{"id":1112,"date":"2007-10-05T22:30:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T03:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2007-10-05T22:30:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T03:30:41","slug":"week-five-preview-jets-at-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2007\/10\/05\/week-five-preview-jets-at-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Five Preview: Jets at Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tom Kiss<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week, in Buffalo, the New York Jets lost an opportunity to reach .500.\u00c2\u00a0 By letting a banged up Bills team with a rookie quarterback beat them, the Jets fell to 1 and 3.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last week was a game that the Jets should have won since they are simply the better team.\u00c2\u00a0 Chad Pennington played well but made two very costly interceptions.\u00c2\u00a0 The offensive line, a week after a stellar performance against the Dolphins, looked like it took two steps back against a Bills defense that had been very poor until facing the Jets.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Giants, on the other hand, are coming off of two straight wins, including an 11 sack defensive performance on Sunday night against the Philadelphia Eagles.\u00c2\u00a0 This presents a dangerous and important game for the Jets this week, as a 1-4 start would ultimately destroy the Jets season.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

When the Jets have the ball:
\nThomas Jones is a key to the Jets offense.\u00c2\u00a0 In the only 100-yard performance of his early Jet career, Jones ran the Jets to victory.\u00c2\u00a0 In the other three games he has averaged just 48 yards per game.\u00c2\u00a0 This is something that must be improved on for the Jets to have a shot this week.\u00c2\u00a0 The offensive line, D’Brick being highly important again this week, must allow the running game to be successful otherwise the Giants could be teeing off on Pennington all day.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking of Pennington, the Jets must find a way to move the ball downfield.\u00c2\u00a0 Last week Pennington looked like he was almost afraid to go downfield much of time, dumping passes off to Leon Washington all over the place.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, if the running game can be successful, the Jets can take advantage of a relatively weak Giants secondary by utilizing the play action.\u00c2\u00a0 The Jet offensive line is the key to this game, and look for them to struggle at times against Osi Umenyiora and company.<\/p>\n

When the Giants have the ball:
\nEli Manning looked like he may have turned the corner in week 1 when he put up 4 TDs versus the Cowboys. Since then, however, Manning has looked like the same old Eli, low completion percentage and a bad TD\/INT ratio.\u00c2\u00a0 Look for the Jets to try and create some pressure, something they haven’t done all year, by utilizing the 4-3 more this week.\u00c2\u00a0 Look for the Giants to pick on rookie CB Darrelle Revis much like the Bills did last week while throwing 11 passes his way.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Derrick Ward was drafted by the Jets in the 7th round of 2004, he roomed with Jerricho Cotchery, and then was cut and has been with the Giants the last two seasons.\u00c2\u00a0 This year he has played extremely well since the loss of Brandon Jacobs, gaining over 80 yards in each game thus far.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Jets will look to continue to improve their defense, as they have played better since the end of the third quarter against Baltimore.\u00c2\u00a0 The run defense has looked better the last two weeks, but the defense has to do a better job of halting drives and making opposing teams take 3 instead of 7.<\/p>\n

Match-up of the game: D’Brick & Anthony Clement vs. Umenyiora and Michael Strahan
\nThe bookends of the Jet offensive lines have their hands full this week.\u00c2\u00a0 Ferguson will have to work hard to keep Umenyiora off Chads back, but the scariest match up is on the other side of the line.\u00c2\u00a0 The Jets may send help to D’Brick, but Strahan could very easily handle Anthony Clement all day long.<\/p>\n

Prediction:
\nNYJ 20 – NYG 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tom Kiss Last week, in Buffalo, the New York Jets lost an opportunity to reach .500.\u00c2\u00a0 By letting a banged up Bills team with a rookie quarterback beat them, the Jets fell to 1 and 3.\u00c2\u00a0 Last week was a game that the Jets should have won since they are simply the better team.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[258,36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-new-york-jets-game-previews","7":"category-tom-kiss"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-hW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}