After the Jets’ loss to New England on Sunday, long-time Jets analyst Bart Scott said the team is clearly “tanking.”
“The fact that we put (quarterback) Tyrod Taylor down and we didn’t start him let us know that the mission was to lose, competitive tanking,” Scott said on SNY, a Jets media partner. “It wasn’t competitive, it was just tanking.”
For the uninitiated, “tanking” means you are losing games on purpose to get a higher draft pick. This is common in the NBA.
A few days before the Jets-Patriots game, Jets coach Aaron Glenn didn’t sound like a coach tanking.
“I want to go win this game,” Glenn said. “The players want to go win this game. The coaches want to go win this game. That’s all we’re thinking about.”
They lost 42-10.
Scott, who is also a contributor to the Jets’ official website, said in the Patriots’ blowout win over the Jets, it looked like the “varsity against the junior varsity.”
If the Jets are tanking, that is perhaps why they looked like a “junior varsity” team, as Scott described them.
And that is what Scott thinks they are indeed doing, tanking.
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