A QB who has never faced so much as a quality college defense is going against what might be the best NFL defense since the 2000 Ravens.
The same QB who struggled at the combine because of lack of sleep the night before due to nervousness.
This is the horse you're going to ride to upset the Patriots at home?
Excuse me, bit are you talking about Luke Faulk? The guy who was signed to the team after Darnell's mono diagnosis, and then after JUST a week of practice gets thrown into a live game AND completes 80% of his passes for 200 yds against a pretty good Browns D. Yes that's right EIGHTY percent of his passes.
Doesn't that concern any of you? I would think that what Faulk did was beyond impressive. Now he has a full week to prepare as the top QB and a game plan designed around HIS skill set instead of Simean's.
The Jets' talent level is much better than the Dolphins, and we are lucky that they will be missing Williams, and Mosely who are two key parts of the Jets defense. But the fact is that its very possible that we will enter the game with 2 OT's who weren't even on the team when the season started.
Sure we will very likely win the game by a comfortable margin. But at what cost. Will Brady just become one in a long line of NFL QB's to get knocked out of a game? The Jets aren't a great team, but they are better (at least talent wise) than what is being presented here.
If you don't respect your opponents the results can be costly. EVERY player on the Jets roster was better than 98% of the thousands of college players the year they came out. They are good football players. Their DL is particularly good while our OL might be missing 3 of the 5 players we expected to be there at the start of the season. NOT IDEAL!
The Dolphins are a good example of a team you can "laugh at". But they held the Pats offense WITH AB, to 13 points well into the 3rd quarter before it all came apart. The Jets defense is MUCH better.
The point of this is, I guess, trying to make you all take this team more seriously. While it always fun to mock the Jets and even more fun to mock their fans, the Pats will be facing 45 guys who are being paid a LOT of money to play football, and they are all pretty good at it or they wouldn't be on the roster.
Just thought you ought to know.