It was a nice ride, but stopping Peyton Manning is one of the most difficult tasks in sports and the Jets just fell short. I honestly don't think it was any one thing in particular that the Jets failed to do...
The AFC championship game. Am I really sitting here writing about the Jets taking on the Colts in the game that will decide who represents the AFC in the Super Bowl?
They are the only show left in town and you better hop on quickly because the bandwagon is filling up. As expected it was a very packed house on Wednesday for day 1 of the fun leading up to Sunday's AFC championship game in Indianapolis.
They’ve gone from improbable to the AFC Championship game. Not bad for a team that many said didn’t belong in the final 12. Two weeks ago everyone was yapping how LUCKY the Jets were to make the tournament and that maybe they didn’t deserve it...WRONG. So VERY WRONG.
There is a fine line between confidence and cockiness. For much of the season people have perceived this Jets team as an overly cocky group that had not yet earned the right to be talking such a big game. How about now?
Looking back to Week 12 when the 4-6 Jets were preparing to play the Panthers, things looked grim. There were MANY good seats available in the media room...
There was one wild card in Saturday's Jets-Bengals AFC wild card game and that was rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez. Well, he is not a rookie anymore. Or at least he didn’t play like one...
Regardless of the outcome of Saturday’s wild card game in Cincinnati, (where it is expected to be 20 degrees and flurrying…winter wonderland style) the 2009-2010 season is a success for the Jets.
He has been brash, passionate, self-deprecating, human, emotional and colorfully entertaining. And that’s just in his press conferences. The best gift Rex Ryan has given to the Jets is bring them a playoff berth in his rookie season...
It’s GO time. GO out and win one football game or GO home. That is what we are looking at here in Week 17 for the Jets. The cliché “Do or Die” holds truer this week...
And so ends one of the biggest roller coaster seasons in New York sports history. Perhaps I should be grateful this team was able to get as far as it did, but for now I can’t get over the fact the Jets were two minutes away from taking an 11-point lead into halftime.
The last time the Jets faced Peyton Manning in the playoffs, the 4-time MVP walked away on the wrong end of a 41-0 score. The Jets may not duplicate that one-sided performance this Sunday but don’t let anyone tell you that they can’t win this game.
Dear New York Jets Team, I….am….sorry. I’m sorry I ever doubted you coming into this game and went so far as to predict you would lose by a sizable margin in San Diego. Not that I was alone of course. Most of the free world, Jets fans or not, thought the end of the “Gang Green” season would come at the hands of Phillip Rivers and the Chargers.
Five years ago the Jets went into San Diego as an underdog and won by a field goal in overtime against a team that was better than them in every way. As much as I would love to sit here and tell you how the Jets will find a way to beat a Chargers team that has won eleven straight games and features one of the best offenses in the NFL...
What a run it's been for this team and if you say that you could have predicted the Jets would be where they are after the loss to the Falcons, well, you're a damn liar.
The life of a sports fan can be filled with misery and pain, especially if your team is the Jets. But every now and then you get a game like yesterday which reminds you how much fun it can really be.
The Jets’ mission is simple. Win against a team with nothing to play for and you're in the playoffs. Lose, and it could go down as the worst loss in franchise history. But, even the Jets can't blow this one. Right?
Dear Jim Caldwell........THANK YOU! If it weren't for you, the Jets season would be lost. But, thanks to your kind heart, the Jets still have life. Sure you had to deal with death stares from most of your team throughout the second half.
Every time I look at Peyton Manning I wonder, what if? What if Manning had decided to enter the draft in 1997 instead of returning to Tennessee for his senior year?
