Historic Win Sets Up Thursday Night's Battle

I missed the home opener this year for my neice's baby naming. But, since then, the Jets have had 4 home games and now, each has been a victory.

Of those two games, I have witnessed a 34-0 lead that turned into the Jets scoring 55 points. Now, yesterday, I get a 40-0 lead at half-time and romp 47-3 which turned out to be the gets biggest margin of victory EVER.

Now, it sets up for the biggest game in a few years on Thursday Night. It's Jets vs Patriots with the winner taking sole position of first place.

I don't even know where to begin from yesterday's game. The offense did everything right. Favre didn't even need to do much as he completed just 14 passes (but only missed on 5) for a season low 167 yards. But, that is fine with me as he made the throws when he needed to. The biggest one was a 54 yard bomb to first round pick Dustin Keller. When was the last time you saw a Jets tight end run a DEEP route and catch the ball? This guy is going to change the entire offense as he learns the game. He also caught a short TD and had his first 100 yard game as a pro. What was great is that it was Favre's first time in 8 games he didn't throw an interception. Again, we didn't have to throw the ball too much. In the entire 2nd half, we only had two passing attempts.

The Jets didn't need to pass because they were running all day long. Thomas Jones had the brunt of the work rushing for 149 yards and 3 TDs. The Jets scored EVERY time they touched the ball in the first half (7 for 7).

However, the story of the day was the defense. We forced 5 turnovers (two interceptions and 3 fumbles). Calvin Pace ran for a 50 yard TD after Abram Elam squashed their QB forcing the ball loose. Kerry Rhodes finally got into the interception action snagging one as we as Hank Poteat. Dwight Lowery and Bryan Thomas also forced the other fumbles. We were pressuring the QB all day and were just dominating them against the run as they had no where to go.

And how about backup kicker Jay Feely? He booted some pretty long field goals including a 55 yarder.

It was a complete game all around but it was against the pathetic Rams.

Thursday night will tell a better story if we can go up to Foxboro and stick it up the Pats asses !