First, I have to dedicate this to my good friend, Eddie…you did what we did not…YOU BELIEVED!
Now for those that, along with me, didn’t believe that the Jets could defeat the Patriots…did we see the Patriots for who they are today or the Patriots of Super Bowls past?
It’s ok to admit that this was mental…while we praised, hated or feared the Patriots, you and I were very critical of the Colts. The Manning led Colts were depleted of talent and their record reflected that point. But so was the Patriots…depleted talent, poor defensive rankings only defeated a couple of good teams this year. Remember when they beat the Packers; they defeated a rookie QB led team that had Rogers been behind center things would have been different. They lost to the BROWNS! Even lost to the Jets when they had Randy Moss! Bet they really missed a receiver that was a true deep threat yesterday.
But Rex Ryan got it. He knew they were who he thought they were, beatable. He took the team’s mentality of the aberration that was week 14 off their minds and told the world that his team would win. All the while we ALL scoffed at his “bravado”, laughed at his “arrogance”, and frowned at his player’s opinions of the Patriots.
So let’s discuss how everyone missed the boat on yesterday. There is an image the Patriots has that is media driven and is NOT shared by the rest of the country. Good guys, wins the “right way”, righteous organization that is team orientated and last but not least winners.
Good guys don’t taunt a team by mocking the Shawn Merriman celebration dance, recording the practice of an opponent is NOT winning the right way, cutting players because you are too damn cheap to pay them isn’t team orientated; winners don’t rest on a Super Bowl victory won six seasons ago.
They are not who we thought they were, stats don’t lie. Last year…33-14 in the playoffs against the Ravens, the season before that no appearance because of a Brady-less team, and the year before that…19 and oh…you lost to the Giants because all those great players you cut because you were cheap…were not there to help you. The Giants D-line exposed your age and lack of speed. Brady was chased around like a new cute girl in high school…by the other cute girls that was jealous.
But let’s be honest…the diamond aura is fading…the Jets’ offense and defense squeezed the aura so hard yesterday that it turned to coal. A bunch of practice squad players were outplayed and out classed by the faster, stronger, and bigger Jets yesterday.
So if I can be so bold to quote myself before the game: “Only an act of God can get the Jets the win”.
I got it wrong…ESPN got it wrong…the rest of sports media got it wrong. We thought that the underdog “could” get lucky yesterday.
We just didn’t get that a defense that couldn’t stop a nose bleed against an offense with deep threat, speed laden receivers, or with an offense peppered with a bunch of no-name practice squad players couldn’t score against a top three ranked defense were the underdogs.
We forgot…the underdog won in week 13.
Congrats J-E-T-S! We can’t disrespect you anymore…you killed the ghost of Super Bowls past.
1 comment:
LOL! Well put, my friend. I think Ryan had an idea: he guaranteed a win and talked smack because it put him on the line, but it also put his player's reps on the line as well.
It stoked passions to the point that the final score didn't indicate the kind of game it really was.
Many. many years ago, another brash Jets player guaranteed a Superbowl win -- against the legend of the what was the Colts back then. At that time, the AFL, the upstart league to the NFL, was considered an inferior product. Joe Namath made that guarantee and delivered on it. In the process he and the Jets changed football forever.
It's been a lonnnnnng time since that cold day in 1969, but I see a shift coming...
GO JETS!
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