Jets look to keep rolling against the Rams

Favre & Company take home stand against St. Louis

A lot of things happened this week in the NFL. For one, the Jets were able to overcome the mistakes of the most overrated and overhyped player in professional sports history and ride their defense to a victory. The Giants demolished the train wreck formerly known as the Dallas Cowboys to reign in NFC supremacy and this site apparently added an Arizona Cardinals correspondent. I went to college in Arizona and didn’t know there were such things (“Anquan Bolding”?...seriously?).

But this article is about the Jets and I would be remised if I did not begin by lauding them for a big win at Buffalo. They were once again able to overcome the turnovers and gray hairs that scatter the field as long as Brett Favre is at the helm. And on a side note, congratulations are in order to Brett Favre on becoming the first quarterback in NFL history to throw 300 interceptions. Good work Brett, I hope you enjoy antagonizing the fans for the next 300. Lord knows you will be playing long enough to tack up that many, even if it only takes you one more year after this.

A lot of things happened this week in the NFL. For one, the Jets were able to overcome the mistakes of the most overrated and overhyped player in professional sports history and ride their defense to a victory. The Giants demolished the train wreck formerly known as the Dallas Cowboys to reign in NFC supremacy and this site apparently added an Arizona Cardinals correspondent. I went to college in Arizona and didn’t know there were such things (“Anquan Bolding”?...seriously?).

But this article is about the Jets and I would be remised if I did not begin by lauding them for a big win at Buffalo. They were once again able to overcome the turnovers and gray hairs that scatter the field as long as Brett Favre is at the helm. And on a side note, congratulations are in order to Brett Favre on becoming the first quarterback in NFL history to throw 300 interceptions. Good work Brett, I hope you enjoy antagonizing the fans for the next 300. Lord knows you will be playing long enough to tack up that many, even if it only takes you one more year after this.

Brett, look around you buddy. This is New York. You are not just being covered by the Green Bay Post Gazette Weekly or whatever newspaper they have in Green Bay, there are tons of daily newspapers and radio beat guys as well as a horrible TV station covering the team on an everyday basis. (Oh and by the way I’m not bitter. Brett if you’re reading this and I don’t know why you wouldn’t, please say hello to Steve Overmeyer for me. That is if he can pull his head out of his rear long enough to hold a conversation. I vote no.)

This week the Jets play St. Louis. St. Louis is of the same ilk of the teams that the Jets have struggled against this year. The lost at Oakland and struggled at home against Kansas City, so I would expect much of the same against a team that has actually put together some good football after dropping the dead weight from their coaching staff. I have mixed feeling about Scott Linehan being fired though because I probably have a better chance of getting a head coaching gig than he does now. What can I say? I feel for the guy. For some reason the Rams have rallied around interim coach Jim Haslett. They actually looked like a real team for a couple of weeks before they got smacked down by Arizona last Sunday. On paper, the Jets should win this game, but that same paper would probably predict at least one Brett Favre pick for a touchdown.

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As poorly as Favre has played the past few weeks and let’s face it, he has been worse than NBC’s fall lineup, he needs to come to play this week. St. Louis is very beatable and the Jets have a tough road ahead. Back to back road games at New England and Tennessee present what could be the toughest stretch of the Jets season. Let’s just hope Brett Favre’s osteoporosis hasn’t advanced too rapidly by that point.

I think the Jets will win this week, but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to pick them because the fact remains that they are the Jets. This team knows how to rip out your heart and stomp all over it more than any other team. They lost to the Raiders. The Raiders! The same team that just released a former Pro Bowl cornerback that they not only were paying 10 million dollars a year, but also traded a second round pick for in the off season. We know exactly what this team is capable of. Let’s hope the variety of screen passes wins out on Sunday.

The pick:

Rams 28

Jets 22

Let’s pray that I’m wrong.

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