No, I guess I won’t stop rooting for the Jets even if they lose today. But it’s going to be difficult to watch them. So difficult I think I probably will miss at least a few games this season.

In other words, in the past, if friends of mine asked me to play poker on a Sunday, I’d say no, because I had to watch the Jets. Even if my friends were going to have the Jet game on, I would say no, because I wanted to focus on the game itself, with no distractions.

But if the Jets lose today, and my friends ask me to play poker next Sunday, well, I think I’m going to being playing poker.

Well you said it yourself. You have been with the Jets all these years, and even with even suggesting to stop watching them is just well disappointing. I may not have all the years following the team as you, but I have been following the Jets for along time. You don’t ever give up on your team no matter what. That is what being a fan is all about. How could you trow out all those years you have been a Jets fan? I hope you don’t go that route.

Why was the loss to the Dolphins embarrassing? Well, I guess it was because the Fins were 1-3, and the Jets were 3-1. Or maybe it was because their rookie quarterback outsmarted and outplayed our probowl DBs, D Linemen and LBs. Or maybe it was because a 1-3 team ran up and down the field on us at will.

Or maybe it was because Rex Ryan himself called it embarrassing.

The Bills loss was bad, no masking that. But I truly believe we have only blown one game so far and if I would have told you we’d be 3 and 3 after week 6 in August you’d have been pretty darn happy.

The Jets just lost two straight games to teams they should have beat. We beat ourselves–THREE games in a row. And, okay, the Saints are a very good team. But the Fins are, at best, mediocre. And the Bills are really just plain terrible.

And the Raiders are even worse than the Bills.

If the Jets lose to the Dolphins, Bills AND Raiders–it’s pretty clear: we suck. Big time.

Which means no shot at the Division title, no shot at the Wild Card, no shot at anything more than a 9-7 or, more likely, 8-8 season.

If we lose today, it’s more than likely we’re going to have a losing record for the season. In fact, our highest aspiration for the year will be to get to 500, or close to 500, by the time all 16 games have been played.

I’d say that pretty much kills the season.

But on another level, a gut level, I’d have to say that after the embarrassing loss to the Fins, and the REALLY EMBARRASSING loss to the Bills, it’s already going to be difficult for me to watch the game today. And I’ve been a Jets fan for all fifty years of their existence. I saw the Jets play at the Polo Grounds when they were the Titans. I saw the Jets play at Shea (as well as the Polo Grounds) when they were an AFL team. Last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, I watched every game the Jets played.

But this year, if the Jets lose in Oakland, I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch anymore. It’s just too ugly, it’s just too painful, it’s just too sickening.

I agree: there is nothing to fear but the Jets themselves.

Last week, that’s who our greatest opponent was.
This week, bottom line: we lose, and our season is over.

From the Jets site:

>>Ferguson used to be matched up with Seymour when the former was a stalwart in New England. The Jets’ left tackle, a first round pick out of Virginia in 2006, doesn’t see anything drastically different in the player he used to face in the AFC East.

>>“It’s nothing new,” he said. “Same guy, same player.”

Indeed he is. Same guy Brick lined up against twice a year with spotty success.

I mean come on, it’s the freaking Raiders. The Jets as a group need to get their heads straight. If they do, this is a W.