Nice points. I do think there is a drop off in the safety play. Laron has proven he is a playmaker. His brother, meh not so much. Obviously the jury is out on the youngsters. Excellent DL but they struggled getting pressure at times last year which has been a recurring issue under Rex. Doesn't make sense either. For me the biggest issue on that D will be stopping the run, especially speed to the outside and in the division alone, Spiller and Miller have plenty of speed. This will be key this year because I expect a lot of teams are going to run on the Jets. I think you guys have a good amount of talent but at this point unless Rex does a masterful job, this won't be as good a defense you have had in his previous years.
I hope that the Jets go 19-0 this year, but that is not going to happen. Most optimistically, I can see them sweeping the Fins and Bills (4), winning the "winnable" games over TB, Car, Oak, Cle, (4) and stealing two from Pitt and Cincy (2). (Maybe there's an upset over the Pats, but that's not likely.) With 10 wins, the Jets would be in contention for a playoff spot and the MSM will be eating its words. Pessimistically, my assumption would be that the Jets will have half those wins -- which still puts them over the 3 and 4 win predictions that SI and ESPN, respectively, have given them. The reality remains that we don't know who the Jets are at this point. We're unsure of their identity on defense with all the personnel channels. The offense has no identity because we've not seen the system, much less know who will be its driver. This makes for an absolutely ridiculously high variation in the potential outcomes. But if I had to put money down, I, like Pete Rose, always bet on my guys. Playoffs, here we come. Mark my words.
Not a chance in hell that happens. They aren't sweeping anyone. I got them at 4 wins. Taking one each from Buffalo and Miami, beating Oakland and Cleveland at home.
Please. The same shit argument was used last year, Landry and Bell were new, Revis was absent, Wilson sucked, and by game 4 they were all kissing the secondary's balls for good play. Best improvement of all for the secondary is an OC that will score points and keep the Offense on the field. The D Line will make the secondary better with Richardson no matter who plays down there. Milliner will be an upgrade over Kyle. Landry will do his part.
they will take one from NE. By game six or seven articles will flourish.....where did the pats go wrong?. Good team but way overrated versus the elite like SF, GB, Denver, Seattle and Atlanta.
Peter King knows something about terrible performances: http://thebiglead.com/2010/01/07/media-accuracy-rankings-for-nfl-season-predictions/ The guy is a blowhard piece of crap.
Funny most did not have the Jets making the Playoffs but revisionist history Favre would have taken us to the superbowl.
It's really hard to play in New York the first game of the season. Our stadium is a fucking zoo that week. I feel good about the Tampa game.
Bingo!!!!!! I have yet to see one article where a writer or supposed "expert" has stepped up and out with a bold prediction. I STILL predict 8-8 through 10-6! The offense is going to be HEAD and SHOULDERS above last year and THAT alone will result in 2 - 3 more wins. Tack on a far better defense with an nasty ass d-line...yeah, if I'm the Pats, who look to be ready for a down year (anyone see that Lions game where the 1st team played for 3 quarters?) and the Bills are going to have a turnstile going on at QB worse than the Jets...Ummm...that could be 2 - 3 wins RIGHT there!!! So, no, the "experts" are idiots. I can not WAIT!!!!!! If the Jets come out and stomp all over Tampa and a VERY circumspect QB themselves...I want to hear what these idiots have to say then.
I highly doubt King would bet on that. The Jets aren't losing an additional 3 games this year. That notion is silly. It would require multiple injuries again plus Sanchez playing just as terrible. That's not going to happen. I mean on what grounds is he talking? The Jets have the #4 overall offense (#2 passing) in the preseason right now and nobody even mentions it! Last preseason everyone was bashing the Jets because they couldn't move the ball or score. Now they are doing it better than most other teams in the preseason and it gets ignored.
I care as much about Peter King's stupid predictions as I do his daughter's field hockey team, which he writes about so eloquently. I hope he chokes on a bratwurst.
You must think the Jets are going to get lucky this year to balance out some of the bad luck from last year. I wish I could see that happening but I just see so many areas where an average result caps the Jets at 6 or 7 wins. To think they're going to get the upside at QB, RB, WR, OG, LB and S is just too big a stretch to make for me. They could get lucky at every position except QB and S and they'd win maybe 5 to 6 games or so.
Actually, I'm taking into consideration a couple of factors. I'm counting on the offense being about 40 - 50% better than last year. BUT, I am also taking into consideration the rest of the league. Other than 3 or 4 teams the rest of the league looks to be about the same or "marginally" better. I have watched every game this preseason and this bears out on tape. Those are my criteria. The ridiculous grief the Jets are taking is nothing more than a media pile on campaign because they have nothing better to write about. I'm still trying to figure out why there wasn't a shit storm media explosion about how the Giants got a 5 to 1 turn over ratio and still lost to the lowly Jets. Where are those discussions and why isn't that being blown way out of proportion.
Where do you stand on his affinity for girl beers with strawberrys in them, and his critiques of barristas? I hope his next hotel room has bed bugs and a Kenny Rogers Roasters neon sign shining through the window.
There were too few Jets fans at practices so that really showed that Jets fans were not behind their team. It was a severe handicap for the Jets that year. /Peter King wisdom nuggets
I am waiting to see what the media does should the metlife superbowl be held in snowy/frigid conditions! I won't pass up the chance to point out that the jets wanted an enclosed/domed stadium. it was mara and the giants who pushed the current stadium through. a billion and half dollars for a crib without a roof. say what you want to about jones, the dallas gm. jones the owner was much, much smarter than the rest of the owners in the nfc east.:grin:
I think you've got major green glasses on here. A 40% improvement in the offense would mean the Jets will score 393 points this season, a figure they have reached just twice since 1998, both times with a strong-armed veteran QB and a great run game. It's more likely that the offense will improve by 10% or so and the Jets will score just over 300 points. That's what you'd expect with the talent base and the status of the two starting QB's this year. This is all true but the pile-on is about making a 6 win team look like a 3 win team in the pre-season analysis, not about making an 8 to 10 win team look like a 3 win team.
The schedule was a bit more tenuous last year. The jets might be a little better this year, but the competition will be greater.
C'mon now Jet, you're being just a tad unfair here regarding the lack of a roof. The cost of the roof I read someplace would have been so high that the stadium itself couldn't have been built. Property value in the Northeast run quite a bit higher than in Texas because as we know, EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas including vacant land. Had they built the stadium in the Rockaways or the old Yonkers Raceway site, perhaps a roof could have been put on. Then again, the Jets wouldn't have had to share a stadium either most likely. Blame Woody for insisting on the Westside Manhattan property, perhaps the most expensive, underdeveloped property on the east coast.
