Here Come The Warm Jets: Week 11

Hooray! Hurrah! The ghost of Doug Brien is dead!


This is what the team was supposed to look like.

A defense that could actually stop the run, and get some pressure on the QB.

An offense that was efficient, if not explosive.

Above average special teams.

Coaching that made it so they could win close games.

This happened far too late in the year to really matter.

This makes you wonder what could have been, since in the six losses in a row they were tied or leading going into the fourth quarter.

What if they had won just three of them? What if they were 5-5 going into the last six weeks? What if they were thinking about wild cards instead of draft position?

Well, they’d probably lose to the Patriots in the playoffs anyway. Shoot, they’re probably going to lose to Dallas on Thursday. But the whole enterprise would have been so much less dispiriting.


Speaking of the Pats, everyone has been saying some version of “If they scored 56 on Washington and Buffalo, imagine what they’ll do to the Jets, the team that ratted them out about the cheating.” Everyone then chuckles and says something like “100 points is not impossible.”

Now, don’t you figure the Jets players and coaches hear this stuff, too? Don’t you think these professional athletes, these long-time rivals, these intense competitors, are going to do everything in their power to not let that happen? Am I the only one that gets the feeling like that game is going to not end up a laugher, that there will be fighting, that there will be hard hitting, that there will be a reasonable NFL final score?

Maybe I am the only one thinking that way that’s not currently employed by Woody Johnson. But if I know anything about the NFL, it’s that if all of the sports dingbat chattering classes are saying one thing, you are best to bet the other way. Even with this Pats team, doing their unprecedented thing.