This is why people are high on the Jets
Outside of maybe the Cowboys, there wasn’t a potential 2010 playoff contender that looked worse than the Jets in Week 1.
They couldn’t run the ball, they couldn’t capitalize on turnovers, Mark Sanchez thought the checkdown was an actual play in the Jets’ offensive playbook…
The Jets were bad. And when an over-hyped team plays bad, they’re going to hear about how overrated they are for the rest of the week, which the J-E-T-S certainly did.
But in typical Rex Ryan fashion, the Jets just gave everyone the middle finger after taking it to the Patriots 28-14 on Sunday. Only in today’s NFL can a player like Sanchez look so hopeless one night and then six days later outplay a three-time Super Bowl winner. After looking pitiful on Monday night, Sanchez finished 21-of-30 for 220 yards with three touchdowns and zero interceptions today, while Tom Brady threw for 248 yards on 20-of-36 passing with two touchdowns but two picks.
Sanchez’s QB Rating after the game was 124.3.
Brady’s? Seventy-two point five.
Yeah, that’s about right.
Sanchez was helped by the fact that the Jets rushed for 136 yards and the defense forced three turnovers. Brady and the Pats were just 1-for-3 inside the red-zone and held the ball for roughly five minutes less than the Jets.
If there was ever a statement game early in the season, this was it for the Jets. They’re still 1-1 and they still have a long way to go before they can even think about reaching the lofty expectations that Ryan set for them, but this was a huge win today. No doubt about it.
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Posted in: NFL
Tags: 2010 NFL Week 2, Jets Patriots recap, Mark Sanchez, New England Patriots, New York Jets, nfl week 2 scores, Rex Ryan, Tom Brady
Stalter! I had no idea you were a Jets fan! Cool, I have an uncle who is a Jets fan.
This game will will take the Jets along way. It was against the divisons best Team and probable winner.
Nice job Jets now lets go get Miami next week,
Sorry, Tony. If I hadn’t read any of those articles and only read this one, I would think you were a Jets fan. My mistake!
You’ve accused me of being sensational in my writing before, so I think maybe you’re saying the same thing here.
I’d like to think that I’m objective on a whole though. If a team plays bad, I’ll rip them. If they play well (which the Jets certainly did yesterday), I’ll prop them up.
I think the article speaks for itself. The Jets sucked against a good Baltimore team and lost. Yesterday, they played well vs a good Patriot team and won.Like the man says “The Jets are who we thought they were” thats all.
I didn’t know I did that, but I guess I was trying to say this post was “sensational”, just in a less obnoxious and ungrateful way. I failed. Now, looking back at the parts that I thought sounded celebratory or indignant over the Jets’ victory, I realize I read them wrong. So I double failed.
Ask JP, I do it all the time.
Haha – don’t beat yourself up, Dr. I didn’t take what you said to heart, and I’m well aware I can go over the top with my writing at times.
I apperciate your re-reading the piece and drawing a different conclusion from it.