There wasn't any beer on sale at the Meadowlands during today's overtime Jets win. That meant 65 minutes of the Herman Edwards Bowl had to be witnessed stone cold sober by the hardy souls who braved a rainy, miserable day in New York just to watch their team try to win a meaningless game. That's just not right. It took me a fifth of scotch, two 40s of OE and a polo mallet just to make it to halftime. By the time Mike Nugent made two field goals, one was negated by penalty, to win the game 13-10 in the extra period I was on a morphine drip, scraping every drop of Sterno out of a can and grinding up bumblebees to snort.
God knows I wasn't playing this one naked. There were 18 punts, 35 incomplete passes, 13 penalties and the teams combined to convert 6-of-32 third downs. There weren't even any turnovers to make things interesting, just inept offenses running a few plays before sending a guy in to punt. That 18 number doesn't even include a roughing the kicker penalty or Jon McGraw's fake of a K.C. punt. That means there were 20 times teams were in a punt formation. Not that I was counting or anything.
The longest play of the game was a pass by a running back. Leon Washington found Wallace Wright, who unlike his brother William never sacked York, for 36 yards to set up the Jets lone touchdown. Gang Green did run for 199 yards but couldn't turn all of those yards into much by way of points. That scoring drive featured just six yards on the ground, you see, and they couldn't even use that effort to run out the clock.
Brodie Croyle found Jeff Webb for a touchdown with three minutes to play and sent the game to the extra 15 minutes nobody really wanted to see. Croyle was forced to throw the ball 43 times because Kolby Smith left the game with an injury in the first quarter. Jackie Battle, a player with whom I was not familiar, took over at tailback and did about as well as you'd expect from the fourth-string tailback on a four win team.
Anyway, Croyle looked as shaky as he has all season and so did Kellen Clemens of the Jets. There are tons of combines and workouts to come but if Matt Ryan, Andre' Woodson and/or Brian Brohm blow people away each of these teams will be given a lot of local pressure to take a quarterback. They both have other needs, of course, but that's life at the top of the draft.
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12-31-2007 @ 2:56AM
Joe Blow said...
Hey, where's that die-hard Chiefs fan Dan Benton to tell us how to enjoy this fantastic...what, 8th or 9th consecutive week of losing? You know, nothing but sad-sack "home town" bloggers writing for us plebeians to tell us how to enjoy the ridiculous amount of losing we should Get Over With (tm)?
Not to totally pile on Dan Benton, though...There was that awesome Priest Holmes bit for him. He totally set me straight by telling me to get over a money-grubbing spotlight-seeking has-been because I didn't know Kansas City. Pretty odd thing to hear from a Giants fan -- especially for someone who grew up in Kansas City and bleeds Chiefs Red.
I mean, he proved time and again that he didn't really know anything about the Chiefs, he just randomly covered their one-off "national" stories, then went back to insulting everyone who commented..
It's kind of like how there was always a, "Five Questions with an Enemy Blogger" in the Chiefs FanHouse, but was always an interview with someone who knew absolutely nothing about the Chiefs. Never anyone on their side. Nobody ever asked for a Chiefs-side interview.
But there always was Dan Benton there to make fun of the team, just because...no one would expect otherwise.
What a jackass.
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12-31-2007 @ 8:45AM
frank said...
whatta joke , an embaressment , a pitifull way to end the season . to have to watch 2 of the worst teams with the 2 worst HCs that get praise from the press cause of the players that bailed their a**** out . hermmy and manasswipe . dumb and dumber .,,,,,,, I had to laugh when i swtched back and saw they were going into OT . lmffaooooo, here are 2 teams vying for a high draft pick and their fighting tooth and nail to win, ummm, lose, ummmmmmm , i don't know , You tell me ! I could understand if it were any other game , finishing on a stretch of wins , but the LAST FRIGGIN GAME ?????
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12-31-2007 @ 9:00AM
Dan Benton said...
Joe - With each loss, you get angrier and angrier. Don't worry, there is always next year. Go Chiefs!
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12-31-2007 @ 9:31AM
frank said...
OK, last gush for '07 . anyone know of a fan-steriod for watching games ??? Leon averaged 4.9 yds. last yr . TJ came in and looked as if he enjoyed running into brick walls . Then they "tell" Mr. Pete Kendall to take a hike , cause of a few bucks , Good Luck in Sea. Pete . Noodle-arm is a noshow in preseason , ahhh , theres hope . But Nooooooo, lets watch the dink and dunk till we all throwup . Vilma episode ???? I'm still clueless !!! ,,, Then Tennessee comes to the Meadowlands w/ one of the best Jets that ever wore Green . And there you have it , " Eric didnt like what I had to say " ! ....Mawea said , Enjoy the '08 playoffs Kev, you deserve it . >>>>> all the wrong calls ;QBsneak , ummm no FB ? >>>3 Timeouts left and does't use any of em ,Loss,go figure.>>> Down by 3 goes-for-it , no FG , loses by 3 , Twice. >>>countless ints. by Jet DBs and runs the ball . this is a simple case of the Ocoor. not going for the jugler on a free-bee. >>>Tanembaum did'nt see the disaster when he did'nt respect the foundation of a football team and went for the gloryboy instead . Its all about the TRENCHES . Old school . get your head outta your ass . get a HC thats a go-getter and win games . its simple . its not something 12 yr. old boys can't do . Go Jets , in '08.
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