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A couple of interesting things happened about ten years ago.Ten years and one day ago Cheap Jason Myers Jersey , Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection. Some of you may be too young to remember the name Lehman Brothers or why we should care that they went bankrupt. Keeping it brief, Lehman Brothers was a large investment banking firm that over the decade prior to its bankruptcy had become heavily involved in the sub-prime mortgage lending market. When housing prices began to fall, Lehman, which was leveraged up the wazoo to the tune of $40+ of debt for every $1 of assets on its books, took enormous losses which quickly resulted in the unraveling of its business and to this day the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. It was the first domino to fall in what would soon become a global financial meltdown that threatened to topple the entire world banking and credit system. Banks refused to lend to other banks, credit markets seized up, and only extraordinary measures orchestrated by central banks worldwide prevented a global financial collapse the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the Great Depression. What ensued was the Great Recession. This was a dark day indeed in world history.Not to worry. A brighter day happened just one day later. On September 8, 2008, a little website named Gang Green Nation was born. An obscure blogger referred to as John B, curiously sporting a coonskin cap, wrote the very first article of the SBN Jets blog. Legend has it John wanted to name the site www.WeWantedSapp but was shot down by SBN bureaucrats lacking John’s vision and sense of humor. Eventually the name Gang Green Nation was settled on and the rest, as they say, is history.According to John, he had been interested in leading the SBN Jets site from the beginning and submitted his application, but others were chosen ahead of him, much to his chagrin. The editors of those predecessor sites were not successful in building a thriving Jets fan community and they moved on to other things, and that’s when SBN reached out to John. In a preview of what would happen when the Jets signed Tim Tebow, most of the visitors in the beginning were Brett Favre fans, as Favre had just signed on as the Jets new franchise QB. Fortunately for Jets fans, John’s staying power far exceeded Favre’s and Tebow’s. By 2009 the two Davids, Wyatt and Vill, had come aboard, and together with John continued to build something special together. Later, such luminaries as Scott Salmon and GangGreenMag joined the team and the site grew and prospered. The early days were not so easy for the GGN team. For the first several months John was pretty much holding down the fort by himself. At that time GGN had a couple hundred visitors or so and only two or three members who regularly contributed. But with hard work and dedication Gang Green Nation grew steadily. By 2013, five years in, the site had about 9,000 members and a thriving community commenting daily. Today that number has doubled Brian Winters Jersey , to nearly 18,000 members, and discussions regarding such obscure tropics as the scrubs who make up the practice squad can draw well over 500 comments. On a really good day we can draw 100,000 or so visitors to the site. The growth in numbers and stature of the Gang Green Nation community has been an immensely gratifying experience for all of us on the staff. With sites like Sports Illustrated, ESPN and Yahoo! Sports routinely linking to Gang Green Nation and citing our work this website has evolved into what we always knew it could be – the go to site for Jets fans and the best dang Jets site on the internet.In celebration of 10 years of Gang Green Nation, we the staff are deeply grateful for each and every one of you out there, our loyal readers, who make this site the wonderful community of crazy passionate Jets fans it is. Whether you have been with us from the beginning or just found the site today, whether you lurk from the sidelines or dive right in with your debate, your jokes, your intelligence and passion, you are the difference makers. Without you Gang Green Nation is just a few guys throwing words into the ether, and finding little solace in the shrugs of an indifferent universe. With you, Gang Green Nation is the best informed, most literate, most passionate and most joyful Jets site anywhere, a place to share in our misery and dream our collective dreams, a place to cheer and critique, laugh and commiserate, a place where everyone everywhere in the world is welcome to come and share in the weird and wonderful world of Jets fandom.Gang Green Nation community and Jets fans everywhere, please join us in celebrating 10 terrific years together. Please take a moment to mark the passage of time and the growth of our community into something we think is kind of special. For those of you so inclined, perhaps you could share a little bit about how you found the site and what this community has meant to you over the years. Thank you so much, all of you, for joining us on our continuing journey. Thanks for the laughs, the insights, the wisdom and the debates, thanks for the memes and the dreams. Thanks for being you http://www.jetscheapshops.com/cheap-authentic-brandon-shell-jersey , and making us, us. Here’s to ten wonderful years, and to the years together yet to come.Browns 21 Jets 17: Horrendous The Jets became the first team to lose a game to the Cleveland Browns in over 600 days. Cleveland defeated New York tonight 21-17 on Thursday Night Football.Defeats seldom come uglier than this. The Jets squandered a 14-0 lead. Baker Mayfield in his first significant NFL action led a comeback against the defense that was supposed to carry this team.We will have plenty in the days to come, but let’s start to look at the wreckage.The BadSam Darnold: Let’s get a few things out there. This was a ghasty performance by Darnold. He looked totally rattled. A high percentage of his passes that weren’t screens looked like wounded ducks. The pass rush seemed to be in his head. This was about as bad of a performance as you will see. He was badly outplayed by fellow rookie Baker Mayfield.Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, allow me to remind you that this was his third professional start. Also let me remind you that he showed plenty of promising traits in his first two. Also let me remind you that you should have expected him to look totally hopeless like this at some point this year. Even the greats had rookie moments like this.Offensive Line: I’m not sure there’s a single good player on this line, but the whole still might be worse than the sum of the parts. It felt like there were multiple drives in this game where somebody was getting into the backfield untouched on every play.Robby Anderson: I think Anderson is getting way too much of a pass for his performance this season. People are blaming Darnold or Jeremy Bates for not throwing down the field. Well, maybe it’s a good idea to be capable of doing more than one thing well. Another fumble leading to points in an otherwise invisible night is totally unacceptable.Trumaine Johnson: Johnson was really lucky in this game. He was beaten cleanly multiple times down the field, and Cleveland quarterbacks either didn’t see it or missed the throws. He also picked up a boneheaded taunting penalty and added a pretty careless personal foul to go with it. That’s not the stuff you want to see from your highest paid player.Morris Claiborne: We saw multiple penalties. One wiped out a stop on a two point conversion. Like Johnson, he got lucky a few times when he was beaten.Parry Nickerson: I don’t want to get on a rookie sixth rounder playing his first significant action, but he had a lot of trouble in the slot.Second Half Pass Rush: I don’t want to take away anything from what Baker Mayfield did in this game. He was throwing balls on the money left and right. He also seemed to bring an energy that radiated through Cleveland’s entire team. With that said, the Jets didn’t exactly make his life difficult. The Browns started picking up every blitz the Jets threw at them in the second half.Coaching: Over the last four years I haven’t been as critical of Todd Bowles as a lot of people. I think it takes a long time to get a good feel for a coach. I also think coaches should be allowed time to grow into the job.This team isn’t that talented. Players also have to execute. With that said, I just see too many problems with this team that can’t be explained away. How do you blow a 14-0 lead like this? How does this team take stupid penalties in key spots like that? Why can’t these guys read their keys on a trick play like we saw on the two point conversion? Why does it feel like I keep asking these same questions over and over about the team self-destructing in key spots and not playing disciplined football?On the offensive side of the ball, I don’t think it’s fair to say this gameplan was a total disaster for four quarters. I thought against a defense like this, it made sense to come out conservatively. When the Browns were struggling on offense, there was a wisdom in staying conservative for a stretch, particularly when the Jets got the run game going on their second touchdown drive.I’m also sympathetic to a degree simply because no offensive coordinator will look good when his line can’t block and when his quarterback is playing lousy football.But there are things I just can’t understand. Did the Jets have more than 10 plays in their gameplan? It sure seemed like they kept running the same plays over and over. I don’t have a problem repeating stuff that is working. I also don’t have a problem with building a tendency. But eventually you have to figure out a way to build something off that tendency. If the defense is going to stick eight or nine men in the box, at some point you have to stop slamming a running back into the line. You have to run a bootleg. Maybe an easy pass or two can get your quarterback going. An effective screen game is a nice way to move the ball. But once a few of them work, why not fake a screen, run a pump fake, and send a receiver down the field to try and hit a big play?I always watch these games over. Sometimes I realize my initial reaction was off and that I’m being unfair to the coaches. I’ll let you know in the days to come if that’s the case here, but as I was watching this game I was puzzled by these things.The GoodAvery Williamson: I thought he was the best Jet on the field. He threw up a monster 14 tackle, 1.5 sack stat line. He was all over the field.Darron Lee: He was quiet in the second half, but he was incredible in the early going of this game making splash play after splash play.Bilal Powell: This zone running game seemed to fit Powell like a glove. He found all of the correct holes running for 73 yards on 14 carries.Isaiah Crowell: I could have done without the taunting penalty, but he at least contributed both Jets touchdowns on the evening.Quincy Enunwa: The Jets were challenged attempting the forward pass in this game. Enunwa’s work on screens might have been the only good thing as he converted a few third downs on his way to a 4 catch 57 yard stat line.........................It is going to be a long 10 days in New York until a very difficult game against the Jaguars.