Much has been said already about our next game with the Broncos by many of you. I feel if we play our strong ball control game and perhaps a bit more aggressive defense against Cutler the game is ours. I know we should not look ahead but forgive me. I am worried about the West Coast potential let down. Traveling cross country is a major pitfall and tends to make the players sluggish, out of focus and most often not even on the same page with each other. Arguably the two worst games for the Jets were against SD and Oakland during the dreaded West Coast Trip. Certainly don?t want to go past Denver (who by the way will suffer from the same curse in reverse and play an early game after a very long trip) but the CS ought to start thinking what to do to keep the Jet players fresh and inspired and ready to play after the long trip. Perhaps travelling 2-3 days early to get them acclimated, reduce their work out schedule and focus on mental preparation. Hell, have them watch 49rs football on the plane ride over. I don?t know what makes long trips successful, but it is an element Mangini and the Gang ought to think hard about. Two West games in 3 weeks. We win them and the division is ours. Back home they will get plenty of support from the fans to remain inspired and beat our division rivals. I will be in SF rooting my head off. Hope to see many of you there. Let?s make sure we avoid the West coast travel jinx.
East coast teams traveling west haven't faired well this season, but I don't put any merit into that. I believe that more of the poor efforts in San Diego and Oakland had to do with all the free agents not being completely settled into the team. If Mangini is concerned about traveling west, then just get there a few days earlier. If we can't beat San Fran and Seattle then we don't deserve to go to the playoffs.
I think beating Denver is crucial because the following three weeks will be tough regardless of the opponent’s records. We have to fly out to San Fran, come back and play the bills who always play us tough and physical and then fly out to Seattle where Holmgren despite being pathetic is pretty familiar with Brett. Losing one of those games is a strong possibility and losing two is entirely possible. I said 11 – 5 pretty early on in the season in one of the sky is falling threads so that leaves us with three to win. I say Denver, San Francisco and Miami. If we beat Seattle of buffalo and lock things up early we sit the starters against Miami. I look for Brett to play well against the west coast 4-3 teams that he has victimized his entire career. For the first time in I can’t remember when – I am feeling pretty confident about this team…that scares me.
A lot's going to depend on the time of the game, too. Sometimes you can slip the team in and out of that time zone while still keeping them relatively close to their own time zones, i.e., ignore the local time and set bedtimes and wakeups for east coast time. Sleep is important. I found trying to take short naps whenever you can helps. It still screws you up, but there are ways of minimizing it.
yes. But then we travel to San Francisco, back to New Jersey, to Seattle, back to New Jersey. Hell of a lot of traveling.
I've been thinking if we drop one more game, which is likely, it could be one of those NFC west games. The good thing is we have a one game lead and if we win the division games we'll still win the east no matter what else happens. Of course we want the bye, too, but all the other teams have to play five more games and probably won't win out. Pittsburgh at New England this week, one of them has to lose. It's also possible that we exposed Tennessee a bit and other teams may capitalize and beat them a couple times.
Another Jet team might have me scared for this last stretch. But with Favre leading this team, how good we are playing, and what is on the line (possible 2 seed) I can't see us having a let down.
I'm with you. How can any of these clowns be worried by two teams with a combined 5-17 record and in this case they aren't even as good as their record says they are.
Because it's the NFL and anyone can beat anyone else if they have even the slightest advantage. Oakland just beat Denver 31-10, explain that one.
I think that helps, definitely, but 31-10? There are examples all over the league every week though, the Rams beat Dallas.
I'll say this. It's much easier to travel East to West than West to East. Other than Denver beating Atlanta, I'm not sure I can name a single win of a West Coast team this season traveling to the East Coast, and Denver isn't truly a West Coast team. Meanwhile, the two East Coast teams to play in San Francisco have handed them two of their worst losses of the season. Ditto for Seattle. Two home games against true East Coast games, two losses. The biggest effect seems to come from teams traveling cross country and having to stay. The Patriots and Cardinals each had to do this. The Cardinals lost both games (adding to the failure of East-traveling teams). The Patriots lost the second game.
My explanation would be that while Oakland is basically a team without a rudder (lousy coaching and even worse ownership/management decisions), they're still a team with sporadic talent. Without being able to coordinate that talent and make it work routinely as a cohesive unit ("chemistry"), they're hot and cold and occasionally catch teams off guard. We were one of them.
If we played those two early season WC games again...I think we win. These two are a little bit difference...the teams already play 12 games before traveling this much. I think we can pull out the 49ers, but one of the Bills or Seahawks will beat us. We shouldn't even sleep on Denver. If Denver beats us, I see the road trip going well just because Kris Jenkins might get angry. Man...Denver's going to try to cut him...fuck Denver man...
That's what I'm saying, even the worst teams have guys that can hurt you if you're not playing well on a given day.
big question is can the team take a 5 hour plane ride with brett blowing his air horn, arm pit farts, and ass slapping mangini and the flight attendants? fuck yeah!
