We are six games into the season and desperate Jets fans and reporters are already sending Bolles to Canton and the Jets to the playoffs. I think everyone ought to calm down just a little and see how the rest of the season goes before they start celebrating what a great coach he is and how great the Jets are. They're not even half way through the schedule.
Todd Bowles channeling Coco Chanel: “I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”
Face it, the Patriots are so good an opponent can know what they are going to run and they'll succeed just the same.
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Actually the Jets and the Bills could both make the playoffs. Not because this division is so good but the Ravens and Steelers have disappeared. The AFC South is a disaster. So the only team left is the Raiders.
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Much as I'm disapointed with the outcome I thought the Jets played a good game. Replacement punter and RB at less than 100% made a difference on the negative side. But the defense had Brady very annoyed in the first half at how little of the field he saw. No question the Marshall drop stung. But overall I think it was a good outing for the Jets and one they will remember when they meet again in December
Mr. Rhoden, please stop the bleeding lament. You could not write a game story if your life depended on it. You rely too heavily on resentment. Your (Jets) readers may not have reason to recall your purple-faced rattle-throwing tantrum between the AFC title game and Super Bowl 49. You wrote that Roger Goodell should suspend and fine Bill Belichick for Deflategate. You licked Ryan Grigson's show soles and rushed to childish, Ravens and Colts!fueled judgment. Where was your column in early September following a federal court judge's ruling that Tom Brady was maligned and impugned? Mr. Rhoden, You went to college in Baltimore so your rooting slip is showing. Please make a professional effort at reporting a game story, not at wearing your personal losses to the Patriots on your sleeve. Thank you.
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Bowles is exactly right and if he continues to get fan, mgt and player support, he will take them to their next Super bowl.
Well, Bill, the Patriots are simply a better team and better coached. That said, Todd Bowles has proved to be a very good young coach--and he'll only get better--and is the best the Jets have had for years. This was an excellent football game.
What do winning organizations have in common? Steady ownership, consistent management, winning coaches and elite quarterbacks. Check, check, check and ?
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The Jets are toast unless they fix their punting game. You can't let a guy like Brady begin half his drives at the 50 yd line and expect to win. Otherwise, they have definately closed the gap on the Patriots.
Perhaps Mr. Bowles was directing his comments to Mr. Rex Ryan? Perhaps the opposite of obsession is nonchalance.
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One thing we've all overlooked in the Jets return to respectability is rhe fact the credit goes largely to Woody Johnson, who had the vision and judgement to re-engineering the front office and coaching structure. I recall his going through a well conceived, lengthy process to select the new GM, and then the new coach. He deserves full credit and it should be written about, I would think. It's not often owners perform this way (Jerry Jones' ego and Bob Crafts insatiable desire to have himself in hir high chair on Sunady television).
Yes, that Bob Kraft* (*correct spelling) is such a terrible example of a self-promoting owner. Umm . . .say what, now? (Tee hee.)
Jets vs Pats = a rivalry game, not simply another game. While I like Bowles and his professional approach, I think understating the significance of a Jets-Pats game, especially with the Pats being the Super Bowl Champs, lacks a bit of realism. Any team would want to beat the reigning champs, especially the Jets.
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It's a prestige game. If you lose what did people expect but if you win.....
It was a good game. A close game. In my opinion the Jets have nothing to hand their heads about.
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They played a terrific game against a really good team with a HOF qb.
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The game could have gone either way. Bowles had a great game plan and executed it great for most of the game. Marshall's dropped touchdown pass that would have padded the Jets' score was no more significant to the outcome than Edelman's dropped pass that would have padded the Patriot's score earlier. In the end, Brady won the game for a beat up Patriots team, but I think anyone who watched the game would agree that the Jets are the best team the Patriots have played all year and would give them better than even odds to win the rematch. Hard not to have a tremendous amount of respect for what Bowles has done with this team.
"Great defense" and "no pass rush" don't belong in the same sentence.
The Pats put the heat on Fitzpatrick but Brady had all day to throw.....teams always think too much about coverage and not enough about pressure when they play the Pats and that is not a winning idea. You have to put pressure on Brady like the Giants did in their Super Bowl wins
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Seriously? The Jets record at 4-1 was deceptive after beating bottom of the barrel teams. The game was never as close as it seemed. LaFell dropped 6 passes and Edelman dropped a sure touchdown. At a minimum the Pats should have had 2 more scores. Are the Jets better than last year, sure but the Patriots are playing at a whole different level.
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Belichick and Brady adhere to the Any Given Sunday rule. Upsets occur when a team looks down on an opponent and provides just enough of an effort to beat them while the opposition plays above themselves that day. The Jets came to play but unfortunately found a team ready for them.
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As the Cardinals' defensive coordinator Bowles was 1-0 against Belichick going into this game. The Cardinals won in a low-scoring, defense-dominated game when the Pats missed a last-second FG. It certainly helps that Bowles knows how to beat Belichick. and his nonchalance about today's game helped rub it in.
Each Jet should get a chance to spend a one-year field trip with the Patriots. This will give them a chance to experience a winning season. Call it the "Revis Plan."
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Don't kid yourself....the team is not that good. And I am a long-time Jet fan, not a Patriot toady.
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True. It's just that the Patriots play their cards far better than anybody else.
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The Jets with Ryan Fitzpatrick are much better than they were with Geno "disaster-around-the-corner" Smith. Marshall makes a huge difference on offense (ask Decker) and the defense is solid.
The problem areas are special teams and any running back who isn't Chris Ivory (why is Stacey on this team? Is he really the best out there?)
They will beat the Cheatriots this year and in the future. This is a team on the rise. And Tom Brady is 140 years old. Belicheat won't be nearly as smart without him.
The future is green.
The problem areas are special teams and any running back who isn't Chris Ivory (why is Stacey on this team? Is he really the best out there?)
They will beat the Cheatriots this year and in the future. This is a team on the rise. And Tom Brady is 140 years old. Belicheat won't be nearly as smart without him.
The future is green.
Sore loser.
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Yeah, he sure looked 140 years old on Sunday. heh-heh.
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Are this year's Jets better than last year's Jets?
Is this year's Jets coach a better coach than last year's Jets coach?
Would the current Jets coach be a better coach if he let his team stew and stress over "New England always gets us and got us again?"
With a last minute fill-in quarterback, even the most peripheral observer of NFL games would conclude with certainty that what the Jets players and the Jets players have so far achieved this season, is absolutely remarkable.
The last thing the Jets need is sports columnists second guessing them and undercutting their confidence by questioning who they are as a team, even as they almost beat New England, a franchise defined by repeated instances of cheating. Yes the Patriots have a remarkable ability to make big plays at big moments, but they also have a remarkable ability to cheat. They have been caught in some flagrant occurrences. Who knows how many undiscovered cheating habits they have. They may get a lot of wins and make a lot of big plays, but there is no need to revere a franchise defined by cheating. And there is no reason for the Jets to make a big deal about a game with them.
Is this year's Jets coach a better coach than last year's Jets coach?
Would the current Jets coach be a better coach if he let his team stew and stress over "New England always gets us and got us again?"
With a last minute fill-in quarterback, even the most peripheral observer of NFL games would conclude with certainty that what the Jets players and the Jets players have so far achieved this season, is absolutely remarkable.
The last thing the Jets need is sports columnists second guessing them and undercutting their confidence by questioning who they are as a team, even as they almost beat New England, a franchise defined by repeated instances of cheating. Yes the Patriots have a remarkable ability to make big plays at big moments, but they also have a remarkable ability to cheat. They have been caught in some flagrant occurrences. Who knows how many undiscovered cheating habits they have. They may get a lot of wins and make a lot of big plays, but there is no need to revere a franchise defined by cheating. And there is no reason for the Jets to make a big deal about a game with them.
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Second guessing professional sport teams is what sports columnists do and Rhoden is one of the best. Your team was beaten by the better team yesterday and all you can bring to the discussion is the same old cheating argument. Grow up.
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Sounds like whistling past the graveyard to me. JETS: R.I.P.
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What a ridiculous comment. Explain this so-called 'cheating'. It was never proven by the NFL as the Patriot balls deflated at the same level as the Colt balls, if one takes into account the Ideal Gas Law. And even if the balls were tampered with, which is a huge stretch to say, who cares? As Aaron Rodgers admitted, when he said he played with over-inflated footballs, every QB screws with ball inflation and the NFL has always considered it gamesmanship. The NFL never before seemed to care about PSI inflation or did they ever test balls for inflation during games, nor did they ever write down PSI numbers, nor did they ever tell players the PSI inflation rule because the NFL always considered ball inflation a gamesmanship issue. Until their biased sting of the Patriots.
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This as close to a mea culpa as Rhoden is ever going to admit. As for the game, the Patriots had 11 dropped passes and played the game with a 3rd string offensive tackle and 2 rookie guards and a rookie center. Their all-purpose RB Dion Lewis didn't play. Brady asserted his will over both teams today as he customarily does week in and week out. Even the most ardent Jets fan has to admit after watching Brady today that he is the greatest player in the history of the NFL. On the other side of the coin, how fortunate are Jets fans that Todd Bowles is their coach? He had an excellent game plan today.
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Todd Bowles must have been channeling Andy Reid at the end of the fourth quarter. Clock management? We don't need no stinkin' clock management.
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Yes -- but don't worry coach, you can use those time-outs in the next game...
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Todd Bowles is obviously a fine, fine coach and the Jets under this leadership are only going to improve from here. The Patriots are better for now, but not nearly as much better as we might have expected just a few weeks ago.
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Hey, they put up 30 on your vaunted defense. Not enough for you ...?
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Hope springs eternal, oui?
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Depends who "we" is I guess. It was widely assumed that the Patriots would not be back in the super bowl and many questioned whether they would even win the East after losing several key players. The Patriots are better than the Jets for same reason the late 90s Yankees were better than the Red Sox: they have better players across more positions and they have Tom Brady, which is the equivalent of Derek Jeter, Andy Pettite and Mariano Rivera in one player. As a Pats fan, I think the Jets are better, and I thought they had a good chance to win. When they have a better QB and their coach gains a bit more experience in areas like using the clock, their 2004 will arrive.