Oct 12th 2008 7:35PM by Josh Alper (author feed)
Filed under: Bengals, Jets, AFC East, AFC North
After beating the hapless Bengals on Sunday, the New York Jets are 3-2 and very much in the AFC playoff hunt. That’s the good news. The bad news is that they played poorly against a terrible team and look no closer to putting together the kind of complete performance that will make the playoffs a reality.
Their disjointed performance is even more damning when you consider that they had two weeks to prepare for Cincinnati. Given short fields all day thanks to Leon Washington’s fine work on punt returns, the offense played sloppy, ineffective football and failed to convert on many of their opportunities.
Brett Favre committed three turnovers to remind Jet fans that it isn’t all laser beam touchdown passes when you employ the good ol’ gunslinger. His attempt to try and pull a rabbit out of his hat led to a fumble on the third play of the game which Cincinnati returned for a touchdown and early 7-0 lead. Two interceptions followed that miscue and helped keep the Bengals in a game that should have been over well before Thomas Jones’s third touchdown of the day iced it with just over two minutes to play.Continue Reading
