Care to attempt to explain away Rex Ryan's mouth??? You admit that it was "comical" as he tried to stay humble. Watch the Pats posts game interviews... these guys ARE humble. They know that it's a team sport, win as a team, lose as a team.
Revis was great against Wayne. He just shut him down but I wonder if that's the best D against the Patriots? How good is Revis in a zone type of D?
Pats fans talking about supposed bragging by Ryan don't know what they are talking about. He has confidence in his team, but he ALWAYS gives props to the opponents. Almost too much, imo. Add it up, that ain't bragging. Let's talk about something more important - the way these teams match up. The most critical I think is the NE receivers v. the Jet pass D, but that's not the only one. Special Teams. How is NE doing in their punt and kick returns? Different from the 12/5 game, Weatherford has been kicking great, and Folk has steadied. On returns I doubt you'll see Holmes doing that, and hopefully B Smith is back and ready, but the Jets have been doing quite well with that aspect. Coverage has also been very good. NE run D. NE gives up 4.2 per carry. While that arguably is not as low against the league as their pass D, giving up 7.1 ypa (compared to the Jets' 6.5), NE also led the league in interceptions, so arguably NE has that big play capability on pass D. And of course the Jets prefer to run the ball, anyway. Imo the 12/5 game is probably the least likely to control this aspect and special teams (since Weatherford was horrible in the 12/5 game). The Jets really did no get much of a chance to get their running game going then. This could be different. So what remains as the concern is defending the Pats receivers as the most critical challenge facing the Jets. Imo it's a bad matchup for them, no two ways about it. The Indy game might have some parallels, but not too much, really. In short the key to the game will be how well the Jets contain the Pats receivers, and of course that turnovers not determine the game (see that NE interception stat). Jets have to run it with success early, and not let NE get into their high percentage completion passing attack to win this game.
Sunday's Officiating Crew # Referee: 127 – Bill Leavy # Umpire: 76 – Darrell Jenkins # Head Linesman: 26 – Mark Baltz # Line Judge: 9 – Mark Perlman # Field Judge: 63 – Jim Quirk # Side Judge: 20 – Barry Anderson # Back Judge: 61 – Keith Ferguson Code: 2010 Defensive Pass Interference by Crew Rank Referee Defensive Pass Interference 1 Ed Hochuli 24 2 Jerome Boger 20 3 Mike Carey 17 [COLOR="Red"][B]3 Bill Leavy 17[/B][/COLOR] 3 Ron Winter 17 6 Terry McAulay 16 6 Jeff Triplette 16 8 Tony Corrente 14 9 Walt Coleman 11 9 Walt Anderson 11 11 Gene Steratore 10 11 Clete Blakeman 10 11 John Parry 10 14 Carl Cheffers 9 15 Pete Morelli 7 16 Scott Green 6 16 Al Riveron 6 Totals All 221 http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcwest/post/_/id/31018/officially-speaking-2010-referee-stats Hopefully Rex is coaching them up appropriately.
45-3 and Brady didn't even take every snap. The only way this is any less of a blow out is if Brady and the other started sit the entire 4th qtr. I'm really not anti-Jet or anti-Sanchez. It's just that this is the Pats year. You guys are a bump in the road.
2008-2010 Roughing the Passer by Crew Rank Referee 2008 2009 2010 Totals 14 Bill Leavy 1 3 5 9 This crew ranks in the bottom 3rd for calling roughing the passer. Tommy will have to have a talk with this crew...
The blow hard Pats fans, as opposed to the serious ones, the latter meaning fans who actually knew what football looked like before 2001, must not have much in the way of memory. We all remember their blowout predictions after their 18-0 season, the 19-0 t shirts. How did those blow out predictions work for that game?
I'm just pointing out a detail about the upcoming game. Our first week of the season we had a ref crew notorious for throwing a lot of pass interference and Rex didn't have them prepared for that. If the Jets get a lot of pass interference this week, I will blame Rex for not having them prepared for the "conditions".
Whats your opinion on using Revis on Pats WRs/TE's if you had green goggles on? What would you do with him?
thought i would put up this video i saw on nyj.com it got me pumped for sundays big game, hope it does the same for you! J-E-T-S jets jets jets! http://www.newyorkjets.com/photos-a...-Bravado/2573fa6b-4b67-43e9-aabd-dcdf8763c982
Different teams on both sides of the ball. I was not one of the 19-0 guys back then either.... believe me.
This year, with the dumping of Moss and the focus on the underneath passing game (25% of Brady's completions are to TE's) made the 2010 Pats more like the 2001 Pats than the 2007 Pats.
