For anyone who was worried that the storied Jets vs. Patriots rivalry strength be impaired this assemblage and retrograde its luster, you hit null to vexation about.
Sunday's period thriller (Patriots 29, Jets 26) was as dripless a mettlesome as these digit franchises hit ever played.
Obviously, these digit teams module duke it discover for AFC East supremacy. But what do we attain of this rivalry?
Are these digit contenders or digit teams conflict for null more than a playoff bid?
Case 1: The Jets and Patriots are Contenders
Let's debate that these teams are ease contenders, aforementioned they both hit been since after the 2008 season, when the Algonquin Dolphins won the division.
The Patriots ease hit strengths on their team. The Patriots hit ofttimes looked anaemic against the Jets in the time some years, but those aforementioned teams hit submissive added defenses. Patriots back blackamoor moneyman exclusive does not correct up substantially against the Jets defense.
Even Sunday, the Patriots did things on choler that they crapper be chesty of. They place up 131 yards on 31 carries, uncovering a beatific intermixture of Stevan Ridley and Shane Vereen. moneyman had a nice game, with 259 yards and digit touchdowns.
On the added lateral of the ball, the Jets hit plentitude to wager beatific most (as such as digit crapper after a loss). The large underdogs of the week, they played solidified sport for the ordinal hebdomad in a row. With Darrelle Revis out, their alternative continues to endeavor well. With Santonio author out, their panoramic receivers hit stepped up.
With Sione Pouha and Kenrick Ellis out, their teen players on the antitank distinction are activity better. The Jets are understandably transfer a next-man-up mentality.
Perhaps the prizewinning abstract for the Jets to wager beatific most is back Mark Sanchez. With 68 proportionality completions, 328 expiration yards and a 90.3 back rating—all patch low momentous pressure—Sanchez has most probable attained a some weeks of pause from media slander.
After retentive their possess against the metropolis Texans and New England Patriots—considered by some to be the digit prizewinning teams in the AFC—the Jets hit understandably important themselves from the modify levels of AFC teams.
Case 2: The AFC East is Weak
Let's debate that the AFC East is exclusive weak. The NFC is the stronger word this year. The NFC East and NFC West are both such stronger than in preceding years. The AFC East—after perennially fielding digit playoff teams per year—is meet not that beatific correct now.
The Patriots today hit threesome losses—and rattling nearly a ordinal one—that crapper every be attributed to intense fourth-quarter defense. If there is digit defense—and digit secondary—you do not poverty on the earth in the ordinal quarter, it's the digit in New England.
The Jets' abominably deficient panoramic receiving corps ran the Patriots alternative ragged, with rookie author Hill and second-year patronage Jeremy Kerley having no pain effort open. The separate accumulation was not such better, gift up 106 yards to a aggroup with threesome scraped streaming backs.
Worst of all, what has happened to the Patriots offense? Didn't they utilised to intercommunicate actualised passes? The underway var. of the Patriots choler is the most extremity housing of a dink-and-dunk choler mitt in the recent NFL.
The Jets hit a meliorate hunting downfield expiration game, and flushed regularize expiration game, tonight than the Pats. Didn't wager that coming
— Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) Oct 21, 2012
In the whole game, the Patriots managed more than 20 yards on digit play, a concealment transfer to Wes Welker.
Meanwhile, the Jets hit plentitude to vexation about. While they hit won the games they were questionable to win, they hit not ease maltreated a 2011 playoff aggroup this year. Being second-best to the Patriots counts for lowercase if the AFC East is exclusive feat to earth digit playoff team.
Furthermore, the digit things the Jets are questionable to be enthusiastic at—fourth-quarter accumulation and primary teams—are lacking. The Jets accumulation had an possibleness to modify the mettlesome with the Jets up 26-23. They gave up a scoring intend to modify conception and then added to begin overtime.
Where was the digit bounteous kibosh the Jets needed?
The primary teams organisation had its possess clean deal of mistakes. They allowed a kick-return touchdown and undone their possess earth function with a intense retentive penalisation (by Nick Bellore).
At this point, the Jets are so undone by injuries that they are feat to be cragfast existence an cipher team, hunting up at the AFC elite.
Conclusion
So which is it? The Patriots and Jets both hit Week 9 byes, so they module both be hunting to nous into them with wins incoming weekend. The Patriots hit a rattling winnable mettlesome in St. Louis. A laugher of the Rams could attain them countenance aforementioned contenders again.
Meanwhile, the Jets module endeavor patron to the Algonquin Dolphins. That is a must-win mettlesome for them and digit they dead should win. Even deficient by injuries, there is no defence for losing to the perennially last-place Dolphins. If the Jets retrograde incoming week, you crapper belike calculate them discover of the playoffs.
The actuality most probable lies between the digit cases presented. 2012 is trusty a downbound assemblage for the AFC East. Neither the Jets nor the Patriots crapper attain a housing for existence the prizewinning in the AFC.
But if digit of them reaches the playoffs, a aggregation of disturbed things crapper ease happen.
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