Okay. I'll play...
Why would anyone here have penis envy over a team that hasn't even sniffed a Super Bowl since The Beatles put on their last public concert?
You guys say the Jets caved. You say Cro is overrated. blah blah blah
While I think that the contract was better than what was anticipated for the Jets, the team DID cave. How you can deny that is beyond me. Your fat head coach spent the entire offseason preaching to the media that the Jets were more than just one guy and how it was the scheme that made them the number one defense in the NFL... then he flies down to Florida and puts on the knee pads.
As for Cromartie, he is overrated.
Meanwhile, you guys can't even sign your best Offensive Lineman.
No argument here.
Now lets bring all you guys back down to Earth and have you face the facts:
1) Revis is better than ANY defensive player you have on your entire team. As always, he will make Randy Moss his B$TCH twice this season. He will COMPLETELY shut him down and you all know it.
The funny thing is that, just like your coach, all of you Jersey trash Jets fans were in here saying that it was the scheme and not Revis that had that defense as the top dogs in 2009. Then most of you mysteriously disappeared. Now you're back. And guess what? You'll be gone after a couple of weeks again... just like every other year.
As for the defenses...
D-Line: Edge Jets
ILB: Edge Pats
OLB: Even
CB: Edge Jets
Safety: Edge Pats
At CB, specifically, Jets win by default because Revis is a great CB right now. However, outside of Revis, I would take anyone of our CB's over what you have. And that includes the CB that your coach himself was salivating over in the draft: McCourty.
2) Cro has always been best suited for man coverage. Another fact ANY Patsy fan loves to deny. He also played quite well against Wes Welker in the past when he was in man coverage. He will ONLY cover Welker in man coverage. Welker will still get his, though. A lot of short yardage underneath passes basically serving as a running play. I'll give him about 5 catches for 35 yards in week 2.
Is that why Cromartie had his best season as a pro playing soft zone coverage? :bricks:
3) Our defense, with or without Revis, is head and shoulders better than your defense another fact you would love to deny but simply cannot. We were the number 1 ranked defense in EVERY major statistical category last season without Kris Jenkins. Jenkins is the best NT in football, better than Wilfork will ever be.
In the past, Jenkins was by far the best NT in football. Now? Not even close. Jenkins has bad knees, is on the wrong side of 30, and is a season-ending injury waiting to happen. As for your defense, yeah it's good. But it's extremely prone to the type of offense we run. Brady loves that type of blitz and showed it last year when we torched your overmatched defense for almost 430 yards in our house. Guess what? Brady has even more weapons to play with this year.
Sure, your defense might be better than our's. But at least Sanchez will make our defense's job easier, as much as he sucks. I highly doubt Brady is going to return that favor.
Now we come into this season having added a healthy Jenkins, Cro, and drafted Kyle Wilson for the slot. This allows us to send NINE at times against opponents.
Get ready for your dearly beloved Brady to get his ***** kicked all over the field this season. The last time I checked Brady didn't play very well when he was in the fetal position each and every play.
You might want to do your math again, champ. If you send NINE pass rushers at any opponent, you're going to get burned consistently. The Jets should be happy you're not calling the plays for their defense.
The Jets will overload the LOS and simply come with more pass rushers than you can provide blockers at times. Hell, besides Mankins, there's NO ONE from your OL that I would want on my team. So even when we just man up we'll still get past your underperforming OL and get hits on Brady.
Matt Light is either the best, or is in the top two of LT's in the division. Dan Connolly is a back-up, and most of us are hoping that he can do the job. I have my doubts, but we'll see. Koppen gets more crap than he deserves as a center and has been able to hold your boy off of our quarterback before. Neal, when healthy, is the top guard in the division (and better than anything you have on your team). And Vollmer is an up and coming mauler at RT. You might want to re-think that because, by my estimation, the only place where you guys have us at on the O-Line is center and possibly LG, depending on what happens with Kaczur.
As for overloading the box, go ahead. We'll just do the same thing to your defense that we did in the last match-up, which is kill you where you're exposed underneath. Simply put, there's a reason why Brady has been one of the most successful quarterbacks against the blitz in the last decade. You'd think Jets fans would know that by now.
4) Revis wanted 16 million per season. The Jets got him for 11.5 million per season. Now use your brain and think to yourself who won this standoff. I'm sure if you think long and hard enough you can come up with the OBVIOUS answer.
While the Jets are still paying A LOT for a cornerback, and while you can't possibly deny that their money is unevenly divided, the Revis deal is a lot better than what was anticipated. Any honest Pats fan will tell you that.
In conclusion, you guys should focus on your own team and how they can get better. Because you guys are way behind at this point. Even if you guys had Bodden, Warren, and Kaczur you still weren't good enough to beat us when it matters most anyway. So stop the penis envy and when you guys get LEGITIMATELY better, I'll acknowledge it and come back here and accept the verbal abuse.
I certainly hope you come back when you're proven wrong and start the season at 0-2. It's doubtful though. In the end, you'll probably be like every single other Jets fan that has come here during the offseason with his chest puffed out in the last five years or so. You come in, scream about how "DIS IS DA YEAR OF DA JETS, BABY!", talk about how the Pats are far behind, and then disappear when your team gets it's teeth kicked in.