Fair and Balanced assessment. A realistic spot to where we may finish- just out of a wild-card spot..... 14. New York Jets. If Eric Mangini learned one thing from all those years with Bill Belichick, it's pressure or perish. Pressure the quarterback well or go 4-12. And the Jets' pressure was pathetic last year. The guys who were supposed to rush the passer (Bryan Thomas, Shaun Ellis, Keyon Coleman and Victor Hobson) combined for 11 sacks. This year the Jets should have three sacks a game, easy, with first-rounder Vernon Gholston and expensive free agent, Calvin Pace, coming from the edge and Kris Jenkins pushing the pile and drawing attention in the middle. ("I want to thank the Jets for getting that guy out of our division and out of my hair,'' Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden said last month.) One other thing, Jets brass: Give Kellen Clemens a chance to be the quarterback; don't put him through an eight-game trial. Don't you know what you have in Chad Pennington by now? http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/peter_king/05/02/rankings/2.html
Not bad considering we are coming off a 4-12 season. Would be really nice to make the playoffs again this season.
3 sacks a game would put us in an elite territory. I realize it seems unrealistic, but it's not like anyone expected the Cowboys and Giants to get sacks like they did last year.
Impressive, look at the teams immediately ranked around the Jets with the exception of Buffalo; Seattle, TB, and Pitt, all playoff teams in '07.
King finally had some decent things to say about us and i think he's right on as for giving Clemens the job i still think its best to let them battle it out in TC , Pennington maybe not done just yet.
Although I agree that this is a fair assessment of the Jets, King is still so annoyingly up the Patriots' arse it's ridiculous. "No team fixes the startlingly bad things as well as New England. And what sticks with me from last season is how porous the offensive line was against the Giants in the Super Bowl...Some might read into New England's draft approach as arrogant. Quarterback in the third round, dealing another third-round pick for a 2009 second-rounder, no offensive linemen. I view it as a confident team doing what's best for the long haul. The Patriots' response to almost getting Brady killed in the Super Bowl -- basically, doing nothing on the offensive line in free-agency or the draft -- tells me Dante Scarnecchia, New England's offensive line guru since the Hannah years, will figure out a way to seal the cracks." So, in a nutshell, the Patriots are awesome at fixing glaring problems even when they don't fix them at all. True wizardry.
1 bad game does not make that O-line a glaring problem. They dominated enough to be the O-line of a record setting offense...and a team that still went 18-1. LOL @ the one being the Super Bowl.
Everyone should look at the positives of this article, like what Gruden said about Jenkins...who gives a shit about the patriots let's just settle everything on the field..
