Looks like Rex is only going to get one shot at Amaro this season as week 17 in buffalo we will be resting our starters in preparation for the weeks ahead
Daily News (Nov 24, 2008): Favre, Jets Hand Titans First Loss Of Season 34-13 NASHVILLE - This wasn't a statement by the Jets. No, it was bigger than that. It was an Obama-like infomercial on national TV. It was a 60-minute message to the Titans and the rest of the AFC, the powerful story of an old iconic quarterback galvanizing a hard-luck franchise and making it - are you ready for this? - a legitimate Super Bowl contender. If the Titans missed it, it's because they were in a semi-comatose state after the Jets got through with them Sunday at LP Field. "We should be mentioned with the upper elite in the AFC - and the entire NFL, for that matter," tight end Chris Baker said after the Jets' 34-13 domination of the previously undefeated Titans. "I'd feel good going against any team in the NFL. It doesn't matter who we play or where we play. We expect to win." In a span of 10 days, the Jets beat the defending AFC champion Patriots and a 10-0 team with the stingiest defense in the league - one of the most impressive back-to-back performances in franchise history. They've won five straight, their record is 8-3 and they made it through the so-called difficult portion of their schedule in better shape then when they started. "Now people are going to start looking at us and say they're a team you have to reckon with," linebacker Bryan Thomas said. The Jets are playing so well - they're averaging 34 points per game in the winning streak - that even Eric Mangini let his always-serious face welcome a smile. "It's a really good position," said Mangini, whose team maintained a one-game lead in the AFC East. "Each game allows the next game to be that much more important." What made the latest victory so impressive was how they did it. The Jets beat the Titans at their own game, running the ball, controlling the clock and squeezing the life out of the opposing offense. Truth be told, they intimidated the Titans, who dropped five passes and played scared. Brett Favre threw two touchdown passes, outplaying Kerry Collins in the battle of the graybeard gunslingers, and Leon Washington ran for two touchdowns, including a 61-yarder that sucked the life out of the Titans. It was the Jets' longest touchdown run in six years. Afterward, right tackle Damien Woody was asked if he felt the Jets had dominated the Titans. He reached into his locker, pulled out the stat sheet and read aloud some of the key numbers. "Let's take a look, shall we?" he said, sounding like a trial lawyer. Totals yards: 409. Rushing yards: 192. Time of possession: 40:30. With that, he tossed the stat sheet back into the locker. "Need I say more?" he asked a few reporters. "I don't have to say anything." Even though Woody downplayed it, several players said they were motivated by the perception - real or imagined - that they wouldn't be able to stand toe-to-toe with the physical Titans. Their response? It was a TKO. With Favre (25-for-32, 224 yards) dissecting the Titans with short passes, and with Thomas Jones (27 carries for 96 yards) gaining the tough yards, the Jets produced three scoring drives of at least 6:30. In their first 10 games, the Titans had allowed only one. "We took it as a challenge," right guard Brandon Moore said. "We feel like we're pretty physical, too." To neutralize the Titans' front four, the Jets used a short-passing attack that resulted in touchdown drives of 76, 35, 80 and 75 yards. Favre came out throwing, hitting his first eight passes. The Jets scored on their first drive, with Jones taking a 10-yard screen pass into the end zone. The Titans were clueless, never sure of where the ball was going to go. "It sure sent a message, that we're capable of scoring against this defense," Favre said of the opening drive - the sixth straight game they've scored on their first possession. The Titans hadn't allowed more than 21 points in a game, beating up teams with their aggressive schemes. Favre laughed in the face of the pressure, calmly spreading the ball to Laveranues Coles, Jerricho Cotchery and rookie tight end Dustin Keller, who made three big third-down grabs. Favre's signature pass was a 2-yard touchdown to Coles, a risky throw into traffic. But the ball made it past three defenders, like a Mariano Rivera fastball going through a thicket of trees, and found Coles in the back of the end zone to make it 20-3. Favre, ever the gunslinger, admitted it was a gamble. "That was the Mike Holmgren syndrome: 'Oh, no, no, no, no … good!'" said Favre, recalling the agita he often gave his former Packers coach. But that's the way it has been going for the Jets, who are averaging 375 yards per game over the last five. "We don't feel like anybody can stop us," Baker said. "Nobody should be able to stop us, the way we've been playing
You're more than welcome to make ludicrous assertions that are both comical and easily disproven, but we are equally welcome to mock you mercilessly in hopes of getting you to stop threadjacking with the same 4 or 5 nonsense arguments on a weekly basis. It's become clownish (and tiresome).
"But you have no facts to back you up" ... except for ... Favre saying it happened. Clemmons (his backup QB) saying it happened. Tannenbaum saying it happened. His statistics being excellent prior to the point at which Favre states he became injured. His statistics having an obvious drop off immediately following the point at which Favre states he became injured. Favre having surgery for the injury. Favre playing excellent the season following the surgery. The league fining Tannenbaum for not making the injury public (as required by league rules). And every major news organization and NFL writer acknowledging it happened. ... but yes, other than that, there's no facts to back him up.
I really dont get why we are still talking about this topic. It was obvious last year simply watching them play, that they lacked accountability.
I don't get your point? I have always said Brett had a really good 3-4 game stretch- it was basically 1st Buf through Ten. and please spare me w/ the "defending AFC champs" stuff, we faced the Matt Cassell led Pats nit the Tom Brady led Pats. the Titans wound up being one and done in the playoffs plus the 2-14 Rams and awful Bills. this wasn't exactly a tough stretch of games. for 2008 it was since the entire sched was cake. he got hurt in OCTOBER, played his best stretch of football in NOVEMBER. do you guys not understand this? no one has said he wasn't hurt, e played through it as he always did throughout his career and played his best football while hurt in November.
He got hurt in October but let's use your made up #s. assuming he got hurt the week leading up to the Denver game: YPA pre Den was 7.1 YPA post Ten was 5.7 a difference yes but not an 8 to 4 difference like the lies you spew to deflect from reality. the injury occurred in the Cincy game by the way and the actual pre and post are: pre injury YPA 7.5 post 6.4
Good post except... again at the time Tannenbaum said his injury was not severe. He was ok to play. And that he didn't need significant treatment. Brett was on board to play. And during that time period it was not the feeling of fans or the press that the injury was the main reason for his drop off in play. I'm not saying you are wrong. PS Clemens said he knew Brett had some pain. But that Favre at what he said is 85% was better than anyone else in the NFL. So the guy was capable of playing according to someone who saw him at practice every day.
He was playing with a fucking torn bicep tendon in his throwing arm the last third of the season. You don't think that had a huge impact on his poor play? Jesus Christ. We were being talked about as legit superbowl contenders for the first time since Vinnie before that shit. You really should shut the fuck up.
actually we were being talked about as a SB team in 2002 w/ Chad. just b/c there was talk doesn't mean anything, the man was playing hurt for 3/4 of the season, had his only good stretch of football in November then tanked in Dec. stop using the injury as an excuse.
