Video Shows Jets May Have Purposely Thrown Game vs Raiders

Game 7 ^ | December 7, 2020 | Anthony Amador

[md1986]

The Las Vegas Raiders defeated the New York Jets 31-28 on Sunday afternoon. Up 28-24 with less than a minute remaining in the outing, New York punted the ball away to the Raiders. Las Vegas started off at their own 39-yard line with 42 seconds left and zero timeouts. First quarterback Derek Carr delivered a 15-yard strike to tight end Darren Waller, who subsequently spiked the ball. Then came an incomplete pass, which halted the proceedings. Finally, Carr found wide open rookie receiver Henry Ruggs to take a 30-28 lead. One extra point later and the Raiders found themselves walking off the field with a 31-28 victory.

[OrangeHoof]

All college players are getting a free year of eligibility because of COVID so Lawrence (and everyone else) could easily return to school even if he’s drafted first overall.

[mmichaels1970]

Boomer Esiason floated the Cowher rumor this morning, along with a $20 million per asking price. He’d only accept if given Bill Parcells-like control. Boomer & Bill do the CBS, pregame show. Anyway, for what it’s worth and as a JETS fan, I like!

There's a new Cowher rumor every year. I'm telling you, it's a rabbit hole. And Boomer's a moron.

As a Browns fan, I can relate. Cowher was dangled out there in our rumor mill annually for about ten years. Each year he supposedly was spotted house-hunting in Mentor. Or a cab driver gave him a ride out of Cleveland-Hopkins airport. Or a cable-tv installer just got done hooking up the house he was buying.

Cowher will never coach again, but I'll bet he enjoys the attention.

[JonPreston]

Whatever the Browns have going on, keep it up. They’re a fun team to watch.

[DestroyLiberalism]

dfwgator wrote:
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That’s why they need to make it that the four worst teams are then randomly drawn to determine the order, so there’s no guarantee of the worst team getting the first pick.

Why reward failure, that’s what Communism does. At least in soccer, a bad team gets relegated.
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The National Hockey League already has a similar type of lottery system where the bottom teams all have a chance to get the first overall draft pick, regardless of what the overall season standings dictate. I agree, the NFL should strongly consider doing the same.

[tflabo]

Trevor Lawrence should complete his senior year at college not so much as to avoid the Jets but the more successful NFL QB’s have been Senior graduates. Back in 2009 the Jets jumped up the draft and took QB Mark Sanchez, a Junior out of USC. His coach at that time was Pete Carroll who advised him to stay on for his Senior year to help better prepare him for the NFL which he ignored. After 2 fairly decent seasons with the Jets, Sanchez soon washed out of his NFL career.

[mmichaels1970]

I can easily imagine Ruggs was wide open because he was the fastest player in last year’s draft and simply outran the coverage.

And you imagined correctly. The issue was that the defense that was called allowed Ruggs one on one coverage and removed any possible help in the defensive backfield that a team winning with 0:13 seconds left against a team with 0 timeouts would have normally called.

Normally, in that situation, you have a three man rush and drop 8 people back in coverage. You have at least two deep safeties a few yards short of the goal line to prevent a TD. Your remaining six defenders are all pass coverage players that cover every possible deep zone. You would never blitz leaving receivers in one-on-one coverage with no safeties dropped back to help them.

The reasoning to me is simple. The Jets wanted to know that they COULD play with the Raiders. Which they did. Once that goal was reached, they did what they had to in order to not actually win the game and jeopardize their draft pick.

This is far from unprecedented. I think teams do it all the time. Here's what I think happened having seen Gregg Williams in action here in Cleveland:

1. The players WANTED to win.
2. Adam Gase (Jets Head Coach) probably wanted to win.
3. Gregg Williams wants to be Jets next head coach.
4. Gregg Williams wants #1 draft pick Trevor Lawrence to be his QB as he assumes his role as Jets HC.
5. Gregg Williams calls the worst defense he can to try to ensure the Jets lose.
6. Gregg Williams attempts to justify the call to the front office as simply being aggressive and wanting a sack. That it was the best call with the "talent" he was provided as Defensive Coordinator.
7. Gregg Williams HOPES he can weather the call but that this gets Gase fired so he can lobby for the job.

Williams didn't just gamble the game on his call. He gambled his career on it. He lost both.

[mmichaels1970]

Whatever the Browns have going on, keep it up. They’re a fun team to watch.

Agreed! First year HC Kevin Stefanski appears to be the right choice here.

[discostu]

It’s a terrible idea. Cowher as a coach is fine, well was fine. He’s been out of the game for 14 years. And we can see from Gruden’s struggles that the game has changed and reporting on it on TV is just not the same. And he’s never been close to being the GM. And frankly having coach and GM be the same person has a long history of failing. Except for Bill Belichick. The jobs really have contrary goals, GMs need the long view, coaches are focused on today. And they’re both 80 hour a jobs. $20 million seems like a good bozo asking price. You know “if you’re dumb enough to pay that much sure I’ll take it, but really, you’d be dumb”.

[SuperLuminal]

Nothing unusual for the National Felons League...

[Dr. Sivana]

Williams didn't just gamble the game on his call. He gambled his career on it. He lost both.

Yup. Jets fire DC Gregg Williams in aftermath of last-second loss to Raiders

[timestax]

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I see the Jets just fired their defensive coordinator, Gregg Williams.

[nascarnation]

I enjoyed Gregg’s personality when he was the interim hc with Cleveland.
But he’s impulsive and needs a strong mentor.
The NY hc is probably toast too.

[9YearLurker]

Next thing you know they will be stealing bases in baseball.

But yeah, it is tough having to simultaneously back and fight the Washington Generals of political parties in the GOPe—just to save our country and, likely, our lives.

[SuperLuminal]

Ditto!

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

The NFL - America’s top rated scripted reality show.

[stremba]

I do smell a tank job. If Lawrence is as good as everyone says, then it’s probably a good idea. What possible good could a win have done for the Jets? I do hate to see teams tank, but I can’t blame them for it.

[stremba]

Or they did tank, but fired Williams to give the appearance of actually trying to win.

[stremba]

The NHL did not always have that lottery, and my favorite team was the perpetrator (thankfully!) of one of the most blatant tank jobs in the history of sports. It wasn’t one game, but most of a whole season, namely the 1983-84 Pittsburgh Penguins. The Pens built their roster by sending any younger promising players to the minors for the whole year. They filled the roster with journeymen and washed up older players. The few decent offensive players they had sat the bench during power plays. The coach on one occasion tried to put together a good power play in a close game agains the NJ Devils (the 2nd worst team that year) and the GM came out of the press box to berate him (I believe “What the heck are you doing” was the quote, but he didn’t say heck; I’m keeping it PG rated).

The Pens ended up “winning” that race to the bottom. The Devils drafted Kirk Muller second overall, and that turned out to be a pretty good pick as Muller had a successful NHL career. The Pens got some guy named Lemieux, who of course transformed the team from perennial laughingstock to one of the elite franchises in the NHL.

The moral of the story is don’t blame teams for tanking; it often works. Blame the system for allowing tanking to be an attractive option.

[stremba]

Or the Jets are trying to tank. Teams don’t tank by asking players to not try their best. Teams tank by putting the wrong players on the field and putting them in bad situations, such as putting an inexperienced practice squad CB in man on man single coverage in a situation where only a big play TD can lose the game. This was literally the worst possible defensive call in that situation. Williams isn’t dumb enough to not know that. He took one for the team and was fired so that the tanking isn’t blatantly obvious.