An Extra Rest for the Jets
Posted on November 17th, 2008 by Bassett
With last Thursday’s win in the books, the players are in fact off until Wednesday, though I’m sure many will be there to work out, get treatment, etc.
While the players get something akin to a second bye, the coaches will be putting together their game plan for the game. Mangini seems to love extra time to prepare. During his 2.5 years as head coach, the Jets are 3-0 after the bye, and won after their only other Thursday game (Thanksgiving last year’s drubbing by the Cowboys) 40-13 over the Miami Dolphins.
The Jets might be facing the end of that record this weekend, when they take on the 10-0 Tennessee Titans on the road. Facing such a physical team this weekend, the Jets are wise to rest up as much as they can.
We’ll see how much rest does mean in the NFL. After Tennesse plays a physical team like Jaguars they will not have much time to rest up and cure some of those NFL aches and pains that us civilians dont know much about. We should be much stronger for 4 quarters this game. There should be no reason for us not to be prepared for any trick plays. I’m sure the Tennesse Titans coach will have a few. This game will define our year. If we win we can have home field for a couple of rounds in the playoffs!!!!
Match-Up of the Week: Mangold vs. Haynesworth
So it should be a better game plan than Bruce Coslet’s “Game Plan to End All Game Plans” that was used unsuccessfully versus the Cowboys back in the early 90s?
Mangini vs Fisher. The chess game!!!!
Mangold Vs. Haynesworth is the key to the game. If we can run the ball, we win. Jenkins needs to take their O-Line out. If we can stop the run, we win. Kerry Collins will be sacked, he will will throw INT’s.
The team will be read to play Sunday, and I expect a W.
ITS GOING TO BE A FUN GAME TO WATCH. PLAYOFF ATMOSPHERE. THE FANS WILL BE NUTS. BRETT WILL BE BRETT. LEON WILL BE THE KEY. FIELD POSSESSION WILL BE BIG.
Jose, have to disagree that this game will define our season, or that a win gives us 2 home games in the playoffs. Last week against NE, so far, is defining our season. If we beat Tenn, they are still in the drivers seat for the #1 seed, while we will only have a 1 game lead in our division with 5 games to go. There’s alot of football left, and Miami, NE and the Jets will battle to the end for the division, wild card, and seeding. Not to mention Baltimore and Indy.
anyone besides me and 3 of my crew going to the game???
WHEN WE BEAT TENNESSE THE TEAM WILL BE IN SUCH A HIGH. I WILL REMEBER THIS GAME PROBABLY MORE THAN THE NE GAME. THIS IS OUR TOUGHEST OPPONENT YET. AND TO HAVE THE ADVANTAGE IN REST AND TIME TO PREPARE IS HUGE.
-WHO IS YOUR CREW, KLECKO71?
Big Jenks vs Mawae should be a good matchup as well
MATCHUP OF THE WEEK:
Kevin Mawae v. Kris Jenkins
To us Mawae fans, there’s no surprise that the NFL’s leading rushing attack is led by Kevin Mawae, the greatest OL ever to don the green and white. He gets to meet Jenkins, the best NT to play for the Jets since Klecko. Both guys have major axes to grind (Mawae was unceremoniously dumped by Mangini/Tannenbaum after refusing a pay cut and Jenkins has to hear how Haynesworth is the best interior lineman in the AFC). This is just a great matchup between two guys who have multiple Pro Bowls and All-Pro honors between them.
I think the turning point of this season was the 4th and 1 stop in Buffalo. Since that point we have looked like a totaly different team. The season does not rest on us beating tennesse although it would help. If we want this team to do damage in the playoffs we have to win our last 5, If not its going to be much of the same in the playoffs
Well said, SackDance99 – Mawae and Haynesworth are the meanest dudes on the planet since Conrad Dobler!
Looking forward to watching the games within the game:
Kevin Mawae v. Kris Jenkins
Haynesworth vs. Mangold
Fisher vs. Mangini
Tennessee on the road makes for back-to-back battle grounds and another awesome test for our climbing Jets.
Rest. Prepare. War!
jose…me my bro and 2 friends are flying down saturday afternoon.
got 4 tickets to the game. dont know where they are yet but we got em.
and don’t forget about….
Darrell Revis vs. Justin Gage (LOL)
And Bo Scaife across the middle will do some damage. I wonder if the Titans take a page out of NEs book and goes No-Huddle on the Jets?
just thought this was a little FUN READING/WISHING….The Giants (8-1) sit comfortably atop the NFC East, the Jets (7-3) rule the AFC East, and that success has set the city afire with talk of a Subway Super Bowl.
But the Daily News couldn’t wait till February for the unprecedented meeting of the Giants and Jets for the Lombardi Trophy. So we booted up our Xbox 360 and simulated the matchup on Madden NFL 2009.
Here’s a quarter-by-quarter breakdown of our simulated Subway Super Showdown:
FIRST QUARTER
Both teams trade punts for ten minutes, making us wish for some pixellated Super Bowl commercials.
Then with 4:09 left in the quarter, Eli Manning hands the Jets their first red zone opportunity.
On first-and-10 from his own 14, he fires to an open Plaxico Burress. But here comes David Harris plucking the ball from the air and returning it to the 13. Three plays later, Brett Favre finds Laveranues Coles on a slant for the first score of the game.
The Giants respond by driving to the Jet 26, only to see a frantic Manning roll out and gift-wrap another pick to Harris.
1ST QTR SCORE: JETS 7, GIANTS 0
SECOND QUARTER
The Giant defense forces a punt. Eli gets the ball back – and gives it back seconds later.
On first-and-10 from his own 20, he guns a pass to Burress, but Darrelle Revis steps in front for the interception and returns it for TD No. 2.
Minutes later, Favre returns the favor, throwing a jump ball toward Coles near the 50 that Giants safety Michael Johnson hauls in at the Jets 46.
Manning trots out, having had some talk with a virtual Kevin Gilbride about spreading the ball. He completes four passes to three receivers, finishing with a 4-yard TD toss to TE Kevin Boss.
It’s the Giants’ lone solid possession all half. Next time out, Manning throws – gasp! – his fourth interception. Favre, meanwhile, leads the Jets to two late field goals.
HALFTIME SCORE: JETS 20, GIANTS 7
THIRD QUARTER
The Jets smell blood. With the Giants at their own 2, a handoff to Brandon Jacobs is stuffed by Kerry Rhodes for a safety.
The rout is on. Two minutes later, Favre hooks up with Coles for a 17-yard touchdown. The Jets drive for a field goal. And another. And another.
The Giants salvage some dignity after a late punt pins the Jets at the 2, and Antonio Pierce sacks Favre for a safety on third-and-10. With 3:13 left, Jacobs hits paydirt from two yards out.
It’s all for nought when Leon Washington returns the ensuing kickoff 100 yards for yet another Jets touchdown.
3RD QTR SCORE: JETS 44, GIANTS 16
FOURTH QUARTER
Favre throws a pick to Sam Madison near midfield. Manning plays catch with Jets CB Dwight Lowery, but don’t blame him. Down 28, he’s throwing on every play.
Bubba Franks doesn’t help, capping an 88-yard Jets drive with a 3-yard TD grab three minutes in.
The Giants don’t quit. With 7:18 left and at their own 45, Jacobs catches a screen pass, breaks three tackles and bolts to the end zone for a Giant TD. After a Jets three-and-out, Manning tosses a 43-yard bomb to Burress for another TD. Suddenly, Manning’s thrown for 548 yards.
But there’s no magic comeback this year. The run-starved Jets turn to their future Hall of Fame QB – who throws for 402 yards himself – who dinks and dunks to kill the clock. Manning gets one more possession, but on fourth-and-four from his own 7 with 2:22 left, he throws pick No. 7 to Abram Elam. Ball game.
FINAL SCORE: JETS 54, GIANTS 30
Really looking forward to this week. I’m kind of glad it’s on the road. A TRUE TEST, just as NE was.
Side note – When is Brad Smith going to throw a pass off of one of those reverses the Jets run with him? I’m thinking this could be the week to do it.
im was and still am a huuuge mawae fan was real sad to see him go met him real good guy BUT die like a dog. LETS GO BIG JENK GET IN THATS @SS
Did you just say Subway Superbowl?
This isn’t the mets and yanks, bud. It’s the Giants and Jets. There aren’t any subways to take to the Meadowlands.
If anything, it’s the Turnpike Superbowl!
if the jets win this weekend the media will have no choice but to give them the due respect they were supposed to gain with a victory in ne, instead we got injury excuses! this is a good matchup at the right time for the green and white, a low scoring victory would not surprise me and would show the jets could win any style of game! high scoring, low scoring, this team can adapt and be victorious! have fun at the game guys!
K-Man:
Smith already threw one pass this year and it was off the mark, which isn’t much of a surprise, because although he was a QB in college, he never had a great arm. Stuckey was a high-school QB, and I doubt his arm is any worse than Smith’s, so maybe if he threw one that would work better because teams will be less ready for it. The Titans might not be the team to try it on though because their corners have great recovery speed, so a deception pass that might not have much zip on it is less likely to work against them than anyone else. Side note: when did Chris Carr become a good corner and how did the Raiders not notice this?
Rudibager:
“Subway Superbowl” still works because there’s a Subway in the stadium concourse. Perhaps it should just be the “Concourse Superbowl”. Here’s what they should do (not that I think a NY-NY SB is necessarily likely)…sell tickets to Jets and Giants fans to sit in Giants Stadium (with a side of the stadium each, so you get one half blue and one half green – and a row of security to keep them separate at each end), put two four big screens in the middle of the field so everyone can see the game and then the atmosphere would be awesome. And the winner gets to choose the official name of Slinky Stadium.