huh? It's difficult for teams to prepare on a short week. They have less time to heal, travel and install the game plan. Why would anyone say having a long week is a bad thing?
Damn the short week! The short week gives us less time to install the game plan. The short week gives our players less rest. The short plus a long travel is tiring on our players. The short week gives us less time to study film on any new wrinkles in our or their system. The short week doesn't allow the players to have enough "me" time. It's not an excuse it's a fact. PS... Why the hell does any Jet fan hate the Broncos more than any AFC east team?
Coach K your post got me thinking (Yeah yeah yeah you can smell the wood burning). If this thread was a movie character what movie character would it be???????? We need a bi-polar have to touch every book in a library character.........this comes to mind:
1. Zebras were sucking Bronco dick hard all game. Jets still came with a W. Got complaints? 2. Jets played after an extremely late MNF, in a short week, at a mile-high altitude. I thought I mentioned what kind of physical limitation those three factors put on any athlete. Jets traveled to Denver on Friday night - giving them about a day and half to get used to the altitude. It's not even optimal. They just did what they had to do, and came away with a win. It's more of Denver squad + the refs + the elements all working against the Jets, not really anything else. That's an immense odd Jets just overcame - and you still are upset that Jets didn't completely blow out the Broncos? Listen. That thing between your ears is not just an ornamental object. Use it.
Woody Paige's mailbag from the The Denver Post Woody: During the Broncos-Jets game on Sunday, Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf kept bringing up the fact that the Jets were playing in a short week. How big a disadvantage is it for a team to play a Monday night game followed by a Sunday contest? I can see how difficult it would be to play on a Sunday and then a Thursday. But does one day really make a big difference? If the Jets had played the previous Sunday before beating the Broncos, would their margin of victory have been more than 24-20? — Mark, Broomfield WP: I don't know, Mark. I've tried to find out. I called the NFL office. I called a friend who is in charge of a sports book at a major hotel in Las Vegas. I Googled and looked through records. Nobody seems to know, or care enough to go through every Sunday game result after a Monday game. I would guess that if a bad team plays on Sunday or Monday night, it has a great chance of losing the next Sunday. I would guess good teams can win if they play on Wednesday morning and Saturday night. I do remember that teams which played on the road on a Monday night and again on the next Sunday didn't win that often. I would guess Greg and Dan ran out of stuff to talk about. The Jets played on Monday night. Teams tend to take Monday and Tuesday, or parts of, off. They install offenses on Wednesday and Thursday and go through the game plan and special teams on Friday. They do a light walkthrough on Saturday and have meetings into the night. I don't know how that changes much, except ... except the Jets came to Denver on Friday because they wanted to adjust the altitude a day early, which makes no sense. Dan Reeves had an extensive scientific and doctors' study done when he was the coach, and there were no concrete advantages about coming in early. Don Coryell, when he was coaching the old St. Louis Cardinals, brought his team to the Air Force Academy on Monday before the Sunday game. The Broncos won 7-0 to start the famous 1977 Super Bowl run. I have talked to NFL and college football coaches and NBA coaches about what they do to prepare for a game at altitude, and most have no clue. I do know, and believe, that the later a team comes to Denver, the better, based on information from doctors. You retain the air in your body, and your bloodstream doesn't change in a short period. So the closer to the game you come, the better off you should be, temporarily. I believe, as you do, that playing on a Sunday and a Thursday does hurt a team because players have told me for 40 years that it takes three to four days for the body to heal from an NFL game, and you're still not fully ready to play on a Thursday. But what's the difference between Sunday night and Sunday afternoon games? None. I do think that a team traveling from the West Coast, or even Denver, has a problem with those early Sunday games. (The 1 p.m. start in Jacksonville was 11 a.m. Denver time, and the Broncos are not, I think, as set to go that early, even though they practice in the mornings for months.) I think the time difference in London will make a difference (playing at night over there, an 11 a.m. start here), and the Broncos have planned for it, and decided to go in late, arriving on Friday, to get their major stuff out of the way beforehand. The 49ers, as I've said here, will be traveling over right after their game in Carolina next Sunday. I think they'll be better off with a full week's adjustment. The NFL did make changes years ago eliminating teams playing on the road back-to-back with Monday night and Sunday afternoon games. I don't think it was a disadvantage for the Jets. I thought the score was indicative of the qualities of the two teams. The Broncos aren't quite as good as the Jets. Plus, as the Broncos used to tell me in the late 1970s, they had gone into games before the Super Bowl season hoping they could win, and then, they would go into games, after being successful, knowing they could win. The Jets are a "know" team now; the Broncos are hopers. http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/c...sports-broncos+(Denver+Post:+Sports:+Broncos)
Probably because they were the last team to kill a legitimate shot we had at the superbowl. Even though we did it to ourselves and they had little to do with it.
haha nice. oh man this thread is officially a Frankenstein. lets keep this abomination alive until after the bye week.
After watching alot of NFL replay via NFLN week 1 and 2, I saw how a lot of teams were gonna shape up. I thought the Jets were going to have a very good season b/c of superior talent against 95% of the rest of the league, as well as quality veteran presence. One game I did however circle as a loss was this past game against Denver. Denver flat out has the best passing attack in football. Lloyd,Royal,Gaffney and Thomas may all be average players individually..but their styles compliment each other very well.Their OL doesnt run block well..but they give Orton a ton of time.When you factor in Orton's superior decision making and very quick release and this allows thier coaching staff to concentrate on favorable match-ups in the passing game.Comparitively, Match-ups are exactly what make Rex's defense so successful.And when You factor in a short week after a physical hard fought monday night game, Denver being a very good home team desperate for a win, and of course the altitude...and I truly felt this had all the makings of a Jets loss.I thought Denver would beat the Jets at their own game; match-ups. For me, this may have been the most impressive win of the season. The Jets didn't blow the Broncos off the ball or run circles around their inferior skill players like they did against some other teams...but w/ all the logistics working against them including the officiating, on a day when they were flat on all facets, they dug out a tough road victory they had no business winning. Very impressive win.
it was just an off game. It was odd watching it. The intangibles of football are probably the reason why they were off, and those can't be measured in any way, so people have no idea how to explain anything.
