BELICHEATLIAR

What does every cheater do after he gets caught?  Tells some lies to deflect attention. from himself

Belichick, in a conference call with Boston reporters, said the Jets were guilty of using the same illegal pushing tactic on field goals that got the Patriots busted in overtime. Asked if he's bothered by a news report that said the Jets' sideline alerted the officials to keep a close eye on the pushy Patriots, Belichick replied:

"Well, I mean, since they were using the play themselves, I don't even know about all that. But basically we're just moving on here."

OH REALLY???  GUESS AGAIN YOU LYING PIECE OF SHIT


First of all, it’s now apparent that the Patriots employed the same tactic on a field goal attempt in the Saints game. It’s since emerged that the Dolphins alerted the league to the fact that the Saints had also got away with this in their week five meeting.

The likes of Mike Reiss and Rich Cimini also accused the Jets’ Quinton Coples of doing this on the field goal that tied the game at the end of the fourth quarter. See image here. However, that merely underlines that you can’t always rely on TV footage. Now that the coaches film has been released by the NFL, it’s indisputably clear that Coples was engaged with a blocker and did not push a teammate into the line.

THE FIELD HAS REACHED THE QUARTER POLE (well, almost)

The "well, almost" is thanks to the two asinine week 4 byes that Green Bay and Carolina had.  Is it really that difficult for the NFL to give 8 teams a bye in Weeks 7-10 or 8-11?  And they can even schedule their moronic London games anytime in weeks 6-10 so the 2 teams get a bye the following week.  So 4 weeks of the season we would only have 12 games instead of 9 weeks with anywhere from 13 to 15 games

The only thing dumber than week 4 5 or 6 byes is the schedule each week that has 8 or 9 10am games and 3 or 4 1pm games.  Again, is it really that difficult to have an equal amount of games at each time slot?  Seems much easier than having an equal amount of blueberries in each muffin:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nsCSwREPHw

Now for a look at 8 divisions in 2 conferences in 1 league.  It is still ridiculously early after 4 weeks - I will guarantee you that a few 3-1 or better teams will not make the playoffs and a few 1-3 or maybe even 0-4 teams will make the playoffs.

• AFC East
• Goodell continued to cover up spygate by giving the Cheaters 2 games in 5 days against 2 rookie QB to open the season - which the Cheaters narrowly won - and the 2nd of those 5 games came with the annual "fumble that was called a fumble on the field, which yielded nothing conclusive, but yet was overturned" call.  No team since 1950 began the season against 2 rookie QBs.
• If the AFCE can keep playing the NFCS, except in N'awlins, the supposed division of the Cheaters, a mediocre free agent frenzy marine mammals, and 2 supposed shitbirds in upstate west NY and the swamps of Jersey 8 miles west of the city that never sleeps....this division would be just as good as the AFCW, who has feasted on the 4 shitbirds of the NFCE
• Geno Smith became the first QB to impersonate both Mark Sanchez and Meadowlark Lemon in the same game.
• I have only seen 7 quarters of JETS football so far- and NO, this BLOG has not been hacked, you are reading this correctly.
• Game 1:  power outage the day before opening day knocked out the scheduled one-time recording. Luckily a quick stop at the house to gather pounds of ice and water, to combat the annual September heat wave, was a lifesaver as that garbage known as the orange light not being on the DVR was recognized by my 8 year old son David......who has a new favorite player, #54 Lavonte David of Tampa - his jersey is on order. So we got to watch the 2nd half
• Game 2:  I lasted a quarter of DVR.  Getting screwed on 3 calls in 1 quarter was plenty for me.  I turned it off to spare the remote controls and the wall behind the TV.
• Game 3:  was watched in entirety on tape.  Hopefully that offensive performance will be repeated again sometime soon.
• Game 4:  did not see a play. We were at a BBQ and only the Charger game was on - which I thank my personal GOD for.
• AFC South
• Indy & Tennessee are 3-1...would not be surprised if neither makes the playoffs.  Based on that statement you should all be running out to get down as much $ as you can on both of those teams getting in.
• Houston is 2-2:  If they beat San Francisco this week, they will end up playing @ Denver in the AFC title game.  If they lose, it will make your bets on Indy & Tenn look that much better.
• Jacksonville is going to end up middle of the pack in the SEC this year.
• AFC North
• So you mean to tell me, that if Cincy, Cleveland, & Baltimore all lose this weekend that Pitt will only be 1 game out in the loss column despite being 0-4? 
• There is no doubt that Cleveland has the best defense in this division.  If they can score 17 a game they will win this division.
• The Ravens, after their brief 3 game miracle performance last winter, are back to their old selves:  big bad tough guys when they play at home and pussies when they play on the road.
• The Bengals pissed away a great chance to grab the bull by the balls and seize control of this division.  If they lose to the Cheaters this week they are in big trouble.
• AFC West champion and AFC champion 18-0 Denver will be in the swamps of Jersey on the first Sunday in February
• NFC
• New Orleans @ Seattle NFC title game will be competitive for a half

back with more in a few weeks

stay thirsty my friends

Hunter S. Stitzer

2013 NFL Win/Loss Over-Unders

I actually received a few e-mails asking when this was going to be posted!!

2012 was a down year - thanks to that ridiculous roughing the passer the call in the Seattle @ Miami game.  But we make no excuses, and we will get back on track for 2013!!  Remember that 2009-2011 was highly profitable for those that followed me.

The Great Eight *** Plays

Buffalo UNDER 6
Chicago OVER 9
Dallas OVER 8.5
Houston OVER 10
Kansas City UNDER 8
Philly UNDER 7.5
Saint Louis  UNDER 7.5
San Diego  UNDER 7.5


Best of the Rest ** Plays

Atlanta UNDER 9.5
Baltimore UNDER 8.5
Cleveland OVER 7.5
Green Bay UNDER 10
Indinapolis  UNDER 8.5
Miami UNDER 8
Minnesota  UNDER  6.5
New England  OVER 10.5
New Orleans OVER 9
Jersey Giants  UNDER 8.5
J E T S JETS JETS JETS OVER 6
Pittsburgh  UNDER 9
Tampa Bay UNDER 7.5
Washington UNDER 8


Only If You Must * Plays
Arizona  OVER 6
Carolina OVER 7.5
Cincinnati OVER 9
Denver UNDER 11.5
Detroit OVER 8.5
Jacksonville OVER 5
Oakland OVER 5
San Francisco UNDER 10.5
Seattle OVER 10.5
Tennessee OVER 6.5

7/25/67 = 46

The stars are aligning?  I am turning 46 years old on the day training camp opens.  The coach of my favorite team is the son of the coach that invented the 46 defense, which in 1985 produced arguably the greatest defense of all time for a single season.  The son has the personnel in place to play lots of 46 in 2013.  The Dad was a defensive assistant when this particular 46 year-old was in diapers when said favorite team won Super Bowl III.  So the stars have aligned?  Well, if said favorite team was any other team but the J E T S, maybe.  That said team has not been back to the big game since Mickey Mantle had yet to announce his retirement.  Contrary to popular belief, gang green is not even close to the worst team in the league on paper, and they have been one of the better franchises in the NFL the past 16 years, but on that same paper, nor are they a good team.  But games are not played on paper.  In 44 days, when #6 stares down his receiver and #24 on the other team has a pick 6, I might be wishing the games were played on paper.

46 is the # Donnie Baseball wore when he was first called up in 1982. 

On my wife’s 46^th birthday, the Bronx Bombers won their 27^th championship.

I was born 46 years after my paternal grandparents arrived at Ellis Island.  Just like a 9 year-old boy named Vito Corleone, they did not speak English, but unlike the young Don, they did not have smallpox, so they were not quarantined for 3 months.

Bernard King scored 46 points in games 2 & 3 of the 1^st round of the playoffs @ Detroit in 1984.  In the decisive game 5, which was the best 6+ minutes of pro hoops I have ever seen, Bernard only scored 44, including 4 in OT, as the Knickerbockers withstood 16 points from Isaiah Thomas in the last 2 minutes of regulation which sent the game into OT.  Kevin McHale said “he won’t get 30 against us.”  7 games later, the champ Celts were taken to the brink in part because Bernard went for 43 and 44 in 2 of the Knick wins. 

46 is how many majors we thought Tiger Woods would have by now. 

46 is what you are looking for if the point is 10……unless you are pinhead schmuck who goes $25 on the hard 10 when you only have $5 on the line with double odds.

46 is how many saves Dave Righetti recorded in 1986 – which set a new single season record.  That was the same weekend Wade Boggs sat out the last game of the season to all but the clinch the batting title.  Donnie Baseball needed a 6 for 6 day to catch him.  He homered in his first at bat and then fizzled out.  I was listening on the radio driving to the swamps for a JETS-Bills game.  That was the game when Ben Dreith made the famous “giving him the business” roughing the passer call on Marty Lyons – and he got the # wrong when he said 99 instead of 93.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eslz06J9hFw

46 is how many more f-bombs said than birdies made were spoken by Tiger at Muirfield Sunday.

46 is how many times Clark Gillies beat the piss out of Terry O’reilly in the 1980 playoffs.  Actually, for the record, Judge Stitz scored it 3-1-1 in favor of Jethro.  For comic relief here is the Bruin homer announcer   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD4TB7J7NMM

46 is how many majors Phil might end up with.  After that 66, doesn’t he have 41 more in him?  How about this stat:  Tiger won 14 majors before he was 33.  Phil has won 5 since he was 33. 

46 + 8 = Rangers cup drought 1940-1954

46 + 40 = Sox Series drought 1918-2004

46 + ????? = Mets eventual series drought J 1986 – the planet blows up

2013 + 99 = 2112…..and the meek shall inherit the earth

46 barring a miracle = J E T S super bowl drought 1968 – 20xx sanity

46 = Joe DiMaggio’s home runs hit in 1937.  The Yankee Clipper batted from the right side.  He played in a park where left center field was 457 and dead center was 461.  And he most likely did not hit any cheap “late on the swing” taters to right center as that fence stood 407.  A Yankee coach charted that in 77 home games Joltin’ Joe hit 29 balls to death valley of 430+ feet that were recorded as outs.  

46 + 30 = how many Dead shows I was lucky enough to attend.

46 at least = I hope how many pancakes of d-linemen my son’s flag football team offensive line racks up this season, I am the Offensive Line Coach.

46 = # of personal fouls Ronnie Lott would be called for each season if he played in this flag football era of the NFL

46 = how many years Aaron Hernandez will serve before he is eligible for parole if he is found guilty.  I am thoroughly disgusted with Kraft and Belichick.  I cannot believe they are spewing the company line of “we need to look at our processes….” Just because the sharks in the media are circling.  Are you kidding me?    They knew this kid was trouble, that was why he slipped 3 rounds in the draft – it is called RISK-REWARD!  How in the hell are they supposed to determine if someone they drafted is going to be involved in a murder case?  And let’s not forget that #81 has yet to be convicted so let’s not presume anything.  Everyone gets their day in court – remember, it was a Boston citizen, and founding father, John Adams that defended the redcoats in the Boston Massacre Trial 225+ years ago because “everyone is entitled to justice if our system of government is going to work.”

46 seconds = how many seconds I stared at the screen a couple of months ago when Homer Bill Simmons justified the Pats letting Welker leave by saying “maybe this was Bill’s punishment for Wes’ words about Rex that got the JETS so fired up in the playoffs 3 years ago.”  Yeah, cause it is only a meaningless playoff game, good thing the other team had a reason to get fired up, otherwise they would have went through the motions.   It is that kind of crap which makes fans of 31 other teams despise these pompous fans.  Always an excuse.  Instead of just saying “we were dominated.”

46 = how many more years I will have to work if this shitball economy does not improve.

46 -27 = how many consecutive playoff series the Islanders won from 1980 – 1984………a record that may be as unbreakable as Joe D’s 56 game hitting streak.

46 – 45.8 = Mr. Dorfman’s GPA, fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son

46 * 1,000 = # of dead people in Cook County who voted for Obama in 2008 (was probably more in 2012)

46 = how many fouls Louisville committed in the 1^st half in the backcourt against Colorado St. in round 2 in March, did you watch that game?  DO THE MATH!

46 + 270 = # of men who survived the USS Indianapolis sinking 68 years ago; the rest eaten by sharks.

46 -2 = # of years since Chappaquiddick.  And 7 times since that homicide, myopic fools who care more about a political party than justice and what the USA stands for sent a murderer to the Senate.

46 * 2 = how many points Bernard would have scored in the ’84 playoffs vs. Boston each game if Larry Legend would have guarded him, as he should have, small forward vs. small forward.  Bernard guarded Larry, where was the reciprocation?

46 = what I needed to shoot on the front 9 2 weeks ago in order to break 90.  Instead I shot a 48 and came home in 43 for a 91.

46 + 20 = how many games over .500 the 1998 Bronx Bombers were.

46 – 30 = how many runs a week the 2013 Bronx Bombers score (assuming there are 7 games!!!)

46 = how many names Randall Flagg, aka the Dark Man, aka the Walkin’ Dude, aka the Hardcase, aka etc….goes by.  

46 - 46 = how many books top my personal list as being better than “The Stand.”   Part of my annual birthday routine is to re-read this all-time great piece of literature.  This year, it is the original 1978 version.  I alternate years between the original, and the 1990 version where King added in 400 pages that were chopped out of the original version .

46 = approx. how many books I have devoured over the last 30 years that deal with the Korean and Vietnam Wars.   To recap, the “party of peace” (ok to stop throwing up now) got the country into these wars, thank you HST, JFK, & LBJ.  And the other party of supposed warmongers ended  both wars – thank you Ike and RMN.   46 * 1,000 + 11,000 = how many US citizens JFK sentenced to death by sending “advisors” to Nam just so he could be labeled “tough” on Communism and get re-elected (with the help of the dead voters in Cook County) in 1964.  Yet neither JFK nor LBJ went to congress to ask for troops as they knew nobody wanted war.  So if nobody wanted war, why didn’t they just level with the public and say “who cares about this place?  It is 8,000 miles away, if it becomes Communist it will just be one more slice of the globe that will realize this oppressive economic and social system that will fail, eventually.”

46 – 10 years + 1 day = the day my family moved from Rockaway Beach out to the suburbs.  And thus, I had played my final baseball game on an asphalt playground.

46 – 1 = how many days until the green & white takes the field against TB!!!

Here comes the HARBOWL

Random rambling stumbling bumbling thoughts

• if the NY and National Sports media had a brain, why aren't they calling for about 15 other coaches to be fired, because off the top of my head that is the # of coaches who have been Head Coaches since 2009 that have less playoffs wins then Coach Rex - including the coach to the northeast of NYC
• Expect CBS to can Shannon Sharpe because he dared to blast Coach William for not speaking to Steve Tasker as all losing coaches have done in the AFC Championship game recently.  My take:
• Great coach, but a bully, a liar, a thief ($1MM of Leon Hess’ $), and a cheat (both in football & in life).  And what is sad is that he did not have to cheat to win – but history will damn him just like Bonds – who may have hit 600 homers clean instead of 750+, or Nixon, who was going to get 60% of the popular vote but still felt the need to authorize a burglary of his opponent’s office.
• And Kraft is no better – because he condones and enables this behavior
• Rough week for Stoney's Aztecs....that 1st half against Wyoming brought back ugly memories of SJU trailing Georgetown 41-9 late in the first half in early January 1982.
• Atlanta rolled up 300+ yards and 24 points in the first half and then got shut out in the second half - have never even HEARD of anything like that before.
• If Brady is not fined for trying to intentionally kick and injure Ed Reed than the amazing league should refund Suh is $30K for what he supposedly intentionally did to Schaub on Thanksgiving.
• Caught most of the 5th set between Wawrinka and Djokavic....epic.  Tennis at it's best.
• The Zebras did their best to hand NE the game as usual
• only called 1 of 15 holding penalties on Nate Solder
• called BS personal fouls on Lewis and Pollard - both led with their shoulders and both receivers ducked their heads
• Dennis Pita gets drilled in the chin by the crown of a NE player's helmet and no flag came out
• It was a miracle the zebras did not overturn the Pollard laying out Ridley fumble - which clearly was a fumble as his knee dislodged the ball before his dead ass hit the turf.
• When the Douglass non-catch was being reviewed I turned to my friend and said "they will simply say 'the ruling on the field is confirmed' with no explanation," that is when you know the home cooking fix is in.  That ball clearly hit the ground and moved - was an easy reversal in my opinion.
• That is all for now - not everybody has the day off today...time to go to work.
 
 
 
 
 

Kicking off 2013 Hunter S. style part II

January 12, 2169, when my great great great great great grandson David Andrew Joseph William Paul Stitzer lets the public in for the grand opening of the J E T S museum of natural history most fans will immediately flock to the January 12, 1969 hall to see for themselves that this franchise actually did win the Super Bowl.  As these same fans cruise through the 2015-2058 Flag Football era exhibits (real football was installed again in 2059, history later proved that Robert Kraft III bribed the Commish to do this after he drafted defensive players in 6 consecutive drafts, still did not help, and since 2016 NE has been the worst franchise in football, just like they used to be) and the 2096-2108 London Werewolves dynasty era in which the JETS lost 26 consecutive North Atlantic Division games to the Wolves and managed to lose a whopping 22 games 6 times in that period (note: the season expanded to 24 games in 2046), they will eventually arrive at the 2009 Draft exhibit.  My great great great great great granddaughter Broadwina Josephine Wilhemina Rose Barbara Ann Stitzer, using technology that we have not even dreamed of yet, will show fans a live shot from the past of her great great great great great grandfather’s reaction to his beloved JETS trading the 17th and 49th picks up to #5 to draft a QB.  A stunned audience will then get to see the artifacts which remain from the famous broken remote control – a family heirloom passed down from generation to generation – which never caused fighting between the offspring as only one son decided to follow me down the green & white.  The other 2 kids followed their Mom’s Chargers, and by 2078 the entire trees of those 2 families were housed in an insane asylum at the infamous Spanos building of Scripps Hospital in La Jolla.

Back to the present (unfortunately), under the pre-2011 salary cap structure was there a worse risk-reward scenario a team can enter into than drafting a QB in the top 10?  Yes, you can TRADE UP TO DRAFT A QB IN THE TOP 10!  Tannenbaum is unemployed because he he hit on a 16 against a picture instead of surrendering and saving half his chips – not trading up and not even drafting a QB at 17 either was the right move.  Want more proof, look at the Lions who went 4-12 despite having a QB that delivered the ball to record-setting Calvin Johnson, why?  Cause they have so much $ tied in up Stafford that he needs to play like Montana, Manning, or Brady at their absolute best to compensate for a roster that has lots of holes because there is not enough cap $ to fill those holes.  That broken remote was completely justified, I would do it again.

One of the 4 lessons in life my Dad instilled in me was “don’t believe your own bullshit.”  That lesson went out the window when it came to this team, and specifically the QB, the last 4 seasons.  Sanchez sucked as a rookie after week 5.  11 games of crap, well 12 if you throw week 4 in there, but he did bounce back in week 5.  After the New Orleans game in week 4 the JETS traded for Braylon Edwards “because the QB needed more weapons.”  Excuse me, but if you draft a QB at #5 shouldn’t he be making people around him better?  After we get through the QB, you will then get to see the 2nd reason why Tanny is unemployed – the billion traded draft picks.  And when Sanchez hurt his knee and missed 1.5 games, Clemens came in to lead the team to 2 victories – so I maintain that in 2009, with that defense, and that running game, AND THE 17TH AND 49TH PICKS ON THE ROSTER (like maybe a wide receiver and an OLB that can rush the passer) Clemens could have guided this team to at least the 9 wins they got in spite of Sanchez.  But then Sanchez stepped up in the playoffs.  And then the kid played better in 2010, and really stepped up in the playoffs by leading a game winning drive against Indy, outplaying Brady (well really outplaying the shitball NE defense), and almost leading an improbable comeback in Pitt.  Then the awful decisions to get rid of Braylon and Jericho and replace them with Plax & Mason behind an OL that included the worst right tackle in the history of the league, Wayne Hunter.  It should have been very clear that the 2011 version of Sanchez, year 3 mind you, was what you have.  Looking back, at least a remote control got spared when Tanny extended his contract to free up 2012 cap $ because I actually thought it was a good move.  They could have been done with Sanchez, now he is a an albatro$$ for another year.

Now we get to all the draft picks Tanny traded away for players or to move up.  Not all were bad trades, and some were quite good:  Holmes for 5th round pick, Cromartie for a 2nd were great deals.  The Kris Jenkins deal was a great trade – getting the best nose tackle in the league for 3rd and a 5th?  Awful break that he was only healthy for 18 of the 48 games during his 3 years.  Imagine what the Baltimore D would be like if they did not Ngata for 2+ seasons?  But when you keep trading picks you lose depth.  You must rely on scrap-heap undrafted free agents on special teams and sometimes in starting roles when you have the inevitable injuries.  Trading up to get Revis and David Harris were good moves.  Trading up to get Keller & Greene – hurts depth.  Trading to get Tebow, a guy that once you had him your coaches said “he cannot throw the ball,” you did not know that by watching film?

The new GM must focus on rebuilding the OL and finding a QB – which as Russell Wilson and Kirk Cousins are proving does not have to be some 1st round guy that Kiper and Mayock fawn over.  The GM will also have to determine the fate of the head coach after 2013 – you know, the guy that the media wants to fire who has more playoff wins since 2009 than every coach except John Harbaugh.

I standby what I wrote two days ago and I hope the Denver defensive backs and Refs were at least smart enough to book different flights to whatever tropical destination they are headed to with their bag of loot.

SF is a 3.5 favorite Sunday. I cannot ever remember a conference championship game where the road team is giving more than a FG. 

AFC game could go either way, NE blowout or Balt close win.  Do not think NE wins a close game.  Their recent history in street fights is not good – they are frontrunners and are capable of blowing anyone out – but they do not like to get hit in the mouth.  And spare me last year’s AFC championship game.  Lee Evans caught the ball and had 2 feet down – the play is over at that point.  That call is in the dictionary next to the phrase “getting jobbed.”

Nice to see the NHL back.  Too bad the NBA cannot go away.

Stoney’s Aztecs better stop blowing leads and letting teams back in the game.  It almost bit them in the buttocks.  Big one tomorrow night against UNLV at Montezuma Mesa – thoroughly looking forward to being there and losing my voice.  New Mexico comes in Saturday the 26th.  Imperative to hold serve at home in the nation’s 3rd best conference and the conference with the best non-conference winning %.  The Mountain West has few duck walks on the road this season. 

Frankie the Fixer was alive in well in Denver Saturday

Before we get to part II, even 8 years later, the NFL is doing everything they can to try and get NE a non -*** title (ironically by doing so it just adds a potential 4th *)

• Denver up 7-0, gets a 3 and out except for an awful PI call that extends drive - 2 plays later Baltimore TD
• There was both defensive holding (on Stokely) and PI on Decker on the Balt pick 6 - no flags
• next Denver drive, blatant PI on a deep ball against Balt #29 - no flag
• but this is the worst sequence
  • Denver picks up 1st down on a 3rd and 1
  • offensive holding called - you know the penalty that is never called anymore, and was not called once a few weeks ago when a certain team threw the ball 65 times (so that is 325 combined plays by offensive linemen that did NOT hold - despite every SF linemen having blue dye from the other teams gloves all over their jerseys)
  • fumble next play, which should have been a tuck rule

I will quote my friend for the icing on the cake: "if #26 & #32 aren't on the take on the game tying td then I don't know anything about life"

This was Frankie the Fixer Acavano's best job since he told to Harry Vallentini and Mo Dickstein to bet the 2 horse in the 2nd race....an order which they disobeyed, instead, placing $10K on My Baby to win (if you have no idea what I am referring you should immediately buy "Wise Guys" and watch it.

Stitz

Kicking off 2013 Hunter S. style PART I

The poor little media had it’s feelings hurt that the Owner and Coach went on vacation – most likely to get away from the turds that are the media. So let me get this straight: the media bombards this team every day for 6 months, blows every quote out of proportion, calls the atmosphere a circus because they seem fit to print report on every word and blast the organization for talking too much (which of course every team does but I guess the other 31 teams the media does not care about because they do not camp out at their complex nor write about every fart they let loose), then the team says NOTHING and the Media says “the circus continues.” They would have some credibility if they actually reported on FOOTBALL – you know, stuff like here is why the General Manager got fired. Which is what I am about to do.

TAKING THE T OUT OF T-REX: Why is Mike Tannenbaum unemployed? 

It is a complex question with dozens of detailed answers. But the simple answer is that he made 3 moves from the 2008 – 2012 that botched the QB position, the most important position by far in today’s flag football version of the NFL. Now for the detailed analysis

• The QB Position
• Tanny inherited Chad Pennington, coming off his umpteenth shoulder surgery and Brooks Bollinger – a career 3rd stringer, who was pressed into a starting role in 2005 after Chad, Jay Fiedler, and signed off the couch old man Vinny T. went down for the count with injuries.
• Tanny drafted (what we though) was the QB of the future in the 2nd round of his first draft: Kellen Clemens of Oregon
• Tanny added Patrick Ramsey by trading a 6th round pick to the Redskins (as we shall see later, Mr. T departs with draft picks like he ain’t got a care in the world)
• Coach Mangini creates a 4-way QB competition in training camp – which Chad wins in Secretariat ‘73 Belmont fashion.
• Chad has a nice, not thrilling, but nice 2006. Stays healthy, guides team to 10 wins and a playoff berth with smoke and mirrors.
• Chad hurts his ankle early in 2007, Clemens starts week 2 at Baltimore (marking the 78th straight time the JETS face Baltimore with a backup QB) and was a Justin McCaerins drop (never thought you would hear that name again) from capping a 17th point 4th quarter comeback. Ironically, the defensive coordinator for Baltimore that day….R E X
• Chad starts a few more games, the season is clearly going nowhere as the decision to not pay Left Guard Pete Kendall blows up in the franchise’s face as his replacement Adrian Clarke turns in a Wayne Hunter-like performance. Stubborn Mangini still plays a 3-4 w/o a true nose tackle and with a whole year of film in the history books, opposing offenses are no longer fooled, no longer try to get cute, and simply ram the ball down their throats. Clemens starts some games and looks “ok” at best, but at least he cut his teeth.
• The 2007-08 off-season lands Alan Faneca and Damien Woody to join D’Brick, Nicky M. in the middle, and Brandon Moore, one of the most underrated guards in the league. Kris Jenkins is acquired in a trade (3rd and 5th round draft picks). Overnight, the Green & White, on paper, had the best offensive line in the league and the big guy to man the middle on the other side of the ball. Thomas Jones is also acquired in a trade. The plan is simple – give young Kellen a dominant run game in his first full year at the helm…..everyone is assuming Chad will back up Kellen and provide the grizzled veteran leadership, until
• Favre
• I am back – had to go into the garage and let out a primal scream so the kids would not become alarmed. Dumb move, they should be used to it and at 5:15am it is a balmy 49 degrees in the garage – what, you think it never gets cold in San Diego?
• Trading for this prima donna 4 weeks before the season is going to start and releasing Chad to create salary cap room was a move I did not like then and still do not like. I agreed with Tanny that a broken-down Chad was probably not going to take this team to the Super Bowl because he just did not provide the vertical threat and the better defenses had the speed to take too much of the field away (see Baltimore @ Miami in playoffs that season after Chad, with even more smoke & mirrors than 2006, got Miami to 11 wins – in large part thanks to 4 west coast teams having to play 10am games at Miami, and Parcells the GM was a genius, and Parcells the rat slunk out of town once expectations were there and they stunk again after that - mainly due to lots of personnel moves the self-annointed genius made). The whole offense had to be re-worked to accommodate Favre. More importantly, THE HEAD COACH DID NOT WANT HIM! But why listen to the head coach when it comes to personnel decisions of the most important position?
• After a lackluster 3-3 start, the green & white rip off 5 wins in a row, including a dominating performance at Tennessee to hand the 10-0 Titans their first loss. The 8-3 J E T S are looking like “the team to beat” in the AFC.
• But as always, since 1968, something goes wrong. In this case, Favre hid an injury and either defied the Coach and would not allow himself to be benched OR the Coach did not have the Stones to bench him. Add Kris Jenkins all of a sudden not being 100% and you have a very leaky run defense. Favre was AWFUL in the last 5 games. The JETS blew the division and the playoffs – as a matter of fact the only game they won down the stretch was a miracle home win over Buffalo when Sean Ellis returned a fumble for a TD.
• 9-7, the Coach who did not want the QB gets fired the day after the season.
• Enter the next Coach: Rex Ryan “we will be the most physical team in the league, we will have an all weather offense that is ground & pound; on defense, we’re gonna let the fur fly, that read and react is for someone else, and with our fans, man I’m excited for the way we are going to make life difficult for opposing offenses.”
• The 2009 draft……I need to pause here and sedate myself before I am capable of getting to part II. we will also cover the playoffs, college hoops, and a few other things.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

This was the first ball in NY that was not dropped by #6 in the past 4 months