Link: Jets-Raiders One Year Ago
As the Jets prepare to fly to Oakland this weekend, I thought I would bring you an interesting tidbit I found written by Bassett approximately a year ago on the New York Times’ Fifth Down Blog entitled “Grading the Jets, Week 7: How Could they Lose to the Raiders?”
After the season is over, I think many of us Jets fans will look back at this loss to the Raiders as a watershed. After looking at many of the players’ faces in the postgame news conferences and in interviews elsewhere, it’s clear that this team was humiliated and demoralized by losing 16-13 in overtime to a 1-4 Raiders team that puts the ‘fun’ in dysfunction.
What remains to be seen is what way the water will flow. Will the Jets rally around one another and prove the pundits, the press and their fans wrong, over the course of the rest of the season? Or will the Jets roll over for the remaining 10 games, trying to avoid injuries, with many of the players enjoying the much larger checks that the Johnson family was kind enough to start cutting for their players as of last March?
Will last year’s defeat at the Black Hole be repeated this year by the self-proclaimed “New Jets?” That remains to be seen, but as I read this article posted while the Jets were under a different regime, with different players, and a completely different set of expectations, I couldn’t help but feel a tinge of dread for the fate of this ball club under the Oakland sunshine this weekend.
26 Responses to Link: Jets-Raiders One Year Ago
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cojetfan says:
I’ll admit I’m worried about this game.
We always seem to play Oakland away and we don’t win a very high percentage of these away Oak games.
Hopefully JaMarcus will keep the turnover ratio at least even. If that happens, we’ll win.
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Eli says:
Didn’t see it posted. Cotchery, Smith and Shepard will not play at Oakland. Looks like other guys will have to step up.
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ronnie says:
They are going to put 9 in the box again.
What NFL team will be afraid of Clowney and Wright as the 2nd and 3rd WR.
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Ronnie, I completely agree. Edwards will be neutralized for the better part of the game by Asomugha, and Sanchez doesn’t seem comfortable enough with Clowney to connect with him on a regular basis. The Jets are going to need to run a lot of screens to Washington on passing downs to help lessen the Raiders pass rush which generated six sacks last week, and get the ball to Keller as much as possible. Oh and it would be nice if Sanchez didn’t turn the ball over five times.
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john sec.125 says:
i haven’t posted all week because I’ve been so pissed off. if all this talk about the same old jets being nonsense is true, they MUST win this game. loosing to inferior opponents is what the jets have always done best. this trend has to stop this weekend. please.
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I am not so worried about anything the Raiders can do on offense but if the Raiders want to put 8-9 in the box then considering its not 45 ° and 35 mph winds like last week……Sanchez should be able to beat that type of defense.
Last year I missed the game (first Jet game I have missed in my life) as I was in awful China for work. i had to have my buddy give me the play by play as I watched the stupid ESPN screen give me updates at 5:00 in the morning.
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SackDance99 says:
Well, at least this isn’t a trap game, it’s now a gut check game for everyone. Rex’s defensive prowess will take another hit if the Raiders score more than 13 points. Schotty will be questioned if the Jets can’t score 20 points. Sanchez will be questioned if he throws more bad picks. Clowney and Edwards will be questioned if they run bad routes or have drops, as will Keller. And, if the Jets have another dismal game on special teams (which were terrible Sunday), Westhof will be questioned. Oh, and Callahan will take a hit if there are more holding and false start penalties. Unlike last year, every Jet player and coach is on notice that they have to improve. I hope there isn’t a loss because this game would be like last year’s Seahawks game. There is no acceptable excuse for a loss.
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I think SD99 sums it up perfectly.
There are no excuses for a loss to Oakland (even though I am still looking for an excuse for the Bills loss)
The whole team is on notice. Go out to Oakland win this damn game and get home.
In the first 6 games every aspect of the team has been good and bad….with a little of great and awful thrown in.
This is where Rex Ryan has to become a head coach…not the funny newspaper quote guy that knows defense!
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Brandon from Illinois says:
After the reminder of last year’s overtime embarrassment in Oakland, I couldn’t help but think of last week’s overtime nightmare in New York. The Jets have already had their first loss to a mediocre team. This is their chance to prove it was just a bad day for the Jets and that they are better than the bottom feeders of the NFL.
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greg sec 130 says:
AKA_Drew, I half agree with you (tho we normally fully agree, so this is bad). Without the weather, Sanchez should be able to hit his targets, but the problem is, the weather is not the real problem. It’s his head, and confidence.
We all saw Sanchez throw his first pre-season pass. Right on the money. The third down pass to Keller against the Texans. We all know he can sling it. I’m not so sure the weather is the only thing going against him. However, what i do agree with is that good weather could help his confidence, and be something small to build upon.
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There is no excuse for the Bills game. However, an NFL team is allowed an inexcusable loss once, maybe twice a year, as long as they step up in 1-2 games and beat a great team on the road to compensate. What is not acceptable is two straight inexcusable losses. So the Bills game — in the past. As long as they learn from it and grow and don’t let it happen again at home.
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greg sex 130
While I do agree that Sanchez let the INTS into his head on Sunday….. I watched him meltdown against the Saints and then bounce back with a solid to really good game against the Dolphins…..on Monday night football.
So his mental makeup was pretty good after the Saints loss
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NamVetJet says:
I don’t know AKA-What would Frued say.
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Sounds like a rendevous code to me.
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Come on …..the x and the c are so close…. on the keyboard……lol
Wow that looks really bad. Please remove that….
I might ban myself from the TJB for a few days after that.
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dmsarad says:
I actually think the Raiders are the favorite in this game. Playing at home against a rookie QB who is missing his 2 top receivers at an already thin position. If the Raiders put 8 in the box and cover Edwards, I don’t see how the Jets beat them.
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lmao AKA
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I think you may have scared Greg off—not that I blame him.
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I’m here. I just needed a cigarette.
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Very funny Greg.
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NorCal says:
AKA…Drew- I bet you do and I can’t blame you. That was creepy funny.
Yes, the Jets seem like they play in Oakland almost every year. The only nice part it that I actually get to go to Jets games on a fairly regular basis! I’ll be there Sunday on the 40 yard line 3 rows back. Can’t wait. That being said, I am almost always dissapointed with the Jets performance and am hoping this weekend is different.
The Raiders head coach just got cleared of breaking his assistant’s jaw, not because he didn’t do it, but because the District Attorney had no collaborating evidence. This is a bad sign, and I am worried about this game. I hope I am wrong, but I have a bad feeling that this is going to be a harder fought game than anyone here is gooing to be comfortable with.
Cotchery, Smith and Sheppard are all out for this game.
They’re taking a precaution with Cotchery because they play Miami next week.
Had we been playing them this week, then Cotchery would most probably play.