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Is this what the Jets are doing? Or is this fake news? Let’s take a closer look . . .
The New York Post ran a story, in which, they asked a few season-ticket holders several questions. The first question was – “What do you think of the Jets’ current plan to get rid of older, expensive players and sacrifice the 2017 season in order to get a high pick in 2018?”
Why would they do this?
Has anyone from the Jets ever come out and said they are willing to, “sacrifice the 2017 season in order to get a high pick in 2018?”
This is their “plan?”
Look, maybe there is somebody in the Jets’ upper management that has this in the back of their mind, but nobody has come close to saying this, so why is the New York Post coming out and stating this it the Jets “plan?”
What is this?
Do they feel Todd Bowles is misleading us?
In minicamp, I asked Bowles about this media theory about them tanking.
“My expectations are high and the team’s expectations are high and that’s really all that counts,” Bowles said. “I’m trying to get to the playoffs and win a Super Bowl. It’s no different than any other year.”
I know you might say, “what do you expect him to say?” However, even with that factored in, does this quote sound like the coach is tanking?
This is the second time Bowles strongly pushed back at a reporter asking about him about the Jets having goals other than winning this year.
“Football, as a coach, you get energized every year because you’re always trying to get to the Super Bowl and win,” Bowles said at the combine in February. “There is no rebuilding, there’s always trying to win.”
The Jets had a roster purge from a team that went 5-11 and got blown out six times. Why does that mean they are “sacrific[ing] the 2017 season in order to get a high pick in 2018?”
Look, I have no idea how the Jets are going to do this year. All I know is that nobody in that building, on- or off-record, ever said to me (or anyone else I’m aware of) they are, ““sacrific[ing] the 2017 season in order to get a high pick in 2018?”
I just don’t understand why this written like it’s fact.
It’s really damaging to the Jets’ organization to have this kind of stuff written like it’s a fact, and having millions of people reading it. The New York Post has a lot of readers – in the paper and on-line. It’s one of the
American’s most popular papers.
If I were the Jets I’d fight back.
This is just wrong.
Look, any reporters has the right to write or say, “to me, it looks like they Jets are writing off the season with an eye toward 2018.”
They have the First Amendment right to state that if they please.
But to ask fans, “What do you think of the Jets’ current plan to get rid of older, expensive players and sacrifice the 2017 season in order to get a high pick in 2018,” is unfair.
Why?
Because they made it seem like a set-in-stone fact.
June 26, 2017
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