Drinking the Green Kool Aid

Jets are #1 in SI’s Power Rankings…Umm, thanks? July 29, 2010

This week in meaningless rankings…

Don Banks ranks the Jets as the best team in the league heading into camp.

And it’s a backhanded compliment if I’ve ever heard one.  Really, somehow he makes it sound like the Jets are doomed.  Or maybe he believes in the power of the jinx, and is trying to use it.  If you want analysis of the Jets battle at Left Guard, look elsewhere.  In an interview with Dan Patrick, Banks pretty much said he put the Jets here to be different, and because the Jets have been “talking big”.

I’m really glad Banks decided to “play along” and add to the “self-created pressure” here.  And of course, we better not dare play the underdog role anymore!  That would be audacious after our off-season “spree”.

The main problem I have is the repetition of this team being built to “win NOW”.  That is a veiled insult that sportswriters love to use for some reason.  First of all, the Jets are not built to win only NOW (something I have talked about a lot in this space).  Secondly- isn’t the point to win NOW?  Should Mike Tannenbaum deliver a press release saying he’s traded the roster for draft picks and say, “Well, we are really going to suck for the next 5 years, but we will be awesome in the future.  Of course, the ‘future’ will eventually become ‘now’, and we can’t have that!”

And I actually think Don Banks is GREAT!  It just always seems to be the same kind of coverage surrounding the Jets (more front-office than on the field).  Maybe that is the world the Jets have created.  Maybe I’m just bitter.

I just want the season to start so our Gang Green can start shutting people up!

End of rant.