As I am sure you are aware, the Jets lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers yesterday 29-27. The game frustrated me so much that I decided to sleep on it before I wrote the recap.
I was hoping maybe to wake up renewed with hope in the team. Well it didn’t happen.
I suppose I could write about how the team showed “fight” and “didn’t lay down” when far behind. I could do that. I’m just not sure when playing hard even when far behind became an exceptional trait in the National Football League. I would think the bare minimum expectation for professional football players would be to always play hard. This is the pinnacle of the sport. These guys are played well. Their job is to play hard. I don’t think doing your job deserves any special praise.
What I saw was a Jets team that was thoroughly outpl