To be quite honest, it’s shocking that the Jets brass would give $23.5 million in guaranteed money to Santonio Holmes.
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Miami Dolphins tailback Reggie Bush will miss Sunday’s game with the Jets, due to a knee injury.
“He’s not going to play,”Dolphins coach Todd Bowles said. “The knee hasn’t been responding, so we’re going to sit him down. … I think he would be out earlier in the year, too. He’s just not ready to play this game.”
Promising rookie Daniel Thomas (Kansas State) will start for Bush.
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“I am not a fan of Gruden’s,” Mike Pereira said on Foxsports.com. “Not today, not yesterday, not when I worked for the NFL and not when I was working on the field as a side judge. He was a loudmouth as a coach who constantly disrespected officials and he is a blowhard in the broadcast booth who spouts off when he doesn’t know what he is talking about.”
One part of the Jets blueprint to get into the playoffs, is they need the Houston Texans to beat the Tennessee Titans. So will Nick Mangold be smiling when he sees the final score in Houston?
This game is at the same time as the Jets-Miami game, so there will be a lot of scoreboard watching by Jets players, coaches and fans. To get some insight into the Tennessee-Houston game, which will be played at Reliant Stadium in Houston, I checked in with a friend of mine, a Houston broadcaster, who knows a ton about the Texans scene. Here is that conversation -
Q)Even though Houston has nothing to play for, do you think they are going to try hard to win this game?
Texan Insider: I expect the starters to play. The sense I got is that they are playing the game to win.
Q)Why do you get that sense?
Texans Insider: They’ve lost two in a row, and haven’t really played well over the last three weeks, so they need some momentum going into the playoffs. There’s no precedent for what Gary Kubiak does in these situations, obviously, but I can’t see how this team would rest its starters.
I think they should have the chance to open up the playbook more with T.J. Yates, since a loss doesn’t have any impact.
Q)Will star receiver Andre Johnson play against Tennessee?
Texans Insider: Gary wants Andre Johnson to play.
Q)Is Kubiak going to stick with rookie T.J. Yates at quarterback, or is he going to get Jake Delhomme in the mix?
Texans Insider: Kubiak thinks Yates is the better option, at this point. The thing about Delhomme is, the guy has been an interception machine over the last two years. 8 TD/18 INT, two years ago and 2 TD/7 INT last season. He was apparently battling some injuries, but I think Delhomme is probably over-the-hill.
Q)Do you think that Houston will beat Tennessee?
Texans Insider: It’s totally up in the air. The Houston offense has been bad over the last two weeks. They need to score way more points. I thought the game plan was irrationally conservative against the Colts. I believe they were 1-10 on 3rd down, with the one being a deflection to Jacoby Jones.
Houston crushed Tennessee in Nashville in October, but that was Matt Schaub’s best game of the season.
To me, if the offense starts to execute well, they can definitely win this game.
N.Y. JETS
Tryout:
QB Trevor Vittatoe, UTEP
WR Royce Adams, Purdue
WR Dontrelle Inman, Virginia
OG Jovan Olafioye, North Carolina Central
DE Aaron Lavarias, Idaho
LB Victor Adesanya, Rhode Island
LB Jerrell Freeman, Mary Hardin-Baylor
CB Antareis Bryan, Baylor
CB Walter McFadden, Auburn
CB Thad Turner, Ohio
P Travis Baltz, Maryland
Hat Tip – Pro Football Weekly
To say Darrelle Revis was brilliant against the Football Giants would be an understatement. He finished with five PD’s and Eli Manning was 9-29 on the day.
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The Jets’ Front Seven played well in the team’s loss to the New York Football Giants, and had every right to be pissed off at Sanchez and the offense. Enough is enough . . .
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Mo Wilkerson had one of his better games.
He was tied for the team lead in tackles (five), with Bart Scott, and added a sack, two tackles for losses and a quarterback hit.
Early in the fourth quarter, Wilkerson showed a nice burst for a 315-pounder, beating Giants RT Kareem McKenzie, for a sack.
On a third-and-six, late in the game, Wilkerson stopped D.J. Ware for no gain, forcing a Giants punt, and getting the Jets the ball back at 20-14. Sanchez was sacked for a safety two plays later.
On the Giants’ third drive of the game, on a Brandon Jacobs’ 13-yard catch-and-run, Wilkerson missed a tackle attempt early in the play.
Sione “Bo” Pouha did some good things. Early in the game, he had a QB pressure on Eli Manning. On this play, not only did he shed RG Chris Snee, but tailback Ahmad Bradshaw.
Late in the game, on the play before the Wilkerson stop on Ware mentioned above, Pouha stopped Bradshaw on the line.
Marcus Dixon ended the Giants’ first possession of the second half, when he tipped a Manning pass at the line.
Mike DeVito did some solid work.
He shed Snee, and stopped Jacobs around the line, on the Giants’ first offensive play. On the first play of a mid second quarter possession, Devito shed LG Kevin Boothe, and stopped Jacobs around the line again.
The Jets linebackers made a lot of plays.
On the Giants’ second offensive play, Jamal Westerman made a terrific shoestring tackle on Bradshaw, in the backfield, for a loss of three. This likely would have been a huge gain if Westerman didn’t get him, because there was a ton of open space, on the left side, where he was heading.
Westerman was called for a ticky-tack roughing the passer penalty in the third quarter. The call was a joke.
David Harris ended the Giants’ second drive, when he blitzed up the middle, shed Snee, and sacked Manning.
Harris also missed a tackle attempt on the aforementioned Jacobs catch-and-run, for a gain of 13.
Bart Scott played very hard. When a player’s helmet flies off, not once, but twice in the first quarter, you know he’s hitting people pretty hard. Early in the third quarter, Calvin Pace stopped a Bradshaw sweep for a loss of three, but it was Scott who blew up the run, and forced the runner into Calvin’s hands.
Early in the second quarter, Pace had another good run stop, shooting off the edge to stop Bradshaw for a loss of one.
On the late Bradshaw TD run, from 19 yards out, the Giants did some real good blocking on the right side. McKenzie locked up Scott, and Snee took care of Devito, and the runner was gone.
Aaron Maybin, who was very quiet, had a late penalty, for hitting Ware out of bounds, after a 17-yard run . . .
Our next premium update will be tomorrow by 6 pm with a look at the secondary, and notes from Wednesday’s Jets camp.
Remember what Jets linebacker Bart Scott said a few days before the Jets loss to Philadelphia?
“I don’t think we’re where we need to be,” Scott said. “I don’t think we’re a Super Bowl team, or even a playoff team.
“A Super Bowl team puts it together consistently. You have to be able to play three games — if you get in the playoffs, three great games — to get an opportunity to win the Super Bowl. You just don’t wake up and say, ‘I’m a Super Bowl team.’ You have to be able to get better, and you have to play a certain way.”
Scott’s words now ring so true.
The Jets offensive line had some issues in this game, but they also had plenty of good plays, and you have to wonder if sometimes they get demoralized because so much of their work results in nothing good.
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