Jan
17
Football Open Thread: Jets at Chargers
ByWith 11 wins in their last 11 games, the Chargers are the hottest team in football. The Jets, however, come in with some momentum, beating the Bengals twice to make it this far. Can Darrelle Revis shut down Vincent Jackson? Can the defense that allowed the fewest points this year stop the offense that scored the fourth most? Well, they say defense wins championships. Let’s see if the Jets’ takes them closer to one.
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This weekend: teams with momentum 0-3, teams without momentum 3-0.
Overall record of NFL Playoff Teams: 3-3.
Your mind, it is blown.
Overall record of NFL Playoff Teams:
3-37-7.Fixed.
Semantics, Axisa!
On September first, did anyone think that the NYC football team playing for an appearance in the FC Championship Game would be the AFC representative?
I mean, besides me and TSJC?
Better chance of happening: I take a nap and wake up with some really hot chick who likes me for me OR Mark Sanchez not throwing a few interceptions, various errant throws, or taking ill-advised slides?
Where does this nap occur? I mean, if you fall asleep at a titty bar, I like your chances.
He and I live in the same town.
It may not be too hard to arrange.
You’re out of the Bronx?
My lease is up at the end of the month. Trying to find an apartment, but I’m really bad at that.
There are some pretty cheap places around Hamilton Heights since the Columbia expansion thing fizzled, if you’re looking to get into Manhattan.
Who’s ready for some pussytubing?
All the female fans of Sanchez?
Meh. good quarterback, but not that hot. Better than most though.
Who you got? Don’t say Tony Romo.
I don’t usually go for football players. Soccer players are my type.
So you do go for football players then. You see that… you see what I did?
You must have this on a loop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJtblvmNSzI (SFW)
J – E – T – S !!!!!
Prediction: 24-7 Chargers.
That being said, Jets winning would not shock me. But, I don’t see it.
Way to hedge your bets.
Hey, I’m putting it out there. 24-7 Chargers.
Pwnage. Nice job on the first drive right there.
I’ve seen a few Jet games (the games where Sanchez was absolutely awful), but damn, I don’t remember the defense being so good.
They really are freakin’ good.
They’re not that good. The botched snapped is what killed that drive.
Oh no, they are that good.
Sorry, Mike, but it was a frame job that gave them the #1 rated defense.
No, they’re good. But I don’t think they have a true pass rusher that let’s them get pressure on the QB by rushing four. They have to blitz in order to get pressure. And I don’t think their safeties are that good.
I think they’re a pass rusher and a safety away from being that good. That’s all I’ll say.
I am NEVER going to sleep soundly again.
My loathing has exceeded what the English language can express.
I’ve adopted the Jets as my AFC team. Mostly because of Rex.
I fucking hate Shawn Merriman.
He should be banned from football.
/Jack Clark’d
And spend all his money on stuff he doesnt need.
If it makes you feel better he probably hates himself. Look at the evidence:
- Proven doper
- Dated Tila Tequila
- Was dumped by Tila Tequila…for another woman.
- The other woman was NOT hot…may she rest in peace.
She’s dead?
Yeah, she was some dumb skank with a trust fund. Whatevs.
I’m way behind on my pop culture.
She was on the level of the Australian kid who had a party while his parents were out of town. Trust me, even on the pop culture scale, she rated pretty low.
Haha, that kid was mad funny.
I’m not taking off my glasses.
Ayayay.
These are two grade A defenses. The team that allows the least amount of points is going to win this game.
/Madden’d
BOOM!
This could be a long afternoon.
HAHAHAHAHAHA /CBS Jinx’d
Shank.
WHAT A JINX!!! You cannot make that shit up!
Ive never been that big a football fan plus my Knicks are coming back down to earth again. Opening Day for the Yankees cant come soon enough….
Wow, nice blitz pickup Danny.
does kaeding have to tip his hat to the jets and call them his daddy?
J!
E!
T!
S!
JETS!
JETS!
JETS!
/notreallyherejustcheckingin’d
Lame, man. We were counting on you for the keg.
Ugh, gates is a freak.
Didn’t even play football in college.
Shit, me neither.
There’s still a chance.
IETC.
I wish in elementary school that word had such a positive designation. Could have saved some dignity.
Gotta convert this one Mark, give the defense a blow.
The Padres are closing in on a deal with Jerry Hairston Jr., tweets Ken Rosenthal. Hairston Jr. would become teammates with his brother, Scott Hairston, who was re-acquired by San Diego earlier this week.
Third straight three and out? Did Jones just get a first down, or did I miss something?
It wasn’t a first down. The chargers 20 yard lines are painted yellow.
Those bastards.
At some point the Jets have to attempt a pass. This is getting ridiculous.
At what point does the defense approach Sanchez and threaten to kill him if he doesn’t get a first down?
Now?
Hopefully next time Rivers just tries to float one up and pray a receiver is there, the ball will get picked off…
Pleases stop those short WR passes/screens. Chargers excel against those. But they are actually pretty good at running those so Jets gotta look out for that. Let’s hope they read this comment
YEAAAA!!!! Fumble! Jets ball. Just what they needed to get some momentum going.
Damnit, I thought that was a fuckin fumble
Ooo that’s close. I can see this one going either way. It would be a big turnover for the Jets
He pulled it in, got both feet down before contact and lost it in the air after the contact. That is a fumble in my book.
Agreed. I thought it popped out after he was down though.
Crap.
OHHHH FUCK THAT BULLSHIT
Ugh..
Bullshit reversal. Unless there is some sort of strange rule I don’t know about that was a FUMBLE.
The officials in this game have been terrible.
that overturned call was complete bullshit
That was the definition of fumble. And it was not a conclusive incompletion. Double fail.
Gimme a nice long drive to end the half here, then go back out on offense to start the 3rd…
Huh, not enough time elapsed after catch? WTF? I’ve seen fumbles in less time than that MANY times.
Such bullshit.
Nice throw dirty. Big play to keep the drive alive.
FWIW, my bold prediction was that the Jets would score some type of points on this drive before it started…so far, so good.
Damn, never mind.
I thought it was “Sci-firs,” not “Sci-friss.”
It is
Get some longer cleats bro! Come on
I’m noticing a lot of Jets slipping and falling on this turf. Do they need to change spikes at half-time?
Why spike it with a timeout left?
I guess the obvious answer is to save the TO for the field goal unit. I didn’t agree with it though.
Yea, that was like bunting in the 7th inning. They’re having trouble moving the ball and they just wasted a down despite having 55 seconds and a timeout.
Down 7 at the half … not the worst situation in the world.
good god that return by revis was damn impressive
Re: that commercial
USA has 4 sick shows; Burn Notice, White Collar, Psych and Royal Pains.
royal pains is the shit
i can’t wait for season two, and hopefully a lot longer season as well
How many times can they run the draw? Sheesh.
Reply fail. Meant to be it’s own comment.
No way. Go with it, Mike. You can work in a “draw” joke to all of those shows. Terrible, corny jokes, but jokes nonetheless.
I’m shocked he didn’t use his socialist wizardry to fix it before anyone noticed.
Too lazy. I’m working on the Fan Confidence Poll for the morning and I have too many tabs open as it is.
White Collar is dreadful. It looked promising, but really flopped. Royal Pains and Burn Notice are solid. I wouldn’t call them “great” by any means, but certainly entertaining.
So now it’s a Garden Apartment Complex?
That’s interesting. How does that work.
Really? I thought WC was pretty good. Plus, the plot twist/teaser for the second half of the season has me excited for this weeks ep.
tiffani theeson … still hot?
http://i23.photobucket.com/alb.....0_hit9.jpg
IETI.
I used to have such a crush on her when I was a kid that I think I’ll consider her hot forever.
I love Psych, lost track of White Collar after the first few eps, and will continue to miss Monk.
I watched a few seasons of Monk in one weekend and I realize they’re all basically the same episode. Sort of a buzzkill.
damn, i would’ve gone for the 4th down there
Fuck.
dang. tough break for Sanchez right there.
The first guy should have intercepted it.
True that. Just caught the replay and apparently i’m very blind. bad bad throw.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
Makeup call!
Not even, that was just insanity.
/Revis Island’d
Wow. Did Revis just come up with a play?
No way.
holy shit revis!!
Holy smokes, that was amazing.
HOLY SHIT!
HOLY SHIT!!!! That is a pick! What an amazing play.
The Jets will bring the tying down to this game.
/Axisa’d.
(Just not on this drive)
And the Jets are going to negate it by calling three draw plays…
!!!
YEAAAAAA!!! Great pick there. Now the Jets MUST capitalize by getting a TD here.
Awesome Jets. Sanchez, go get it young fella.
Jets have it made right here. NO TD = NO Win.
man this has me so fuckin hyped
cmon jets!!!
Brooklyn from Wisconsin. I gotta say, I didn’t see that one coming.
hey i live in college station, texas!!
good to see someone from there winning
TOUCHDOWN!!!
TD JETS!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Boo-YA!!!
So where’s Mariano?
Jobber to the special teams
Wow. Had to check up on RAB after that shit. Fucking awesome.
Jets have control of this game – D needs to keep making plays
Hold it there, Jets D!
+1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Does Rivers throw better than Johnny D? It is close…
Rivers doesn’t have the strongest arm but he is a great QB usually
Eat this clock baby. Like CC and innings.
OMG OMG OMG.
I’m more nervous now than I was when the Jets were trailing.
Alright Jets D. Now if their offense could get another TD here somehow…
An eight minute drive with some points would be just greeeeeeeeat.
Pfft, you know that was better
Hmm. I wonder if the Jets are going to try to run the football.
Damn, nice pass right there.
lol at that fan in the dirty sanchez outfit
HA that was sick as hell.
Each subsequent Jets first down is officially the most important first down in the history of the universe.
TOUCHDOWN JETS!!
WOOHOO!!!
OMG
OMG
GREENE!!!!!!!! TD JETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELL YEA!
OH SHIT.
WAY TO GO MEAN GREENE
THAT!!!
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES FUCK YES!!!!!
This was not how I thought this would go but woot anyway.
Wooooowww. Way to go jets
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Someone must have flicked the right joystick upwards because Eric Weddle just got trucksticked.
…the fuck was that?
Anybody see Greene do the LT pose in the endzone?
It’s not quite over yet. Chargers are a good team in the 4th quarter usually. But this IS the playoffs…
Gates was looking upfield before he had the ball in his hands there.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
OMG!! HAHA Kicker ftl! Go JETS!
HAHAHAHAHA! Kaeding is a CHOKER! That should finish them!
Seems like its been a tough playoffs for kickers.
…No way. I can’t believe it yet…
Rivers is angry
http://twitpic.com/yktkk
Ha you’re always finding the sick screenshots.
Another miss? Wow. That’s huge
That shot of Nate Kaeding was amazing.
Jets should go for it on 4th and 3, they’ll never expect it
Jets sooooo lucky right there.
Challenge that shit.
OH NOESSSS!! That was a sick catch. Lets see the replay
Thank you, Rex, for challenging that.
“There is no 87″
-_-
Haha this ref is sick.
Ref: This mothafucka gets the unsportsman-like conduct for kickin the challenge flag!
IETCVM.
Nice job kicking the flag. What part of that seemed like a good idea?
Damnit Axisa, get out of my mind.
Good job kicking the challenge flag dumbass. How can anything good come out of it?
Rivers can move damn well.
Ellis is like a lobster with no bottom claws.
Alright baby, crunch time. Time to do this.
ONSIDE KICK ALERT.
it’d be sick if the Chargers got it back.
fuckfuckfuck
Huge, just huge. Eat some clock then kick it home.
I agree with Simms. I wouldn’t have onside kicked. Now it’s easier to get at least a FG. You have to trust your defense to stop them.
Eh, if they had 2 TO’s i’d agree. With only one TO + the 2 minute warning I’d go for the onside’s kick.
They probably should have called the timeout after the play too, then the two minute warning stops the clock after second down.
I’m not a Jets fan and don’t want to be a bandwagon fan (I’m a Yankees/Giants fan but I don’t dislike the Jets like I do the Mets…I’m always pretty neutral about the Jets) but this is pretty cool game.
I don’t know how Giants fans typically view Jets fans, but I’m a Skins fan rooting for the Jets to go to the Superbowl.
If it’s Jets/Saints, I think I’m going for the Jets. Jets/Vikes, I’m going for the Vikes.
I am okay with Jets fans. They don’t make me crazy like Mets fans. When I see a Jets jersey I don’t think “How can you NOT be a Giants fan?” like when I see a Mets jersey and think, “How can you NOT be a Yankees fan?”
I don’t understand why they wouldn’t take their last time out before the 2 minute warning.
Is Thomas Jones hurt? I don’t remember seeing him in quite some time.
GO FOR IT
Oh man. Go for it. Be bold, go for it. Bring out the D-lineman and go with the extra jumbo package.
Get ballsy. Go for it…
Wow Rex. You’re the fucking man.
Go JEts!
GAME. BLOUSES.
THEY GOT IT!!!! Jets WIN!
Get the pussies, we’re going tubing.
Wow. There’s your Thomas Jones sighting Mike.
Jets-Chargers play this game 5 times, Chargers win 4 of ‘em. This happens to be the exception.
a kicker misses 3 kicks all year, then misses 3 in one game. what else can you say
HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
WE’RE PLAYING FOR THE FUCKING AFC TITLE.
Rebecca has a lady boner!
I don’t know what makes me happier. The Jets winning or the Chargers losing once again in the playoffs.
Obligatory:
Go fuck yourself, San Diego!
love it
Ha Sanchez got the cold shoulder from douchey Norv Turner.
/Still bitter from his short-lived Skins coaching stint.
What a game.
I’ll see you all in
hellIndianapolis.On September 1st if someone said there would be a NY team playing to go to the Super Bowl, would anyone have guessed it would be the Jets?
/Optimist Prime’d
VICTORY FORMATION. Way to go Rex, you fucked them. New York Football Jets are a win away from the Superbowl.
Holllyy shit, jets, wow.
Amazing.
The Jets were backed into the AFC Championship game.
Congrats Jets fans.
Colts v. Jets. It won’t be easy but you’ve got a real shot. Dirty Sanchez can get wild on the Colts D, hopefully he does.
but teh Manning!!!1!!
Saturday’s game against the Ravens showed how big the Colts D can be and how smart the offense can play against a team with a great defensive line.
The Jets D is younger and fresher than B-more’s. I really think the Rex’s have a real shot at slowing down Peyton & Co.
Any plus defense has a shot, sure. That doesn’t mean it will make the difference in the score.
IMO, for the Jets to win, the defense has to make the difference in the score.
holy shit i am so happy
Congrats to all Jets fans. And to Giants fans: the Cowboys lost. Good day all around.
You know things are going good when its 7:00 PM and this is the front image on ESPN: http://a.espncdn.com/photo/201.....ts_576.jpg
HELL YEA JETS!
I would’ve rather the Jets played the Colts coming into this week, I thought SD was the better team. Than again, I thought the Cowboys were going to make it to the Superbowl so what do I know?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Kaeding
Burn Notice is one hell of a great tv series, i love spy movies and tv series like this one.:**