It’s Buffalo and a New England team that lost a ton in the off-season and has been ravished by injuries.
But because we looked bad on a west coast game in Oakland, our season is over! Makes sense!
This is a huge game for us. And I’ll even go so far as to say that even if we don’t win, we still have a chance! While we’re on our bye, NE gets Indy. Even if they beat us, they’ll most likely be 4-4 after 8, which will put us 1 game behind them with 8 to go. We can get that game back by beating them here! Add on wins against Miami and NY and 5-1 in the division could give us a nice tiebreaker.
And save the talk about run defenses and bad coaching. 90% of the teams in the league have those same or different problems.
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