Gang Green, Dreams Lean: New York Jets (Ep. 8)

We now join this breaking news press conference at Misery Sports Company headquarters. Thank you all for joining us here today for this pre meeting. Press conference I want to address the scandal that has rocked MSK for the last eight days on Wednesday, October twenty ninth and the year of our Lord twenty twenty five, I recorded episode seven of the Misery Sports Podcast. And as was clear from the audio quality of the episode, I failed to check mic levels prior to the episode, including my own, which made the episode sound like I was shouting into a toaster during a hurricane. Uh, this mistake will haunt me for the rest of my life. I wasn’t sure if I was going to be putting on this headset again, as there’s a deep drive into left field by Castellanos and that will make it a four nothing ball game. I want to thank my wife and family for sticking by me during this difficult time, as my actions have not aligned with my core values, nor the core values of MSK, I will not be taking questions at this time, and I will pass things over to our executive director of Everyday Agony, whose relentless support, along with that of the Stoops family, has gotten me through this. Thank you. And tighten up. Thank you for those words, Trevor. And thank you all for being here. No one likes to be in this spot, but we do our best to learn and grow from this. We want to assure you and our loyal sponsors and shareholders, especially Mike, the forgotten stoops that we recognize. We miss the mark here and are committed to change. Our intention has always been to provide a safe, predictable environment for fans of terrible teams, and that was tough to do through audio that sounded like it was from the Roaring Twenties. We are absolutely committed to following through with our internal review of our own actions, in which we will determine we did nothing wrong and should receive no punishment. Nothing speaks louder than actions, and in the following days, weeks and months you will see us commit to learning, growing and pretending like this never happened. I will take a few questions. Yeah. In the front over there. Yeah. Jack. Obscure podcast. Tribune. It looks like Deshaun Watson. All right, all right. No no no no no. There will be no questions at this time. Thank you for coming. And please stick around for our regularly scheduled shareholder meeting. Hello I’m Trevor, your VP of draft day reaches. And I’m Zack, executive director of Everyday Agony. And this is Misery Sports company, where loyalty is tested and sanity is optional. If your team has a talent for turning simple games into dramatic disasters, your home at MSI. Watching the Browns and Titans is just another line item in our misery budget. 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Someone’s paying. Someone’s paying. You go to court. Someone’s someone’s paying. Uh, well. Well, thanks to the John Moran. It wasn’t my gun firm. Uh, for holding strong through every setback, heartbreak and chaotic moment. Honestly, MSC wouldn’t survive without you. That’s right. Welcome to MSC weekly earnings report, where every interception, missed tackle and crushing defeat is tracked like a depreciating asset. Let’s jump into it. Zach, I’m going to be honest, I went to write the Titans Recap earlier today, and I genuinely had to look up what happened because it was so unmemorable that I had no recollection of what happened on Sunday. I knew there was a game, I knew that I was invested in it, and I, I did not remember. I could not have told you anything that happened. That’s where I am in the season. Uh, we played the Chargers and we lost twenty seven twenty. Not bad. Right? Okay, that’s not bad. The Chargers improved to six and three. Justin Herbert is I think a good quarterback. Uh I would gladly take him. Of course that’s true. Relatively. He’s like football. Jesus. Uh, compared to other teams I would gladly take him to. So it’s a close game. I got what I wanted. I just wanted a close game. Titans fans, we got what we wanted. We wanted close games. Was great on that front. But if you look a little deeper under the surface of that shiny twenty seven twenty final result, you will see that Justin Herbert gifted us a pick six to start. We also had a punt return touchdown from Kim DK, who should be definitely on the all rookie team. I think he’s going to be a Pro Bowl returner. He leads the league in return yards. He’s like the one shining spot of this team outside of Big Jeff. Like he’s playing incredibly well. So there’s fourteen points gifted now mind you we only scored twenty. So then we you know we added two field goals to that. No real way around it. Cam had a very bad first half. Uh looked really bad. Uh at one point Zach and I were texting each other because we were both watching Red zone channel. And I don’t blame him for not showing Titan stuff. Who wants to see Titans games? Like nobody. It feels like punishment to watch this team. And so they’re very rarely on. Even when we are in the red zone. They literally broke in from the Packers game to be like, hey, just wanted to show you this real quick. Look at this cam Ward throw. And it’s like a close up. It’s not a play. I have no context for anything that’s happening. It’s just a close up from like the opposite end zone facing cam Ward as he sidearms, a duck that skips three yards in front of his receiver. And that was literally the entire highlight. He was like, oh man, that’s a former number one pick. Just man. Look at that duck. All right let’s get you back to the Packers. Like what the hell. What? Why did America need that. It was very discombobulating because I saw the same thing and I was like, what was that like? Why? Why did I need this? This is red zone. Like, what are we doing here? There’s no context at all. Like, oh, he’s having a decent game. But unfortunately he had this throw. It was literally look at this freaking terrible throw real quick in the Titans game. All right. Let’s get you back to competent. Football was really bad. Um but he turned things around in the second half. Started dishing. But per usual, I am back here, Zack, to talk about terrible coaching because I can’t escape it. Even when we fire the idiot who got us here, I can’t escape bad coaching. Let’s go to the third quarter. We’re down three. We started our own thirty one. We’ve driven it down to the eight yard line. Great. Cam has had three long completions. There’s been a few runs. So we’re at the eight. We have first and goal only down three. So the next three out of the four plays were runs up. The gut cam threw once for six yards uh maybe seven because we get down to the one. So it’s fourth and goal from the one. And they called two straight plays up the gut. We’ve seen that before. We saw the movie in the college version. It translated to to the NFL. I just I don’t understand. I love that he was confident in going for it because he finally got the memo. You don’t have anything to lose. Just go for it. That’s great. But to call just run. Boring runs up the gut that were immediately stuffed. When cam is confident and you don’t even call like one roll out like give him a chance. It just it just baffles me. It absolutely baffles me. Or keep it in his hands for a QB sneak. I saw a stat that through eight games we’ve run two quarterback sneaks. Are you freaking kidding me? Now that is an indictment. We’ve probably never been in third and short or fourth and short, I get it. But, like, just just let him try. You had a game and I, I have a a name for this type of game. It’s called fool’s Gold, right? Where it’s like Browns do it all the time. It’s really close. Sometimes you even win these games. You’re like, I have no idea how we how we won this game. Um, it’s because we shouldn’t have won this game and we shouldn’t have even been competitive. We had, you know, these special teams, defense, everything starts to align. I feel your pain. Um, that’s the. That’s the only way we gotta win this year. Was that Cardinals game like, their receiver dropped it going into the end zone. They can’t fall on a fumble. Like the weirdest crap happened. So after that we turned the ball over at the one. Hey maybe this will turn out good. Nope a nine minute ninety nine yard touchdown drive. And that was church, so that’s great. I will also rant a little bit later on our play calling. We can’t get away from these gadget plays. How many times have we sat here? We’ve done this is episode eight and I feel like every week I get on here and we say, if your quarterback is driving down the field, we are inside the opponent’s twenty. It is third and two. Why are we calling a direct snap to the running back with cam Ward on the field? We motion him. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s third and two. We’ve driven fifty yards. I don’t understand, we also called a flea flicker on third and one. No more flea flickers. No more. I’m so sick of it. On third and one, I just. I don’t get it. I don’t get it. This team finds new ways to make no sense and drive me absolutely bonkers. So why don’t you balance the books for us? Uh, how was your branch of MSC doing? You know what? It was fantastic, because the Browns did not play a game of football, so I had a bye week. Um, I am going to. It’s kind of funny. I had a couple of tweets, so I’m gonna I’m gonna introduce one of them. Um, one, one bit of news from the Browns. So Paul Depodesta. He is the, I don’t know, president of football operations. He’s well known for his Moneyball. He actually worked for the Oakland A’s back in the day. So I have a tweet from bet MGM, because Paul Depodesta is going to be the Colorado Rockies head of baseball operations. So he’s actually leaving and bet MGM says Paul Depodesta has career highlights. Played by Jonah Hill and Moneyball. Number one. Number two guided the Browns to an zero sixteen season. And number three traded for and signed Deshaun Watson. So now he’s going to the Colorado Rockies. That sounds like a great fit. Wish Paul all the best. I that move is wild. Like oh we’ve seen what you did in football. But we’re gonna we’re going to bank on that baseball knowledge. Still being in there and coming. Come on back. Lot of analytics. Um, you know, which isn’t bad, right? But it’s it’s driving like every single decision in the Cleveland Browns organization. So, um, it worked for him with the Oakland A’s. Wish him all the best. Get out. And, uh, we’ll try to change things up a little bit. But on the bye week, I actually did a little bit of, you know, going around the different leagues and you and I have different teams. Right? So, um, different teams that provide us some joy, some disappointment. Um, of course, Ohio State Buckeyes doing fantastic in football. Number one team. Thank you so much. Because without you we would be a rudderless ship. I don’t know, man. It was terrible storm. Um, but I wanted to go around to a couple of the different teams. So on my side, um, the Cleveland Cavaliers are five and three. They’re doing okay. They’ve got some injuries. Um, I actually have a funny clip for the mail room from Donovan Mitchell, but, um, I don’t know. With the NBA, it’s kind of like the regular season, you know, you just want to get through it and get ready for the playoffs. Um, and then I also looked at the Blue Jackets. They’re seven and six in the NHL. They’re looking okay. They won four straight at one point. But now they’re two down. So they’re um they’re not looking great in the NHL standings. But when I go to the Dallas Stars they’re looking like they’re fourth in their division. So they’re having a pretty good start to the season. They’re seven wins, three losses, three overtime losses. So stars are looking like they’re going to be a pretty good pick in the NHL. They’re going to give us a few uh reasons for optimism. Hope so. And unfortunately I will end with the Dallas Mavericks who are gosh why dead last in the Western Conference? I looked at, uh, I looked at the offensive ratings. They are dead last in the NBA in offensive rating. Um, can I share something about that offensive rating? Did you see the tweet? I don’t know that I did. Through eight games, this offensive rating would rank dead last in the history of the NBA. It is the single worst offense human beings have laid eyes on since we decided the NBA was a thing. And for those who don’t know Niko, what’s his last name? Harrison. I just know him by Niko. Yeah. Niko. Motherfucker. GM for the Dallas Mavericks traded away Luka Doncic last year, who is, by all accounts a top five, if not top three NBA player. Um, he took all the heat. He said the defense wins championships. And it is very clear that you have to put the ball in the basket in addition to playing defense. Um, the worst part about all of this is Luka just looked at his averages. He’s averaging forty points, eleven rebounds, nine assists. The Lakers look fantastic, which I hate because I don’t want to see the Lakers do well. Um, but here we are. And so I wanted to share in the misery. It’s just this is the deepest hurt that I have ever experienced from sports. It is like it gets down to my soul, like the misery of being a Titans fan. It’s like, well, you know, maybe we’ll get him next year. But like, this was we had it. He was ours in this absolute moron thinks that he is smarter than the entire NBA world and has to make us watch his project fail. He’s. I don’t think Nico Harrison is going to last a year because of how spectacularly bad all of this is, which is going to be insane that the season after you trade Luca, you can’t even make it because your trade was so catastrophically bad. So bad. Yeah. And I mean, Anthony Davis is a great player. He’s injured Luka Doncic. We can say stuff about like, you know, being in shape and this, that and the other. Why wouldn’t you just challenge him? He bought a freaking house in Dallas. Yeah, I, I don’t want it to take up the entire segment, but it needs to be said. And, um, there’s different levels within Misery Sports Co there are different teams. Unfortunately, it looks like the Mavericks are going to provide us with, uh, some incredible losses on the balance sheet. Yeah. As it kills my joy of an entire sport. Hey you got the Cavs. Oh I do have the Cavs. It just hurts if they can get healthy. I just I don’t know. We’ll see. Um another week another report. And once again our emotional balance sheet is in the red. Gosh how do I go on after that Zach. Okay I’m sorry I’m so sad. Okay. But somebody is paying for this segment, so I gotta I gotta shout out to them. All right, let’s recognize our next sponsor. The only thing steadier than our fans despair. Our next sponsor is from the makers of one of our very first sponsors. One of our very first sponsors was the back of the playbook. Comes in all new, all too familiar product. The front of the playbook is your coach inexplicably calling gadget plays after you’ve driven the ball fifty yards. Tell him that’s dumb, and nobody wants a direct snap to the running back on third and two. Turn that play sheet over and call a play action rollout. It’s right there. Hey, what’s in the corner? Is that a QB sneak? Try it. It’s all there for you on the front of the playbook. Very well said. Uh, the Browns are going to try something new and go to a new offensive coordinator, so Coach Stefanski is not going to be calling the plays. Maybe our offensive coordinator will go to the front of the playbook. So we’d like to thank the front of the playbook for this next segment. In this next segment is the Office of Moral Victories. Even in the company built on heartbreak, brilliance can occasionally peek through. My employee of the week is actually from the Dallas Stars. He is an employee of the Dallas Stars. It is none other than Daryl Razor Ray. The Dallas Stars color commentary man for both radio and TV, and he is being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a media member. Oh, nice. He’s been there since the nineties. He called the Stanley Cup in ninety nine, and for my money, he is the best thing going. I watch a lot of hockey highlights, so I hear other folks and there’s there’s good ones out there. Correct me if I’m wrong. Doesn’t the Blue Blue Jackets has like one guy? Is it still one guy? Do they have two now? Yeah, he’s still doing it. Yep. It’s crazy. That’s so that’s impressive on its own. And like a different category to be able to just carry a game by yourself. That’s crazy. Um, but, uh, razor is hilarious. He’s a former goalie. Uh, he was the forty sixth overall pick in his draft. Um, and he got drafted ahead of, uh, like, Brett Hull and some, like, really good players. Wow. Yeah. but unfortunately he went to an Edmonton team that had two stud goalies. I don’t know why they drafted him that high, but he never he was behind so much talent that it didn’t work out. But, uh, that was to our benefit because we got the greatness of razor. And I’m going to play a quick forty five second highlight of some of his greatest calls to celebrate him getting in the Hockey Hall of Fame. There was a full scissor kick to keep that out. That truly was a full frontal lobotomy. This is cheeky. This is his cheeky as a cheeky oh my. He looked like a big kid trying to grab a ball of yarn in front of the net. Ben goes through everyone like poop through a diarrhea infected goose, sometimes just to be in the same. The options are limited. He is scatological. Yeah, I might have drank bleach this season if he didn’t dress. He’s given me a wealth of giggles We down the. Obliterated. This is a nectarous mastodon mammoth. Tantalizing, sassy, sensational glove grab. Nabokov has just flavored my gas. So there. There is razor. Some of his best calls. Shout out to you. You are my employee of the week. Oh, man, that’s good stuff. Full frontal lobotomy. You could you could say in just about any context and you’re gonna get me. It’s pretty great, but even misery needs a touch of celebration. Congrats to razor. So, Zach, who else earns a moment in the spotlight? You know what? I’m not gonna say I’m eating crow because I’m not. And because I don’t want him on my team. But the Cleveland Browns, you’ll remember I had, uh, really pleaded with the Cleveland Browns to get Joe Flacco on the bench. And they did. They went to Dillon Gabriel. And I think they needed to. They’re going nowhere. You know Joe Flacco isn’t winning you games. Let him live. So he goes to the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals played the bears at home this week Joe Flacco went thirty one of forty seven for four hundred and seventy yards four touchdowns, two interceptions, one one fumble lost and even threw that right. No hold on. No, no. Yeah. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Almost five hundred yards with three turnovers is the most chaotic stat line I’ve ever heard. It’s pure Joe Flacco. It’s essentially Jameis Winston who the Browns also had. You’re going to get the most amazing game. And the Bengals freaking lost forty seven to forty two. In such a heartbreaking way that last play by Chicago was so funny. Oh my gosh. So shout out to Joe Flacco. Listen you weren’t going to win the Browns anything. We don’t have Ja’Marr Chase. We don’t have Tee Higgins. You’re throwing to some studs I know you can throw the ball. We don’t have that. And you weren’t winning. But shout out to Joe Flacco employee of the week this week. The mail room never disappoints Trevor, what treasures await this week in the inbox? Well, hot off the press, here’s a contribution from old Kevin Johnson himself at high pockets eighty four. Uh, tis the season. Trick or treat time around here. We had a fun time with the kids, and every time trick or treat rolls around that old urban legend of, oh, you got to check your kids candy because there’s razor blades in it. Like, you got to be careful that whole thing happens or there’s, you know, drugs in the candy, whatever. It always spikes. Well, Kevin Johnson shared a funny image that we’ll post on our website at Missouri Sports. Com as we do every time where you folks can see our, uh, our mailroom and our deep dive, he posted, please check your children’s Halloween candy. We found these inside a Snickers given out by some sick individual, and the image is of a broken open Snickers bar. And there’s two tickets to a Titans game inside. So. Kevin. Oh, no. So he’s right. Some sick freak is passing out Titans tickets to kids and subjecting them to the horror. Nobody deserves that. So thanks, Kevin for a laugh. Uh, it’s really all I had this week. So, Zach, what do you got? Okay, I’ve got two. So one is from the Cleveland Cavaliers. So Donovan Mitchell is their star player. Um, he’s had a so-so start to the season. But um, this last game he ended up scoring forty six points. And so at the post game press conference they asked Donovan Mitchell about the game. And this was his response. I wouldn’t put the game that I had based on the court. This kid pissed me off today. I was playing okay. Um, I’ve been playing for like two hours and I, I told them to. I was like, wait, just wait. He’s just call me washed up. He called me a bunch of things, but I love it, you know what I mean? Um, he said he ain’t seen a highlight for me in a minute. And I just told him. We’ll see. He said, tell me to go to sleep like he was going in. So this for that, for that kid, grown man, whoever that was. Um, but. So I appreciate you. I want I told him I give him a shout out, too. So that’s what tonight was. Um, I wouldn’t that’s so incredible. Number one, the beginning of the NBA season is so boring that you’re playing two hours of NBA two K. Yep. Number two, a grown man is talking crap to you and tells you to go to bed. Number three, you take that and show him and go for forty six points. It’s incredible. Uh, yeah. That, um, that encompasses the beginning of an NBA season very, very well. Um, and then I’m going to go to the NFL kind of. And so the New York Post, um, had a tweet recently where Mark Sanchez’s Fox features in doubt after the Drew Brees hire. So Mark Sanchez was a broadcaster for Fox and he’s gotten into some legal trouble. And uh, Drew Brees is somebody who used to play in the NFL. They’re going to hire him on. And uh, shout out to Jarvis underscore best who responded yeah to the Drew Brees news that and the stabbing mostly the stabbing to be honest. Later. But also remember the stabbing. Yeah. If you haven’t read up on Mark Sanchez please read up. It is the most bizarre story. He’s in Indianapolis to be a broadcaster on a game and gets into some trouble that I’ll let you figure out. Your inbox cleared, tweets filed in the record of fan suffering grows. Thanks for keeping the mystery alive and thanks to our sponsor still smiling through every heartbreak and meltdown we deliver. Yeah, this next segment is going to be brought to you by actually very closely related to John Moran. This is Katie’s courtside cold takes microphones designed for delivering perfectly timed burns like your son don’t want to be here directly to John Moran’s dad, because sometimes the sideline needs more heat than the scoreboard. Isn’t that incredible? That, like, that stuff just happens every NBA game. That interaction was amazing. That was another. There’s gotta be a tweet out there with it. Yeah, yeah. It’s kind of hard to hear the KD stuff, but they have subtitles like your son. He doesn’t want to be here. Enjoy your last weekend in Memphis. It’s incredible. And like, then he just jogs down the court to go try and score in an NBA game. Okay, okay. It’s amazing. Got those burner burner Twitter accounts, too. Oh my God, let him live. He’s so online. He is probably the most online athlete that I can think of. So props to Kd’s courtside cold take microphones. Uh, Keeping the lights on, the coffee brewing and the rest of us unemployed. And thank you to Katie’s courtside Celtic microphones. Uh, now it is time for Msk’s deep dive, where tears meet spreadsheets and heartbreak gets logged. Trevor, what have you got for us today? Oh, boy. Some some deep dive before I actually get into what we’re talking about in the deep dive. I want you to know that I really tried to go super old school on this. I tried. I spent maybe thirty minutes looking into this, like, can I get an angle on this? And I really couldn’t. But there was a tweet, uh, with an image captured from the Titans game on Sunday, CBS put up a graphic to. Don’t you love when you’re watching, like, a Browns game or something? And they’re like, what’s the most painful graphic we can create to just ramp up the misery? Which again, we talked about this during our break room segment. I get a little defensive when people talk badly about my team that I know is bad. More than you know. My team is bad. Happens all the time. Uh, or like on Monday Night Football, those really stupid cartoon graphics that look like early Toy Story stuff. And it’s like, oh, let’s go through all the quarterbacks the Browns have had, like, no, we don’t need to do that. We’re aware of it. So CBS, in that spirit, came up with a graphic that said most consecutive games with fewer touchdowns than the opponent. So how many games in a row did you have fewer touchdowns than your opponent? The Titans made the list. This is all time. This is going back before I think before the NFL. Like we’re going back as far as we can with professional football in first place are the Chicago Cardinals in the forties. I guess they’re the their thing. Looks like the bears. I assume they turn into the bears. I don’t know the Buccaneers. Yeah. Let them live. The Buccaneers in seventy six seventy seven had eighteen of these consecutive games. The Titans have fourteen now. Oh yeah now fifteen. We did not have more touchdowns than the Chargers. So fifteen games in a row. This has happened to us. So we’re on our way. If we can just do this five more games in a row gosh darn it. We’ve got a record. Go Titans tighten up. But between the Buccaneers at eighteen and the Titans at fourteen was a team from the twenties called the Dayton Triangles. Have you ever heard of the Dayton Triangles. They they actually popped up in one of my deep dive analysis. Yes, I don’t know. I don’t know much about them, but they were incredibly yeah, they were so bad. and frankly, I don’t know a lot about. It was like looking at the worst team where we went to college. The football team folded forever ago, uh, because they lost like one hundred and twenty to zero. And it was similar to that level of horrendous football. But from nineteen twenty, the English language, the dictionary. And you pick the triangles like what their, their logo is literally a triangle with a football player in the middle of it. It’s the saddest looking thing, like at least the Chicago Cardinals from the forties looks cool. This is depressingly bad. The only reason that the triangles didn’t get to continue on with their seventeen game streak is because the franchise folded. It just collapsed on itself. It’s done. And so I was like, oh, this would be great. Let me look this up. And it was really just like there was this team called the Dayton Triangles and they sucked. Yeah, that’s all folks. Uh, so that’s a special kind of misery, I guess if your team folds in the twenties when life seems to be good. Uh, so I wanted to do that. We’re not doing that. Um, but in honor of the moves that have been happening in the NFL, the biggest trades were dominated by one team. And that team is the New York Jets. So we are going to be talking about the Jets today. They have a couple tie ins with what we’ve been talking about. Uh, ironically, I guess maybe this is why they suck so much. Do you know what the original name of the New York Jets was? I have no idea. Um, no. Well, would it surprise you that at one point they were the New York Titans. Oh, no. Yeah! Oh, no! Foreboding. Yeah. Oh, no. So it already started out bad. And maybe Nashville should have spent some time with that a little bit before they just decided to go that route. Like, look at what’s happening a little bit. Um, because it was not good stuff. Uh, so they were originally called the I think. I don’t even think it was like the New York Titans. I think it was the titans of New York. And they went with that. And even better, I guess it kind of sounds cool. But then that was founded in nineteen sixty, and then in sixty three they named it, they renamed to the Jets. Uh, and the reasoning is stupid, the reasoning for all these names, honestly, sports teams are founded on the dumbest premises. Every time we read about these, it’s if it’s not a fan poll, it’s like people deciding that something is important. Uh, sometime we should go through, like, renaming stuff because Guardians has to be at the top, right? Like it’s. Yeah, yeah, they had the Cleveland Spiders to the Indians and then the Guardians, so. Yeah. And they chose Guardians in part because it ended with the same letters as Indians. So, like, they’re just, you know, these are really stupid reasons, but they named the Jets because they played close to LaGuardia airport. Dumb. And two, because it rhymed with the Mets that were already playing there. Like, why did that factor in at all? So I, I don’t know, um, a lot of these teams we’ve talked about started out horrendously, I think back to Seattle that had such a terrible start to the franchise. Uh, not the case for, uh, the Jets. There was one we talked about that started off pretty great. I was a Jaguars, I think, like they were probably the most successful. Yeah, Raiders were bumpy. And then they turned out great. Yep. Um yeah. So the Jets won a Super Bowl nine years later in sixty nine. They won Super Bowl three. Uh, this was when Joe Namath, Joe Namath famously declared that he was going to get a win over the Colts, who were heavily favored. And by golly, they did. So that was great. Um, guesses on how many Super Bowls they have won since. Ooh, I’m gonna say zero. That one is correct. They have not. In fact, they have not been back to the Super Bowl since nineteen sixty nine for the sixty eight season. So tough. Tough out there. Hope was high. Coming off a Super Bowl the next year they lost in the divisional round. And then you go from nineteen sixty nine until nineteen eighty one. Another characteristics of these miserable sports franchises are these long playoff droughts where you’re just you’re giving up. You’re giving nothing. So we get to the eighties during the eighties. There are four playoff appearances. You know decently good teams eighty five. They finished eleven and five. Uh but losing the wild card round they get to the conference championship in eighty two. I’m guessing that this was a strike season because their their record was six and three. I think this was the strike year, so I don’t I don’t think that counts. I’d have to look into that. Um, but not a lot to write home with. Now, I will say in the eighties, their defense, they had a nasty defense and their nickname was the New York Stock Exchange, which is objectively great. So like if you have a terrible team, if you can at least find a nickname that rocks. A couple years ago when the Titans were playing competent football. So like in twenty nineteen, they were trying to come up with names for our defensive front and somebody in jest recommended or suggested the Tennessee Tickle monsters. And like somehow that got back to the players and they were like, we don’t like that. Objectively, that’s terrible. Which made the fans like it even more so. Like there’s memes out there of like, Elmo and tickle monsters, and it’s ridiculous. But I think nicknames are cool. Have the. Do you recall any Browns like unit nicknames or I know you have the dog. None of them I could really repeat to you right now because they probably would be inappropriate, but, um, yeah, no, we definitely have some nicknames. Mistake by the lake. Yeah. Um, yep. That’s good. We’ve done a lot of growing and learning at MSK, so we’re that’s good. We’re self-censoring. That’s that’s good for us. Um. So let’s fast forward ninety eight. They lose in the AFC Championship to the Broncos. Uh, after going twelve and four with Bill Parcells. The Parcells years were great. Um, but that style of hard coaching can, you know, grate on you? Uh, a little bit. And so honestly, looking from that AFC Championship in ninety eight through twenty ten. So that’s what like twelve ish years. There’s seven playoff appearances. So like the Jets are around. This is when we go through a super old Vinny Testaverde. Uh Chad Pennington is around. And then you get a year of, uh, or a couple years of Brett Favre. And so now we’re in two thousand and nine. So you probably remember like the Rex Ryan years. They randomly got to two AFC championship games. Oh yeah. And it was like I guess they’re really good. They had uh a great defense. I think this is I think this is we got the Bart Scott. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He’s can’t wait. He’s having a good time. They they were. They were making some noise. It was, uh. Yeah. They had a really, I don’t know, a fun team. They, uh, the first one that they lost. So that was in two thousand and nine. They lose by thirteen to the Colts. Um, it was a close game until the fourth. So that was, uh, I mean, I, you know, that was a good team as a Peyton Manning Colts team. Uh, so there’s no shame in that. The very next year, they get all the way back to the AFC Championship. They lose just by five to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Um, that’s you know no shame in that. That’s also a great team. This is the team I think that beats. Is this the Arizona Super Bowl year. No this is when they lose to the Packers I was thinking that was Arizona year I was off. Uh but they still go all the way to the AFC championship. So like hope that goofy fickle beast of hope where you’re like, we’re getting success. We’re probably going to maintain this. This is great. We’re going to be okay. The fleeting thing because that was in twenty ten. So that was fifteen years ago. They have had zero playoff appearances in the last fifteen years. Really, really rough stuff. Um, Thanksgiving twenty twelve. Go ahead. Uh, in the postseason. Right. So this kind of ties back to, uh, one of our tweets of the week. Getting into the AFC Championship was none other than Mark, but fumble. Sanchez. Absolutely. Those teams and like Rex Ryan was a character. Yep. Bart Scott, like you mentioned. I mean, it was it was a cast of characters that really didn’t, didn’t fit. And then they get into that desert, like you said. Um, and Mark Sanchez reminds me a lot of when we talked about the Jaguars performing well like a really nasty defense. And then if you just have a game manager back there that’s going to carry you pretty far. That’s like the Blake Bortles special. Um and he gets to the AFC Championship. And Rex Ryan doesn’t leave until after the twenty fourteen season. So like he was around. But in Thanksgiving twenty twelve uh Mark Sanchez runs into the butt of his own offensive lineman hilariously fumbles. And then we have the butt fumbles or the butt fumble. Um, just a super bummer of a play to be remembered by. Uh, I’m sure that, you know my favorite play in Titans history. Obviously Music City Miracle. I’m sure the bills fans hate that, but it sucks when you’re on the wrong side of a Dan Orlovsky and his safety when you’re most memorable for a bad play. That’s got to be tough and sometimes it leads to parking lot altercations before work. Again, go read into that as you will. And so this the last fifteen years have been rough. We’ve gone through some coaches, not as many as you would think we went through. Todd Bowles, who is doing great in Tampa. So that’s a bummer that it didn’t work out. But sometimes coaches need to grow. Adam Gase in his crazy eyes remember Adam Gase’s eyes. And like his press conferences he was nuts. Oh yeah. He was there for, uh, two years. Robert Saleh. Future future Titans head coach Robert Saleh Steve sarkisian. Um you Don’t speak that if. Okay. As a former mental health counselor, there is nothing worse for Steve Sarkisian’s recovery than to go be around the Tennessee Titans. That is not a safe move for him or his family. Don’t do it. Just stay away. It’s not safe, Robert Saleh. Because I need. And I already know. I already hear it. Well, somebody was already there establishing the culture. Yes, I know somebody was already establishing the culture, but we need to go back to that because we tried something and it was a disaster. So I need somebody to come in and establish it, and it’s going to be Robert Saleh and it’s going to be great. Um, a few really bad seasons, five and twelve, uh, last year, thirty one and seven were battling them, um, to see who can be the worst team. But let’s go back to, uh, the eighteen through twenty seasons. They had Sam Darnold as their quarterback. Oh yeah. And that’s looking like a mistake from moving on. Certainly Zach Wilson was a failed experiment. That was a reach. But they had Sam Darnold who now looks very serviceable at least in the Mark Sanchez Blake Bortles sense of like this guy can at least manage a game. Um I I’m sure Jets fans hate that they moved on from uh moved on from him. But they did uh, they had all of this is this is probably the worst I will end on this. Uh, it was so it was so bad. So Aaron Rodgers gets signed to the New York Jets. Hope is high. Hope is really high. Um, Aaron Rodgers. This was in the twenty third Season. Yes, the twenty twenty three season. It’s the first game Aaron Rodgers at the Jets. He runs out with the American flag. It’s the night game. This is amazing. I remember sitting down and watching that game like this kicks butt. This is great. Like I’m into this I don’t love Aaron Rodgers. But I was totally into this and he lasted four plays. Um so sad against the bills. Now they did win that game in overtime. But um it was so sad. And I remember him looking up I think at Garrett Wilson and being like sorry kid, it’s gone. And it was so sad. And he was done for the year. Um, there was a tweet during that time where it was like Aaron Rodgers highlights, and it was just a video of him carrying the flag down like the NFL films, music. Da da da da da da da da dun dun. It’s so sad. Um. So on. on just face value. And we didn’t even get into the specific games where the Jets have crushed their their fans dreams. But on face value, a quick flyby. Through their history, they have got all of the hallmarks of a miserable fan base a playoff drought, a, uh, an absolute peak of off season hope crushed in four plays and just a cycle at quarterback as they look for somebody to lead them. I wish it was Justin Fields, but I don’t think it’s going to be just somebody to lead them. Uh, Jets fans, we are here for you. We love you. I’m sorry that you used to be called the Titans. And I hope things, I hope things turn around for you. And to tie it all together. The Cleveland Browns will be playing at the New York Jets this week. Oh, look at that. Two and six Cleveland Browns in the the one and seven New York Jets. Yeah we actually don’t tell each other the deep dives. So that was funny that that connected. Yeah. But um yeah. Thank you Trevor for the deep dive. And before we continue let’s give credit where credit’s due. Here’s our next sponsor. This portion of the Misery Sports Company podcast is brought to you by Accidental Wins. Wow. Your favorite team just knocked off Auburn and their coach got fired. How awesome is that? No one saw that coming. And now you get to laugh at your SEC rivals. But wait. They’re they’re laughing at you. Now. It’s because they know if you had just lost, it would be your coach that got fired. You would have finally been free of Mark Stoops. But now you aren’t. You will never be free of him and Mike or whatever the hell. All because of accidental wins. Mhm. God bless em. God bless the Stoops family for continuing to keep our lights on. The coffee brewing and the rest of us are continuing on this stretch of misery. Um, so now it is time for pep talks. Trevor, could you give me a full emotional audit and distribute optimism like office supplies? You know that I can my pep talk this week. And I’m hesitant to do it because earlier when we talked about the Mavericks, it was such a bummer. Um, it was such a bummer. So I’m not going. I’m not going to go the Mavericks route. I we pep talked Kyrie he’s he’s going to be fine. He’s going to save our franchise. It’s totally fine. My pep talk this week is for stars captain Jamie Benn. Zach mentioned earlier that we’re I’m a big Star Wars fan. We share star’s love. Uh, we also got love for the jackets, but I’m a big Star Wars fan. Jamie Benn is one of those players where if he’s on your team, you love him. Everybody else kind of hates him. But we love him. Uh, he’s been our captain for a long time, but he’s getting older, and this might be it for him. He’s been injured, so unfortunately, he’s working his way back. But he’s getting close. He’s skating now. Um, and so I just want to give him a pep talk. Uh, Chubbs, if I can call you that. That’s his nickname. I don’t know if I’ve earned that. I probably haven’t, uh, I need a longer beard or something. Missing teeth. But, Chubbs, uh, uh, we all love you, buddy. And you’re coming back. And this this might be it. And I know it’s probably heavy on your heart that you got to pass that C on your chest to somebody. Uh, I just want you to know you’ve been an incredible captain, uh, even when you were cross checking Mark Stone into oblivion and got a major penalty and maybe cost us that series in the playoffs against the Golden Knights. I still loved you through that. I think you are an amazing player. Come back strong as an ox because we need we need you to mix it up this season. But just let it rip. Have fun, write it out and we’ll get that number fourteen in the rafters. We love you buddy. Can’t wait to see you. Thank you. Well said, well said. How about you, Zach? Who you pepping up this week? So last week, I targeted a fan base. We hit up the Dallas Maverick fans. Um, I’m actually gonna stick with, uh, fandom again, and I’m going to give a pep talk to the Toronto Blue Jays. They need it. I know that, uh, you had two games at home to win the World Series. I know that, uh, even into, you know, the the further innings or, you know, the longer the game wore out in game seven, you had that opportunity to grab it. Yeah, it was a really entertaining series. Um, I loved watching it. There were a lot of star players. They showed out, um, hang in there, Blue Jays fans. That was a really tough loss. I have actually been in your shoes. So with Cleveland Cavaliers we we ended up losing three out of the four championship series we had with the Golden State Warriors. Of course we won one. That was fantastic. Um, but the pain of being that close is definitely something that we recognize and respect that misery Sports Co we’ve all been there. We absolutely feel your pain and agony, but pull yourselves off the mat. That was a fantastic series. That was a fantastic playoff run and you’ve got a lot of great players. Um, so hang in there. Next season is going to be great. Uh, this goes out to those Toronto Blue Jays fans. Um, stay strong, Blue Jays fans, we love you. So this is another week done at Misery Sports Co balancing disappointment with compliance and just enough hope to stay operational. We hope you’ll become employees here by subscribing to the podcast on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Pocketcasts. Pandora, fountain o Good Pods, cast o matic, breeze, Podbean, iHeartRadio or wherever else you listen to your shows. Following us on X and checking out our new website, Misery Sports. Com until next week I’m Zach and I’m Trevor. See you next time.