Jets lose a laugher, look to bounce back

Jets fall 48-29 to Chargers on Monday Night Football

What a surprise! The Jets got killed by the Chargers. I knew it was coming, but somehow this game made me suicidal. The Jets just aren’t a good football team right now. They’re awful. The got lit up defensively in this game, and the offense is atrocious. I would get more into detail, but thinking about this game makes me want to jam a pencil into my eye socket. I would put one in Brett Favre’s as well, but his vision is obviously bad enough already.

The Jets play this week was worse than the officiating in the 2006 NBA Finals. Take that Katzman. The game started out well. The Jets jumped all over the Chargers as David Barrett opened up the game with a pick 6, but after that, there was little to hang your head on if you’re a Jet fan.

The Chargers controlled this game on both sides of the ball. The Jets biggest failure and what should be their biggest concern this season is that they cannot get any semblance of a push on either side of the ball. Kris Jenkins getting banged up definitely didn’t help, but the Jets couldn’t stop the underneath throwing game at all. Phillip Rivers had his way with the Jets to the point where I was ready to file rape charges. Darren Sprowles ran wild on the Jets even though the Bolts decided to cap off the drives where he did most of the work with LaDanian Tomlinson TDs. I don’t blame them. They probably just wanted to hear that LT rap song. Very wise decision.

It’s also hard to get it done defensively if you continually let the opponent start in your own territory. Jets fans you can thank one Brett Favre for that. Let me go on record first of all by saying that I am still 100 percent behind the Favre trade and I am glad that he is taking the snaps and not some limp armed loser who used to wear number 10. That being said, Favre is going to give me a heart attack. He doesn’t take care of the ball. I know he’s a gunslinger, but at some point, he’s got to start throwing it to the right team right? I mean the Jets wear almost the same color jerseys as the Packers. I still can’t get that upset though. He has only been in the offense for 6 weeks and he is still learning and yada yada yada. I’m not going to go nuts just yet (give me 2 more weeks), but with the addition of Favre this is a win now team, so they should probably start winning.

The best thing the Jets can do this week is forget the game completely and move on to the Arizona Cardinals. They better too because for the first time this season, I will be making the trek across the country to the house that Mark Gastineau built (alright, Wellington Mara). If I actually have any readers on this thing, come find me in 18A on Sunday. I will be the dude with the Darrelle Revis jersey on with 35 pounds of grilling equipment in my hands.

I’m going to be pretty hyped up in the parking lot on Sunday, but in all honesty, this week in going to be another tough one. The Jets defense was suspect against the Chargers and I am being generous by saying that. Brett Favre apparently has a sprained ankle as well. So, unless the Jets decide to make a conscious decision and come out and play hit ‘em in the mouth Jets football on Sunday, they are going to be in serious trouble, as will the people sitting in the row in front of me because I will start throwing things.

The Cardinals may have lost last week in Washington and they may also be spending the entire week away from home, but right now they are clicking on all cylinders offensively. So far this season Anquan Boldin has been one of the 2 or 3 best receivers in the NFL and Larry Fitzgerald is always among the league’s best. Even the corpse of Edgerrin James has played pretty well this season. The key to beating this team and disrupting their offense is to get after QB Kurt Warner. The way the Jets pass rush has looked over the past 3 weeks, it does not look promising, but then again Vernon Gholston did have his first NFL tackle on Monday Night, so that’s definitely a positive.

This week provides the Jets with an opportunity to really open it up. Obviously Favre will throw his picks, but the Jets need to let him loose. He might not know the plays, but neither did Bobby Boucher and he seemed to do alright.

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Let’s face it; on the surface the Jets have been less attractive this year than the chick that plays Naomi on “90210.” You know what though, I’m excited for the game this weekend and it’s not just because I’m going, although it mostly is. The Jets aren’t at that point yet where the morph into well, the Jets if you know what I mean.

That being said, I’ll take the Cardinals and the over.

Prediction: Cardinals 37 - Jets 28

Let’s pray that I am wrong.

By Dan Rein
ProFootball-fans.com New York Jets Correspondent