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The Jets, coming off a narrow victory against the Vikings, seek to put their win streak at five games with a W over the Broncos. The secondary will be tested by the Orton to Lloyd combo, aka the #1 passing offense in the league. With Revis' hamstring issues, Cromartie and the rest of the secondary will have to step up. The Jets passing offense is searching for the rhythm they had two games ago, and hopefully Sanchez will have better chemistry with Holmes with two weeks together. This game will be on the back of the players' minds throughout the bye week, so a win here would be huge. Here's some music to keep in the back of your mind as we wait for the game to commence.

J-E-T-S! JETS JETS JETS!!!

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Jets 42 - Broncos 3.

The Jets somehow manage to keep the modern day Montana to Rice combo of Orton to Lloyd in check. Not solely because of our superb defense but rather because the two will realize that they are Kyle ******* Orton and Brandon "not the future" Lloyd and that they both actually suck Favre cock.

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N.Y. Jets at Denver

UPGRADE: Eddie Royal, LaDanian Tomlinson

DOWNGRADE: Knowshon Moreno, Laurence Maroney

Kyle Orton's on an unsustainable pace right now, just shy of Drew Bledsoe's record 691 attempts in 1994. Then again, he's healthy, which is more than we can say for the Broncos running game. Moreno practiced some this week, so there's a chance he'll be in the mix, but don't expect a full load of carries. Without a running game, Orton's been forced to put the ball up early and often. Moreno's return to production could limit that. He's a downgrade because I feel that too many fantasy players will rush to put him in, thinking he's ready to put up the big numbers they drafted him for. He's not. Damaryius Thomas is a GTD after a concussion, but he did practice. The Broncos D/ST is banged up as well, which could help both Mark Sanchez and LaDainian Tomlinson. For the Jets, Darrelle Revis and Calvin Pace are both GTDs. I'd expect Pace to be spotted in, while Revis is more likely right now to not suit up. He's one I'll be watching closely, but keep in mind this is a late game. If you're looking to play Orton or Royal, go ahead. Revis's presence will be a diminished one if he plays at all, so make your decision absent his effect.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/will_carroll/10/16/week6.medcheck/index.html?eref=sihp#ixzz12cMzce9h

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Schottenheimer-Mangold spat highlights Jets offense’s urgency

DENVER — As the Jets concluded their final meetings on Friday before leaving for the Mile High City, center Nick Mangold and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer were working through a difference of opinion. Mangold wanted more freedom to alter certain calls at the line of scrimmage. Schottenheimer didn’t think it was necessary.

Mangold figured he’d earned the right to have that kind of flexibility being a Pro Bowl veteran and all. Schottenheimer apparently disagreed.

“He’s holding me back,” Mangold said in the Jets locker room after apparently failing to get his way.

On the scale of 1 to 10, it was about a 2 as far as any internal rift is concerned. But it does suggest the search for making the Jets offense as dominant as its defense is an ongoing process with no shortage of opinions on how to get there.

There has been plenty of concern this week over whether cornerback Darrelle Revis will play against the Broncos (2-3) today at Invesco Field. But it really shouldn’t matter if the Jets offense does what it’s supposed to do against a banged-up Broncos defense that allowed 415 total yards, including 233 rushing, in its 31-17 loss to the Ravens last week.

Today’s game is all about the Jets offense, or at least it should be. We’ve seen enough of Rex Ryan’s defense to know it’s going to hold its own even against a Broncos offense that ranks fourth in the NFL averaging 384.8 yards per game. It’s time for the Jets offense, ranked tied for 15th at 337.2 yards per game, to start putting all its talented pieces together and become as feared as the team’s defense.

“Obviously, when you have a defensive head coach and the top-rated defense in the league coming from last year, you know that you have to pull your weight,” Schottenheimer said. “We think we’ve done a good job of that, but we’re just getting started. We’re not pleased with where we’re at.”

The Jets offense knows it got lucky on Monday night. It produced zero touchdowns on four visits to the Minnesota red zone and was vulnerable to a Brett Favre comeback. The Jets exhaled only after cornerback Dwight Lowery intercepted a Favre pass and returned it 26 yards for the final touchdown with 1:30 to play.

It’s a scenario that can’t often be repeated if the Jets (4-1) want to be as good as they believe they can be. This isn’t the 2000 Ravens, for whom the offense was simply window dressing for a Super Bowl team. With LaDainian Tomlinson looking better than anyone expected and a receiving corps that now includes Santonio Holmes, the Jets shouldn’t be a team that needs to be saved by its defense.

Today’s game could be a springboard to the rest of the season. With three starters and two reserves out on the Denver defense, the Jets should be able to dominate especially with their running game even in the mile high altitude.

“If we’re dehydrating our running backs, I’ll take it,” Ryan said. “[Denver] gave up 200-something yards to Baltimore last week. They don’t want to [give that up again] because that’s an embarrassing thing for a defense, so they’re going to try to put them all down there. Sometimes, it leads to big plays with the passing game and the running game.”

That’s what the Jets are supposed to be built to do: beat teams with the ground-and-pound and with big plays in the running and passing game. It’s why inefficiency in the red zone is unacceptable. Quarterbacks coach Matt Cavanaugh emphasized that point on Friday with a lecturing tone that caught the players’ attention.

“It definitely woke people back up,” guard Brandon Moore said. “Being average is not the way we want to be perceived. We know we’re better.”

Today, they can prove it.

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Denver ’dogs in for rough day at ‘pound’

By MARK CANNIZZARO

DENVER — Today’s Jets-Broncos matchup seems on the surface like a game of little deception. The Jets are going to run the ball and the Broncos are going to pass it.

The question is, can the three-point underdog Broncos stop the Jets second-ranked rushing attack? The Jets don’t think so.

“They two-gap and the word has it they have a hard time shedding blocks,” tackle Wayne Hunter said. “So it’s on us as a offensive line to open up the gaps. We’re real confident running the ball. We feel like we can run the ball on anybody. Our whole mentality is ground-and-pound.”

On the other side of the ball, it doesn’t seem as if the Broncos’ 32nd-ranked running game is capable of even the ground part of that equation.

“We know they’re a team that’s struggling to run the football, but they’re second in the league in passing the ball,” linebacker Bart Scott said.

“It’s certainly not what we wanted,” Denver coach Josh McDaniels said. “We’re striving to become more balanced.”

McDaniels, too, is wary of the Jets’ attacking defense having to pass the ball so often.

“Rex [Ryan] does an excellent job of never really letting you get comfortable,” McDaniels said. “He changes his looks up front and they do a great job of disguising. They just continue to put pressure on you.”

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Ryan, perhaps unwittingly while praising Darrelle Revis, tweaked Broncos CB Champ Bailey, perennially one the best corners in the league. These were Ryan’s words on Bailey: “He’s a heck of a football player. Is he [the best corner]? He was the No. 1 corner in the league. I think right now he’s probably two or three. We have the No. 1 guy [Revis]. I think Champ will tell you that.”

For the record, Bailey did, indeed, say before the season he thought Revis was the best corner in the league. . . . Today will mark a special event for Jets offensive line coach Bill Callahan. His son, Brian, is in his first season as an offensive assistant for the Broncos.

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Jets vs. Broncos matchup

Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Record

Jets (4-1) vs. Broncos (2-3)

Invesco Field at Mile High

Today, 4:05

TV: Ch. 2

Radio: ESPN-AM 1050

Line: Jets by 3

WHAT’S AT STAKE

Jets: A victory here would enable the Jets to go into their bye week at 5-1 and in sole possession of first place in the AFC East over New England (3-1), which hosts Baltimore today. And as QB Mark Sanchez jokingly said, "if we lose all the games all year, at least win the one on your bye week because you’re going back home to see all your old buddies and you don’t want to talk about a loss." Sanchez, in a more serious vein, noted how the Jets’ loss to Miami heading into their bye week last season bothered him throughout the time off.

Broncos: Denver mostly is trying to keep from adding to a massive injury list with five players out for this game, including starters CB Andre’ Goodman and S Brian Dawkins. Plus, sack specialist Elvis Dumervil was lost for the season with a training-camp injury. Still, the Broncos haven’t fallen out of contention in the muddled AFC West, as they are in a three-way tie for second place with Oakland and underachieving San Diego behind surprising Kansas City (3-1).

KEY MATCHUPS

Jets CB Antonio Cromartie vs. Broncos WR Brandon Lloyd

With Darrelle Revis listed as questionable and his availability possibly being a game-time decision, look for Cromartie to get the assignment of shadowing Lloyd, who leads the NFL with 589 receiving yards and nine catches of 25 yards or more this season. Cromartie did well in two separate matchups with Randy Moss, and his speed and quickness should help him against the swift Lloyd.

Jets WR Braylon Edwards vs. Broncos CB Champ Bailey

Long before Revis entered the league, Bailey was the gold standard for active corners. And the nine-time Pro Bowler still is very good. He allowed four catches for 65 yards (but no touchdowns) to Indianapolis’ Reggie Wayne in Week 3 and held Baltimore’s Anquan Boldin to one reception last week. Sanchez likes to target Edwards in the red zone, where he can use his guile and 6-foot-3 frame to make plays.

HOW THEY’LL WIN

Jets: Sanchez exploits a banged-up secondary with the Jets’ numerous talented wideouts plus TE Dustin Keller, who had only two catches against Minnesota after garnering 17 receptions in the previous three games. And don’t forget that RB LaDainian Tomlinson has 20 career TDs against Denver, the most of any individual against the Broncos. The Jets’ stout run defense has little trouble against a Denver rushing attack averaging an NFL-low 2.3 yards per carry and pressures QB Kyle Orton.

Broncos: Despite not having much of a running game, Denver’s prolific passing attack keeps going behind Orton, who has thrown for more than 300 yards in each of Denver’s last four games. Orton is helped by the fact that the Broncos just played Baltimore, which has some similar defensive concepts as the Jets. And despite the Jets making sure to stay rested before the game and hydrated during it, the altitude does bother them a little in their first visit here since 2005, especially coming off a short week.

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Schottenheimer-Mangold spat highlights Jets offense’s urgency

DENVER — As the Jets concluded their final meetings on Friday before leaving for the Mile High City, center Nick Mangold and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer were working through a difference of opinion. Mangold wanted more freedom to alter certain calls at the line of scrimmage. Schottenheimer didn’t think it was necessary.

Mangold figured he’d earned the right to have that kind of flexibility being a Pro Bowl veteran and all. Schottenheimer apparently disagreed.

“He’s holding me back,” Mangold said in the Jets locker room after apparently failing to get his way.

There will be many, many tears shed when Schottenheimerjunior finally takes one of those many Head Coaching jobs he's allegedly offered after every season.

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