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The last couple of days I’ve been thinking about a famous story, the parable of the drowning man.
A massive flood hits a small town, and the water rises so quickly that one man is forced onto the roof of his house. Being a man of deep faith, he prays fervently: “Lord, please save me. I trust in you.”
A neighbor paddles by in a rowboat and shouts, “Jump in, I’ll take you to high ground!” The man shakes his head and says, “No thanks, I have faith. God will save me.”
The water rises higher. A rescue team in a motorboat speeds up to the house and drops a ladder. “Quick, get in before the current gets too strong!” Again, the man refuses: “I am waiting for God to save me.”
Finally, as the man is clinging to the very peak of his chimney, a police helicopter hovers overhead and lowers a rope. The pilot screams through a megaphone, “Grab the rope!” The man looks up and shouts back, “Go away! My God will deliver me!”
Eventually, the water sweeps the man away and he drowns. When he arrives in heaven, he is confused and a bit upset. He meets God and asks, “Lord, I had such perfect faith in you. Why did you let me drown?”
God looks at him and replies: “What more did you want? I sent you two boats and a helicopter.”
I don’t think need to be spiritual or religious to appreciate this story or its moral.
The Jets remind me of the man.
The last two weeks have been a bit of a roller coaster for the franchise.
If you listened to some people, the Week 18 loss to the Buffalo Bills finished a successful tank, which secured the future of the franchise. It left the team in position to select Oregon quarterback Dante Moore with the second overall pick.
Things took a bit of a downturn last weekend when Moore played poorly in a Peach Bowl loss to Indiana. Suddenly the future wasn’t so secure.
But it was easy enough to dismiss that a one bad game for a prospect who still had plenty of room to grow. Within a few days, Jets fans could talk themselves into Moore being the savior of the franchise. That might have been true up until the point Moore announced he was returning to Oregon in 2026.
Where does that leave the Jets? Responses have been all over the place. Incredibly, it has led some people to lament that the Jets did not tank hard enough despite the team producing record-setting futility near the end of the season.
Others have called for the team to tank again in 2026. How else can they find a quarterback?
These obviously aren’t the sentiments of the entire fanbase, but these opinions aren’t in an extreme minority either.
This sort of thinking isn’t isolated in the Jets fanbase either....
