Hard Knocked: Jets Crash & Burn Vs. Ravens

RAVENS 10
JETS 9

So how about that Super Bowl dream now, Jets?

The Jets showed that they are not ready for prime time, instead they showed the world that in a couple of weeks they might be ready for funeral - because, after last night performance, it is clear that their season could spiral out of control really, really fast.

The Jets were flagged for 14 penalties for 125 yards, 10 of which came in the first half. Most of those penalties came on Antonio Cromartie whom the Ravens picked on all night with a combination of Anquan Boldin, T.J. Houshmandzadeh and Derrick Mason. Darrelle Revis was even called for a holding penatly on Boldin. In fact, the Jets barley matched up Revis with Boldin, probably out of fear that the corner was not totally up to par physically after skipping all of camp on a ridiculous contract hold out.

The running game? Can you say Thomas Jones. The Jets clearly miss Jones powerful downhill running and ability to hold onto the football, because Shonn Greene was dreadful. Five carries 18 yards and a fumble. He was so bad, that the Jets hide him on the bench in the second half, and moved to LaDainianan Tomlinson who had the only positive yardage, 62 yards. Too bad they didn't got to Tomlinson more often.

Mark Sanchez? Terrible. Dreadful. Miserable. I'm running out of adjectives. Sanchez completed 10 of 21 passes for a 74 yards! Every pass was a check down, and he rarely dared to throw it downfield on a Raven secondary that was missing Ed Reed. Clearly the Jets coaching staff doesn't trust Sanchez with the football, otherwise they would have had him fling all over the ball park.

Stupid mistakes? Braylon Edwards and Dustin Keller come on down. For some reason Edwards was on special teams on a Ravens field goal, and the bearded one proceeded to run into the kicker giving the Ravens an automatic first down. Keller, at the end of the game, caught a short Sanchez pass, and stepped out of bounds a whole yards shy of the first down. Maybe Keller was still seeing Ravens in his eyes after getting plastered by Ray Lewis earlier in the game.

And now the Jets get ready for the Patriots, who ripped up 38 points on the Bengals. Sometimes December can come early in an NFL season.