Saturday, October 20, 2012

Patriots Preview vs, Jets


Finally. This is the matchup all Patriots fans love to see. Anytime Rex Ryan and his band of thugs come into town, it proves to be a circus of entertainment.

The 2012 Jets are panning out to be more of a sitcom than an NFL football team. This week doesn’t really deserve any in-depth analysis - as it’s going to be your run-of-the-mill blowout – but there’s this cynical part of me that really enjoys talking trash about the Jets.

For one, you’ve got great uncertainty at the Quarterback position. You have a sleu of injuries to key personnel on either side of the ball – including CB Darrelle Revis, TE Dustin Keller, and WR Santonio Holmes.  Holmes, who is seen as a team leader by the Jets (and ONLY the Jets), has the capacity to blow up the entire locker room all on his lonesome. – side note: notice it’s been 7 sentences, and I haven’t mentioned HIM at all. – This week is almost too easy.

Despite the questions surrounding this Jets squad, the trash talking started again this week, nearly on cue. Jets coach Rex Ryan threw the first punch, telling reporters he “thinks we’re going to win”. Well, then. Ryan, a man who has failed to come to his senses when playing New England – he is 3-4 against the Pats as coach of the Jets – continues to flap the jaw, spewing excrement every which way he speaks.

Later in the week Jets lineman Calvin Pace called New England’s offense “borderline illegal”, which really is a backhanded compliment of sorts when compared to Seattle Seahawks CB Richard Sherman’s characterization of the Patriots’ “ gimmick” offense.

In the grand scheme of things, words don’t really matter. What matters is the personnel that will be on the field – a department that New York is severely lacking in lately. Because of this, and superb gameplanning by the man under the hood, The Patriots walk away from this one pretty easily.

Patriots will once again silence that really annoying noise coming from the New Jersey area.

Prediction: Patriots 38, Jets 13. (4-3)

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