OFFICIAL BRETT THE LIVING LEGEND THREAD

[Gunakor]

Congrats to Brett for a great game - one for the ages. Certainly the best game he's played for the Jets, and one of the better games of his entire career. It was extremely fun to watch. Hopefully he's got a few more of them in him this year, as it would be good for both the Jets and the Pack.

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wow if season ended now jets would have 1st round bye

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Know what I miss the most about this years team is that they don't really look like they're having fun out there.

How can they if half the fanbase is rooting for them to fail?

you're better than this lol

grown men paid handsomely

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short passin game (TE killer keller) will play a role as well. jets should actually benefit from the fact that favre hasnt been goin long much lately anyway; he should remain in groove with shorter routes/KK - killer keller then hit cotchery on a nice one deep

kris FRICKN jenkins and revis on d and lord and coles on o represent and leon washington scores

jets 24 - 21

hate to toot my own horn but most of this is spot on

and i meant to type 34-21

that keller cat, kj, and cotch....WHEW

[gex]

wow if season ended now jets would have 1st round bye

With the schedule that they have left, that could be a very good possibility.
It will be a better pick for us also, 1 last gift from Favre

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Know what I miss the most about this years team is that they don't really look like they're having fun out there.

How can they if half the fanbase is rooting for them to fail?

Whatever you say, Drama Queen.

Grow a pair.

[GrnBay007]

A pair of....


:P

[GrnBay007]

Nice post Gunakor

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Know what I miss the most about this years team is that they don't really look like they're having fun out there.

How can they if half the fanbase is rooting for them to fail?

Whatever you say, Drama Queen.

Grow a pair.

Plenty of people are rooting for TT (and by extension, the Packers) to fail. You're stupid at best if you don't think the Packers are aware of this. This puts more pressure on them.

Further, I've never seen you make a good point during your storied tenure here. Keep working at it, son - you might grow a brain soon.

[GrnBay007]

TY LAW...

Challenge for Jets Is Psychological

The night before the Jets’ monster win at New England, Ty Law, a day into his Jets tenure, stood before his new teammates and told them what the Patriots thought of them. It was an eye-opening perspective from someone who knew.

Law spent 10 seasons with New England, 1995-2004, winning three Super Bowl rings and often putting himself on the delivering end of knockout blows that either derailed the Jets or sent them deeper into the abyss.

“The message I gave to the guys last night was — and I used the word we — was that we thought that if we played you guys in the fourth quarter and if we kept it tight, no matter what happened, y’all were going to find a way to lose,” Law said.

“We felt we had the psychological advantage on you, that no matter what the case was, no matter who was out on the field, we knew if we played the Jets they’re going to find a way to lose and we were going to find a way to win, and that’s just the mentality. I told them you have to go out there and take it, because they’re not going to give you anything.”

Law was nearly responsible for letting Thursday night’s game become another Jets nightmare. After playing brilliantly, mostly against Randy Moss, Law was beaten when Moss made a stellar catch in the end zone with one second left in regulation.

Shaun Ellis, the defensive end who has played all nine of his N.F.L. seasons with the Jets, said that when he saw Moss make the catch he reverted to “same old Jets” mode.

“Truthfully, what I thought was, Here we go again,” Ellis said. “We’ve been in that situation so many times with Brady ending up hurting you. Today, it just happened to be Cassel.”

The Jets never had the superior quarterback when Tom Brady, out for the season with a left knee injury, was leading the Patriots. The difference between past Jets collapses and their triumph Thursday night over Matt Cassel and New England is that now, with Brett Favre, they do.

“It’s more of a state of mind,” Law said. “We have so much talent in this room that if we can put it all together, there’s no telling what we can do.”

When the Patriots were on top of the league, bolstered by skilled veterans, they never played down to the level of inferior opponents. The Jets lost to a poor Oakland Raiders team on Oct. 19 and nearly lost to an even worse Kansas City Chiefs team a week later.

“When you are more talented, you have to play like the more talented team,” Law said.

“One thing we learned over in that other locker room,” he added, nodding in the direction of the Patriots, “is that we knew how to play above the competition. Even if we knew the competition was less, we expected to go out and prove that that other team was a lesser talent. When we played a talented team, we were going to play to our level. That’s what teams have to learn to do.”

The Giants have learned how to do that. Now it’s the Jets’ turn.

On Thursday night, the Jets were on the verge of breaking open the game. The Patriots made some adjustments, and the Jets might have pulled back emotionally.

“When they’re down, kick ’em,” Law said. “That’s what we have to learn here. We had them down like that, but we didn’t kick ’em. We didn’t do that tonight.”

The challenge of playing in New York is maintaining a sense of scale: every game is made into a mountain, into a defining moment. Jets Coach Eric Mangini, to his credit, often attempts to minimize the moment in a way that is reminiscent of Duane Thomas.

You normally wouldn’t pair Mangini, the 37-year-old coach, and Thomas, 61, the running back who, after the 1971 season, helped lead the Dallas Cowboys to their first Super Bowl victory and confounded the news media with stony silence — or cryptic messages, when he did speak. In fact, Thomas refused to speak with Cowboys players, coaches or management during that entire ’71 season.

His most famous line came during the buildup to Super Bowl VI, when a reporter asked him how it felt to play in the ultimate game. Thomas replied, “If it’s the ultimate game, why are they playing it again next year?”

Mangini doesn’t put things quite like that, but his daily message is that no one game is bigger than any other. The victory over the Patriots was huge, but it was not the ultimate. A loss would not have decimated the team, and the victory does not represent a sea change. A victory here does not validate the trade for Favre; the trade was validated the instant it was consummated because Favre is one of the greatest quarterbacks in N.F.L. history.

But beating a hobbled, Brady-less Patriots team in November is not all that is expected from Favre. He was brought in to help lead the Jets to their first Super Bowl championship in 40 seasons. That’s the difference between climbing a hill and scaling a mountain.

Meanwhile, the Jets must undergo an emotional transformation that will carry them from identifying with the league’s bottom feeders to identifying with the N.F.L. elite. This is not an easy task.

As Duane Thomas told the news media more than 30 years ago, as Eric Mangini says on a daily basis now and as Ty Law told the Jets on Wednesday, the ultimate is simply the next game.

[GrnBay007]

Favre in huddle a confidence booster for Jets- ERIK BOLAND |


November 15, 2008

Brett Favre said he was nervous. "Nervous as heck," he added.

The Jets, after winning the overtime coin toss Thursday night, faced a rabid Gillette Stadium crowd and a Patriots defense riding the momentum their offensive teammates had provided at the end of regulation.

But Favre led a Jets regular-season version of "The Drive," a 14-play beauty that never gave the Patriots' offense a chance. It ended with Jay Feely's 34-yard field goal that gave the Jets a 34-31 victory and sole possession of first place in the AFC East.

Favre finally had put his signature on a Jets win, doing so by exuding a confidence that he might not have felt but spread to his team nonetheless.



"It is very special to have a guy like that step into your huddle," said receiver Jerricho Cotchery, who had five catches for 87 yards, including a 46-yarder in the second quarter that should be a catch-of-the-season candidate. "I didn't see any nervousness on his face; I saw a quiet confidence on his face, so to speak. When he stepped into the huddle, we knew we were going to be able to get it done because that's the way he's been this entire year."

Thursday was Favre's 42nd career win after being tied or behind in the fourth quarter. No. 41 came Oct. 26 when he hit Laveranues Coles with a TD pass with one minute left in a 28-24 victory over Kansas City. But that was at home, against the struggling Chiefs. Not on the road against a team that had come back from 24-6 and 31-24 deficits, forcing overtime with an improbable 16-yard TD pass to Randy Moss with one second left in the fourth quarter.

But once defensive captain Kerry Rhodes made his prescient "tails" call on the overtime coin flip, a sense of belief took over the Jets' sideline.

"When you have Brett Favre coming into the huddle, it makes everybody else in the huddle step their games up," said Leon Washington, who electrified that same sideline with his 92-yard kickoff return for a TD in the second quarter. "We're fortunate to have a guy like that leading us."

Favre, given how unstoppable the Patriots' offense had been in the second half, believed the Jets needed to score on their first possession of overtime.

"I felt like it's either now or nothing; this is your one shot," Favre said. "They were on offense, our defense was tired - it was all or nothing."

Favre threw incomplete to Washington on his first pass attempt of the drive but went 5-for-5 thereafter, by far the biggest being his 16-yard strike to rookie tight end Dustin Keller on third-and-15 from the Jets' 15-yard line.

"I think Brett just . . . he instills confidence in the group," Eric Mangini said. "There's a sense of ease when he has the ball. You feel he's going to get it to the right place."

And right now for the Jets, that place is first.

Sunday,

Nov. 23

Jets at Tennessee

1 p.m.

[GrnBay007]

Don't know if this has ever been posted before, but I thought this was kinda funny.

Madden....

http://www.bangcartoon.com/2008/oldflame.htm

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double 0,

thanks for those posts

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Know what I miss the most about this years team is that they don't really look like they're having fun out there.

How can they if half the fanbase is rooting for them to fail?

Whatever you say, Drama Queen.

Grow a pair.

Plenty of people are rooting for TT (and by extension, the Packers) to fail. You're stupid at best if you don't think the Packers are aware of this. This puts more pressure on them.

Further, I've never seen you make a good point during your storied tenure here. Keep working at it, son - you might grow a brain soon.

Of course some people are rooting for TT to fail. They're called the Lunatic Fringe. I put them in the same category as those hoping Favre fails miserably and/or gets injured. Lunatic Fringe. They are a small but vocal group on both sides of the issue. They're the Black Helicopter Crowd of Packer Nation.

The vast majority of Packer fans have a more reasoned approach and want to see their beloved Pack succeed regardless of circumstance.

Root for the Packers to fail to make TT look bad? L.F.
Root for Favre to fail miserably, by extension causing the draft pick to be less than it could be...and/or root that he gets injured? L.F.

To say "half the fan base" is rooting for them to fail is ridiculous and sounds like a L.F. type remark itself, not mention whiney and girlish - no offense to the lovely Packer Rat gals of course.

[GrnBay007]

Of course some people are rooting for TT to fail. They're called the Lunatic Fringe. I put them in the same category as those hoping Favre fails miserably and/or gets injured. Lunatic Fringe. They are a small but vocal group on both sides of the issue. They're the Black Helicopter Crowd of Packer Nation.

The vast majority of Packer fans have a more reasoned approach and want to see their beloved Pack succeed regardless of circumstance.

Root for the Packers to fail to make TT look bad? L.F.
Root for Favre to fail miserably, by extension causing the draft pick to be less than it could be...and/or root that he gets injured? L.F.

To say "half the fan base" is rooting for them to fail is ridiculous and sounds like a L.F. type remark itself, not mention whiney and girlish - no offense to the lovely Packer Rat gals of course.

My addition to the Lunatic Fringe....

Those that insist if you are a person that still follows Favre's career and wishes him well, you CANNOT be a Packer fan. BS!