Yeah but the type of offense the Pats are running is really hard to stop, the opposing pass rush needs to be very consistent throughout the entire game and the coverage needs to be flawless. Also the opposing offense needs to sustain long, time consuming drives that must end in a TD 90% of the time. These are the Jets biggest weaknesses throughout the season, no passrush, coverage outside of Revis and Cromartie(depending on who he covers) is weak and we have had trouble scoring in the redzone. We have been scoring points lately, in the Steelers and Bears game which is great it gives me the confidence that we can hang in the game with the Pats, but the defense needs to be near flawless, like the Giants in '07, but even then the Pats were playing a different style, where a strong pass rush alone would do the job and did, now this is not the case.
They certainly clicked in week 1 by beating the shit out of the Bengals. Put up 38 on a Bengal team that beat the Ravens the very next week.
There is a difference between them being the favorites and being crowned the champions before the first playoff game has been played.
Our win is meaningless mainly because we are talking about two different teams that played that game. The Pats have gotten a hell of a lot better, all season long. The Jets meanwhile have regressed. And you are as only good as your last game/matchup really. Sure we split the season with them. But they have the hot hand, and snatched the division from us. They deserve all the credit. We can beat them, but we are going to have to play our very best game to do it. How do you beat Tom Brady and Bill Belichick? With a stick, while they sleep in their beds. On a field, in the playoffs, in New England. They are going to be nearly unstoppable. Yes, I watch too much Knights Tale.
Let's reverse the results: - Pats win game one (very early season). - Afterwards, Jets dominate them in game two. - Immediately afterwards, Jets blow out a division leading NFC team before the first half ends (Pats were up by 30+ points against Bears by halftime I think). - Jets steamroll until the season ends. - Jets have a bye week & are known to kick butt when coming off bye weeks. I'm sure that there would be a lot fewer people believing in the Pats defeating Jets. === No team is unbeatable but it's understandable why the Pats are so heavily favored. Pats right now seem to be a totally different team from their earlier meeting with the Jets.
Because it is meaningless? Just like the Pats win over us is meaningless. It's the postseason now, anything that happened in the regular season means nothing now.
Because that was the Randy Moss/Brady not superhero team... Its a different team. Why won't some of you realize that? Plus getting smoked 45-3 is in everyone's head.
Because their personnel was different (no Woodhead, Branch, and they had Moss). Because it was Week 2, when the Bengals somehow beat the Ravens. Because they beat us by 42 points recently.
Even if the Jets swept the Patriots this season the media would still consider the Patriots a better team.
0-0 NE is 0-0 now, just like SEA is 0-0 (and every other team in the post-season tournaments). Seeding holds the only advantages/disadvantages.
because they have poster boy brady and 3 rings and recently whooped us. late wins always seem to get more attention then early season wins
just because the media thinks the Pats will win certainly doesn't equate to them believing it is impossible for them to lose. you are being far too sensitive about the credit the Patriots get -- and earned -- if you think anyone believes they can't lose at all.
I don't buy in to the "The Patriots were a different team the first time the Jets played them, so the Jets beating them doesn't mean much" school of thought. Those "different" Patriots were throttling the Jets in the first half, Revis got smoked and then hobbled off the field, the sky was falling. Then the Jets stepped the fuck up and shut them down. They deserve full credit for that, nothing should be take away from the fact that the Jets are one of only two teams to hang a loss on the Patsies.
