Something to pass the time and cheer you up...
So, you're a little bored? Maybe a little depressed? Need a quick pick me up? Click
here and find out who was executed today in history! However bad your day is going, theirs was worse! You can see today or any day in the calendar year.
It tells you the where and when but, most importantly, the how! You can even search based on method: hanging, firing squad, guillotine, drawn and quartered - all the greatest hits.
My birthday happens to be the 401st anniversary of the beheading of the Counts of Egmont and Hoorn, two Flemish nobles who were beheaded for treason to the Spanish crown that ruled Belgium at the time. It lead to the revolution that freed Belgium from Spain. Good times! What's yours?
SO THAT REALLY SUCKED...
So I pulled it off. I managed to avoid all information regarding the Jets game last night against San Diego and was able to watch it without knowing what happened on the old Tivo. An impossible feat but I did it! And what was my reward? Well you know how when you have the leftover slice of pizza and you put it in the fridge. You warn your family not to touch it. Tell them you're saving it for tomorrow night. You wait all day and you're looking forward to eating it. Then you get home and it's gone? Some bastard (probably your teenage son) ate it anyway? Well that's not what this is like. Imagine the pizza was there but you take a big bite and it's full of mold. That's what watching that game was like. What a let down! But I am the eternal Jets optimist.
[mmmmmm...... delicious.......... at least it's green.]
Did it suck? Of course it did. But here's 4 reasons why and none of them had to do with Mangini (who, by the way, did what everyone wanted him to do and let Brett air it out. Shows how much everyone else knows...)
1) There was no bigger issue in that game than losing Kris Jenkins early in the first half. He has been the #1 story for the Jets so far this year and the hole he left when he went out put them right back in the position they've been in the past two years - playing a 3-4 defense without a qualified nose guard. This didn't get NEARLY enough attention from the twits in the booth.
[Forget about the shoes, that's a big EVERYTHING to fill...]
2) Brett and his receivers were clearly not reading the same thing. The only interception that was a result of a great defensive play was the one Cromartie had for the touch (even though it probably was pass interference but what ref was going to call that on San Diego after last week?). The only cure for this is more practice time and as Jaworski said over and over and over it can take years for QB's and Receivers to get on the same page. We hope it won't take that long because Brett will be dead.
3) San Diego is a very good team that easily could be 3-0. They got jobbed last week obviously and they were the victim of last second heroics week one too. This is a team that everyone picked pre-season to go far into the playoffs and everyone isn't wrong.
4) When you get down that far that quick you become one-dimensional and can't do much even with the best offense. It happens. Look at New England.
I will hold Mangini accountable for the dumbest on-side kick decision after the Jets got back to 17-14 in the first half. Sure, lets risk it and give San Diego a 40 yard field if we don't get it. Great plan! But the special teams were all around great yesterday after a stinker in the loss to New England.
The good part? It looked like Brett and the receivers started to get it together in the second half. The offensive line did a pretty good job of getting him time to throw even though everyone knew it was coming. Thomas Jones did some pretty good running when he had the chance.
Finally, and most importantly, this team NEVER gave up. They clearly had the mindset, mostly thanks to Favre's presence I think, that anything was possible and they kept at it and even made the game interesting with 3 minutes to go.
[It's a whole new world with this guy on your side!]
So, these are NOT the same old Jets. I will thank you all to keep your negative vibes away from my team. We get a frisky Arizona team at home this Sunday. I will be cooking a bird of some sort. I hear Cardinal tastes like chicken. Tailgate tip on Friday. Until then have a nice friggin' day!
So I'm going to be laying down the first tailgate tip of the season with Jim and Shelli later on. In case you'd like to have a visual of just what the hell I'm talking about, here's a
link for the jalapeno roaster. I'm not much for gadgets in the kitchen or around the grill (they generally get used once and then just take up space after that) but I've used this thing 8 times already this Summer! Tune in around 7:40 for the tip and it will all make sense!
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