Here's another reason why I want a patsy, not the Patsies, for our home opener. Today's Boston Globe talking about how putting NE as our first opponent will be a showcase for the Pats to kick our ass. (Article is below.) It doesn't matter to me that we may beat the Pats...I don't want that f---k Belichick sharing any of the limelight for our opener, and we certainly don't need to give them another incentive. Read the article and see if you agree with me that giving the Pats the opening game is not the way to go.... Pats could help open New Meadowlands Link|Comments (1)Posted by Albert Breer March 16, 2010 10:12 AM There's plenty of reason to believe that the Patriots are already in consideration to be play on one special day in 2010. How about another? Now that CoinFlipGate (and the Giants' and Jets' back-and-forth tweaking of one another) seems to be over (for now), the league is setting up to have Big Blue open the stadium on Sunday, Sept. 12, with the Green opening their season on the same turf that Monday night, Sept. 13. So the Jets need an opponent, and if the league really wants to placate Woody Johnson and Co., they'll give them the highest-profile foe possible. The Vikings and Packers would bring juice (imagine Brett Favre playing against the Jets to open the stadium), but neither could really get the home folks going like a visit from the hated Patriots would. The league has had a habit of putting one marquee team in those opening-weekend games, with a lower-profile opponent opposite them (Patriots-Bills, Chargers-Raiders were last year's Week 1 MNFers). But they did put Vikings-Packers in one of those slots two years ago, and another pattern here is that they're almost always inter-division games. So how about it? Here's guessing Bill Belichick would love to go back to his old stomping grounds, cut the ribbon and shove it right down the Jets' throats. Remember, the Old Meadowlands were where he spent his formative years. "Those were great years in my career," Belichick said, before heading to the old place for the final time, in September. "I’ll never forget those and we had a lot of success and I was fortunate to be with a lot of great people, players, coaches. The Mara family – Wellington of course, [who] owned the team. It was a tremendous experience for me. That time did as much for my career … Every year’s important, but that string of years together – it was awesome. It was hard to leave. It was hard to leave." Let's just say those warm feelings Bill's got for the Giants probably don't extend to their co-tenants. And that's all the more reason for the league to line this one up.
PS: You know the Giants would love for Belichick to come and knock us off as well. The connection between those 2 organizations is too close for me. I guarantee you the Giants get a weak sister for the home opener. They won't want to be embarrassed in their new stadium opening like they were for the last game at the old stadium. I would hate to see the Giants win their opener and have us lose as well. Give us a gimme!
Why would he have warm feelings? we only hired him as a HC when no one would touch him, we only gave him a million dollar bonus to come back in 1999 even though no one was going to hire him. How dare we treat him so poorly!
after reading this i want him week 1. i wanted the dolphins first but now i want the jets to cripple brady in front of the entire country on MNF in the new house to set the tone.
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but this seems to be more of a politically correct thing to say about a former employer than it does anything insulting to the Jets. I mean, I suppose you could argue that implicit in what he's saying is his disdain for the Jets organization, but that's not expressly stated and isn't anything to get all that fired up about anyway. Can someone steer me right here? I really don't see the insult/slight. EDIT: This is regarding the BB quote, not the article itself.
Either us or the pats! What a piece of drivel, the jerk is lobbying for us to make their opener mean something! I hope we play anyone but them that game.
the article mentioned Bill Belichick by name. that is insult enough 'round these parts, apparently. yeah i really didn't see it either. he was commenting on his years under parcells with the giants. sure he had a couple under parcells with teh jets but really they weren't as successfull as with the giants. i don't think it was an intentional slight, but i can see how it could be perceived as one.
Yeah, that worked out for us last year. If it's the first MNF game the league wants a good ratings matchup, we're not getting some bad team to kick the shit out of. It will probably be the Dolphins or Pats, only other possibilities are the Ravens or Bengals.
First ever triangle football field With every teams offense and defense on the field at the same time!!!
fuck the patriots, i'm tired of having our home opener against those bastards...bring on the Vikes with or without Brett Fave (still a strong team w/o #4)
Why wouldn't you want to beat the Patriots in our home-opener and embarrass BB on National TV by sending him home with a 0-1? We'll get a chance to show the rest of the country that the Pats are on the way out while the Jets are in a great position to be on the rise. I think it would be hilarious if they get a weak team, like the Redskins and lose. That would be pretty funny/awesome.
No! He said they usually have a low profile team vs the featured team. The Pats were featured vs the Bills last year. The Jets (conference finals, opening game at stadium) are the featured team in this scenario. He then said they have gone with rivals (Vikes-Packers) also. Which would be the scenario if they play the Pats. Some of you folks really need to get over the inferiority complex! You have a good team, now. Stop seeing everything as a slight. They see the Jets as a nice draw on opening Monday night. How can that be a slight?
