From: chf0@newshost.gte.com (Curtis Fennell)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: Why the Jets?
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:32:33 GMT
Reply-To: chf0@gte.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA

In article <6#8tq6l@rpi.edu>, ruthd@aix.rpi.edu (Davis Paul Ruth) writes:
|> PLEASE show proof of why O'Brien PATHETIC!!!!!
|> ( almost 60% completions and one of the lowest int% in AFC 
|> also for Toon and Moore to get around 2000 yds rec. with a pathetic QB
|>        ...they must be GODS.

O'Brien is not pathetic, but never has shown the consistency to make
him a solid starter in the NFL.  Whether this is because of a lousy
offensive line or some lack in his ability, I don't know.  But he's
never really shown himself to be a consistent winner.

|> GUARANTEE:  The Jets WILL have more Rushing yds than the Fish :) next
|>        year most likely by as wide a margin as last year.

The football gods are not impressed with guarantees. (For example:
Clayton guaranteeing that Miami would beat the jets in the last game
of the season last year)

|> The past couple of seasons Al Toon was Injured and last year he was 
|> finally healthy.  And also Miami would quickly and easily trade
|> either Clayton or Duper for Moore but the Jets would never do this
|> because he is just as good(if not better than both) AND around 10 yrs
|> younger. 

WRONG.  Miami is never going to trade Duper and Clayton as long as
they are healthy. Both had over 1000 yds receiving last season and
their experience more than makes up for their "age".  Both play as
well as Moore.

|> >> Jets were 8-8 last year and lost 4 or 5 close games that they Should
|> >>  have one, and would have if Leahy wasn't injured throughout the
|> >>  season. 

Miami also lost a few that they should have won.  And perhaps if
Offerdahl wasn't injured, they would've stopped the last drive by the
jets in the last game and won it.   

But as our other friend points out:

|> >Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

|> Well Miami isn't a good team and is getting worse and older.

Manure.  Miami is a good team and will be better this year.

|> The JETS are a young improving team and there is no reason to think 
|> that all of a sudden they will stop improving and become a lowly
|> 2nd division team.

Really? Why should they get any better?  What is going to make them
better?  Nagle?  

|> Next Season will prove the Jets rebuilding a success and prove
|> them to be one of the best teams in the league.  

I doubt it.  There is nothing in the Jets year last year that shows
them on the way to the top. They are inconsistent, they lack a
quarterback to take them to the top and they have bad luck.  

|> There is no way in hell the dolphins get double digit wins.

There many reasons to think that the Dolphins will do much better this
year than last year and there is no reason to think that they will not
get 10-12 wins.  All they need to do that is to stay reasonably
healthy and keep Sammy Smith away from the ball :-).

|> While it is more than likely for the Jets. 

Nope, I don't think so.  There are several reasons to think that last
year was an aberration and that Miami will be back this year:

1. Offerdahl and Grimsley will be back.
2. Hopefully, Richmond Webb will be healthy all year.
3. Higgs will start. He would have had 1000 yards last year if he had
played just one or two more games.
4. Miami has a new defensive line coach - "Mean" Joe Greene - and
considering that this is where they need the most help on defense, it
can't help but get better (The old defensive line coach went to
Buffalo - joke's on Buffalo!).
5. Miami has two number one draft picks this year.

And there is at least one major reason to think that the jets will not
get better:

1. Quarterbacking - they don't have it.



Curt "I always pick the Dolphins - even against Buffalo!"  Fennell
			DOLFAN in New England.             
'72 Dolphins - The perfect team in the perfect season - 17-0