The Jets playing in the Mile-High city of Denver still brings back bad memories. All of you Jet fans know exactly what I’m talking about. The 1998 Jets and Vinny Testervede held a 10 point half-time lead in the AFC Championship game and fumbled away a chance at the Super Bowl in the 2nd half. Thinking about the game still makes me nauseas.
Now, the Jets were going back to this dreaded city riding a four game winning streak and desperately needed a victory heading into their bye week.
For most of the game, I kept on reverting back to that slogan which I’m trying to get out of my brain in “Same Ole Jets” but mistake after mistake starting making things look quite glum. I know it was a close game and we were never at any point of the game down more than one score but it was the kind of game that even though we were in striking distance, I never felt like we were going to finally get it together. The offense never felt in sync. The defense kept on getting some horrific penalties called against them to the point that I didn’t even know if the referee was watching the game and just had a fetish for throwing the yellow flag.
The game came down to this. The Jets had the ball on their 20 yard line or so. We needed three points to tie it up. Sanchez finally had some poise making a few clutch throws on third down. And then we got one of our biggest gifts ever since Vinny Testervede’s “Phantom Touchdown” back at the Meadowlands in the late 90’s. Sanchez heaves the ball to Santionio Holmes on 4th down. The defender grabs Holmes’ facemask while he attempted to catch the ball which he almost did. The yellow flag is thrown, all wrapped up in wrapping paper with a bow setting up a 2 yard L.T. run to take the lead.
Unfortunately, these are the Jets and we had to still sweat out the final minute against the Broncos. They drove past mid-field and almost connected for a deep pass to the 2 yard line which was luckily broken up. The game’s fate was finally sealed when the Broncos had a bad snap causing a loose ball that Dwight Lowery picked up. JETS WIN to improve to 5-1, winning five straight after an opening day defeat.
The game started out really ugly. On the first two drives, Sanchez threw two horrible drives that were almost picked off and should have been. Then, the CBS crew decides to show a stat of when he last threw an interception. Then next play, Sanchez throws it to the other team. And soon later, he threw his second interception of the game. I’m not sure what Mark’s problem was. I think it had to do with the thin air as many of his passes were just sailing in the wrong direction.
The running game was non-existent until the second half and it seemed like they never got into a groove. It was nice seeing LT run 20+ yards for a touchdown but besides that, the lack of a running game was hard to believe against a team that has difficulty stopping the run.
As for the Defense, they played average. They gave up 145 yards on the ground against a team that can’t ever run the ball. Darrelle Revis got beat a few times but is still working is body into game shape. David Harris was all over the place making some nice tackles behind the line of scrimmage. But, in the 4th quarter when we needed the defense the most; that is when they stepped up their game and got the stops when they needed to.
Nick Folk knocked down a 56 yarder which was huge.
So, we can take a week off and relax. Gotta love a 5-1 record heading into the bye week. Ahhhhh, it’s it great being the best team in the AFC now with Baltimore losing. For once, it’s good to be a Jets fan!
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