When I showed up in the pressbox yesterday, I was surprised to hear the buzz all around about what happened during pre-game warmups between the Jets and the Dolphins.
Jets safety Kerry Rhodes and Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter got into a heated exchange during the pregame warmups and had to be separated by Miami linebacker Jason [...]
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(Ed. note: Normally, I’d wait until tomorrow to post this, but I want people going to the game to get a chance to read it before they head out.)
One of the more underplayed aspect of this game, I feel, is that this will be the Dolphins’ last visit to (and I hate saying the name [...]
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After three weeks of disappointment the Jets regained their bearings against Al Davis’ team er… circus unfortunately it came with a price as the Jets would lose Leon Washington for the rest of the season after just losing Kris Jenkins a week before to a ACL tear. The Jets are heading into a BYE week and are [...]
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I know some of you are fond of Football Outsiders, (as am I) so once the season gets underway and trends start developing, looking at an opponent’s rankings on Football Outsiders helps to give fans some perspective on the Jets opponent for this weekend and what to expect.
(As a heads up, negative percentages are good on [...]
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We didn’t want to write about it yesterday, but a short time has passed and we feel better about writing this. While Bent has already asked the question who fills the void that Leon left on Kick Return duties … we want to (we know, we know!) drop a bomb …
Was Leon going to be [...]
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Plutarch once wrote about a a victory in battle, that was with such grievous losses to King Pyrrhus of Epirus that …
The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one more such victory would utterly undo him. For he had lost a great part [...]
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Needless to say it has been hard on us Jets fans the past three weeks, many supporters of Gang Green have “quit” and to top it all off the Jets have lost Kris Jenkins for the season. But … despite Oakland’s upset of the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, I’m still holding out hope (the possibility of [...]
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And folks call us bloggers invective and vitriolic … check out the meltdown this week between The New York Daily News Rich Cimini and Jets Confidential’s Dan Leberfeld.
Same Old Jets? How about Same Old New York Media?
To explain. Leberfeld despises the term “Same Old Jets” thinking it’s lazy. Leberfeld is known to take a cause [...]
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Fellow Jet fan, SNY.tv’s Ted Berg and I cathartically get the hate out about the Jets misfires from yesterday’s overtime loss to the Bills.
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What has happened to the 3-0 team that began at the start of the season? A visit to the Saints brought out Mark Sanchez’s rookiness while a trip to Miami spinned the defense in circles and made Chad Henne look like Dan Marino. Now at 3-2 the Jets are still atop the AFC East but [...]
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