JETS MAKE OR BREAK ON FINAL SUNDAY (AGAIN)

Chad Pennington, Chad Pennington.

For the past 2 baseball seasons i have come down to the last Sunday in September needing my Mets to win 1 game to get in, and they failed both times, and it was miserable to sit and watch.

Today, my football team comes up against the same fate, and although I haven't watched it yet, I'm already preparing for the misery. And to make matters worse, they go against my favorite all time Jet. For months I've know it would come down to this, we were on a crash course to make this Sunday "special" and now it is here.

The Jets need some help today, a Patriot or a Raven lose, is critical but more importantly the Jets need to win. A team of mine needs to win on a Sunday in the last day of the season. I'm 0-2 the last couple of seasons, so if nothing else I'm used to the feeling.

Bret Favre has been a nightmare, but unfortunately he is the best shot we have. I'm tron in my love for Chad and my hatred of Bret, but I have to hope that if the Pats or Ravens lose, my team, for once can come up big and actually do something when it counts.

I'll be there at 4:15, giving Chad a standing O when he walks out on that field, I just haven't decided if I'll be wearing my green #10 jersey or my #25 jersey and hope to get 2 picks and not 2 TDs for Mia.

Why couldn't he have just signed with Minn???

Chad Pennington, Chad Pennington

THE GREATEST QB IN JET'S HISTORY

The Packers are not the only team starting their first season without the greatest QB in team history. The Jets are in the same boat. Yea yea yea..Namath, I know, but actually compare the two:


Won-Lost Record: Namath: 61-61-4 Chad: 32-29
Playoff Berths: Joe: 2 Chad: 3
Playoff W/L: Joe: 2-1 Chad: 2-3
Completion %: Joe: 50.2 Chad: 65.6
Yards: Joe: 27,057 Chad: 13,738
TD’s/TD%: Joe: 170/4.7 Chad:82/4.3
INTs/INT %: Joe: 215/5.9 Chad: 55/2.9
Yds per Attempt: Joe: 7.4 Chad: 7.2
QB Rating: J: 65.8 C: 88.9

All statistics per Pro-Football-Reference.com.

Now I get that numbers don't tell the whole story, and I never saw Joe play, but I saw every game Chad played, and before he was hurt he was as good as anyone, yea Joe has that Super Bowl, and he was a leader in it, but he wasn't the reason the won that game, and if Chad was the QB of that team he'd have won it as well. Pennington was responsible for two of the more impressive playoff wins in team history - the 41-0 beating of the Colts (and Peyton) in 2002, and the overtime victory in San Diego in 2004, and he was robbed of another in Pittsburgh by Herm Edwards’ poor coaching and our kicker's failure to make 1 of 2 game winning field gaols.

Not to disparage Joe, Namath’s impact went beyond statistics. He won the most important game in the history of the New York Jets, and they say the most important game in the history of the NFL. He was the first to throw for 4,000 yards in a season. He was a TV and media giant, and is obviously the most important player in the history of the franchise. But he was not the best quarterback the team has ever had, that was Chad Pennington.

It will be strange to see him in the ugly fish uniform, and I’ll always love him and thank him for all the good things he did for my team.

With all that said, I'd really like to see him throw 5 picks and get sacked 11 times Sunday..

JETS PICK - WE HAD IT HERE 1ST

THE FREAK IS IN TOWN BABY!!!!!

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JOE KLECKO IS EVERYWHERE!!!

Saying goodbye to landmarks like Shea isn’t easy for anyone … especially the Jets. To honor the former Jets home, the representatives of the team are set to be honored at Shea on April 28th at the Mets home game.

The Mets and Jets announced yesterday jointly that that former Jets Pro Bowlers Joe Klecko, Wesley Walker, Jets Linebacker Legend Greg Buttle, and Super Bowl III Champions Randy Beverly and John Schmitt will return to Shea Stadium on Jets Night at Shea, Monday, April 28 when the Mets host the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Jets appearance at Shea, one day after the NFL Draft, commemorates the team’s 20 seasons in Queens.

I was at the last Jet game at Shea, my memory is it was against the Steelers, and I'm sure the Jets lost.

JETS FIRST ROUND PICK

The Ohio State Buckeyes uberblog Men of the Scarlet and Gray, was kind enough to give us a breakdown of superfreak Vernon Gholston, which they posted on their site the other day.

Here’s the MotSaG man-crush’s relevant information:

• Height: 6′4″
• Weight: 265 lbs.
  
• Bench Press: 455 lbs.
  
• Bicep circumference: Unknown (The Cray supercomputer on west campus is still working on that number)
  
• Lawsuits pending: 1, against NBC (Vernon claims that Law and Order are the trademarked names of his left and right biceps)
  
• 2007 TFL’s: 15.5
  
• 2007 Sacks: 14
  
• # of mothers of said QBs who felt a sharp pain in their uterus after their son was sacked: 14
  
• # of QBs he made to fill their shorts with excrement: 28 (includes the backup QBs who were watching game film)
  
• Number of patents he holds: 1 (his sweat is collected into cans and sold under the name Red Bull)
  
• Records: Single game sacks - 4, for minus 32 yards (the QB is recovering nicely, btw), single season sacks (tie - Mike Vrabel).
  
• Moves it takes him to win a Connect Four game: 3