Peter King's Selective Analysis Displays Media's Group Think

I completely agree. Sometimes, when an opinion is said over and over again, it becomes fact.

For example, at one time, the dolphins were 3-3, all wins on the road. Therefore, they were anointed a great road team. Meanwhile, the jets are undefeated on the road. But if more people mention the fact that the Dolphins only win road games, they are assumed to be the better road team.

I also always hear “the cowboys are one of the most talented teams in the league.” Really? Cause 2-7 teams aren’t that talented. Maybe guys like Mike Jenkins an the rest of that underachieving defense just aren’t very good. The “analysis” these days is just regurgitating cliches you hear all the time.

And that’s who standing after the Super Bowl

How were we lucky against the Texans?

I try to ignore his ramblings and think he’s a complete follower with very little, if any objective analysis!

Try Matt Williamson of ESPN. He’s from scouts inc. He runs the “Football Today” podcast, and he is a pretty objective guy, who looks at the whole picture. He’s not a Sanchez fan, though, but I can appreciate honesty.

The Patriots are a disciplined team that have won multiple Super Bowls in the last decade with an elite veteran QB and a stone-faced coach.

The Jets are a rag-tag group of troublemakers who haven’t won a Super Bowl since the AFL ceased to exist with a second year QB who’s younger than many of the rookies that came in this year and a loud-mouthed boisterous coach.

(I don’t even necessarily agree with these images, but this is how the teams are basically portrayed right now.)

Had the Patriots made the exact drive to win the exact way we did to win the other day, all we would have heard about is how clutch Brady is and how disciplined the Patriots are and how they never give up and that they’re the best team of the last 5,000 years.

When the Jets do it… it’s luck or the other team somehow screwed up or both. (I’ve heard more about how bad the Texans’ pass D is than how clutch Sanchez is.)

And really, I’m okay with that. This group plays better with a chip on their shoulder, period.

I will add, had we buried one or two teams we could and should have buried (the Vikings and the Broncos come to mind… even the maintaining a sizable lead on the Texans would have done it) I think that would have gone a long way in changing he general perception about our team this year. With that said though, unlike the Pats and even the Falcons, we haven’t been buried by anyone. Green Bay only scored 3 points on a real drive and we lost to the Ravens by 1. New England? They got buried by us and buried by the Browns. The Falcons? They got lunched by the Eagles.

However, when you lose, that’s all people remember. It doesn’t generally matter how much or if the other team came back or what. However, how you win IS remembered quite a bit more often.

Our corners are better than their receivers, and our receivers are better than their corners. Revis and Cromarite I think are just going to muscle their wide outs all games. I just see our wide outs exploding this game with the play calling being a little simplified focusing more on two wideouts. Also defensively I see us putting an extra corner out there on the tight ends seeing as thats the only way the Patriots beat us, they can’t run the ball at all.

are a result of the Jets’ high profile this season. Teams trying to change their losing ways want to make a statement and give it all they’ve got against Gang Green. The Jets are the team to beat, and that is why the games have been competitive.

…because the next week they steamrolled the Steelers and then they just beat the Colts.

I don’t think the loss to the Browns should be overlooked (if I had a power ranking, I’d put the Patriots at 5), but a lot of the media folks are overlooking it.