The Jets Really Stink
Base10 finally has enough psychological distance from Sunday's fiasco to write about it. You know, if we were playing .500 ball, it would be one thing to lose a close game against a physical team in overtime. But the Jets are not a .500 team and they have won only one game so far this season.

Amid the echoes of the Rich Kotite years, it's hard to put a finger on the causes. The terrible season has already cost Chad Pennington his job, although in fairness to him, Kellen Clemens wasn't any ball of fire in his second start, although it was good to see a QB that could actually throw a long pass and run for some yardage. The only thing you can hope for at this point is to regroup after the bye this weekend and retool for the end of the season. The Jets can build for next season by going out with a bang.

Back in geek mode, Wapo columnist Shankar Vedantam writes that Washington should have gone for it on fourth down in the last few minutes before the Jets tied it up--based on the economic reasoning of David Romer. Romer actually studied the phenomenon of kicking rather than going for it and concluded that teams are almost always better off going for it. Click here to read the original Romer article (pdf).

Labels: economics, football

- posted by Base10 @ 11:00 AM