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Jets Hit Another New Low under Aaron Glenn with Loss to Raiders

 At some point between Sunday's despicable 38-33 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders, and when the season officially ends in mid-January with a trip up to Orchard Park, Jets owner Woody Johnson has got to make a decision.  His football team is floundering at 2-6; worse, even his franchise's depleting fan base is getting out numbered in home games as Vegas Raiders fans stormed the lower bowl of MetLife Stadium, and were so loud in the fourth quarter that the Raiders players were waving towels and cheering them on until Jets' tackle Olu Fasanu committed a false start. That was one of many downright putrid moments from Sunday's game where Gang Green blew leads of 23-14 and 30-21 only to watch the Raiders storm back to end their own four-game skid.  And this was a Raiders team that has one of the worst defenses in football. A Raiders team that the Jets ran roughshod on all afternoon to the tune of 439 yards of offense.  Braelon Allen enjoyed a career day, rushing for 147 yards...
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Jets' Aaron Glenn Firmly on Hot Seat after Dolphins Humiliate Gang Green

 The final score read 28-25, but that was not indicative of what kind of game this was at MetLife Stadium on Sunday afternoon.  The Miami Dolphins waltzed into the MetLife and punched the Jets right in the face, laughed, and the proceeded to step on them over and over and over again. The same Miami Dolphins team that came into the game winless at 0-5, having not scored a touchdown to open a game all season, and having played five games without ever having a lead, scored first, and never looked back.  And as the day wore on, the Jets committed self-inflicted wound after another. Geno Smith played scared; Offensive Coordinator Frank Reich again dipped into his bag of ultra-conservative tricks; Receiver Garret Wilson was targeted only three times and was seen either yelling at Smith or Passing Game Coordinator Seth Ryan, or maybe both; and, once again, head coach Aaron Glenn was completely and totally out-coached.  It was embarrassing.  On a beautiful sun-splashed ...
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Giants Skattebo finds his Groove Again as Giants Walk-off Texans

 A week ago Giants running back Cam Skattebo spent most of the time on the Giants bench, and didn't get a single touch of the football. When asked about it by the media, a testy Giants' Head Coach John Harbaugh said that the running back was never benched, and that the opportunities to get him the ball didn't come up.  When the media caught up with Skattebo later in the postgame, the star back said that he was being "punished" for his fumble that cost the Giants a chance at victory over the Washington Commanders, a game that ended in a 27-all tie.  Well, on Sunday afternoon against the Texans, Harbuagh dared his running back to prove something, and Skattebo rewarded his coach for such confidence with 124 yards on 17-carries, including a 42-yard scamper on second and one with 8:42 to go in overtime that set up Devin Singletary's walk-off 30-yard score to give the Giants a 27-21 victory.  That huge run wasn't the only one for Skat on Sunday. Earlier in the g...
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Knicks Raise Banner & Get Rings, While LeBron & Sixers Spoil the Fun

 The New York Knicks celebrated the success of last season that culminated in the franchise's first NBA Championship in 53 years just 3-1/2 months ago when they took down the San Antonio Spurs in five games.  Players, coaches and staff received their championship rings before watching a blue Championship banner get raised to the rafters to join the 1970 and 1973 champions for all eternity. Fans, some of whom had to pay upwards of more than $1,900 just to secure a seat in the nosebleed section, witnessed something that many thought was not possible.  The ceremony itself was a thing of beauty. Knicks television play-by-play man Mike Breen, who called the Knicks NBA Finals series nationally for ABC MC'd the event, while Knicks and NBA Hall of Famer Walt Clyde Fraizer handed the rings to all the players. It was emotional, and gave the sold out crowd at MSG a collegial feel.    Then reality set in, and the Knicks, who for decades have always been the hunter, were now...
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Jets' Aaron Glenn Once Again Out-Coached as Patriots Walk Away With Win

 This much is clear from the New York Jets 26-19 loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday: there is a clear and obvious coaching discrepancy between the two teams.  In a game that wide receiver Garret Wilson rightly called a "big ass game" on Friday, the Jets shot themselves in the foot one too many times,  and when you do that a team as well coached  as the New England Patriots you are bound to lose.  Aaron Glenn is not Mike Vrabel. He's not as calculating and involved as Vrabel appears to be on the field, and even that was obvious on Sunday as well.  What really killed the Jets Sunday was three plays. Two of those plays involved Gang Green's inability to convert a simple fourth and one to move the sticks, keep a drive going, and perhaps put points on the board.  And that inability not only falls on Head Coach Aaron Glenn, it falls on Offensive Coordinator Frank Reich, who once again showed an inability to put together a creative game plan.  ...
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J.J. McCarthy Shines As Giants Flatline vs. Saints

 There are two huge storylines that came out of the Giants stunning 34-27 loss to the New Orleans Saints on Sunday.  1) Cam Skattebo was all but benched by Head Coach John Harbaugh. Skattebo didn't have a single carry in the game on Sunday, and when asked by reporters, the running back said he was "punished" for his fumble against the Commanders that cost the team a chance at victory last week.  That was last week. The Giants meanwhile this week, couldn't establish a running attack. Their leading rusher on Sunday was back-up quarterback J.J. McCarthy who had two carries for 26 yards, and he didn't come into the game until there were 11 minutes left in it.  Harbaugh denied that Skattebo was benched, saying it was "not by design, It’s just when he was in the game, we didn’t call any runs.”  You have to respect what Harbaugh is doing here. Skattebo's fame skyrocketed early last season before his rookie year was cut short at midseason with a brutal leg injury...
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Jets Aim for Defining Victory in Foxborough, Sunday

 It has been a long time since the New York Jets last won a game of any significance up at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.  While New York's most recent victory there came just three seasons ago, a 17-3 win in Week 18 of the 2023 season, that game was pretty meaningless. The Jets finished 7-10 that season, a season that was supposed to be about Aaron Rodgers first in New York. Of course all the dreams of Rodgers succeeding in different shade of green was hijacked in Week 1 when he went down with an Achilles Tear.  As for the Patriots they were an awful 4-13. It was Bill Belichick's final game as Patriots Head Coach, but nobody really seemed to care that the Jets sent him out of the NFL with an 'L.' Not in a snowy, cold Week 18 game with both teams already looking forward to the off-season.  So if you are looking for the last Jets win at New England that had any real significance as far as playoffs, or AFC East standings, or even division titles are con...
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