Audible: MOVE … THAT … WIN TOTAL!!
If you suffered through watching Jets games last season, you could see something in that team … you could see the spark. Call it a core, whatever, it was there. Whatever it was, the Jets needed help to fan those flames and they got it this year.
The Jets desperately needed to address their lines, upgrade their skill run-blocking, import a pass-rush, bolster their secondary somehow and find a third, (who would become the eventual second) option in the passing game. So the Jets went out and did that and then in addition … traded for one of the most renowned (for good or ill) quarterbacks in the league to that mix.
The question was always how long would it take this talent to come together. Just under two months ago, many of us were seriously wondering about Mangini’s tenure after the Oakland loss and the narrow escape against the Chiefs, but now that the team has proven themselves in three big games, I admit I feel less doubtful. :)
One of the marks of a really good team is that the contributors in any given game are varied and numerous. This team has shown us that for the last month. I’m enjoying the run that this team has been on, and I’m glad that they’ve come together. The moves that the team made last spring boded well, but it was hard to tell just how well until the season started. I’m convinced this is a solid team, but I wonder how this season will play out.
How do you feel about this team? What are you expectations now? Can you just enjoy the ride or are you solely hopeful for a certain game in February?
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One game at a time….let’s all enjoy this. This team seems to have something that makes you want to believe. The fun part is watcing it unfold every sunday until ?????
They played the perfect game yesterday. Let’s enjoy it for a change.
Agreed. Key to this team’s success will be staying healthy and continuing to have balance. Our schedule (on paper) is significantly less stressful in weeks ahead. Travel is always a factor but this team now seems to have matured to point where I’m cautiously confident about the upcoming west coast trips. As to our home games, if we just play solid, mistake free football, we’ll continue to roll!
Y’day we opened run up with the pass and we contained run on D (dropped passes certainly helped), but not falling down with 2 fumbles and an int was huge. Go JETS!
Im incredibly hopeful, but I will never go as far as to bring up February. Of course one game at a time, but (I can’t help myself) looking at the schedule as a whole, I’d like to see our team win out. That would pretty much gaurentee a needed first round bye and home field advantage. But all I’m really worried about is taking this season one week at a time and then moving on from there. We have the potential, but there are still 5 weeks left in the season.
Broncos are not a good team, but have the offensive potential to tear our secondary apart. Thank God Revis is able to shut down #1 receivers.
I am hpoing Denver goes empty backfield, 5 wide, hurry up – because it is coming in playoffs – so lets get some experience against it
already hit my over 7.5 wins future bets – made 1 month before Favre trade
we control our own destiny – for #3 seed only. Despite needing to pass Pitt, we still root for Pitt to beat NE – need to wrap up division first, then worry about seeds
what a great game! I am enjoying the ride and enjoying talking football, but we haven’t won anything yet. 8-3 can turn into 8-8 pretty quick in the NFL. Plus the pats are coming on with Cassell at QB..I hope the jets are getting it drilled into their heads by Mangini (and farve!) that there are more hills to climb, baby!
but the team is really coming together. you can find excuses why the jets won in buffalo, and NE, but to go into nashville and beat the only unbeaten team left in the NFL? And not only beat them, but dominate the game..you can’t explain that away. Jets are one of the strongest teams in the NFL right now..lets keep it goin!!
Booking a flight to Tampa!!!!!
I love the ability of the o-line to control the line of scrimmage.
I love Favre making sensible throws.
I love the suddenly unstoppable running game.
I love the defenese (especially against the run).
The Jets need to stay healthy to make a run in the playoffs. They also need to stop falling into the “prevent” defense in the 4th quarter. I’m not buying tickets to Tampa just yet, but I am seriously psyched about this team.
Watching the game yesterday, I said one thing to myself after an early 3rd & 1 stop by the Jet defense: “When’s the last time I had total confidence that the Jet D would get the stop more often than not on 3rd & 1?”
In successful years past, the Jet D has been decent, but unspectacular. While the offense played great yesterday, and special teams have been brilliant, it’s the clutch play of our defense that has me geeked about the season’s possibilities. As others have said, there’s still much work to do. I think we have to go at least 3-2 down the stretch to have a shot at a first-round bye, but just the fact that this is one of our goals at this point is remarkable. As a young fan (diehard since ‘99), this is the best Jet team I’ve rooted for.
I am one of the thousands of Pack fans who have become Jets fans. I guess we then come without the baggage of the past, but I was amazed at how welll ALL of the Jets played. Obviously, there is a special place in my heart for Brett, but Jet fans should be proud of an incredible effort by the players and coaches. Just enjoy, and go Jets!
I’m hopeful, but you’ve got to take it one game at a time. I think Denver poses a difficult match up for us, because of their passing game. The former Vandy QB is stout, and very dangerous. I think we should win, but it won’t be easy.
I keep waiting for the same old Jets to show up, and hopefully they’re gone for good. Favre, Jenkins, and Faneca have not been here through the same old Jets period, so maybe they can wash that away with their winning attitudes.
Um….3-2? I guess you are a young fan. If we go 3-2 we’ll be heading into the playoffs with a wild card.
I doubt the Pats are going to loose again in the regular season. We could even see them again in the post season.
You doubt the Pats are going to lose again? What the hell are you talking about? Have you seen their schedule? At 11-5, we’d be a Wild Card? Right. Keep it moving.
The Steelers also have a difficult schedule down the stretch, and I’d be very surprised if they finished better than 11-5.
“seriously wondering about Mangini’s tenure after the Oakland loss” Really?
It never occurred to me that Mangini would be fired this year, no matter what happened. This is not the Leon Hess Jets braintrust. These guys are taking a steady, measured approach. I never bought into the “desperate” “win now” hype being thrown around by clever sports writers. I saw the additions this year as taking the opportunity to raise the bar in several areas with the well-crafted salary cap space. If it could all come together and result in a real run this year, great, but I never felt that anyone’s was dependent on it. Anyone who understands football knows the importance of chemistry and the challenge of creating it quickly.
From the beginning of the season, even before the Favre trade, I thought it would take a time for the team to come together. And I probably wrote several times in this space I believed that, if the team, while searching for that chemistry, could survive the first half of the season without falling out of contention, a decent run into the playoffs was possible.
My highest hopes are now being realized. It’s important that the team stay focused and, whatever the records of the opponents, those two west coast trips suck. But if they can get in and, especially wind up with a bye, anything is possible.
Many areas of the team are playing well and Favre, in addition to what he brings in his actual play, provides an X-factor of having been there and done it. That kind of confidence born of experience cannot be underestimated on a team. I don’t have expectations for the ultimate success but for the first time in years hope is truly alive.
Do not underestimate the quality coaching of Mangini and staff. Play calling with their coordinators may be annoying at times, but it is clear this is a disciplined, prepared and well coached team coming into every game. This regime finally has their type of players and got extremely blessed with Favre. As much as I like Chad, he’s not making these type of throws in this O. The other thing is we are seeing Favre operating this kind of passing game for the first time in his career. No one really knew how much this would cut down on his one big achilles heel…the INTs. This is exactly they type of passing game he needs at this time in his career
I’m pumped that I still had faith in the Jets after the week 2 loss to New England and took them to win the superbowl at +5600. I knew it would take some time to gel, but that had all the pieces to be a legit contender.
I was thinking the same thing as Joe B. The defense was never able to stop another team on 3rd and 1. If you remember the last couple of years, opponenets dominated time of possession. The defense is what surprises me the most. David Harris should be kept out until he is completely healthy and when he returns, we actually have depth! We can stop the run and we can run, who are these guys???
I feel this team is as good as any in the NFL, and can beat any team on any given Sunday. This is the best Jet team I’ve seen sinse the 98′ – 99′ season, with the 2002′ team a close second.
If we keep playing the way we have the last month, Tampa is well within our grasp.
Hey, I’ll take my lumps for bashing Favre. Consider me lumped.
The last time I felt this good, the Jets were 10-1 with Joe Walton- I think that was 1986. Those that know your history know what happened.
I know, I know – enjoy it now. I am. This is great. But it’s very difficult to wipe away 40 years of disappointment with two very good regular season wins.
I want home field advantage in the playoffs. Yup. I’m greedy. And I pray that Big Jinx keeps his big back healthy. And that we use Little Leon as much as possible. And that Brett keeps it in his holster like he has for the rest of the year.
I’m not thinking about Tampa. I’m going to enjoy this, and want to see us wrap up a first-round bye by winning the last 5.
Expecting a bye with 3-2? Dream on. PIT owns the tiebreaker, and the Pats will be ready to pounce, depending on the outcome of PIT-NE this week. PIT would have to finish 2-3, and that’s not happening, even with their difficult schedule against NE, DAL, BAL, and TEN. The Pats schedule is softer than that, with their only tough game being ARI after this week. At 5-0 for us, there’s even an outside shot at homefield, with TEN closing with PIT and IND. 11-5 teams don’t get first-round byes.
i was at the game….sans a bubby-shovel…. schott called a great game.
we dominated…..dom-in-ated.
fact….we are hot.
I am definitely enjoying this week to week and don’t need this season to end in Tampa to be satisfied. That said, my expectations and my hopes are not the same thing. As soon as they signed Favre this past summer, honestly, I thought to myself that this was the best chance the Jets have had to reach the Super Bowl in my lifetime. And wouldn’t it be perfect to do so exactly 40 years since the win in Super Bowl III? But I didn’t EXPECT the Jets to make it to or win the Super Bowl, I just got really excited about the possibility that they might. Now the Super Bowl is in the back of my head, knowing that the Jets are a contender, but I don’t expect to get there and won’t feel this season was a waste if we don’t.
Honestly, on a week to week basis, I expect the Jets to somehow mess up, I don’t expect that they’ll for sure win. Did I think they had a good chance of beating the Titans yesterday? Yes, for sure. But I always expect that they’ll let the other team come back, and really, they have continued to do that almost every week, the difference now is just that they pull it out in the end. I hope that one day we Jets fan will be rid of that gnawing feeling that the Jets will manage to find a way to lose, but that’ll probably take more than one season.
I love this team, but then i loved them last year too. To see everything starting to come together is so rewarding and exciting. I really don’t care how far they go this year, I’m not going to get upset if they don’t make the playoffs (though conversley, I’d love them to win the whole thing) because it’s just been such a pleasure to watch this team play their sport well.
However, the pessimist side of me thinks that however big the 4th quarter lead, they’ll still lose. If they do, I’ll be gutted, but only till next sunday.
following this past week’s win, I’m able to go ahead and assume the playoffs as having been achieved.
As such, my season expectations have now been raised for at least 1 playoff win. I still can’t bring myself to think any further down the road though.
I won’t be able to officially say “Playoffs” until we beat Denver next week. I’ve been a fan long enough to know the history of our December collapses, and while I don’t think this team will fall into that trap, as a Jets fan who knows our history, I am not secure until we get our 10th win. 11-5 would secure at the very least a playoff spot and 10-6 would be okay.
As far as the home field & playoff byes are concerned, if we go 11-5 we are out. We still have a reasonable chance at the bye at 12-4, but we have to beat Denver and Miami. The bye will be secure at 13-3 I think and we might even have a chance at the top seed if Tennessee falters.
I think Tennessee could easily lose at Pittsburgh and the rematch with the Colts in Indy. Easily.
barring injury….we win this division
i’d take my chances against pitt, tenn or indy,…..as much as i hate thme, and as much as I hate to say it..
i dont want to see the pats in the playoffs…
and….im cautiuosly optimistic that we have a shot at the SB….go jets
It’s an interesting season in the AFC. There are a lot of really bad teams out there and as such, I can’t see the Titans losing more than 2 more games. That means the Jets have to win out to get home field. But OH!!! HOW SWEET WOULD IT BE TO HOST THE AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME!
LOL @ people thinking we need to win out to get a bye. The Steelers aren’t finishing better than 11-5, they’re not that good.
If we win the rest of our conference games, we’ll be in good shape for a bye. Period.
And I said we need to go AT LEAST 3-2. If we go 4-1, we’ll get it, but if we go 3-2, with the three wins coming in the conference, we still have a good shot at it.
I said to a friend two weeks ago, “If we win in New England and Tennessee, Team confidence will be so high, we’ll probably win out.”
He laughed at me and said, “Let’s just hope they will the divisional game”.
I think the Jets are finally focus on reaching the goals of Division winner & 1st week Playoffs bye. That being said, I’m now just going to try to enjoy the ride.
Also, if the Jets win they are in, the rest of the contenders all play each other and somebody has to lose those matchups!