Daily Links – 01/16/2010
With defense and running game, New York Jets feel San Diego Chargers will wilt in slug-fest
On the day he was introduced as coach, Rex Ryan vowed to transform the Jets into the most physical team in the NFL. It wasn’t a hot-air promise. They went from big mouth to smash mouth. The Jets believe they can beat up any opponent, and when they look at the pass-happy Chargers…well, let’s just say they wonder if the Bolts can take a punch. No one used the word “soft,” but there’s a palpable confidence in the Jets’ locker room, a feeling they can Ground and Pound them into the Qualcomm Stadium turf. “This is the brawler versus the boxer,” linebacker Bart Scott said Thursday. “We’d come in, of course, as the brawler.”
Rex Ryan, New York Jets are building something special
The Jets are building something here, anybody can see that now, something to last in the AFC East and in pro football. It really started last year, a team that was 8-3 before the roof fell in on Brett Favre and everybody else. Now it looks like they might be about to start a good long run, because of youth and talent on both sides of the ball. The Patriots don’t own them, or the division, anymore. And maybe not ever again. And this weekend, the Jets don’t care about any of that. If they know anything about their own franchise, they know that nothing has ever been promised to them from one year to the next. Their fans know they once went right from the AFC Championship Game to Vinny Testaverde popping an Achilles like a champagne cork in the next year’s opener. “Nothing is guaranteed in sports,” the general manager, Mike Tannenbaum, was saying Thursday morning.
Quarterback Mark Sanchez tries to save New York Jets while dad, Nick Sanchez, tries to save lives
It’s starting to get late at the Orange County Fire Authority’s Station No. 6, and Nick Sanchez is trying to relax and ponder the magnitude of what will take place on Sunday in San Diego. Leaning back in his office chair after a long day of training near a desk where a framed picture of his son playing football sits, the fire captain of the Orange County station with the same number his son wears tries to envision what it’s going to be like when Mark Sanchez returns to his roots to play against the San Diego Chargers in an AFC divisional playoff game. Meanwhile, his cell phone won’t stop ringing. Relatives and friends keep calling to congratulate Sanchez, many of them trying to figure out a way to get their hands on what might be the hottest ticket in Southern California.
Jets’ Ryan has been entertaining quote machine
Rex Ryan has been called lots of things in his first season as the New York Jets coach, and it’s hard to argue with any of them. Funny. Outrageous. Brash. Cocky. Confident. Call him whatever you want, but one thing’s for sure: Ryan has been consistently entertaining. He speaks his mind, whether you like it or not, and apologizes for nothing. And, the more the Jets win, the more attention Ryan’s words get. “I just build our guys up,” Ryan said. “If it’s trash talking that I believe in our football team, then, yes, I agree with that statement. I’m the biggest trash talker there is. I don’t disrespect anybody else. I just have confidence in our football team. I don’t mean to be disrespectful at all to opponents.”
Indianapolis Colts prepare to face Baltimore Ravens tough defense in AFC divisional showdown
Tom Brady one week, Peyton Manning the next. No problem, just recycle the game plan. Six days after embarrassing the third-seeded Patriots with a 33-14 victory in the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs, the sixth-seeded Ravens will take the same approach tonight against the top-seeded Colts in an AFC divisional showdown. The formula for another Baltimore upset remains the same: pressure the quarterback, force turnovers and run the ball to chew up the clock and keep the quarterback off the field. The Jets may boast the league’s top-ranked defense, but as evidenced by forcing Brady into four turnovers, sacking him three times and holding the Patriots to 64 yards rushing last week, Rex Ryan’s former charges in Baltimore still strike fear in opposing huddles. Just because Ryan is no longer their defensive coordinator doesn’t mean Ravens mainstays Ray Lewis, Ed Reed and Terrell Suggs aren’t up to their old tricks.
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