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To: hobbes1
"The Jets in that stretch, dispatched San Diego, on the road, badly, Beat Miami, NE, and Green bay....Badly."

Only one of those teams the Jets beat was a playoff team. And Green Bay isn't really scaring anyone the way Favre has been throwing ints. They also lost to Da Bears, a real stinker. The Colts in that stretch beat Philly, Denver and Browns, two of which are playoff teams. The teams that beat the Colts, Tenn and the Giants are both going to the playoffs. With regard to the weather, bring on the bad stuff. The Colts played Denver in a driving snowstorm and beat them. The Colts also have a sack artist in Dwight Freeney who is better than any DL the Jets have. Mr. Freeney will playing against Jets left Tackle Jason Fabiani who certainly doesn't have much athleticism. He will have a long day dealing with Freeney's incredible speed. Freeney will have at least two sacks despite the fact that the Jets will have a tight end and on some plays also a running back helping to block Freeney. Guaranteed the Jets will have to have two and three players blocking Freeney all day long.

I'm not here to say it's a lock that the Colts will beat the Jets, either team could win this one. The Colts are very vulnerable to the short pass and have not had much of a running game all year long. Edge has never regained the form he had before the knee injury last year. I would, however, rather be playing the Jets than any other AFC playoff team.

183 posted on 01/03/2003 12:28:05 PM PST by joebuck
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To: joebuck
For starters, Feeney is a very good Player, but Better than John Abraham...not likely.....Maybe as good as, but not better...

Mr Feeney, will have a hard time sacking Pennington, when Martin will be running the ball....Indy had a second lowest in the Conference Pass attempts against per game....

And the report out of Indy, makes it look like Ground War...

NDIANAPOLIS (Jan. 2, 2003) -- Defensive end Chad Bratzke is expected to play in the Wild Card Game against the New York Jets, but there's a good chance the Indianapolis Colts will be without starting linebacker Marcus Washington.
Bratzke who had 70 tackles and six sacks, practiced Wednesday and Thursday.
Washington, who was inactive for Sunday's season-finale against Jacksonville, did only limited work Wednesday and did not work out Thursday. Coach Tony Dungy called him "very questionable."
Starting linebacker Mike Peterson, the Colts' leader in tackles with 173, did some limited work with a cast on his broken left hand. Dungy said he was optimistic Peterson would play Saturday.

Starting DE with a Calf injury, and The Teams leading tackler playing with a cast on, along with this crappy weather, I would expect to see more Curtis martin, and LaMont Jordan, than Pennington.

But, Hey, Lets hope even if only one of us is going to be happy, that we both enjoy the Game.

184 posted on 01/03/2003 12:41:17 PM PST by hobbes1
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To: joebuck
"The Jets in that stretch, dispatched San Diego, on the road, badly, Beat Miami, NE, and Green bay....Badly."

Only one of those teams the Jets beat was a playoff team.

And guess why they weren't playoff teams? Because the Jets whupped 'em!

189 posted on 01/03/2003 3:49:48 PM PST by mrustow
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To: joebuck
I would, however, rather be playing the Jets than any other AFC playoff team.

Roald Dahls "The Monkeys Paw" comes to mind...

886 posted on 01/06/2003 10:32:50 AM PST by hobbes1
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