Category Archives: Jets

Tom Brady looks like a partially melted Ken doll

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Let’s face it: Tom Brady’s pinpoint accuracy and Mark Sanchez’s uncanny last-minute exploits matter only for fleeting broadcast segments each week when the helmets are on. When the ‘dos are out parading the rest of the time, these two men compete directly, head on, for the unofficial title of GQ QB of the Year.

You don’t think this matters to them? Hah.

– Filip Bondy, N.Y. Daily News.

This isn’t even a contest. Anyone who thinks Tom Brady is a more handsome quarterback than Mark Sanchez is a philistine. Tom Brady is some weird exaggeration of a good-looking guy, with all the prototypical hot-guy features amplified to the point of vulgarity.

Mark Sanchez is beautiful. Look at this man. Ladies, he cares about your hearts!

A little O-Line love

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This Sports Illustrated article is a bit outdated now — especially since the Jets’ offensive line played its worst game of the season on Sunday — but it’s a nice feature on Gang Green’s front five and their predictable ability to run up tabs at steakhouses. As a former offensive lineman (and coach) I figured I’d pass it along, since it’s not often the O-Line gets feature articles.

Impress Nick Mangold, win Jets tickets

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Long tweet so bear with me. The 10000th tweet contest for 4 tickets to Thurs. game will require you to do the #JETS chant while wearing green in a location in NYC (btw 48th and 42nd streets) tomorrow at 11am. With the 10000th tweet I will tell you the location. The winner will be the first to do the chant. Good luck!

– Nick Mangold, Twitter.

I would totally do this if I wasn’t going to be at the Terry Collins presser tomorrow morning and didn’t have plans for Thanksgiving.

The big surprise, though, is while you’re doing the J-E-T-S chant Nick Mangold pops up out of nowhere and pancake-blocks you.

On relevance

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Alderson doesn’t have to be told that all of this has caused the Mets to have become irrelevant. To change that, the manager is going to be a most important part of the process. The Mets’ hierarchy all decided that Collins, twice fired, with no postseason games on his managerial resume, is the right man to make them relevant again. There is nothing to suggest he isn’t just another retread manager and not the kind of difference-maker the organization so desperately needs.

– Bill Madden, N.Y. Daily News.

What does Madden mean by “relevant” here?

I feel like the term is thrown about by sportswriters and talk-radio hosts pretty frequently, and I’m never sure exactly what it means. I mean, I know what the word “relevant” means, I just don’t know when it pertains to sports teams. Is it just a stand-in for “worth writing about”?

Does Sandy Alderson really know that the Mets are irrelevant, and should he be charged with restoring their relevance? Seems like he should work on making them better, to hell with everything else.

Does “relevant” just mean good, though? Because if Madden’s saying, “Sandy Alderson knows the Mets have not been that good the last few years and he should try to make them good,” then I agree wholeheartedly. I don’t think the manager really is a most important part of that process, but I’m willing to agree to disagree on that point.

I’m pretty sure when the Jets hired Rex Ryan, people said he made them relevant again. Is that because he filled up columns with his bravado and made sportswriters all over the Metro area forget the snoozefest press conferences of the Eric Mangini Era? Or is that because he helped make the Jets good?

I should mention that none of these questions is rhetorical. I really want to know what everyone means when they say a team is relevant or irrelevant, how it’s different from good or bad, and why it matters.

Because if we’re to define relevant as “having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand,” as Merriam-Webster does, and the matter at hand is New York sports or the consciousness of the New York sports fan, then the Mets and Jets are perpetually relevant as far as I’m concerned. Since I root for those teams and follow them closely regardless of whether they win or lose, they always have significant and demonstrable bearing on me — at least in as much as any sports team can.

Balls on the money

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Everybody look at Mark Sanchez:

No, seriously. Look at him:

On my walk to the studio this afternoon I overheard a couple guys walking in front of me recapping the Jets game. I didn’t pick up much of their conversation, but I caught this:

“He threw two balls on the money.”

Presumably the man was referring to Sanchez’s last two passes of the game, the 42-yard strike to Braylon Edwards and the six-yard game-winning touchdown to Santonio Holmes on the next play. But I think “balls on the money” is a pretty apt way to describe Sanchez’s performance the last couple weeks. And I say that even though I have no idea what “balls on the money” even means.

It’s beyond cliched to refer to Sanchez’s poise, now that Deadspin exposed the N.Y. media’s penchant for using the term to characterize the Jets’ young QB. But watch the Jets’ last drive and offer me a better description. Or just look at the second picture above — taken immediately after the touchdown pass to Holmes. Sanchez isn’t even smiling yet. Brad Smith is giving his quarterback a well-deserved celebratory hug, and Sanchez appears to be still focused on the task he just completed.

Yesterday, for perhaps the first time in his young career, Sanchez — with help from his receivers — carried the Jets to victory. In the fourth quarter, with the Texans surging, the Jets’ secondary, offensive line and ground game all fell apart. Sanchez picked them up.

Some will say the Jets were lucky to beat the Texans, like they were lucky to beat the Browns and the Lions, and they don’t really deserve their NFL-best 8-2 record.

To that I say: Whatever. Look at Mark Sanchez.