As we build toward the 4:15 start, post all pregame material in here. :up: It'll be 48 degrees and in the high 20s in wind...
Key Matchup: Dewayne Robertson/Jonathan Vilma vs. Reuben Droughns. If the Browns gain yardage on the ground like most runningbacks have against the Jets, then we will not win this game in these weather conditions. Passing downfield will be damn near impossible. It's up to Roberston to hold his position and keep the Browns O-Line off of Vilma and to force Droughns to the outside. It's up to Vilma to hunt Droughns down and make his life a living hell.
With Baxter already not playing and with Bodden looking like he might not make it or even be 100%. This is not a game where the Jets should be Road dogs. Looking forward to Chad tearing up this secondary. "Browns cornerback Leigh Bodden continues to miss portions of practice with his sprained ankle but is hopeful he can play. "I really want to play, but I'll wait till Sunday to find out," he told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He finally admitted it was a high ankle sprain and said the doctors kept him out of action last week against Denver. Bodden said he feels even more of a sense of urgency to return since Gary Baxter (two torn patella tendons) is out for the season. "I'm going to visit him soon," Bodden said of Baxter. "I feel so bad for him. When I saw him after the game, I almost cried. He worked so hard to get back from the (pectoral muscle) injuries." Youth?
CLEVELAND (Oct. 25, 2006) -- The resurgent New York Jets try to surpass their victory total from last season and win three straight games for the first time since 2004 when they visit the lowly Cleveland Browns. New York improved to 4-3 when it hung on to defeat Detroit 31-24 last week, matching its win total from last season. The Jets beat Miami 20-17 in Week 6 and are now trying to record three straight victories for the first time since Nov. 21-Dec. 5, 2004. That run started with a come-from-behind 10-7 victory at Cleveland in the teams' last meeting. "We are 4-3. That's it." first-year Jets coach Eric Mangini said. "The things that happened last year, I was in another place at that point. "The consistency at practice and the individual preparation now is carrying over into better execution in the game, which is carrying over into wins. That's the most important thing for us to be successful is consistency, work ethic, preparation and detail." Mangini and the Jets have benefited from a healthy Chad Pennington and a developing running game. Pennington has completed 65.8 percent of his passes for 1,450 yards and nine touchdowns this season after missing 22 games over the previous three years with shoulder and wrist problems. Rookie Leon Washington, meanwhile, has emerged as New York's featured back and ran for 129 yards and the first two touchdowns of his career in last week's win over the Lions. "For me, the most impressive thing is his physicality," Pennington said about the 5-foot-8 Washington, who was selected in the fourth round of April's draft. "People are learning about his speed, but he's very physical between the tackles. He doesn't go down with one defender, it takes multiple defenders to take him down. He bounces off of tackles, he's a very physical person even though his size wouldn't make you think that." Leon Washington's running has given the Jets offensive balance. Washington, whose 346 rushing yards are the third-most by a rookie this season, will be facing a Cleveland defense that is ranked 29th in the NFL against the run, allowing 144.2 yards per game. The Browns (1-5), though, will be taking the field against a shaky Jets defense that gives up 372.3 yards a contest, third-most in the NFL. New York has allowed 74 points in the fourth quarter, two fewer than it's given up in the entire first half. "Same story right now," Jets safety Kerry Rhodes said. "We've got to find a way to maintain our intensity on defense throughout the whole game." The Browns need to show some intensity as they hope to avoid their second three-game losing streak of the season. Cleveland fell 17-7 to Denver behind an offense that had 165 total yards and three turnovers. That performance helped lead to the resignation of second-year offensive coordinator Maurice Carthon on Oct. 24. Under Carthon, the Browns were averaging an NFL-worst 245.2 yards of total offense per game. "We talked man-to-man about our situation that we are in," coach Romeo Crennel said. "To do what I thought was best for the Browns, the organization and the fans of Cleveland, I decided to accept his resignation." Jeff Davidson, the club's offensive line coach the past two seasons, will replace Carthon. The 39-year-old Davidson was given the additional title of assistant head coach after last season when he nearly took a job with the Jets. "Jeff is putting his thoughts together about what he thinks and feels," Crennel said. "We'll see how that manifests itself. I don't think that you can realistically expect that it's going to manifest itself into a wide-open offense overnight. For one, the players are ingrained in a system, terminology and so forth. If you go in and change all of the terminology and all of the plays, you are starting from scratch." On defense, Cleveland will be without Gary Baxter after the veteran cornerback tore the patellar tendons in both knees during last week's loss to the Broncos. He has appeared in just eight games with the Browns since signing a six-year deal prior to last season. Baxter joins fellow cornerbacks Daylon McCutcheon and DeMario Minter, and safeties Jeremy LeSueur and Shawn Mayer on injured reserve. But despite all the injuries to the secondary, Cleveland is 10th in the NFL with 192.8 passing yards allowed per game. New York has won six of the last nine meetings in this series, including four of six in Cleveland. INJURYS Jets Questionable B.J. Askew (Foot) David Barrett (Hip) Laveranues Coles (Calf) Tim Dwight (Thigh) Cedric Houston (Knee) Trey Teague (Ankle) Jets Probables Kevan Barlow (Calf) Matt Chatham (Foot) Anthony Clement (Back) Shaun Ellis (Back) Bobby Hamilton (Knee) Brad Kassell (Thigh) Pete Kendall (Thigh) Justin Miller (Hip) Chad Pennington (Calf) Kerry Rhodes (Thigh) Dewayne Robertson (Hand) Brad Smith (Thigh) Kimo Von Oelhoffen (Knee) Browns OUT Ryan Tucker (Illness) QUESTIONABLE Leigh Bodden (Ankle) Justin Hamilton (Ankle) Dennis Northcutt (Ribs) Brodney Pool (Hamstring) Brian Russell (Ankle) Lawrence Vickers (Elbow) Kellen Winslow (Knee)
Leon is going for 120 yards again. I do not care what anybody thinks, Cleveland sucks. Don't tell me they played a tough schedule...blah,blah,blah. They looked horrible in each game. Their run Defense is horrible. Their run game is horrible. Go Jets!
YAC. That will be the big thing for the jets today when Chad passes. He won't go deep with the bad weather so it will be dink and dunk while the WR's have to get the extra yards. Don't look for the jets to attack deep much. Defense needs to start the run blitzing today and make the Browns try and throw it deep and have the weather play in our favor.
Oh man, I never even thought of that. It's really windy near me...If my power goes out (it does a lot where I live) during the game, I'm gonna lose my mind. Seriously! It'll be straightjacket time for me. I've had to miss the last 3 games cuz I was travelling for my job and I want to see this one BAADDDD!
Some A-hole on PRO FOOTBALL WEEKLY (SNY) just picked the Browns in a rout. I was typing on another post so I'm not sure which knucklehead it was but....well he's just wrong! JETS JETS JETS!!!
No Hi-Def today, very lame. We Have Ian Eagle/Solomon Wilcots today. The latter isn't very good, but I will take them over the cryptkeepers, Dierdork and Enberg... any day.
Good news as far as I'm concerned. Eagle is one of the few who actually has some clue about the Jets. I agree about Wilcots...and DEFINITELY agree about the DorkBerg Twins!
with the wind the way it is today, look for us to get neon leon off and running, and as was previously posted, gotta get dewayne and vilma to stuff droughns.
IDk, im in mass it sucks here. I better get to see the game. Thank god the pats don't play till later. I go to springfield college. I remember when the jets were playing hte pats and they were coming back...all the fans on my floor were fucking freaked out. They are worried about the next game already. I Just want to win this game first though.
