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Time for a heaping helping of Friday Night Whispers including notes on hydration, Sanchez, Bart Scott, Dustin Keller and so much more. Let’s get into it.
While the players were stretching today, trainers were handling each of them something for them to put in their mouths.
At first I thought it was a pill of some kind. It was actually Gatorade squares that looked like Starburst’s.
The Jets are taking every precaution possible to avoid heat-related issues in Miami, since it’s supposed to be hot and humid in Miami on Sunday . . .
You know what is really dumb, this angle that Bruce Speight held back Bart Scott, and that is why he didn’t hit me.
Do you really think a forty something PR guy is going to be able to hold back Scott if he really wanted to get at me?
That is ridiculous. We exchanged words, but at no point did I feel physically threatened.
But when he did threaten to hit me, I said I would sue him.
I’ve taken a lot of heat for that.
Let me just say this – if Bart Scott and I had a fight, it would end in two seconds and I’d end up Morristown Medical Center in intensive care.
I’m not stupid. This idea that I shouldn’t said I’d sue is just dumb.
I’m not into lawsuits, but this idea that people wanted me to “man up” and not throw out the lawsuit jargon is foolish.
One punch from a 6-1, 245 power house like Scott, and I’d never be the same . . .
The way the Jets were handling Dustin Keller this week in practice, he still seems like a player who is another week away from playing.
Most of his time during practices this week was spent with trainers, not coaches.
If Keller does manage to play, he, Jeff Cumberland, and perhaps Konrad Reuland and Dedric Epps could make some hay against the Dolphins’ pass defense.
Last week, in their win over Oakland, the Dolphins allowed TE Brandon Myers to catch six passes for 86 yards. Myers seemed to have a lot of room to work . . .
It was kind of strange seeing Joe McKnight play Reggie Bush on the scout team.
Remember when McKnight went to USC, he followed Bush, and the former Heisman Trophy winner’s shadow turned out to be too much for him, and Joe is the first to admit it.
So attempting to imitate him today had to be surreal for McKnight . . .
The Jets are going to have a very hard time running the ball against the Miami Dolphins.
While the Dolphins are rebuilding certain aspects of their team under new coach Joe Philbin, the run defense isn’t one of those areas.
Philbin inherited a lot talent in the Front Seven from the Tony Sparano-Bill Parcells days. Have fun trying to run on these cats.
They are led by massive, talented nose tackle Paul Soliai (6-4, 355) who said this week that 100-yard rushing game “isn’t acceptable.”
“We love that man on man, me versus you mentality,” DE Cameron Wake said. “You are not going to run the ball on us.”
So it’s most likely the Jets are going to have to win this game through the air.
This game is a referendum, of sorts, of Mark Sanchez.
Since the Jets are going to struggle running in SunLife Stadium, and the Dolphins have a vulnerable secondary, if he can’t take advantage of that, the Jets have a problem at quarterback,
there is no way around it.
I expect the Jets defense to dominate rookie and two-year college starter Ryan Tannehill, especially with Revis back. I think Tannehill is in for a long Sunday.
But they are also going to need Sanchez to step up.
Let’s see if he can do it.
September 21, 2012
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