It would be amazing to see. It really is too bad the Jets and Packers don't play each other this year. Hmmm I wonder if they will next year in the regular season?
ESPN Page 2 Sleeper Pick Prediction No. 10: I'm going to nail my annual sleeper this season. After a two-year cold streak (St. Louis in 2006, Atlanta in 2007), I shook things up in my front office, fired some magazines, changed my coffee, converted my garage into an office and now I'm ready to reclaim my throne as the King of the Sleeper Pick. And by "sleeper," I mean, "a previously crappy team that somehow goes 10-6 or 11-5 thanks to some much-needed new blood, an easy schedule, a few breaks and everyone looking the other way." I'm bending the rules a little to accommodate this year's sleeper pick ? J ? E ? T ? S ? JETS JETS JETS!!!!! Maybe they aren't sleeping right now after an underrated finish last year (they hung tough in 10 of their last 11 games), two excellent drafts in a row and a much-needed free-agency splurge (Alan Faneca, Damien Woody, Tony Richardson, Kris Jenkins, etc.). It's a solid team with a solid fink -- er, coach. And regardless of how you feel about Favre at this point of his career, whether he gives them a "B-plus," "B," "B-minus" or "C-plus," it's still going to be better than the "D-minus" they got from the Pennington/Clemens combo last season. It's like replacing Josh Hartnett as the lead of a half-decent action movie with Harrison Ford -- he's a little washed up, but he's still Harrison Ford, and more importantly, he's not Josh Hartnett. So, how can they be a sleeper? First, their fans put on a phenomenal display of lowering expectations and adamantly maintaining the Jets will suck. Can you blame them? Of course not. They root for the Jets! That's the team that officially replaced the Red Sox in my buddy Blueboy's award-winning 2001 analogy, "Being a Red Sox fan is like being a 120-pound man in a maximum security prison." When your fan base expects the worst at all times, doesn't that qualify you for sleeperdom? More important, the Jets will lose to Miami's Pennington in Week 1 as every Jets fan says, "I knew he'd come back to haunt us!" They'll lose a heartbreaker to the Pats in Week 2 when Favre kills them with an ill-advised pick in the final three minutes. Then they'll go to San Diego for Week 3 and get killed in the first half. And that's when three things will happen: every Jets fan will divest themselves emotionally from the 2008 season, the Chargers will relax like they always do, and the 0-2, trailing-by-17 New York Jets will officially qualify as a sleeper as everyone writes them off. And then, boom! The Jets come roaring back and pull off an improbable upset. (Norv Turner Face Alert! Norv Turner Face Alert!) They will finish 11-5, with nine of those wins coming against sub-.500 teams. Any time someone nearly goes into a coma during the first three weeks, improbably survives and bounces back with double-digit wins, that's a sleeper. So there. AFC PREDICTIONS AFC PLAYOFF TEAMS 1. Jacksonville, 13-3 2. New England, 12-4 3. San Diego, 12-4 4. Pittsburgh, 10-6 5. N.Y. Jets, 11-5 6. Indianapolis, 10-6 Round 1: Indy over San Diego; NY Jets over Pittsburgh Round 2: Jacksonville over Indy; New England over NY Jets AFC Title Game: Jacksonville over New England
I love the comment- "It begs the question, how much wood could Skip Wood skip if Skip Wood could skip wood?"
Yeah choking away the greatest season in sports history will that to you. Oh and I almsot forgot this * As for the Skip Wood pick.... If that happens I'll fly to Bostonia and buy the great Baron a nice big Lobster dinner at the place of his choice.
OK, he convinced me to watch the whole game in week three. I'm going to be a tired puppy on Tuesday morning. There is a fair chance I'll be in England.
youre right... and would green bay still like favre if he won the superbowl for another team playing against packers?
You know, if there are people stupid enough to pick Minnesota for the super bowl without receiving criticism then this match up can not be considered outrageous.
After the 2009 season, the league will make a decision on whether to continue with the current schedule rotation or modify it. If the same rotation continues, the Jets would host the Packers in 2010 and would go to Green Bay in 2014.
While I think the Jets have improved immensely, I think a SB win is way out of reach this year. Of course the Giants did it when no one on earth thought they could, but those type of seasons come around once a decade. Jets make it out of the wildcard game with a win and no further, IMO.
lol....never happen. Us making the Superbowl is about as believable as GB making it, maybe one of us has a long shot at it, but no way its Jets Packs.
Imagine that shit... A Jets vs Packers Superbowl ? I would be so fuckin nervous but... Favre would come through. I Hope..
