Getty ImagesIn the end, all of the Jets’ playoff scenarios didn’t matter. This mediocre squad wasn’t good enough to stop their late season tailspin.
Miami ended the Jets’ playoff hopes 19-17 in a game that included many memorable images in the fourth quarter alone:
1. The Dolphins capped a ridiculous 21-play, 94-yard drive that took up more than 12 minutes of action to take the lead. When the Jets defense needed a stop, they simply couldn’t get one. The Jets offense put the defense in a bad spot all day, like they did all season.
Still, the Jets defense gave up a huge drive at the wrong time, like it did for much of the season. New York finishes 8-8 on the year.
2. Jason Taylor beat D’Brickashaw Ferguson around the edge and hammered Mark Sanchez in the back midway through the quarter. Sanchez tried to throw the ball away and it was intercepted by Randy Starks. The Dolphins took a nine-point lead a few plays later.
That was a great lasting memory for Taylor against his former team in Taylor’s final game as a pro.
3. On the next Jets drive, Mark Sanchez got the Jets in the red zone before throwing his third pick of the day on a toss behind his receiver. He was erratic all afternoon, with numerous misfires on routine throws. His three interceptions were all bad decisions and led to points.
The Jets played to avoid the big mistake, and Sanchez made three big mistakes.
At the point of that interception, Sanchez had 127 yards on 25 attempts. Plaxico Burress and Santonio Holmes had 15 yards combined at the time. Burress and Sanchez padded their stats in the following minutes, but the game was essentially over.
4. Holmes, who didn’t have a catch on the day, was caught by CBS cameras yelling at a teammate in the huddle with a few minutes left. It’s uncertain what happened, but Holmes then left the game and sat on the bench without his helmet on. He didn’t even watch what was going on.
Consider that: The Jets’ season was on the line and Holmes wasn’t in the game or even paying attention.
Something tells us that Holmes won’t be a captain next year.
Something also tells the Jets will have to consider examining options at quarterback other than Sanchez.
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“We’ll line up and play em again right now!”. Sorry fatty, doesn’t work that way.
Please, please – stick with Sanchez at quarterback.
BWWWAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAAA!!!!
When THE chips are on the table, the Yets can’t win their way into the playoffs!
Still ain’t won nothin’ YET YET YET !!!!!!!
You Yets fans still believe in the Prom King?????
How ‘bout YOU, Rexy, you still believe Sanchez is your man?
You just KNOW Schottenheimer isn’t the one leaving town after THIS game. Go ahead Woody, BLOW THIS TEAM UP and start over again!
By the way, did you Yets fans take a look at New England’s game and see how REAL teams do it?
Loves it!
Sanchez is garbage.
Scenario:
Rex is ordered to clean out the O staff. He refuses.
Rex and entire staff get the door. That way he still looks like a noble guy taking one for ‘his guys.’
It’s all about Rex. Until it isn’t.
Sanchez is toast, too. But he dates Kate Upton, so what does he care?
Santonio Holmes is a punk,always has been always will be.Way to get behind the team in time of need there tone!!!
holmes… stay classy!
sanchez… get a hotdog cart!
Don’t worry jet fans, Rex Ryan all ready guaranteed a super bowl victory next year
MYami Dolphins may have played them selves out of a top 10 pick, but spoiling the Jets season was totally worth it. I said before and I’ll say it again, NY Jets are overrated, and the phins are a better team than their record indicates.
Chad Pennington’s arm has had a year to strengthen. OR, just Pay Peyton.
Okay Jabba the Jet just shut your big fat mouth
You guarantee every year and you deliver a mediocre eight win team
Just shut the hell up because no one wants to hear your BS anymore you braggart
Kramer: “I’m LOVIN’ IT, Jerry”.
I hope Sanchez knows how to hold a clipboard. I love it!
TO THE ENTIRE NFL…..
YOU ARE All WELCOME,
THE MIAMI FREAKIN DOLPHINS!!!!!!!
PS…Just
Ended
There
Season!
Am I the only person who looks at the Jets and thinks their record was way better than they were as a team? There’s nothing impressive at any position and Revis wasn’t as spectacular as he has been the past couple seasons. I am shocked they were in the hunt til the last weekend of the season.
Hey JT…remember how made we Dolfans were when you signed with NY?
All is forgiven.
Have a great retirement!
“Sanchez’s three picks kickstarts long offseason for Jets.”
Time to SERIOUSLY re-think the QB position on the Jets.
And Rex Ryan has completely left the fun and disguised defenses we all loved to see from Baltimore and his first year in New York.
I’m on Holmes side for once. This isn’t Keyshawn getting 5 rec. a game and saying get me the damn ball, this is an equally talented WR literally not getting the ball. Even once. If I were him I would be yelling at my QB too for being incompetent and wasting a year of my career. And Holmes never shouldve been a captain to begin with, that was Rex’s awesome decision. If the team won’t have you be part of the team, literally, then why are you going to be part of them?
Matt Flynn welcome to NY!
Is Dan diedorf an idiot or what? Holmes was sitting on the bench and Dan said “I hope Holmes is injured”. Hey Dan I hope you were on drugs when you said that.
Lol good riddance, seasons been over for weeks now, it’s sort of a mercy killing.
And Santonio Holmes can get the **** off my team.
Ahhh… how sweet it is!
Sweet
…and the fat little piggy went home
Like Bill Walsh once said – Sanchez is just good enough to lose you games.
How a turd like Holmes could even be a captain is a mystery to me.
He is a low-character player – but the JETs seem to specialize in collecting them.
Oh no, here comes an offseason of “Sanchez to reunite with PC in Seattle” rumors…. NO!!!!! —
Don’t do it Pete. Roll the dice on TJ or draft someone else. Anyone else.
js
Proves once again that the Jets are ALL talk. Maybe now Ryan will shut up but I guess that will NEVER happen
Jets list of possible QB’s next year from best to worst:
1. Manning
2. Flynn
3. Any 1st round draft pick
4. Orion
5. Campbell
6. Orton
7. Any draft pick
8. David Garrard
9. Jamarcus Russell
10. Mark Sanchez
Ahhhhh hahahaha
What a bunch of “characters” on this team. Bad characters, who show their true colors when the chips are down. Unlike New England, that overcame a 38-0 deficit the last two weeks. The division still runs through Foxboro, not Jersey.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ! That is all.
Something also tells the Jets will have to consider examining options at Head Coach other than Ryan.
Now Rex will predict that the Jets are going to win the next 3 super bowls.
No, this can’t be. According to fat Rex he stated that the Jets were Super Bowl bound prior to the opening of the season.
With 2 minutes left Santonio Holmes took himself out of the game, not injured.
Rex was clueless why. Told them to ask Santonio,
Nice captain you got there.
LOVE IT!
Might the Jets consider options at head coach other than Rex Ryan?
Hey Rex how about that Franchise QB you have!
Better yet that Team Captain who quit on you!
SAME OLD YET’s!!!
Yeah, so much for that 3rd SB!!
Peyton Manning with a Broken Neck >> Mark Sanchez
Gotta love it!
I’m loving this. Both teams will be at home this postseason but I would take our 6-10 record any day. S.Holmes pouting on the bench says it all. GO DOLPHINS. 2012 looks bright.
One pie hole closed, one to go.
Mark Sanchez sucks. Why is the media obsessed with this bum player and crappy NY football team? Move on please. I am tired of you guys talking about losers all the time. Thanks.
Anyone who watched the Hard Knocks with the Jets knows that Sanchez is nothing but a spoiled immature little brat. His complete a total disregard to show any respect to the people around him that have a chance of helping him progress is totally evident in his poor play and will eventually cause him to become the second stringer he really is anyway.
Sanchez is clearly injured. We need a decent back up
One Ryan down. One more to go.
The Jets being 8-8 isn’t any surprise to the majority of NFL fans, so why is it to the experts and the media? Probably because the experts drank the Rex Ryan kool aid all year long (2-3 year actually) and believed ole’ Rex everytime he “guaranteed” the jets would win, would make the playoffs, would win the superbowl, yada yada yada. I think if the media and the experts would treat Rex and the Jets like the “boy who cried wolf” and didn’t rush to publicize every sneeze from Rex, they would then be able to analyze the team more objectively. The Jets just aren’t that good. They got into the playoffs 2 years ago becuz the Colts laid down for them. It would be nice to not have to listen to either of the Ryan brothers until AFTER they have actually accomplished something.
there’s only one thing that can ease this kind of pain…. a cute pair of feets.
This article sums up this “TEAM” altogether. Never have I seen a group of players talk so much that have done so little. I respect Ryan as a D Coordinator but as a head coach I think he’s in over his head. He APPOINTED people team captains because their teammates probably wouldn’t have elected them otherwise. Holmes? Sanchez? Talk about forcing the issue. The Patriots are down 21 in the first half and they come back to win as a team. The Jets have a chance to still win the game down by a few points and Holmes sits out because he’s not getting the ball enough? I don’t care how they try and spin this, he’s a football player. They needed to win or go home. Even if he WAS hurt he should be out there giving it his all. This organization as a whole is a joke starting from the top on down
Rex Ryan in March 2012: “If we had gotten into the playoffs we’d have won another imaginary Super Bowl.”
POETIC JUSTICE….well jet fans, there is always April,,,when you are undefeated.
The best feeling is to not have to listen to you parasites until season over…
Happy 43rd anniversary jet fans…looking forward to your 44th.
Brandon Jacobs…gotta love you
I do enjoy the smell of napalm in the morning . . . And roasted NY crow.
Want to retract your statement about enjoying playing with Sanchez over Roethlisberger now, Santonio?
Well at least we won’t have to listen to Sexy Rexy for a few monthes now. But the bad new is PIZZA deliveries are going to be longer and with less toppings until they can restock. But here is a stock market tip, Pizza Hut – Pizza Inn – PaPa Johns – Domino’s are going to grow, so buy now before Rex takes over. But remember to sell before he guarantees the Jets will win the Super Bowl next year……….
Good…
Ryan is an annoying fat turd, and Holmes is an ignorant punk.
Enjoy sitting home, fellas…
Another year, another crushing week 17 Jests defeat. But if they make the playoffs in 2012, watch out!
Yet, another Jets’ superbowl win. Don’t worry, Rex will be back next year with another guarantee and the so called press will be all willing to give credence…
J-E-T-S !
MESS ! MESS ! MESS !!!
haha
“It’s on me.” Rex Ryan.
His only true statement this year.
Yeah!!! Three Super Bowls in three years!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, wait a minute…
Love it. Just love it. Couldnt happen to a nicer bunch of classless morons….
Mark Sanchez is garbage. Rex Ryan is incredibly overrated as a head coach and Santonio Holes is underutilized.
Mr Flynn,
Come on down to sunny Miami. We’ll spend that first round pick on Blackmon just to show how much we care for your success!
Here’s the Jets’ defensive problem in a nutshell:
DE Dave Tollefson of the Giants is their special teams captain and *5th* pass rusher, behind Tuck, JPP, Osi, and OLB-DE Kiwi. He’d be the starting DE and primary pass rusher for the Jets.
But they wouldn’t even drop Sanchez for Manning, right???
jetsuperbowl says:
Jan 1, 2012 4:54 PM
Sanchez is clearly injured. We need a decent back up
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Brady is injured too. And he put up 49 today. And he didn’t brag about it. Enjoy the offseason trying to pry a crippled Manning from Indy. Two firsts and three seconds should get it done.
Matt Flynn to the Jets?
jetsuperbowl says:
Jan 1, 2012 4:54 PM
Sanchez is clearly injured. We need a decent back up
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What? Funny to see Rex’s delusional attitude has trickled down to its fans.
Mark Sanchez is atrocious…..A-T-R-O-C-I-O-U-S.
When the Jets best pass of the game and longest pass as well comes from your rookie WR who sticks a gorgeous pass in the face of a rushing Cameron Wake, that’s saying something.
As a Giants fan, I actually feel bad for Jets fans that this guy has pretty much cost your team a whole bunch of games this year and a playoff berth. But then my sympathy quickly vanishes when delusional Jets fans try to defend that sorry excuse for a QB by blaming the OC or saying he has an injury.
If anything the OC should walk, if he has any chance of a job offer anywhere else, walk before that dude ruins your career. Sanchez stinks in all facets. Oh BTW, he’s just as weak in mental make up as he is in physical attributes.
Throw all the stats you want out there(2 AFC champ games ) but he fails my EYEBALL TEST and after numerous retrys, he still fails badly. Jets fans you don’t and won’t have a serviceable QB, let alone a franchise one, nothing and I mean nothing will change that dud into something decent.
I’m out.
Dear Rex,
Please keep Sanchez. You’re right, he’s better than Brady!
Sincerely,
William Belichick.
Mark Sanchez is pretty much a sexy Trent Dilfer.
“The Jets offense put the defense in a bad spot all day, like they did all season.”
The dolphins had 210 total yards of offense and as you said 94 on the one drive but the Jets D was facing a backup QB, scrub RBs, against and O that had missing their starting ProBowl LT…
This is ALL ON COACHING!
Made my day, no YEAR.
Sanchize is garbage and his coach along with him.
Typical NY loud mouths.
Jets go down in flames,with “Fireman Ed ” onboard !
This is all so EFFING awesome…but, why is anyone surprised???? 2 division titles in 41 years, and historically 5th worst franchise in NFL history.
Rexy is right though…they do play jets football.
EVER hear so much talk from an 8-8 team that played one of NFL’S weakest scedules???
Yeah Jetsfan, your whole problem is Sanchez…
The fact that you can’t run the ball has nothing to do with your mediocrity…
mh28102 says: Jan 1, 2012 4:48 PM
Jets list of possible QB’s next year from best to worst:
1. Manning
2. Flynn
3. Any 1st round draft pick
4. Orion
5. Campbell
6. Orton
7. Any draft pick
8. David Garrard
9. Jamarcus Russell
10. Mark Sanchez
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You forgot Favre
Mark “Check Down” Sanchez
judsonjr | Jan 1, 2012, 5:29 PM EST
Mark Sanchez is pretty much a sexy Trent Dilfer.
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That’s an insult to Trent Dilfer!
Tough year, lot of guys didn’t do a good enough job. Lots for Rex to work on before next season.
Still, it’s been entertaining and what more can you ask!
Promises to be a fun offseason ahead.
Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl. A real one. Not an off-season dream
Said it before; Greg McElroy is better than Sanchez, and should start next year. Rex wind is getting old.
So just to clarify, the Jets are NOT winning the superbowl?
Holmes has a bad attitude. It seems he is washed up–he was never consistent anyway.
Jets may decide to go in another direction at QB. I would try if I were them but they need help at other areas including D Line, WR, and Running Back so maybe they’ll hang on to Sanchize.
I cannot reiterate this enough:
Mark Sanchez’s base salary for this year was $14.75 million.
God bless Woody Johnson and Mike Tannenbaum to have money like that to burn.
I LOVE IT!
No Jake Long, No Reggie Bush!
Sanchez sux! But please, please keep him on ur stinkin team!
Yes jets, the MIAMI DOLPHINS ended your season today!!!
Couldn’t have scripted this end to the season better. The franchise QB chokes it up all day long. The “captain”, appointed by Jabba the Jet, sits for the last three minutes stewing because he wasn’t getting the ball. And not only is there no SB win, no division win (yet again) and no playoffs, but they don’t even end up with a winning record.
Pathetic! Enjoy your offseason Jets fans. Keep drinking the Sexy Rexy kool-aid.
…and people in Detroit wanted the Lions to take Sanchez instead of Stafford. God poeple are stupid
GO LIONS!!!!
The Yets should trade Sanchez for a 7th rounder and sign Matt “Gunner” Flynn!!
Pete Carroll was right on the money when he said this guy should not have entered the draft yet. I hear about what a hard worker he is but at the same time I dont see improvement. What kills me is the decision making with him. Whether it was taking that Safety against the Giants, or the amount of terrible INT’s this guy throws, it has all the makings of a guy clearly not mentally cut out for the job.
This is not to excuse Holmes, who is a turd and should never have been chosen as a captain. But the Jets have been winning despite Sanchez, not because of him. Its time they admit that to themselves
Eat a toe Rex. From Miami
J-E-T-S S-I-T-T-I-N-G A-T H-O-M-E
The Jets already have a “Matt Flynn” type QB on the roster. His name is Greg McElroy…and he should be given every opportunity to win the starting QB job in 2012…draft position be damned.
Rex you and Rob can sit on the couch watching the playoffs debating who will win the idiot bowl.
Love that 5th round pick the steelers got for this bum!! Looks like a good deal for the steelers now!!
To think, as a phins fan we had to put up with Henne a 2nd round bust. But it makes up for it to watch the Yets move up in the draft to get “their guy” Sancheeze. Mr Hollywood himself going to NY the Big Apple and just FAIL miserably.
Matt Moore is better than Sanchez
Hell, Henne might be as well. Hahahahah!