Daily Links: Gameday Edition
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 by Corey Griffin
- Part of being a successful NFL team is state of the art team facilities, and with the new stadium less than a year away and a brand new practice facility, the Jets are nearly there.
- Top bargains on the NY sports scene.
- Interesting question posed by The Fifth Down: Why are interim coaches better on the diamond than the gridiron?
- Call it like you see it: The Jets are officially in playoff mode.
- The Boston Globe has a pretty good breakdown of the game today… you know, except for the prediction.
- On the opposite side, Rich Cimni breaks it all down on The Jets Stream.
- Braylon Edwards has really, really bad luck.
- David Harris is a steal of a deal.
- Laurence Maroney thinks that the Pats RBs are Voltron.
- Guys who report concussions aren’t snitches, Larry Sellers.
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FYI, Cimini wrote today that the Pats are 5-0 at home after losses since 2003, with a score differential of 164-72. First of all, those five teams have mostly stunk, and all but two of the games were close. Two blowouts (81-14) make the overall differential look more lopsided against these five bad teams.
Secondly, they are not 5-0. They are 5-1. And the only time the Pats have lost at home after a loss in the past five years was in 2006, after the 8-0 Colts beat the 6-1 Pats, also on Sunday Night Football, and then the struggling 4-4 Jets went up with their rookie coach the next week and won 17-14, sparking a 10-6 finish. So if you are going to use the last five years as a barometer for how well the Pats play historically in this situation, you should also include the most similar situation in your analysis.
Vernon Gholston ran a 4.67 at the combine with a 35.5 vertical leap. That’s pretty good, yes? A couple of days ago, at Ohio State’s Pro Day, he ran a 4.58 40 and jumped 42 inches in the air. 42 inches!
(For those of you who’ve read Peter Schrager’s bit on Fox Sports and noticed a certain similarity of opinion, drop your clubs and douse the torches. Not done yet.)
That’s even better. So much better, actually, that there’s gotta be something else going on.
Other writers may dance around the subject, but we here at the HoG don’t mince words. Or meat. Or pies. Or any combo thereof. We keep the talk straight as the whiskey. Thus, we logically arrive at steroids.
Or HGH. Or south Russian camel fertility potions. Lox with milk and butter and Stanozolol. Whatever it was, Vern did it. How the heck else do you knock a full second off your 40 time in two weeks? And gain 7 inches on your high jump?
Stinks to high heaven, but hey–the guy was Big 10 Defensive Player of the Year, and if he drops to #12, you’d best believe I’d be hollering for the Broncos to snatch him and his box of chemicals. Not that it’ll happen–this recent bit of obvious drug use has helped raise Gholston’s stock to the position where a buncha doucheboxes think he might have to worry about being drafted into Parcells’ Miami loser mafia.
good catch greg.
Anyways, if were to lose today’s game, I want to see S. Greene take over the starting RB roll, Lowrey to keep the starting CB, and play Gholston and Westerman more to see what exactly we have for next season.
1. Inconsistency. The guy was Vernon GHOSTon in the championship game. The biggest game of his life, and he looks lost out there. Almost like he is going at half speed not really caring. It seemed like if he knew that it was a running play, he would slow down.
2. I question his passion for the game. He didn’t even play football until his second half of high school. He was heavy into body building, and a coach had to beg him to play. Again, his inconsistency could be because of his lack of love for the game. Seems like the kind of player that is only good during contract years.
3. Roids. The guy has a history of body building. This guy is either a) the most impressive physical specimen in the history of the NFL. Or he is on roids. I have NEVER seen a guy with this kind of natural body. In todays world, having questions about steroid usage around you isn’t a good thing.
4. He is kind of a weird guy. Known as a loner at college, he wouldn’t attend team gathering to watch other games. He was just kind of disconnected from the rest of the team. He wasn’t crazy, just strange and reserved. Think Ricky Williams.
Gholston is nothing, he is the biggest bust in the history of the NFL, and he is on the Jets.
That’s just life guys.
If they do top bargains, shouldn’t they do the top most overpaid athletes as well?
Gholston is obviously number 1.
@kyle
Have you ever hears of Ryan Leaf ?
If Gholston proves to be a complete bust, he’ll likely end up costing the jets a total of $17m, which when spread over 3 or 4 years isn’t that big of a deal.
More to the point, why even discuss this on a day when he’s the only active jet who is unavailable?
PS – he doesn’t have as much of a ripped body builder physique any more.
Vernon Gholston is running thin on my “dont kill young players” stance.
We all know that todays game is a trip into the belly of the beast. Its a nightmare going up to Foxboro trying to beat Belichik after he just came off a monumental F#CK up last Sun nite.
With our playoff dreams all but shattered, I am going to watch the game like I am watching a 4-5 team with a rookie QB and a rookie HC. The only thing I will not accept is handing the Pats the freaking game. I heard Jet fans on here predicting 52-16. If THAT happens THAT is a disgrace. Hit em hard for 60 min. Make them EARN EVERY YARD.
By no means am I expecting a win or playoff run, but 52-16 is a disgrace and anyone who thinks that Rex will let that happen should be ashamed to call themselves a Jet fan
the jets will win today and turn there season around sanchez is use to scoring alot of points at usc shottie is conservative look how great drew brees has been since they let him out i hope they let sanchez play ne defense is not that good the jets defense is bult to always have a big lead 2 td so they could rush the passer who needs to throw they need to learn how to hold a small lead thats been the problem but the play calling at the 20 has been to conservative if we are going to miss the playoffs we need to know what we have on offense which to me could be another ram style offense shottie is like his dad he lets teams back into it which makes it hard on defense we need to score and be more agreesive .
No surpise I am the 52-16 predictor, just trying to be real, all the signs point to a blowout, sometimes the stars just align.
As I wrote this morning way back in an earlier thread, if the Jets cover the spread I will;
A) Eat Crow here AND
B) stop bothering you all with my negative comments, disappearing at least until draft time
Now you have two reasons to root today.
Good luck, hope they win, time to go tailgate in front of the big screen.
I’m got the gear on and am rooting for them but expecting the worst, kinda like it must feel to be a Knicks or Nets fan at this point.