{"id":2909,"date":"2009-09-13T15:33:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T20:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2019-11-28T08:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:02:26","slug":"rexs-jets-top-texans-24-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2009\/09\/13\/rexs-jets-top-texans-24-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Rex&#8217;s Jets Top Texans 24-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rex Ryan era of New York Jets football is off to a good start.\u00a0 The NY Jets beat the Houston Texans by a score of 24 to 7.\u00a0 Rex&#8217;s defense?\u00a0 They didn&#8217;t give up any points.\u00a0 They played as advertised; physical, smart and aggressive.\u00a0 They had two sacks an interception and seemed to knock Texan&#8217;s quarterback down on just about every play.\u00a0 The did everything well on defense and it was a total team effort.\u00a0 Props to Vernon Gholston for stepping up and making some big plays.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez didn&#8217;t look like a rookie for most of the day.\u00a0 He did throw one pass late in the game that he later said, &#8220;he wished he could have back&#8221; as it was intercepted and returned for a touchdown.\u00a0 On 3rd down, Sanchez played like a veteran.\u00a0 Overall on the day Mark Sanchez was 18\/31 with 272 yards passing (1 TD, 1 Int).<\/p>\n<p>The Jets receivers played well with Jerricho Cotchery, Chansi Stuckey and Dustin Keller (TE) all have very good games.\u00a0 The ground game was non-existent in the first half but they opened it up in the second half as Thomas Jones and Leon Washington combined for 35 carries and 167 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Jets fans are talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/\">game balls<\/a> in our forums.\u00a0 Who would you give the game ball to?\u00a0 Next up is the home opener on 9\/20\/09 against the New England Patriots.\u00a0 The Jets are going to exhale, smile and enjoy this victory today.\u00a0 They deserve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rex Ryan era of New York Jets football is off to a good start.\u00a0 The NY Jets beat the Houston Texans by a score of 24 to 7.\u00a0 Rex&#8217;s defense?\u00a0 They didn&#8217;t give up any points.\u00a0 They played as advertised; physical, smart and aggressive.\u00a0 They had two sacks an interception and seemed to knock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-KV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","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=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47661,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/47661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}