:beer: Here's to them proving me wrong. This game is so important I'm gonna do everything I've been doing for our wins when we play away. Grill sausages and burgers and drink early. Everytime the Jets have lost on their away games, I've gotten pizza. Well fuck that. I'm gonna grill my ass off come Sunday and drink as well. Goddamn I'm such a superstitious bastard.
Just get me a win and I'll be happy. But if their line is this decimated, I want to see a PASS RUSH. I know Seneca will get a couple runs on us, but unlike Thigpen and Cassel, Seneca's motus operandi is running the ball. At least it was in college at Iowa State like 6 years ago: I don't watch enough Seattle games now.
I think, as goes Kris Jenkins, so goes our pass rush. And with it, so goes our entire defense. I've tried to give this a lot of thought and I keep coming up with this. I don't know... just thinking out loud here. In the 3-4, you'd better have a NT who commands doubles. For the most part, Kris was getting that done, but I think there's been a letdown to some degree lately. Then our natural pass rush doesn't work and the QB gets a lot of time. So what do we do? We're forced to blitz, like we did against Tenn and NE. Which is fine until you've got to do it all the time to get the pressure, at which point teams start noticing you've got nothing else and start burning you big time. Kris Jenkins is a very big man and, as someone pointed out in some radio dialogue the other day, his job is probably the most physically demanding job on the team... constant pressure up the middle with two guys on you wrestling every ounce of energy out of the big guy. This is what I'm saying... as goes Jenkins, so goes our entire pass rush and perhaps the entire defense. I don't know what the answer is, other than giving Jenkins plenty of rest between games and keeping him healthy and energetic for the next punishing round. Someone even speculated teh other day that Kenkins may be injured. But of course, we'll never know that. I just hope it's not true. The only othere thing we can do to give Jenkins a break is to insert Pouha occasionally, which is what I've noticed from time to time. I just think Jenkins has to step it up and get it done, and if he does, we win. If he doesn't, our DEF is going to be getting slapped around for huge gains, like we've been seeing the past several weeks. I also think Jenkins is getting very little help too, so I'm not putting this all on Jenkins. But if things stay the way they are and we don't blitz, we don't get a pass rush... it's just that simple. Maybe HArris is 100% better now, so perhaps that will help.
Maybe the Jets do smoke the Seahawks, but they have played almost every game this year tough. The Jets should win, they are the better team.
Everybody will be just as happy if we win by 1. In fact, if we win our next 6 games by 1 everybody here will be elated.
1) Quest field is still the best home field advantage in the NFL. (Widely considered to be the loudest stadium in the NFL) 2) I've watched Seattle a bunch of times this season (I've gotten a lot of their games) and they have played VERY hard for holmgren, despite their cast of devastating injuries and despite their losing plight. 3) They TOTALLY outplayed the Patriots at home two weeks ago. They lead 14-3 and lead 21-13 with like 8 minutes left in the game. They had two opportunities where, if they had stopped the Pats on 4th down, they would have won the game. They still had a chance to steal the game again on their last drive before Wallace turned it over on a strip sack in Pats' territory just past midfield. 4) They lost IN Miami by 2 points and went toe-to-toe with the Dolphins for 60 minutes. The game was anybody's game the entire way through. 5) I've always believed that a great way to judge a team with a losing record this late in the season, is to see how they respond when they fall behind by more than one score early in a game. It's very easy for bad teams with a losing mentality to quit in these scenarios. Seattle was down 17-7 in St Louis last week at the half and came back to beat the Rams in their building. (yes, I know the Rams are AWFUL and probably the second or third worst team in football -it's amazing that the cowboys ever lost to them. But, Seattle had lost 6 straight games before last week and it would have been VERY easy for them to quit in that situation) 5) This is Mike Holmgren's last home game ever coaching the Seahawks. He has been the best coach in the history of their franchise. He lead them to their one and only superbowl appearance and he had lead them to 4 straight division titles before this year - and I think 5 division titles, overall, during his tenure there) They will want to send him out on a winning note. 6) I expect this game to be competitive and I would be thrilled with any outcome that has the Jets scoring more points that the Seahawks. I just want a win. Having said that, I would LOVE to see this team snap out of it's mediocre play and beat the shit out of the Seahawks. The Jets certainly are capable of it - If I had to guess, I'd say that we are due for a big performance and my prediction is that it's close early but the Jets pull away and win big with a dominant second half. (I could also see the reverse happening where the Jets are cruising in the first half and then have to hold on for a closer than originally anticipated win)
How about a 4-2 game on three safeties??? (Both Jet safeties are on sacks by Gholston of Wallace in the endzone, who is suddenly and surprisingly named active for the game and in subbed in for an injured Bryon Thomas from the 1st quarter onwards)
I'd rather face an injured Hasselbeck than a healthy Wallace. Wallace is like a hybrid RB/QB. He could give our defense fits. Seattle almost beat New England a couple weeks ago.
