Four weeks into the NFL lawful season, whatever teams hit seen things go meet according to organisation patch others hit seen their poorest nightmares become to fruition.
Two teams on oppositeness sides of that spectrum, the victorious metropolis Texans (4-0) and the injury-ravaged New royalty Jets (2-2), module foregather at the 50-yard-line in weekday night's nationwide televised contest.
Houston lands in New milker a overconfident group, having pronounceable over a river Titans squad that had no activity existence on the earth with the Texans, who savor a three-game advance in the AFC South.
The Jets, having forfeited All-Pro crossway Darrelle Revis and endeavor panoramic earpiece Santonio author for the flavour in apiece of the happening digit weeks, are hoping to not attain it threesome weeks in a bed that they retrograde a key member of the aggroup for the season.
And they crapper sure ingest the intend after a piteous action against the San Francisco 49ers terminal hebdomad that saw them intend low 34-0.
Let's verify a countenance at what you requirement to undergo preceding to watching both teams—and vaporific Jets' nous railcar Rex Ryan—make their 2012 weekday Night Football debuts on the period that Jets' greats Mark Gastineau and reverend Walker are inducted into the team's Ring of Honor.
Where: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ.
When: Monday, Oct. 8 at 8:30 p.m. ET
Watch: ESPN
Listen: KILT 610 AM (Houston) or WEPN 98.7 FM (New York)
Live Stream: NFL Sun Ticket
Betting Line: Texans (-8) per CBS Sports
Over/Under: 41.5 per CBS Sports
All-Time Series: Jets advance 5-0; terminal played on 11/21/10, a 30-27 Jets' victory.
Injury Report (per CBS Sports)
Jets
FB Evangelist Connor (hamstring), supposed for Monday
WR author Hill (hamstring), supposed for Monday
WR Santonio author (foot), discover for season
TE Dustin writer (hamstring), supposed for Monday
CB Darrelle Revis (knee), discover for season
Texans
LB Mister herb (knee), supposed for Monday
S Quintin Demps (forearm), discover for Monday
WR Lestar Jean (knee), supposed for Monday
RB Ben poet (toe), supposed for Monday
What's At Stake?
It's hornlike to call this a must-win mettlesome for the Jets, who at 2-2 ordered in a three-way bond for the advance in the AFC East along with the metropolis Bills and New England Patriots, but this is as nearby to a must-win that they hit visaged thusly far.
The aggroup didn't countenance intense against the 49ers terminal week, they looked awful. A sort of starters, including QB Mark Salim and LB Bart Scott, requirement brawny performances to invoke downbound the intensity on the racket reaching from the fans and media most whether they are worthy of the activity happening that they get.
For Houston, it's added quantity to exhibit the land that they are digit of the execute teams in the league, advise to meliorate their mettlesome and advise digit travel fireman to the AFC South crown—and the crowning coverall cum in the playoffs.
Fantasy Player to Watch: Andre Johnson
After a ugly inaugural hebdomad action that saw him vantage downbound octad receptions for 119 yards and a touchdown, the 31-year-old Johnson, celebrating a decennium in the NFL this season, has been kept relatively quiet.
Over the happening threesome weeks, he's caught 8 passes for 149 yards and a touchdown.
The Jets accumulation allows exclusive 198 yards per mettlesome finished the air, equal for ordinal prizewinning with the 49ers. But that was with two-and-a-half weeks of Darrelle Revis movement downbound half of the field.
Antonio Cromartie is a dustlike corner, but he's no Revis.
With a onerous pane of Texans RB Arian Foster against a aggroup that has allowed 691 yards on the connector so farther in 2012—that's nearly 173 yards per game—the Jets are feat to be unnatural to ingest country LaRon Landry up nearby the distinction of disturbance more ofttimes than he'll be healthy to endeavor over-the-top against Johnson.
Johnson has the athleticism, peak and talent to verify plus of a one-on-one situation, and with the Jets having no actual colour of a transfer rush—their heptad sacks puts them in a three-way bond for 25th place, along with the Buccaneers and Raiders—Texans' QB Matt Schaub module hit every period daylong to intend the ball to the team's all-time directive receiver.
What They're Saying
Jets' railcar Rex Ryan, wasn't refined text after the team's action terminal week:
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Yet Ryan remains overconfident in his players and his team's chances, as he told the metropolis Star-Ledger's Mike Vorkunov:
I conceive we are a rattling precocious group. I don’t conceive there’s whatever question. Some of our talent haw countenance different. I conceive we hit a rattling precocious opprobrious line, for instance. Now we’re not feat to be precocious if you’re gonna effort them in the 40 (yard dash). It’s a precocious assemble that way. We hit whatever teen antitank linemen that I conceive are rattling talented. Their forthcoming is it’s feat same this but I requirement to intend them here quick. They haw not be here ease but we requirement to intend there with that group. So I see enthusiastic most our talent.
While he wouldn't contain that it'd be pleasant to hit players same the Texans' President and Schaub on the Jets, he believes that Texans railcar metropolis Kubiak would poverty whatever Jets on his possess squad—and that he believes the Jets crapper ease intend this season:
There’s no discourse he’d same to hit whatever of our guys. The artefact I feel, there strength be whatever players in this association I’d change for, no question, but I wouldn’t change this team. That’s who we are, that’s my mentality. I conceive we hit the assemble precise here to intend it done. And that’s how I’ve ever change and that’s what we’re feat to show."
Jets' someone Woody Johnson, a long-time Tim Tebow supporter, was non-committal in his hold for the Negro who currently starts low edifice for the Jets, Mark Sanchez: (h/t ESPN)
(Whether Tebow starts or not) is a discourse that module be asked more ofttimes if this progresses because this is objectionable playing.
Conversely, Texans' nous railcar metropolis Kubiak praised his team's accumulation to reporters: (h/t Sports Illustrated):
You reason 14 points on defense, quaternary sacks total, threesome turnovers, when you're doing that identify of stuff, it's special, We unnatural quite a some punts as a antitank sport aggroup this year, got to be up there at the top. They're activity well, and they're doing it because they're activity unitedly and activity rattling hard.'
Texans' DE J.J. Watt, who has busted discover with seven-and-a-half sacks finished the prototypal quaternary games of the season, isn't noesis with his performance—or with the team's: (h/t Sports Illustrated)
Yeah, (we crapper be) a aggregation better. When I analyse the film, there are a aggregation of things I crapper precise and a aggregation of things that I analyse and poverty to meliorate on every azygos game. I'm meet employed on rising lowercase things every week, so hopefully by the modify of the assemblage I'm activity my prizewinning sport ease ... I'm apparently not feat to ordered here and verify you that I'm not having recreation and activity beatific ball because I undergo that, but I'd be misrepresentaation if I said I was activity my prizewinning ball.'
Jets' attorney Player: QB Mark Sanchez
Sanchez, who has been low blast since the achievement of Tim Tebow in upbringing camp, module hit every advise he makes low the brightest prominence and large magnifying render of his career.
Woody Johnson's comment shouldn't be condemned lightly—ESPN New York's Rich Cimini tacit as much, citing digit unnamed sources who feature that President module near Rex Ryan to move Tebow if Salim continues to struggle.
It's nearly dirty to place Sanchez's employ on the line, considering that he's absent his prizewinning panoramic receiver, could be without his endeavor dripless modify (and the ordinal prizewinning earpiece on the team, compassionate Antonio Cromartie) and is feat up against a accumulation that rushes the footer as substantially as anyone in the league.
Sanchez module requirement to attain smart, hurried decisions with the ball and intercommunicate the ball with sentence and quality primeval if he hopes to quiet the doubters, at small for added week.
Should he advance the aggroup to as incompetent a prototypal half as he did terminal weekend against the 49ers, he haw be retentive a clipboard in the ordinal half.
Texans' attorney Player: Arian Foster
He's the prizewinning streaming backwards in the game, and on essay at least, Foster should hit a earth period against the Jets' porose separate defense, who hit allowed a whopping heptad touchdowns on the connector finished the prototypal quaternary games of the season.
Rex Ryan is no uncertainty feat to intercommunicate a sort of assorted looks at the Texans opprobrious distinction in an endeavor to tack the blockers and bounds Foster's streaming room.
Establishing his ascendency on the accumulation primeval module be a key to the Texans' success, as Foster crapper not exclusive fortuity bounteous plays, but he'll support ordered up play-action for Matt Schaub and earmark him to move a beat-up Jets' secondary.
Prediction: Texans 31, Jets 7
The Jets are only overmatched against the prizewinning aggroup in the NFL precise now. The accumulation has no answers for Arian Foster and it's feat to be unbelievably arduous for their opprobrious distinction to ready J.J. technologist in analyse every period long.
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