{"id":22079,"date":"2025-10-30T01:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22079\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:57:09","slug":"jets-fans-forget-about-the-tank-theres-something-more-at-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22079\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets fans, forget about the tank, there’s something more at stake"},"content":{"rendered":"

I cannot conduct a poll that includes every Jets fan extant, and thus I know better than to assume I can speak with absolute authority on behalf of the entirety of that tortured fan base. What I can do is speak for myself, and how I would like to believe Jets fans would feel on this matter if given a pinch of truth serum with their morning coffee.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I believe \u2014 genuinely \u2014 that no fan really wants to tank. Part of the reason for this is that for every Peyton Manning, there is a JaMarcus Russell. For every Victor Wembanyama<\/a> there is an Anthony Bennett. For every Connor McDavid there is an Alexandre Daigle.<\/p>\n

Tanking guarantees nothing, unless I\u2019ve been Rip Van Winkle-ing the endless stretch of playoffs success that the Jaguars have piled up with Trevor Lawrence, or that Jameis Winston has collected with \u2026 well, just about everybody. And that especially applies in a year, such as this, when there is no obvious game-changing college player that\u2019s yet emerged.<\/p>\n

I think what Jets fans would like to see most of all, especially after getting a taste of success last Sunday in Cincinnati<\/a> heading into this week\u2019s bye, is this: evidence \u2014 real, abiding proof \u2014 across the season\u2019s final nine weeks that a foundation is being built here. Win a few more games, don\u2019t let the impact those games have on their draft status even enter your orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I cannot conduct a poll that includes every Jets fan extant, and thus I know better than to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[429,9,11,430,10,22,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-22079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-aaron-glenn","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-jets","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}