We haven’t really been successful in the past at getting defensive touchdowns. So you might see more of that.
OK, yeah, I’m on board for that. It’s going to take a neat trick from Revis to convince more quarterbacks to throw his way so he can pick off their passes and return them for touchdowns, but at this point I wouldn’t put it past him.
ESPN LA announced today that it has reached an agreement with the New York Jets to broadcast the team’s games during the upcoming NFL season. All 16 regular-season games will air live on 710 ESPN, beginning with the Jets’ Sept. 11 matchup with the Dallas Cowboys.
Led by former USC standout and Orange County native Mark Sanchez, the Jets have emerged as a perennial title contender, advancing to the AFC Championship Game each of the past two seasons. Prior to joining the Jets, Sanchez demonstrated his post-season prowess as a Trojan, earning Offensive MVP honors with a 413-yard performance in a 2009 Rose Bowl victory over Penn State.
– Jets press release.
Well that’s reasonably interesting.
Brian you know from TheJetsBlog.com.
Whatever we need to do to win, it’s on.
– Mark Sanchez.
Sanchez told the Jets he is willing to restructure his contract to help the team sign more free agents. By boat phone, presumably.
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The league’s hype machine is so overwhelming that I usually avoid most football talk until actual football starts, but the thought of Nnamdi Asomugha lined up across the field from Darrelle Revis is tantalizing, even in July with real baseball games happening. I don’t know if I buy that it will happen for love of theater and not love of money, but then I don’t know the man.
Mike Salfino has been on this one for a while.
What does that defense look like? It’s almost hard to conceive, and I’m so long out of the football mindset that I probably need to think on it some more. It’d be a sight to behold, I imagine. You still need someone to handle the middle of the field, though.
Once again, Sanchez backers only have to look to Eli for hope. In 2005, Manning had 17.1% poor throws. The average is about 15% most years, 14.8% last year. But in 2010, Manning’s rate dropped to 13%, sixth lowest where lower is obviously better. Sanchez dropped from 19.2 to 18.2% last year. If Manning tightened things up as he got older and more experienced to the point where his accuracy now grades above average, why can’t Sanchez?
Good stuff from Salfino. I’d never seen poor-throw percentage tracked before.
Don Maynard may have picked up a thing or two about trash talking from Rex Ryan.
After hearing the current Jets head coach call Darrrelle Revis the greatest player in team history, the wide receiver told ESPN.com that he and Joe Namath would have done just fine, thanks, against the cornerback.
“Oh, yeah,” Maynard said. “It doesn’t matter if it was him or anyone else. I had a guy named Namath throwing me the ball. If he goes left, I go right. If he goes right, I go left — the ball would be there. And I’ve never been caught from behind. That’s why my book is called, ‘You Can’t Catch Sunshine.’ (Revis) is like Deion Sanders. I would’ve loved to have played against those guys.”
Well that’s random.
Maybe if Don Maynard came up in the same generation as Revis, with access to all the same training methods and everything, this might be worth debating. But if you’re talking about picking up the Don Maynard that led the NFL in receiving yards in 1967, putting him in a time machine, suiting him up and getting him on the field to square off with Revis today, c’mon. No way.
Granted, I never saw Maynard play. I’m just going to go ahead and assume. Revis is almost unspeakably awesome, even for a modern NFL player.
Can’t blame Maynard for jawing though. Turns out Hall of Famers develop some pretty healthy egos.
Tedquarters 