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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