Let’s clear a few things up before I get into this. The Jets have one of the best rosters on paper in the NFL. For all the spoiled New England Patriots fans or the delusional Buffalo Bills fans, you need to know this. The Jets roster is better than yours on paper in 2024.

Got it? Good.

Now, to the Jets fans. Your organization is terrible and being the best on paper doesn’t mean a damn thing.

Got it? Good.

A lot of the paper facade boils down to an owner who does this worst thing an owner can do -and I say this with all the respect in the world- which is listen to fans. In reality, 99% of fans don’t know what they are talking about. But they are loud at the stadium and on social media and Woody Johnson hears and internalizes all of it. It’s why this organization goes through coaches and quarterbacks faster than Bills Mafia goes through folding tables.

I think Jets fans are some of the best in the world.  They care so much and are extremely passionate about their team.  But being passionate doesn't make you knowledgable and when you have an owner who seems to be even less knowledgable about what he is doing, it is a recipe for disaster.  Woody Johnson ends up listening to the fans who don't know what they are talking about, more than the football minds he hired that (in theory) do know what they are talking about.  It is his biggest flaw as an owner.

Fans want the new shiny thing instead of developing the player they invested in and they have no patience to seeing a player develop, or a first-time head coach learn from his mistakes (for the record, I am not saying that Saleh is a great coach, I’m just sick of the constant turnover the organization makes).

This is why the Jets don’t have single player on offense who was picked later than 44^th overall or isn’t a free agent signing. There is no development because there can’t be with so much turnover.

It’s a vicious cycle that fans don’t even realize they are perpetrating. Get a new coach. New coach wants a new quarterback. Neither develop. Fire the coach. Rinse and repeat.

New coaches mean a new philosophy which lead to new personnel. When Todd Bowles was the head coach, his defense was built around strong starting safeties. So, the Jets drafted Jamal Adams and Marcus Maye in the same draft. Two years later, Bowles is gone and in comes Gase who has no use for paying safeties of that caliber, so they leave. When Gase leaves, Saleh wants a different type of player at the position.

All that and I am just talking about safeties. Imagine that same conversation every few years with every single position on the field. This coach runs a zone-blocking scheme, this coach wants a speedy receiver, this coach wants a two-gap defensive tackle. It’s constantly trying to rebuild a roster and force square pegs into round holes. Eventually, it becomes too much for a GM to try and manage, so he is fired and then guess what? Another new coach.

There are four teams in the AFC East and the Jets rank fifth in AFC East titles. That’s how bad the organization has been. That’s because the Jets are incapable of building a winning organization because there is a major lack of patience throughout the entire scale.

I realize it is tough to preach “patience” when the organization has gone 13 years without a playoff appearance and the coach and GM are already on the hot seat. But a regime change does nothing but start the clock all over again.

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