A Thanksgiving Win !

It was Thanksgiving Night and the Jets decided they wanted to eat Bengal instead of Turkey as their meal in route to a hard fought 26 to 10 victory setting up a Monday Night Football battle against the Patriots for first place with both teams at 9-2.

There wasn’t a ton to get excited about during the Bengals game. It was another example of this Jets team not being able to put away and beat up on an inferior team. However, they did enough to get the victory.

The offense looked a bit lost at times with the same typical poor play calling. If you need 8 yards for a first down, I’m not sure why Schottenheimer calls plays that are not even close to the first down marker. This has happened way too much during his reign as offensive coordinator. This team has way too many offense weapons for us to not be putting up 30 points a game with ease.

But, this has been a magical season so far and with the offense having some difficulties, Brad Smith stepped up his game with a 53 yard touchdown run as well as a game sealing 89 yard kickoff return.

The sad part of this game was that we went into halftime losing after giving up a touchdown to basically end the first half. However, things changed quickly as the long Smith run to start the 3rd quarter gave this team the lead for good even though the score still remained close for a while.

Special teams then played a major role when a punt grazed a Cincinnati player’s helmet and James Ihedigbo hussled down the field to scoop up the ball. This made up for a prior Ihedigbo mistake when he roughed the kicker on 4th down extending a Cincinnati drive. Mr. Touchdown, Santonio Holmes, reeled in another touchdown pass, to extend the lead but a Bengals field goal kept them close only down 7.

Then, the defense really buckled down in the 4th quarter and notched two points with a safety near the end of the game. Jim Leonard had a huge interception in the 2nd quarter which seemed like ages since the last Jets interception.

But one of the huge stories of the game was the play of Darelle Revis on T.O. T.O. had called Revis an average cornerback. Hmmmm. Three Catches for a pathetic 17 yards Mr. Owens had. I guess if Revis is just average, T.O. sucks !

Anyway, I don’t want to harp too much on this game. Now, comes the meat of the schedule and it’s time to see what these Jets are really made of. Bring on the Pats!