Has any 11 win team that went 1-1 in the regular season against an opponent ever been a 9 point dog in the second round of the playoffs?

To repeat:
11 wins
1-1 in the regular season
Second round of playoffs
9 point dog

If it's happened before, I can't recall it. I think too much attention is being paid to the big blowout game, a game in which the Jets completely abandoned their strengths and opened with a hurry up offense simply becauses Sanchez had been hot in the two minute offense in games leading up to this one.

Since it was early in the season, everyone is discounting the Jets 14 point win over the Pats. The game Cleveland destroyed the Pats is being written off as an anomoly,while the Jets blowout game isn't.

I am here to guarantee the Jets won't get blown out this time. They will cover the spread. It's unlikely they win, but it is within the realm of possibility.

I have always had an affinity to the old AFL teams. It was the Jets and Chiefs that forced the merger into what we know as the NFL today. From those glorious days, I still like the Chiefs. I think many, especially the youngsters, lack an appreciation for what these two franchises did against all odds.

What happened back then will always bond these two football teams, although it fades as us old guys also fade away. Belichick is Darth Vader, secretly born of Al Davis. NE is the dark side, and he has you Chiefs fans tempted and enticed. Ryan is Luke Skywalker... he has no chance, and his outspoken confidence, that cocky refusal to accept defeat, to take on the dark side seems irrational, reckless.

Don't go to the dark side. Root for the Jets. And we're sorry about the whole Herman Edwards thing.

Ah, well that just makes up for everything.

THIS

Exactly why I put "I hope" in my thread title.As a football fan I hope the Pats whip their ass and good,as a gambler,no thanks,I'll take the Jets and the points.

Did you get my PM?

Sorry man,I did,but I have a few fires raging in my life right now so I didn't want to commit to anything and then have to cancel.I should know more by early next week if that's not too late.

I don't think I've ever seen a more compelling instance of cosmic karma/justice than the Tuck Rule to even out for Ben Dreith. :p

Not sure I can copy this in, but omg. ROFL ROFL

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If not, here's a link.

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Hear ya go Amnorix

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Poppycock!

LMAO sweet

Mangold as an ewok and Namath as Yoda is making me spit my coffee out

ROFL

If Jets want to beat Patriots, Steve Spagnuolo has some insight on how to rattle Tom Brady

BY Ralph Vacchiano
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
January 13, 2011

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The Giants defense treats New England quarterback Tom Brady like a ragdoll in Super Bowl XLII, sacking him five times and hitting him more than 15 times in the upset win.

When it was just Steve Spagnuolo sitting in his office with a coach's clicker in his hands, that's when he would worry the most in the days leading up to Super Bowl XLII. He had two weeks to study the New England Patriots offense and try to peek into Bill Belichick's brain.

With every frame of game film, though, he'd return to the same question: How the heck am I going to stop this team?

"Yeah, every time I looked at it," the former Giants defensive coordinator says. "I remember thinking, 'OK, we might have a chance here if we keep them under 30.' Now think about that for a second: I thought we'd be playing good defense if they got 25 or 28 points. It was a daunting, daunting task."

Perhaps, but in the end, Spagnuolo and the Giants found a way to do what few have done in the last decade - beat Patriots QB Tom Brady in a big game. That's what the Jets and Rex Ryan will be trying to do Sunday in Foxborough when they face the Patriots in a divisional playoff showdown.

Speaking from his office in St. Louis, where he's the head coach of the Rams, Spagnuolo still credits "good players and great leadership" - not his defensive game plan - for the Giants' Super Bowl upset. He knows, however, that the way his defense came hard after Brady from the very first snap was a significant factor, too.

"Brady is the key cog that keeps that thing rolling," Spagnuolo says. "I haven't seen them much this year, but my guess is he still is."

Brady didn't put up the record-breaking numbers this season that he did in 2007, but he had what will likely be an MVP season. He completed 65.9% of his passes for 3,900 yards and 36 TDs, with only four INTs. That included a 326-yard, four-TD performance in a 45-3 win over the Jets.

The Jets sacked Brady three times in that game, but weren't able to sustain pressure. If they follow the Giants' example from 2007, Brady will spend much more time on his back. The constant pressure on Brady from Spagnuolo's Super Bowl scheme resulted in five sacks, nine hits, one pass that was deflected at the line of scrimmage and countless other throws that appeared rushed.

Brady still threw for 266 yards in Super Bowl XLII, but he needed 48 attempts (and 29 completions) to do it. He also didn't throw a TD pass until late in the fourth quarter. When Brady got the ball back with 29 seconds remaining in the game, needing about 40 or so yards for a game-tying field-goal attempt, the Giants blitzed him heavily, sacked him once, and the Patriots didn't gain a yard.

Pressure isn't the only answer, Spagnuolo says. Belichick knows the Jets are likely to go after Brady, and the Patriots coach will likely have an answer for every opposing scheme.

"Just saying, 'Hey, we're going to go after Tom Brady' doesn't necessarily work," Spagnuolo says. "I'm sure every team that's played him has thought that way. I'm sure that Rex (Ryan) will do the same thing. He's played them enough. He knows when to go and what not to do.

"But when you go out there and it's time to play the game, it still comes back to the players beating the guy in front of them. That's what it'll come down to. The Patriots are very smart on offense, the Jets do a good job on defense. It'll just be a matter of which side gets more players playing at a high level."

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/fo...o_rattle_.html

Jets don't have the same kind of defensive line.