Stating the Obvious: J-E-T-S Suck, Suck, SUCK!

You know, I hadn't intended to write a story about the New York Jets being garbage. The Jets sucking is routine like death and taxes. It's never an alarming story when the Jets suck.

How they suck, though, that's another story.

As bad as the Jets are, I never thought they'd be the only winless team left this year. Look at their NFC counterparts, the Giants. They're every bit as messy as the Jets. Giants won twice, including defeating the defending champs. Saints? Messy, trainwreck-ish, absolutely lost. They have a win--against the Giants. The Titans? Until now, they had a head coach who can't walk and chew gum at the same time. He makes Josh McDaniels look like Chuck Noll. Even they have a win! Jets? Nope.

As I said, the issue isn't that the Jets suck, because the Jets have sucked for a decade and a half. It's how they've done it. They entered Sunday's London game with no wins, and no takeaways. Seriously, even the 2008 Lions weren't that futile. The London game against the Broncos was an ugly affair, but the Jets were somehow in it, and they were even ahead at one point! Broncos got a field goal to take the lead, and it stuck. 13-11 was the final score, and honestly, the Broncos should get some scrutiny, because they played so badly and got away with it.

Let's talk about the key figures in this mess, shall we?

Justin Fields

Every time I look at Justin Fields, my mind goes back to two years ago. Back then, Fields was the Bears QB, and Aaron Rodgers was out of the NFC North. Bears fans talked so much shit. "We have the best QB in the division!" "We're going to own the Packers!" And then Week 1 happened, and Jordan Love continued the tradition of owning the Bears. That shut Bears fans up. Two weeks later, the Bears lost to the Chiefs. Losing to the Chiefs is not shameful, but only throwing for 99 yards against that shitty defense is. But remember, "He's the best QB in the division." Even Mitch Trubisky would have cracked the century mark.

Fields was a Steeler last year before ending up with the Jets this season. His performance in the game against Denver: 45 passing yards. No, that's not a typo. He ran for 31, but still, that's a grand total of 4.9 fantasy points. All a kicker would have to do to top that is make a 50+ yard field goal.

Aaron Glenn

Already, Aaron Glenn's getting blame for this, because of course he is. This is what I've been talking about. Black coaches never get mulligans like White ones do. When a White coach has this bad of a team in his first year, people go into "let's wait it out mode" and make excuses. But a Black coach? "He sucks," "He's incompetent," "Fire him." Need I mention Steve Wilks? How he was fired by the Cardinals for a 3-13 season, yet they kept Kliff Kingsbury a year later for improving by a "whopping" 2.5 games, and kept hanging on to Kingsbury even as he continued to fuck up?

But let me clue you in on something. The shit against Aaron Glenn? It's all by design, and here's the mastermind:

Woody Johnson

Woody Johnson, the plantation owner badly disguised as an NFL owner. I'd say that publicly saying that he'd rather have the Jets go winless than see another term with this country's only Black President pretty much qualifies Woody as a staunch racist. "But he has a Black coach!" you say. Here's the thing: even that is part of the anti-Black racism. He allowed Aaron Rodgers to run roughshod on the team; bringing in his ex-teammates, throwing people under the bus, bringing in his buddy Nathaniel Hackett, and worst of all, having Robert Saleh fired.

Glenn was hired during the offseason, but look what he got. The damage was done. Rodgers was out of there via phone call, leaving a team literally stripped bare. Woody let it all happen and did nothing to fix it. When Glenn got the job, he received a team that was skinned alive. No QB, no defense, no nothing. Glenn received absolutely nothing resembling an NFL team, and what was the result? An 0-6 start, a defense that only took the ball away once all year (and that came on Sunday), a game where the Jets had -10 net passing yards, and a fanbase willing to blame Glenn. This is exactly what Woody and his racism wanted. He set Glenn up to fail because he doesn't like coaches who aren't White.

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It's a foregone conclusion that the Jets' long playoff drought will reach 15 years, which will serve as the longest current drought in sports, and they will stand alone in that regard if a miracle happens and the NHL's Buffalo Sabres actually reach the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season. But in the immortal and humorous words of Jim Mora, "Playoffs?! They just hope they can win a game!" I'm not even going to bother revealing their upcoming schedule, because it does look like this year's Jets are destined to run the table of futility and join the 1976 Buccaneers, the 2008 Lions, and the 2017 Browns in that embarrassing club. Even worse, if they do, they'll be the NFL's first-ever 0-17 team.

The running joke I've heard for years is that J-E-T-S stands for "Just End The Season." With the Jets, the season ends when it begins. I did think of an alternate version, "Just End The Suffering," but sadly, I don't think that will ever end. This is why I've said for a few years now that the NFL team should forfeit the "J-E-T-S" chant, and give it to the NHL's Winnipeg Jets, because the NHL team actually is bringing respect to the Jets team name. The Jets have nowhere else to go but up, but knowing them, they'll continue to sink even lower than they already have.