Lenient schedule? They play in the Met. The toughest Division. In fact, you just reminded me of one of the other lame excuses of a couple years ago - that we played in the Central which was the toughest division. So thats why we sucked. Now the Central is weak so I guess the excuse shifts to distance of travel - so why have a team in the Peg. The Peg isnt going to move.
Hiya Jetfaninflorida,
Sorry for using your post as a jumping off point for a mini-rant. I enjoy your other posts, but you just hit a nerve, sort of a straw that broke the camels back sort of thing.
Ok, enough with the posts slamming "lame excuses". It is seriously annoying the crap out of me. When the Jets suck, folks around here like to discuss why. It's why discussion boards like this exist.
When we talk about the team being young, or talk about the schedule being hard, or talk about injuries, or talk about underperforming players, we're trying to figure out the reasons for the team's problems.
We're not trying to excuse it. We just want to discuss why we are where we are.
The reasons for it.
If you disagree with a particular reason, great! Chime in. Tell us what
you think the actual reasons are.
If you do not want to discuss this, then please start a thread titled "The Jets Suck". You can post in this thread. The content of your posts can be "Yes, the Jets suck". Other like-minded posters can chime in, "Hey, I think the Jets suck too!" Enlightening stuff.
Others of us want to figure out
why they suck. Why they aren't winning.
We do want the team to win as much as you. We are not making excuses.
Discussing how much the schedule, or youth, or injuries play a role in the Jets' current woes is important. If it was a complete non-factor, then obviously the problems fall more on coaching, or management, or the players, or whatever else. And we should all clamor together to change those things. Blow everything up. Fire everybody.
If, on the other hand, these are significant factors, then maybe we can more accurately recognize what is good on the team, and what needs changing. Maybe we need patience. Or maybe we do need some change. But discussing what factors into the Jets' current record of losses is critical in establishing this.
This goes equally for Maurice in interviews. The dude has to stand up there before reporters every other day. He simply cannot say "We lost because we suck." He too, like many of us, has to offer some theories what went wrong in a game. If he sees his players are dead tired, and skating in molasses, it's fine to observe the schedule has been tough. It's a real factor. If you think the hardest 30 game schedule in NHL history will not impact a team's performance [...]. If you want Maurice to ignore all factors (or "excuses" as some call them) during his interviews, what the **** is he supposed to say? "We lost. We're going to practice. We'll try to win next time." That's stupid. I'll take an actual analysis of the game, thanks.
/rant off
. Pretty sure they're friends back in USNTDP
