Finally Above .500 !

Well, a win is a win is a win.

But, I have a big problem with the Jets marketing department. We have had 3 home games. I've been to the last two of them and both times we've been in those blue and gold hideous uniforms. We are Gang Green and the newspapers are calling us Big Blue II and that is enough to make me barf. Come on. We are a green team. I want to see green and white uniforms out there. I feel like I'm watching a Michigan game. It's time to stop with these uniforms already and get back to the proper colors.

That being said, we won. It was quite ugly at times and there we were again at the end sweating it out. This team can't do anything easy and the way the game started out, I thought it was going to be a typical Jets loss to a team that hadn't won yet all year. Before we could blink, Favre fumbled the ball and the Bengals took it back for a touchdown. Blink Blink...we're down 7 - 0.

But we responded. Favre had a decent game throwing 1 TD for about 189 yards but most of the passes seemed short and safe with a few chances down the field. Two of them were picked off but those were on 3rd down and pinned the Bengals deep so it was like a punt and put them in bad field position. It seemed like the first one, Favre thought the penalty was on them and it was a free play but it turned out the flag was on us. Oh well. We won the battle of field position all day even though we didn't do a ton with it. I just wished they opened it up more. There were times when I saw Cotchery wide open deep but the ball went for a short safe pass. There were a ton of plays that were horizontal to the line of scrimmage where we would gain one to three yards. I thought we got Brett Favre to make this a vertical game. I thought they were gonna open it up more after their last game with 56 points but it didn't happen.

The offense seemed conservative but they got the first downs when needed. Thomas Jones had his best game as a Jet with 2 rushing TDs and 1 receiving TD for a bit under 90 yards.

As for the defense, they did fantastic. They held the Bengals rushers in check all game. Their leading rusher was their QB. And we didn't really let Ocho Dorko beat us as he was the only one to even catch the ball. We had some good pass rush and some great playing by Calvin Jones, David Harris, Darelle Revis, and Nick Lowery to name a few.

Now we have a few games we should win before setting up that battle with Buffalo. Let's just hope they are wearing GREEN again by the time that game happens.