Football Jets

The New York Jets were in an absolute shoot out against the Chicago Bears.

That is right, the super Jets defense and the super Chicago defense let opposing offenses go up and down the field all day. At the end, the Chicago Bears defense finally stepped up and kept the Jets from scoring a touchdown late and held on to a 38-34. A lot of scoring, especially by the Bears in the 3rd quarter, exposed both teams defenses. Some would say that the offensive play calling on both sides could be a blue print on how to beat the Jets and Bears in the playoffs.

Jets were upset they loss. Until LT screamed and danced his way into the middle of the locker room to let everyone know the Washington Redskins beat the Jacksonville Jaguars in overtime, which was one of the playoff cinching scenarios for the Jets should they lose today. This is big because the Jets have a chance now to win a Superbowl, and as the likely 6th seed will have week 17 to rest their players before their first round playoff game which most likely will be against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Mark Sanchez and the wide receivers looked good. LT got the job done. Keller dropped a touchdown, but in general the offense was clicking on all cylinders and the play calling was one step ahead of the defense all day. The Jets special teams were good like usual, with Brad Smith doing his big return, this time for a touchdown, thing. The defense had a interception return for a touchdown, but once Jay Cutler settled down he started airing it out for long strikes over and over.

The Jets are in the playoffs and that is all that matters. Hopefully, they can use these next two weeks to tighten up that defense in preparation for the Chiefs, who not only have the best rushing attack in the NFL but also have a pretty decent aerial attack as well.

When you lose to the Miami Dolphins the loss hurts. When the Miami Dolphins punter practically beats you single handedly then the loss drives you nuts.

On Sunday, the Miami Dolphins beat the New York Jets 10-6 in New York in a game that may cost the Jets to miss the playoffs.

With three games remaining, the Jets have to find a way to win a game at Pittsburgh or at Chicago. Both tasks look daunting considering the Jets offense is so out of sync. If a receiver is wide open, Mark Sanchez misfires with overthrown passes. If the Mark Sanchez throws a great pass to a receiver, then the receiver drops the pass. Most notably was Santonio Holmes drop in the end zone during the 2nd period. He was so open and the pass thrown so softly that that pass would be caught 99 out of 100 times easily.

This loss to the Dolphins stings because now the Jets are in a world of trouble and no longer appear to be able too find ways to win. In fact, the Jets offense seems to have been figured out and their defense isn’t as feared as it once was.

Somehow, the Jets need to play much better because the game against Pittsburgh means so much.

The 45-3 Monday Night Football game against the New England Patriots shows the Jets have some real issues.

Defensively, offensively, special teams, coaching and probably the water boy had their worst game of the season. This happened all at the same time with 12 yard punts, decisions to kick into the wind from 53 yards away, to Sanchez throwing passes to Patriot defenders just standing there waiting for the ball. Add to that, receivers dropping passes, the running game stuck in neutral and our defensive secondary just being brutally beat by 2nd and 3rd tier receivers and rookie tight ends.

This game was a disaster for the Jets, but playing on the road in New England is never easy and it is now looking likely that the Patriots will win the AFC East the Jets may end up playing them in the playoffs, in New England.

It was gross, and frankly it has been hard to want to write about it. The it I am referring to was the abysmal beat down the Green Bay Packers handed to our New York Jets in a 9-0 shutout. To make matters worse, the shutout happened at home in front of a crowd who had been waiting all through the bye week to see if we could get to 6-1, instead the Jets fall to 5-2 and now are looking up at the 6-1 New England Patriots in the AFC east.

This was the first shutout in the entire NFL this season. Good, no great teams are supposed to always win coming off a bye week. With an extra week to prepare, an extra week to rest and an extra week to add some new plays to the playbook the Jets should of been better than the 9 dropped passes, multiple-turnover, special team snafuing, and quarterback looking rusty team that stepped onto the field on Sunday.

Give the Packers credit, they are banged up but they put out a great effort. Give the Jets defense credit, they kept us in the game until the very end. But this was all about the ineffectiveness of the Jets.

Seemingly we did a few things wrong. First, we tried to become a more pass heavy team, nearly abandoning the run altogether on most possessions or using it as an afterthought. Also the major blunder this week was trying to do too many new, cute plays that weren’t part of the Jets normal game plan. Getting back to the formula of running more to set up the pass will be the key to getting us back in the win column.

Next up is the Detroit Lions. The Lions have a porous defense, but their offense puts up numbers scoring one of the highest averages in the NFC. This is a game everyone had circled as a W for the Jets at the beginning of the season, and winning it will put a stamp on a very, very successful first half of the Jets season by making us 6-2 which would put us in a great position coming down the stretch run.

Opening day with all the high expectations for this year’s NY Jets team came to a crashing reality. I guess I wasn’t the only one who thought that, as hundreds of fans were heading to the exit with four minutes to play, and the Jets losing by 1 point.

The reality, we can’t move the chains, we can’t pass down field, and basically we can’t score points.

Jets Lose 10 – 9 against the Baltimore Ravens. 3 field goals were all that the Jets seemingly more potent offense could muster.

125 yards in penalties kept the Ravens drives alive over and over, with one especially horrid running into the kicker penalty that eventually resulted in the only touchdown of the game.

Sanchez was booed early, and often. At least he didn’t throw any picks or fumble away the game like he usually does.

In the end the Jets had a chance, needing a field goal to win they were driving with less than a minute to go. However, Dustin Kellar decided stopping the clock with a 9.5 yard gain was more important than turning upfield to get the first down. This bonehead play of course happened on 4th down which effectively ended the game by turning the ball over on downs. Simply the worst play of the season so far for the NY Jets, and probably the worst play of the season for all the NFL except Calvin Johnson leaving the ball on the ground in order to begin celebrate was even more boneheaded. Of course the Lions suck and won’t be playing in the playoffs anyway, but if the Jets keep sucking like this they won’t be worried about the playoffs either.

With all of the offseason talk, the Jets are 0-1, and with Tom Brady and Patriots in town this week we could be 0-2 and on our way to a disappointing season. For reals, scoring 3 field goals is not gonna cut it against the Patriots even with our defense playing great.

I don’t know what to say, I want to rant and rant about how pathetic we looked yesterday, how abysmal our offensive play calling was and why the %#@& was wide receiver Braylon Edwards on the special teams punt receiving unit yesterday so that he could inexplicably run as fast as he could into the punter to begin with.

The loss to Atlanta by a few points after dominating the entire game hurts.

It is difficult to discuss how everything was set for a Jets playoff opening as contenders lost all around… Miami, Jacksonville, Denver and yet the Jets once again couldn’t take advantage of it. Everyone knew Matt Ryan was going to pass to Tony Gonzalez, and with eight defenders guarding 4 receivers Tony Gonzalez got so open he caught a touchdown in what seemed like infinite space.

Jets need to win out against Indianapolis – yes the undefeated Peyton Manning led Colts and the Cincinnati Bengals and get help. Lots of help. Possible, but not likely. We needed to beat Atlanta at Home.

Merry Christmas to all of Football Jets Nation! May peace be with us always.

Wish List for Santa: Jets take it to the Colts 34-14.

We have to keep telling ourselves Mark Sanchez is just a rookie.

The problem is we were so caught up in the USC quarterback hype, the out of the gate 3 game win streak and the Sanchise that we seemed to have forgotten that Mark was just a rookie. Sanchez started just one season at USC. Basically he lacks experience and his learning on the job is giving him the experience he needs.

But wow, after that third game the defense and the running game made all of Jets Nation think that maybe, just maybe the stars were aligned and the Jets were going to do something special this season. Amazing things happen in sports all the time, and it just seemed like this was the Jets time.

At 4-6 and with Mark throwing 4 more interceptions against the New England Patriots this is obvious not the Jets time.

The New York Jets have to win football games. On Sunday they again found themselves playing catch-up and lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-22 at home. This difficult loss to swallow against a very average NFL team puts the Jets record at 4-5 and really diminishes any playoff aspirations for the team.

With only four wins and seven games remaining, the Jets will likely need to go what is seeminly improbable 6-1 the rest of the way to get to 10 wins which possibly would be enough to make the playoffs as a wild card. This game on Sunday was tough, as Quarterback Mark Sanchez orchestrated a go ahead touchdown late in the fourth quarter to take the lead. The defense, which started the game very slow but was starting to produce results in the second half were unable to stop the Jaguars on their final drive. Big play after big play the Jaguars marched down the field. At the end was a Maurice Jones-Drew rush that looked like an easy touchdown run but he intelligently and unselfishly took a knee at the one yard line. By doing so, the Jaguars were able to drain the last couple minutes of the clock before kicking the chip shot go-ahead field goal as time expired. The brilliant heads up play prevented Sanchez from getting another opportunity.

This loss hurts and without going into details about how the Jets squandered opportunities within the game to get a must needed win Football Jets wants to cry.

But that is too late as Jets Head Coach Rex Ryan has already been crying about the game and the team. In front of the entire team during the morning meeting following this loss Rex Ryan had an emotional moment that brought him to tears. Ryan thinks the Jets are much better than their 4-5 record and the 5 losses over the last 6 games against mostly very average  opponents. Ryan will need to save any hope for the playoffs by going to New England and facing Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and a fan base which is still spinning from the Sunday night meltdown by the coach and team against the undefeated Indianapolis Colts. The decision to go for it on their own 28, up by 6 points and with just a couple of minutes remaining was hugely controversial and in my honest opinion borderline idiotic.

Miami Dolphins football team beat the New York Jets football team.

I am so sick right now after this loss. Worse, with the bye week the pain of this game is gonna hurt Jets Nation for a long time.

Defense Played Great.

Offense Played Great.

Mark Sanchez Played Great.

Braylon Edwards Played Great.

Running Game Played Great.

Blockers Played Great.

Defensive Line Played Great.

Linebackers Played Great.

Cornerbacks, Safeties, Secondary Played Great

Special Teams Played Like *&%#.

Just tackle…just tackle. All you have to do is tackle special teams.

Getty Images Kris Jenkins Out for Season with Torn ACL Knee Injury

A bad loss gets worse for the New York Jets as news of All Pro Kris Jenkins is out for the season with a knee injury. Read the Daily News report

Get Well Soon Kris, we will miss you while you are on the sideline.

Hopefully, big Kris Jenkins will be able to return. At 340 pounds it is tough enough to make a comeback from ACL surgery but Kris had the same ligament injured in his other knee a few years ago.  The bright spot, is that Kris Jenkins rehab last time went so smooth that the following season was Kris’ best season earning All Pro honors for being the top nose tackle in the game.