In an ESPN story with the headline – “Despite being 3-14, Jets still believe in coach Aaron Glenn,” there was a cheap shot leveled at the players from an unnamed GM.
“They played like a bunch of guys punching time clocks; they didn’t want to be there,” the GM said.
I watched every Jets game live and then went over each game with a fine-tooth comb a few days later.
I just didn’t see it.
I saw good effort, but a really bad roster and really bad X’s and O’s.
Having a bad team doesn’t necessarily mean the team didn’t play hard.
The Saints game was a perfect example – the Jets played a competitive first half, played their butts off, but then Kellen Moore and his staff made adjustments at halftime, and the Jets were destroyed in the football chess match in the second half. The Jets losing the football chess match, aside from on special teams, happened in many games this past season.
Who exactly wasn’t putting forth good effort in New Orleans or in other games?
The Jets had one of the youngest rosters in the league. Why would all these young players, who are trying to make a name for themselves in the NFL and earn their all-important second contract, “punch a time clock?”
That makes no sense.
It’s easy for some unnamed GM, who probably didn’t even see every Jets game, to provide a cheap shot quote, perhaps to help the writer make the story seem like it wasn’t a puff piece on a 3-14 coach.
But I challenge the unnamed GM to provide names of the players who were “punching time clocks.”
I just didn’t see it.
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