Patriot loss gives new life to GangGreen
by Matt Birch on Dec 1, 2009 12:43 AM EST
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PrintThe Saints took the Patriots to the woodshed tonight, winning comfortably, 38-17.
The NE secondary at times looked lost and confused, and Brandon Meriweather was constantly getting beat over the top--- helping Drew Brees by giving up a barrage of big plays. Brees picked them apart via throwing 5 TD's to 5 different receivers.
So what does this mean for the Jets? Along with being tied w/ MIA for second-place in the division, the magic number to win the East has now dropped to 2 games.
Now, a banged-up NE team who just participated in a up-tempo game in the SuperDome, must head into MIA while coming off a short-week for what will surely be a physical game.....while the Jets travel to Toronto where both teams have minimal time to prepare for the matchup and also are both coming into the game with momentum after decisive wins. The Jets are entering the game as the favorite, and rightly so, they're clearly the more-talented team, and will look to avenge the shocking OT loss due to Sanchez's 5-INT performance last match-up.
As far as the Wild-Card race goes, the Jets are still alive as they remain two games behind Denver, and just one game behind Jax (how big is that loss now....). It is important to note that Denver has been a very hot & cold team this year, and what happens down the stretch is anyone's guess.
Jets Remaining Schedule: @ Buff, @TB, Vs ATL, @Indy, Vs Cincy
MIA Remaining Schedule: Vs NE, @Jax, @ Tenny, Vs Houston, Vs Pittsburgh
NE Remaining Schedule: @ MIA, Vs Carolina, @ Buff, Vs Jax, @ Houston
We all know history is not on the Jet's side, and many stars must align for them to sneak into the playoffs, but statistically, the season isn't over. Sure, going into the Colt's dome and looking for a victory is being optimstic, but it is Week 16 and hopefully Caldwell will rest some veterans on defense. Dungy had little interest in going undefeated when he was there and teams have learned from NE's 18-1 blunder.
For Jets fans, there's nothing wrong with a little scoreboard watching -- there are essentially eight wild-card teams battling for two spots, of which the two teams that currently occupy the berths (Denver and Jax) are certainly capable of choking down the stretch. Here's what the situation looks like at this point:
| 5 |  Denver |
West | 7-4-0 |
| 6 |  Jacksonville |
South | 6-5-0 |
| Still alive (below) | |||
| 7 |  Baltimore |
North | 6-5-0 |
| 8 |  Pittsburgh |
North | 6-5-0 |
| 9 |  Miami |
East | 5-6-0 |
| 10 |  N.Y. Jets |
East | 5-6-0 |
| 11 |  Tennessee |
South | 5-6-0 |
| 12 |  Houston |
South | 5-6-0 |
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We are still very much in it, Denver I think will wrap one up but the other one is really up in the air, Miami have a tough road ahead, Jacksonville are quite inconsistent, not sold on that Baltimore offence yet and Pitt seem to be having some internal issues with Ward and Big Ben.
So plenty still to play for, we obviously just have to take care of our own business right now and hopefully some cards falls in place for us. Still, it’s nice to still have something to play for.
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The pessimist reigns in
Not the easiest schedule for a team with injury consistency issues. I feel much better about next years prospects than these. Although I’m not willing to count them out yet. I’ve also watched every losing season game since I was a young’n so it has little bearing on my activity.
Yeah I agree about next season
but ever since I started watching football it’s always been next season for the Jets, and every season next season seems to be a little more hopeful, and then my hopes get dashed ever so slightly harder, and just man I feel like I’m growing old watching a fucking game asduhfuasrgagj
Im not so sure.
I dont wanna crash hard, so im not gonna get my hopes up.
I think were gonna beat CIN tho.
Curtis "my favorite" Martin - 1 of the best!
I agree
Let’s not be drawn into the ‘hope’ stage, have we not suffered enough lol Looking through all the schedules though, I wouldn’t count us out, we desperately needed that win on Sunday and anything can happen now.
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Just gotta take it week-by-week
It’s painful. We’re all pessimistic. That’s why i said ‘history certainly isnt on our side’, lol.
But we’re not out of it yet…
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I'm not sure what you mean by "18-1 blunder"
The only blunder that whole season was getting straight up punched in the mouth by the Giants in the SB, and even then the Giants still needed a miraculous catch to win it, so yeah…
I dunno, I’ve always thought that Dungy was an idiot for letting his starters take the last quarter of the season off pretty much while everyone else around them is heating up. And then people sit around wondering why they are one-and-done in the playoffs far more often than not.
18-1 Blunder
oh, it was a blunder of epic proportions. timing is everything. of all of the belichick teams they had, even the ones that won rings… that was arguably the best one…brady and moss both in their prime… mcdaniels running the offense…. majority of the first-team defensive unit were probowlers. they were stacked.
also that was their way of proving legitimacy, that they could win a superbowl without any cameras or audibles or funny business.
the media was calling this team possibly the best team in history??? remember all the comparisons to the 72 dolphins.. the 85 bears…. it was all lining up to say that if that team won the super bowl, they were the best. the newspapers already had their headlines written, but the patriots choked.
when you have a team of that caliper…. you win 18 games in a row, and you cant seal the deal as a DD favorite in a championship game, its a blunder, IMO.
we may have to agree to disagree here, and thats ok. and i made this post with all bias and hatred for the pats aside, just as a football fan.
look at the cheats now. you dont think they still think about “what could have been?” brady has peaked, and will slowly begin to regress over time. same w/ moss. that may be their last chance to win one for some time. it seems like they missed their boat….epic fail. oh welll
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I think maybe I didn't put it correctly
but I was referring to how it seemed like John seemed to think that the blunder was not resting his starters in the final “meaningless” games. Of course, maybe I misinterpreted that too… I dunno uh I guess my bad if I did!
Now is the loss itself a blunder? OF COOOOOOOUUUUUUUUURSE I mean if it’s not the biggest choke in the history of sports then I mean what the hell else could even compare! I mean I guess as a Yankee fan that disaster in the ALCS a few years ago vs. the Red Sox probably seems worse to me but that’s from a biased perspective, but now I’m getting off point…
But yeah, I didn’t mean to diminish how bad of a blunder it was. I mean, if anything the fact that it took a miraculous play to beat them makes it even worse since you can almost make the argument it wasn’t their fault and that it was a total fluke (which let’s be honest, if you play it over and over again the Pats win that game AT LEAST 80% of the time). Of course, as a Jets fan it was only about the most beautiful thing that ever happened; in fact the only thing that could have made it better is if the Eagles (my second favorite team!) was playing them instead of the Giants (bleh) but I can honestly tell you that pretty much made me forget all about how terrible the Jets were that year. :)
That D was not stacked.
It was that offense that really carried them. The D was just good.
If we take of business Thursday, we very well could win out...
The Bucs are horrible, Falcons are banged up and atrocious on the road, Indy will probably have home field wrapped and won’t over-expose Peyton to our exotic blitzes, and Cincy will probably be resting their starters.
Its definitely possible to get into the dance, maybe even take the division. The Phinsies and the Patsies both have remaining games against contentious opponents that are vying for a playoff spot. I like our chances.
That’s the spirit we need!
It’s doable. Just tough to envision because of our past history, but certainly doable. if MIA wins this week and can level the playing field a bit, should work out well to our advantage as they obviously have the toughest schedule and would be lucky to win two of their last four games….
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Mark this down
Monumental day in the history of the New York Jets fan base, positive thoughts at 5-6….I commend you good sir.
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I just think that if Mark continues to...
limit his picks and keeps his completion percentage at/above 60% we have the ability to force teasm to play our game. And we kind grind on teams and wear them down, break their will. We can run the ball with agression and pass to keep teams honest. As long as we’re a run-first team, we’re in good shape. Also, the defense stays rested. But when our offense is spotting our opponents 7pts, we automatically transition to a pass-first scheme.
We have a corner that can remove an opponent’s best receiving threat and then beat on their QB. They can dictate. But when we’re playing from behind, and our offense is not converting 3rd downs, the defense has to play flawlessly just to be in the game. Which is tough for any team.
Its all on Mark really. A touchdown and no picks or 2 TDs and an INT and we will win the game.
Rooting for the Pats?
Sure it’s possible we’d catch the Pats for the division – last year we were 8-3 with a 2 game lead and ended up losing the division by 2 games to two teams. But I’m not expecting that from the Pats. So…
I think we’re in the unhappy position of rooting for the Pats for the 3 games they play against teams we are fighting for the wildcard.
Precisely my thinking
I mean I wish there was a way both the Pats and Dolphins could lose that game >_> but yeah… that’s probably the best thing that could happen for us.
We will see what happens
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We will see what happens with the pats game this week to have an idea for who to root for ,but as usual the jets will win the next to game and get our hopes up with a winning record and bomb the rest.
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