Your 2025 Jets Preseason Post, presented by Wumbo Wednesday

The Jets don’t deserve their own post.

They could have drafted a quarterback a few years back, but instead signed Aaron Rodgers. They could have drafted a quarterback LAST YEAR, but instead trusted in Aaron Rodgers. They could have drafted a quarterback this year, but didn’t like the first wave crop of QBs, which I guess is justified unless you traded up for the top 2. They didn’t draft Shadeur Sanders in the 1st round, so that’s a win, I guess.

The new coach is Aaron Glenn, who returns home after being a coach in Detroit (that’s good, as crazy as it is to hear!) Unfortunately he was the DC. (Oh.) The new QB is Justin Fields, so not a Packers retread again, that’s nice. I didn’t say that was better or worse, just not the Packers again. The rest of the QB room is, uh, Inanimate Carbon Tyrod (who is recovering from an arthroscopic knee procedure and is questionable for the start of the season) and *checks ESPN* UFL standout Adrian Martinez. Apparently Birmingham’s been really good in both the USFL and UFL, who knew! (Obviously not me.) Also on offense, Breece Hall and Braelon Allen are back, and Garrett Wilson got paid! Allen Lazard did not fuck off to the Steelers to rejoin Aaron Rodgers, but my guess is will by the trade deadline, on principle. The defense important pieces are mostly back, save D.J. Reed, who went to the Lions. Sauce got paid, so we’ll see how they’ll run it with him and Brandon Stephens.

Nick Folk is back! The people rejoiced.

Yeah, I’ll be honest. Even the phrase “we’ll see how they’ll run it” is with an entire block of salt called maybe listening to the radio on the way to, let’s see, calendar… actually I don’t know which venues I’ll be playing yet Sundays in November and December. Probably the Meadowlands Hilton, or whatever they call themselves now—the Park Hotel. Probably a trip to Monsey or Lakewood in there. What’s the sched even like? Let’s see, open up at home against Rodgers and the Steelers, that’s a loss on karma purposes. Adding it all up… 7-10, 6-11 looks about right. Screws them out of a top pick, so that’s perfect.

Only Joe Willie’s soul finally being claimed by the Devil can save this team. Anyway, sports on the telly include the Leagues Cup (where the Fightin’ Messis take on Tigres at 8 on FS1, and Seattle plays Puebla at 11), and… fuckin’ hell, that’s it? Is ESPN just going to show Rich Eisen’s return to SportsCenter for the next however many hours? Or the Little League World Series?

(Actually yes on that last one, battle of the Souths, Dakota vs. Carolina on ESPN at 7.)

Next week, the Guide to Fantasy Football names! Got a good one? Hit me on the horn! I have… 7 names so far, and none that are actually good football puns. It’s hard to follow what’s going on when you don’t actually have a chance to watch football anymore.

Thanks for the love last week. Madre Weaselo’s out of the hospital, Senorita Weaselo’s I think on the upswing, and I don’t feel like the world’s about to implode. Other than, you know, the country. And the paperwork they need so my class runs next week. I do like masquerading as a professor, after all, community college adjunct prefixes be damned! Please enjoy this on-field holding my violin in one hand so I can’t get a good phone shot picture from a week and a half ago playing the national anthem. At some point I’ll post the vid to YouTube.

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Senor Weaselo plays the violin. He tucks it right under his chin. When he isn't doing that, he enjoys watching his teams (Yankees, Jets, Knicks, and Rangers), trying to ingest enough capsaicin to make himself breathe fire (it hasn't happened yet), and scheming to acquire the Bryant Park zamboni.
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Gumbygirl

Behold my beautiful baby. Majestic!

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Doktor Zymm

Kitty!

Mr. Ayo

The best

Doktor Zymm

Got another emergency alert for somewhere I flew over yesterday. A bit more unusual than a wildfire this time: https://www.ksnblocal4.com/2025/08/20/anhydrous-leak-reported-near-holstein/

Mr. Ayo

This new superpower of yours would be more concerning to me, but there’s no flyover path of Seattle.

Doktor Zymm

SFO-DXB or SFO-YVR

Mr. Ayo

Never thought I’d be threatened here. Can you just not make it the Yellowstone cauldron or Mt Rainer? You like vol-canoes, so let them live.

Doktor Zymm

I’m not flying those routes any time soon so you’re safe… For now

WCS

Which of those flies over the mythical land of “Wyoming”?

Doktor Zymm

There’s never a reason to issue an emergency alert in the region where Whyoming is purported to ‘exist’ because there are no people there. Just look at this lady. Does she look like the legitimate elected senator of a real state that totally exists, or a clownfraud deepstate shill who’s neck deep in coverups?
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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

She looks like a character in a modern adaptation of a Grimm fairytale.

Gumbygirl

I can understand the Vancouver one, but how is Dubai a direct flight? I need a globe!

Doktor Zymm

Great circle mappers are fun!
https://www.greatcirclemap.com/?routes=DXB-SFO

Gumbygirl

I’ll be damned!

Horatio Cornblower

Time to log off and wind down with some ‘Slow Horses’, getting ready for Season 5 soon.

My favorite moment in S4 is when Gary Oldman’s character takes the annoying new manager to lunch.

Oldman: “A bottle of the house red”

ANM: “Oh I don’t think I should be drinking at lunch”

Oldman: “Oh. (to the server) Just the bottle of the house red, then.”

Doktor Zymm

I’m sure Justin Fields is thrilled to be joining the ranks of Ryan Fitzpatrick, Bryce Petty, Geno Smith, Josh McCown, Sam Darnold, Luke Falk, Trevor Siemian, Zach Wilson, Mike White, Joe Flacco, Tim Boyle, and post-Covid Aaron Rodgers

SonOfSpam

Enjoying the news about how Eric Adams’ aide tried to bribe a reporter with $160 in a potato chip bag. Tried to blame her Chinese culture, where “people give gifts because of friendship” and of course she’s been living in NYC for 25+ years.

I prefer the kind of government shittery that we can laugh at instead of it fucking up real life.

Gatoraids

much like the Eric Adam life guard bots protected the seas and the skies

https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/us-news/nyc-announces-summer-safety-plan-on-first-day-of-open-beaches/

Horatio Cornblower

She also spoke in broken English, which I refuse to believe is how she speaks when she’s not trying to excuse one of the clumsiest bribe attempts in the history of clumsy bribe attempts.

SonOfSpam

Yeah, it was really eye-rolling when she said “It was friendship…me so horny for friendship!”

Gumbygirl

Me love friendship longtime, no shit!

Horatio Cornblower

Williams has now come back to strike out the next 2 batters, so really the only question remaining is which of the next two batters is going to turn one of his pitches 455′ in the other direction.

Horatio Cornblower

Hands Lowratio a $20 bill.

“Well I’ll be dipped in shit.”

SonOfSpam

Lowratio: “Why? Is it my birthday?”

Horatio Cornblower

As I was hitting ‘post comment’ on that one I was thinking “well, this’ll go well”

ballsofsteelandfury

Is the $20 Lowratio’s birthday present or his fee for dipping Horatio in shit?

SonOfSpam

Lowratio has no use for money.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Right, right, cause the Lollipop Guild provides their goods and services for free.

Horatio Cornblower

Devin Wiliams has a very effective fastball when the batter doesn’t swing at it.

When the batter does swing at it his fastball isn’t very effective.

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SonOfSpam

Nothin to worry about, piece o cake

Horatio Cornblower

6 pitches from Williams, it’s now a 2-run lead with runners on 2nd and 3rd and no one out.

Great managing from Aaron Boone.

Horatio Cornblower

Well, the Yankees have a 3-run lead going into the bottom of the 10th with Devin Williams coming in.

These truly are the days of wine and roses.

SonOfSpam

It is 6-4 now, please drink harder.

Horatio Cornblower

Please see my most recent post, Sir.

/drinks harder anyway

Horatio Cornblower

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blowing the lead and/or game pretty much is the closer role for the Yankees this year.

jjfozz

Watching Alien: earth, I don’t know which actor I want to punch first. Maybe I’ll start by punching myself for watching it.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Hopefully not Timothy Olyphant, even if just out of respect for his Justified days.

Gatoraids

Missus and I are enjoying for the scifi horror it is, got to set up unlikable characters to get them eventually maimed and dismembered in best way possible.

Gatoraids

Also respect for his Deadwood Days

Horatio Cornblower

I’d kind of like to punch Olyphant for the most recent season of Justified, which sucked all kinds of ass.

jjfozz

People I would knee in the balls in order of most deserving:

That kid who runs the whole show. First I would shave his head.
The redheaded girl, dunk her head in a vat of Alien blood
All minor characters who are trying to act like kids. They can’t.

Horatio Cornblower

Isn’t the whole thing about that show that the “kids” are some sort of bio-engineered pseudo-humans, and that’s why they get sent into dangerous situations?

Mind you I only read that. Haven’t watched a bit of the show yet.

SonOfSpam

Fozz hates it, but Mina Kimes seems to like it.

TV is a land of contrasts.

jjfozz

I’m not sure who she is, but if she likes it then she’s got tapioca for brains

Gatoraids

Balls recommends watching Aliens: Girth instead

Horatio Cornblower

Hershey’s stopped making powdered baking chocolate, which I used for my kick-ass chocolate, (or Big Y stopped selling it, which seems weird), and now I can’t get my hot chocolate right and this is absolutely the worst thing happening to anyone in the world right now.

Horatio Cornblower

Hmmmm, I do have a guy…

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Pretty easy to make with a sewing machine. Just need to buy some red felt, cut a pair of hand shapes, then sew them together (and turn inside out to hide the seams).

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Listen maybe don’t go feeling sorry for yourself when you’ve got people like me and the Dr. Mrs. who were unsatisfied with our seats at All’Acqua and abandoned them to go eat at Holy Basil instead.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I mean Holy Basil doesn’t even have their Michelin star yet, I sort of wonder why we didn’t just stay home and sample the new cat kibble instead.

SonOfSpam

Again I ask, when will white people catch a break???

Brick Meathook

Great Moments in History #735

https://ibb.co/j9rKdYh9

ballsofsteelandfury

This showed up in my inbox

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ballsofsteelandfury

To make it bigger because bigger butts are better:

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Dunstan

Sir Mix-a-Lot approves

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

And his candor is above reproach!

Brick Meathook

Looks like the glasses I gave you.

ballsofsteelandfury

You know me well!

Brick Meathook

Let’s see a photo!

ballsofsteelandfury

Voilà

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SonOfSpam

AssGlass

litre_cola

Good to hear momma is fine.

Jets will go 7-9-1

ballsofsteelandfury

I’m so proud that the “AFL Women hit harder than the Jets” tag made it into this preview!

Speaking of, AFLW season just started!

jjfozz

Percentage of kids in the world series who will make the pros: 0.00001
Percentage of kids in the world series who will loathe their parents for eternity: 99.9999

Dunstan

I mean, I loathe their parents already.

jjfozz

It took exactly one pan of the camera in the stands to see the rabid, fat, starstruck cretins who will one day realize their kid is not going pro, and therefore they will have to work at the slaughterhouse until they are dead.

Dunstan

I’d be impressed if any of those parents work in anything like a slaughterhouse. My impression is that all of these kids in travel baseball are from pretty high income families

Horatio Cornblower

I can’t speak for the other teams, but you don’t live in Fairfield, CT and play travel ball without some cash behind you.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“I’m surprised the sires of those pitiable urchins can even afford the petrol for their jalopies.” – a Ridgefield, CT parent, sniffing derisively

Gumbygirl

Counterpoint: the winner of the girls LL world series was a team from Johnstown PA. There is very little cash in Jtown.

ArmedandHammered

Nothing like trying to live YOUR dreams through tormenting your children.

Horatio Cornblower

What have white people from Connecticut’s Gold Coast done to deserve such scorn?

No no; that was a rhetorical question. No need to all bum rush the stage with your answers.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Me, seeing the names of Jets players listed here:

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

And it’s just the ex Jet (and ex Packer) I hope is dead soon.

Mr. Ayo

6 wins seems right. This team is going to be a proper tire fire.

Last edited 6 months ago by Mr. Ayo
Gatoraids

Fins always good for giving jest a charity win before or after our Tua hemorrhage sets in

Mr. Ayo

True. Which is even more hilarious when Miami beats the shit out of the Pats.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Proper tires? Not, like, kids’ bike tires made out of some weird vinyl hybrid instead of true rubber? You really think they’ll be that…uh, “good” seems a little to generous. You think they’ll be that mediorce?

Mr. Ayo

They’ll be mid-DangeRuss, so yeah,

Gatoraids

Bravo , sir bravo