(Ranting)Mark it here. The Jets are done, cooked, finished, over. Really. Yes, it is only Week 2, but after watching the Jets eke out a victory against the hapless Miami Dolphins in Week 1 (a team that was crushed by the Arizona Cardinals 31-10 this week) and getting utterly outplayed, out-coached, out hustled, out-kicked and out everything else you can think of, RantingMark is telling you that the NY Jets aren’t going anywhere. This is a .500 team. Believe it.
Against a team with a quarterback who hasn’t started since HIGH SCHOOL nine years ago, the Jets were almost doubled up, losing to the New England Patriots 19-10. The Jets missed a chip shot, 31 yard field goal which seemed to deflate the team early on, missed tackles left and right, punted awfully (27.3 net) and dropped passes. Is Laveranues Coles going to be the Jets version of Carlos Delgado? Delgado was awful with Willie Randolph at the helm and now he’s magically an NL MVP candidate. Coles made some plays yesterday but hasn’t look like the player we’ve seen over the years, no doubt due to the loss of his buddy Chad Pennington. Pennington by the way, was pulled out of his team’s blowout loss yesterday.
The Jets got the ball to the Patriots 3-yard line in the 2nd quarter and with a brilliant flash of creativity proceeded to hand the ball to Thomas Jones three straight times. Jones was stuffed on each carry, and the Jets had to settle for a field goal.
If the Jets can’t beat the Patriots at home, against a backup quarterback, with some supposed momentum from their week 1 win, with Bret Favre at the helm, then they aren’t going anywhere. RantingMark hopes he’s wrong, but right now this team looks like an 8-8 team at best. If the Jets were a winning team they would have made that 31 yard field goal, they would have scored a TD when they got the ball to the 3, they would have given the Patriots worse field position and they would have won the game. Maybe next year. At least the Giants look good.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/sports/football/15jets.html?em
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Mangenius played scared. The turning point of the game was when FSU (Coles & Washington) got you to the 2 and the Jets called three straight runs into the strength of the Pats D.
Beyond stupid. Beyond scared.
Never send a Cavalier to do the job of a Seminole.
As much as I would love to play devil’s advocate and argue this point, I cannot. Based on yesterday’s game, the Jets do suck. I mean, come on. Yesterday wasn’t just bad gameplay, it was embarrassing.