Seriously pissed off

I was so excited for this game against Green Bay. With no Jets game last week, I was looking forward to this game that much more. The Packers had no defensive linemen to speak of. Half the team is on injured reserve. And they cannot run the football. I said as long as the Jets didn't play dumb, they would win. That meant keep the penalties down and don't turn the football over. The bottom line is this:

Penalties: GB 3-15, Jets 7-55.
Turnovers: GB 0, Jets 3.
Dropped passes: Jets: 200 and 198 of those were by the normally sure-handed Jerricho Cotchery. Not to mention this pivotal moment. First possession of the second half. The Jets were starting to play better and better despite not putting any points up. Now it's 3rd and 7. Mark Sanchez spots Santonio Holmes running a short cross route. There are no defenders in the picture. If he catches this, it's a 15 yard gain. It's a first down at the very least. The ball hits him right in the hands and bounces off to the turf. An absolute back-breaking drop by Santonio Holmes. The Jets punt.

Next possession, Cotchery has his one good play of the game. A 49-yard pass play puts the ball on the GB 28. First down, Shonn Greene runs for 8 yards. Then he runs for 5 more, getting a first down in the GB red zone. But oh no, holding on Nick Mangold! So it's now 2nd and 12 and Sanchez throws two incomplete passes. Nick Folk shanks the field goal wide right. The Jets continue to trail 3-0 and they would never get so close again in the game.

Norm Hitzges taught me well when he said that yards gained is for suckers. The total count: GB 236, Jets 360. What does that say? One, the Jets had terrible field position the whole game; two, they could not sustain a drive against a depleted defense; three, they turned the ball over.

Oh, and it was Come Thirsty's annual get-together at Rookie's. Ten of us there. What a mistake that was.

The next 4 games are at Detroit, at Cleveland, Houston, and Cincinnati on Thanksgiving night. Nothing less than 4-0 in those games will be acceptable.