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Jets doing all sorts of awesome things
Hey, did anyone hear that the Jets won yesterday?
They did, 17-14. It was sweet. They defied the expectations of all five of the dudes paid to predict what would happen in the game on CBS’ pre-game, not to mention just about everyone who has ever hosted a talk-radio show.
Haters, and there will be plenty, will point out that they only won because Nate Kaeding, normally one of the more reliable kickers in football, missed three field goals. This is true.
But one of them was from 57 yards out, first of all, so that hardly counts. And the other two? I don’t know. Chalk that up to a little Doug Brien karma coming back around for the Jets.
Seriously, it’s not like luck has fallen their way that often, historically. Why’s everyone going to begrudge the Jets when things work out for them this season? So the Colts pulled Peyton Manning one week, then the Bengals laid down the next and sucked it up in the Wild Card round. Whatever. Near as I can tell, the Jets defense did a pretty good job shutting down one of the best passing offenses in football yesterday.
Anyway, I’m off today and the day is as beautiful as Mark Sanchez’s playoff beard, so I’ll leave you with this:
Remember earlier this year, when Kris Jenkins got hurt and everyone was saying the Jets were in trouble because they were “built to win now”? What was that about?
Because the way I see it, right now, the Jets have a promising rookie head coach, a highly touted young offensive coordinator who wants to stick around, an improving rookie quarterback, a rookie runningback that appears to be something of a stud, two young Pro Bowl offensive linemen, and a good young tight end. And they’ve got an awesome defense and a GM who appears to have an eye for awesome defenders.
And they have Darrelle Revis.
It’s pretty good to be a Jets fan and to be off from work today.
Also, here’s the only Martin Luther King Day carol I know of, courtesy of Public Enemy. Language and heavy amounts of funk potentially unsafe for work:
Jets-Chargers preview
Brian Bassett on the telephone:
Darrelle Revis not defensive player of the year, still inexplicably awesome
Sorry for the lack of posts today. I have a number of things in the pipeline but I keep getting pulled away from my desk. So in lieu of that, enjoy Darrelle Revis doing stuff:
Talking about the Jets
Here’s me and the aforementioned Brian Basett talking about the Jets:
We are all witnesses
Brian Bassett posted something on TheJetsBlog.com the other day that really made me wish it weren’t a Nike ad. It was this:
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
On SNY’s Jets Postgame show after the Jets win on Saturday, Adam Schein mentioned that he voted for Charles Woodson for defensive player of the year. Tom Jackson referred to Woodson as such last night on ESPN.
I don’t think awards are that important and I recognize they don’t often go to the rightful recipient, plus it sounds like a lot of voters are advocating Woodson.
And hey, he’s a great player. I haven’t seen nearly as much of Woodson this year as I have of Revis, but since Woodson’s teammate Aaron Rodgers was my fantasy’s team’s quarterback, I watched a decent portion of most Green Bay games thanks to NFL Sunday Ticket. And yeah, Woodson was impressive. It’s hard to argue with nine interceptions and three touchdowns.
But what Revis did this season was special. There’s really no other way to describe it. Revis didn’t make as many highlight-reel plays as Woodson because he was too busy shutting receivers down. Everyone’s seen the numbers at this point; they’re stunning.
I could care less if Revis gets the hardware, though it frustrates me that anyone could fail to appreciate the type of season he’s having. Jets fans are lucky to have witnessed it, and even luckier that he’s somehow still only 24 and has plenty of time to win defensive player of the year awards in the future.
UPDATE, 2:26 p.m. shamik points out that it looks like the above image is not an actual Nike ad, only Bassett’s photoshop work on top of one of Nike’s LeBron James ads. Shows how much I pay attention to stuff.
The Jets, the Mets, and the perpetually doomed
I wrote a joke for The Nooner last week about how the Jets’ path to the playoffs would be made easier by the fact that the Bengals had nothing to play for on Sunday, but made more difficult by the fact that they are the Jets and are perpetually doomed to finish 8-8.
I didn’t think it was all that funny, but I thought about it later that day when I read a column by Mike Vaccaro in the Post detailing the intersection between fans of the Jets and Mets and how it always seems to end poorly for those fans.
And I am, of course, one of those fans.
The problem is, I don’t believe there’s any sort of ingrained or inherent problem in either club that can’t be explained away by some bad luck and some bad management. Because while I know teams can be crappy, I don’t know teams can be cursed.
So I wanted to write a column in response, something redeeming about free will and my whole spiel about how no professional athlete could ever really be a loser, and about how I could remember a time when the Red Sox — the big, bad, well-run, two World Series in the last six years Red Sox — were the perpetual suckers.
It was going to say how the aughts were just a bad decade for Mets and Jets fans like me, but that there was no reason at all, save further mismanagement, the teens couldn’t be a great one. I was going to write how any talk of a hex was just mumbo jumbo — all in our heads.
But when I sat down to write it, I couldn’t. I didn’t want to jinx the Jets.
I guess that’s the whole thing about being a fan. No matter how rationally you try to think things out, no matter how sensibly you attempt to approach a sport, there’s always going to some part of you operating completely devoid of logic.
There almost has to be; otherwise, it’d be impossible to care so passionately about some group of men you don’t know getting paid tons of money to compete against some other group of men you don’t know.
I want to believe that I don’t believe in jinxes and curses and cultures of losing. But somewhere deep down, I have no idea what I really think. Maybe I’m afraid to admit I’m not as rational as I hope I am, or maybe I’m just profoundly confused.
I know I feel as confident in this Jets team as I have in any in recent memory, but I also know that if someone asked me to put down money on the Jets’ chances of beating the Bengals for a second straight week, I’d hem and haw and balk and eventually walk away.
So what’s the grand conclusion? I’ve got none.
I’m rooting for the Jets and hoping they’ll win on Saturday. Having watched a whole lot of the NFL this season, I know they can. And I don’t actually think there’s any culture around the team — or any team — that should prevent it from happening; I only fear, in some tiny corner of my soul, that there could be.
J, E, T, S.
Brian Bassett, by telephone. The bags under my eyes are from being too excited to sleep, thanks to the Jets. I have a lot of growing up to do:
Rex Ryan speaks!
Doin’ my duty:
SNY will air Rex Ryan’s news conference live at 4 p.m. The conference will re-air at 6:30 p.m. as part of SNY’s Jets Open Mic.
Rex Ryan usually says interesting things, and the Jets are in an interesting position, so it should be interesting. Watch and enjoy.
Hopefully he doesn’t have a cold from the Gatorade bath he got last night with the Jets ahead 37 points late in the fourth quarter. I know it’s tradition and all, but that seemed a bit cruel, given the five-degree wind chill.
Your early Jets-Bengals preview
How surprised was I that the Jets beat the undefeated Colts on Sunday? So surprised that I didn’t even shave to film the Jets-Bengals preview today. Also I didn’t think we’d be doing it on a Tuesday, for what it’s worth. Plus I know you like handsome man-stubble. It’s a tribute to Mark Sanchez. Whatever, just watch the video.
Tedquarters 