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You certainly are a downer.

I would mark out if Trump fired Hoff.

I checked myself twice. It'd be silly for me to do it again.

They played an absolutely dogshit game against a team they were an overwhelming favorite against. Jets are good, but admittedly, they are not near the skill of the Patriots or the Colts. If the Steelers "eeked" the win out tonight on the basis of hoping Brien will miss two field goals, what the hell are they going to do next week against either one of two teams that actually have it all together? I just checked myself again. Nope, it's not the bitterness this time. It's the practicality.

If Hackett and Brien were somewhat competent, the Jets would have won this thing today. Doesn't matter if it's the Colts or the Pats. Steelers will lose in the AFC Championship either way. Could be my bitterness talking here, but it seems more practicality than anything.

Then you go for someone new. Brien isn't reliable. Brien has under a 50% success rate. You find someone that actually makes more field goals than they miss, and you suddenly find yourself with an improvement.

Which is why Hackett is getting a huge amount of blame too. Hackett needs to go tomorrow. Brien can wait until the day after.

But it's the same principle of "ohmygodohmygodohmygod we're losing the season is over what will we do ohmygod" "you're up by a few and you lead your division" "PSH you say that now" "you're overreacting" "WHY DOES EVERYBODY HATE US" Except Yankee fans have the added luxury of "OMG WE HAVE A NON ALL-STAR AT ONE POSITION, WE NEED TO SPEND $25 MILLION TO GET A NEW PLAYER. OH, OTHER TEAMS DON'T HAVE $200 MILLION TO COMPETE WITH OUR PAYROLL?! THEY MUST NOT LIKE WINNING! YOU DON'T NEED MONEY TO WIN ANYWAY! BILLY BEANE! BILLY BEANE!"

Oh no, I agree. Especially since the Chargers made the same exact mistake last week. You would think the Jets would learn from it. But the positives from Edwards throughout this season far outweighs this mistake he made tonight. But unlike Kaeding last week, Brien is an experienced kicker. He SHOULD have made those kicks tonight. He SHOULDN'T have been as shaky as he has been this season. There are other people tonight that deserve the blame more than Edwards. He may not be the most strategic coach in the NFL, and he may be piss-poor at time management, but he is chiefly responsible for inspiring the team like he has done the past season.

One Anglesault. I find Yankee fans to be much more frustratingly intolerable than Patriots fans.

I can't even fault Edwards. For all the faults this team had, Edwards was able to inspire them to get this far. Throughout the season, the Jets exceeded the expectations people placed on them. Last week, they beat the Chargers, a team many thought they were going to lose to. Tonight, they came within a hair of beating the Steelers. That kind of success CAN be attributed to Edwards, because he's the guy that keeps this team going. It's easy to see. I blame Brien for missing NOT one -- but TWO -- huge field goals. I blame Hackett for his ever-so-stale offensive gameplan. I blame Pennington tonight for not coming through in the clutch with certain passes. Only 3 points from the offensive in the playoffs is terrible. But I don't blame Edwards. At least not tonight.

Bullshit. The kickers are sometimes among the most prevalent players on a team. Whenever a game goes into overtime, more often than not, it comes down to the field goal kicker. Kickers are given a LOT of attention when they do something good. Do you even remember all the praise showered upon Adam Vinatieri in 2002? Doug Brien was given QUITE a fair amount of attention last week for that game-winning kick. The kickers are noticed when they're actually successful. I'm not putting an unattainable standard onto Doug Brien -- it's obvious that you're bound to mess up from time to time -- but when you have two possible game-winning field goals tonight, and you make NEITHER of them, you have officially lost your worth to the team. The loss tonight comes down upon his shoulders. Last week, he was pretty horrid too. Between missing that early field goal, and getting lucky enough to have the ball bounce off the crossbow and through the posts, he was straddling the fence on proving his worth. Tonight, it all fell apart. Fact of the matter is, Brien is paid to make these field goals. Brien is a field goal kicker, first and foremost, and thus he should AT LEAST have more than a 50% success rate. Much higher, actually. But, of course, he doesn't. I don't remember the exact statistics, but he's somewhere around the 43% mark when it comes to accuracy. That is NOT good for a big time kicker. He's someone that needs to be replaced. Would I be saying this now if he had made that game winning field goal? Probably not. But the fact that he didn't continues to expose the idea that he just is not that good, and he's a factor of the team that needs to be replaced if they're going to be successful. People like Brien who have now shown themselves to crumble under pressure can not be kept, simply for the good of the team.

If there's one positive to the Jets losing tonight, it's that Paul Hackett will FINALLY be gone. Unbelievably predictable. Shockingly uncreative. Amazingly illogical. And just plain all-around terrible. This offense could have done a lot more throughout the season if they had an offensive coordinator that actually KNEW how an offense should work.

Doug Brien should be given his walking papers tomorrow. You DO NOT miss two straight game-winning field goals. Son of a bitch.

Figures. Just start getting the opportunity to watch PPVs at Hooters, and they end the entire thing. I'm not surprised.

Watch his ECW interviews. He can definitely cut a decent promo -- but it's impossible for him to do so if WWE insists on keeping him in the same "laid back, chilled, stoner" role. I get the feeling from reading your posts in this thread that you have seen practically none of Van Dam's ECW work.

I've always thought the name "Mean Guy Adam" was a better fit for him.

That hurts. Oddly enough, I like everybody. Except the people I dislike.

Madison Square Garden got screwed.

.....um, no. AJ Flaire just played the part of Pheonix tonight. That aspect is going to be explained next week, but -- yeah, I didn't want any more people to make that mistake here. I WILL leave feedback this week. Promise. But other people HAVE to do the same. Including Patty. Mentions everything BUT the segment with Pheonix. I thought me and him were tight. But I guess we're loose now. Shame.....

I think I'm going to post more now in this thread just to spite you.

The booking thread last week was much better.

The latest tidbit from Scott Keith. Comes from his New Year Revolution rant: Does this story have any shred of truth to it at all? Or is it just another one of those rumors Keith made up once again? It doesn't even seem logical. The first Elimination Chamber match seemed to be set up with the main intention to give Shawn Michaels the Heavyweight Title for the feel-good story of 2002. Edge winning the title at that point would absolutely make zero sense. Anybody know anything else about this?

Quite the clever letter you wrote there.

It's probably the pose.