{"id":6613,"date":"2010-12-09T08:24:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T12:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2010-12-09T08:48:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T12:48:37","slug":"new-york-jets-playoff-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2010\/12\/09\/new-york-jets-playoff-scenarios\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Jets playoff scenarios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the blowout loss to the Patriots still resonates it is time for Jets nation to move on to the final quarter of the season.\u00a0 With four games remaining Gang Green continues to have one of the best records in the AFC and could possibly clinch a playoff spot this weekend.\u00a0 Here are the scenarios:<\/p>\n<p>1)    NYJ win + SD loss or tie + JAX loss or tie\u00a0 <strong>OR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2)    NYJ win + SD loss or tie + IND loss or tie\u00a0  <strong>OR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3)  NYJ tie + OAK loss or tie + SD loss + IND loss<\/p>\n<p>So while everything may seem like doom and gloom, when was the last time the Jets could clinch a playoff spot in week 14?<\/p>\n<p><strong>News and Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1) No Jets to the Pro-Bowl?<\/strong> Based on the recent numbers released by the NFL, not one Jet is the leading vote getter at their position (fan vote).\u00a0 Some interesting leaders:<\/p>\n<p>Center: Jeff Saturday -Colts<\/p>\n<p>Cornerback:\u00a0 Nnamdi Asomugha &#8211; Raiders<\/p>\n<p>Offensive tackle: Andre Whitworth -Bengals<\/p>\n<p>Guard:\u00a0 Eric Steinback &#8211;\u00a0 Browns<\/p>\n<p>The overall leading vote getter is <strong>Mike Vick<\/strong> 729,838 votes, followed by <strong>Peyton Manning<\/strong> 691,146, and <strong>Tom Brady<\/strong> 623,074<\/p>\n<p>To vote for your favorite players go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/probowl\">NFL.com\/ProBowl<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Rex buries ball-<\/strong> Rex Ryan made headlines on Wednesday as he buried the Patriots gameball in order to show the team that everyone is moving on.\u00a0 While this makes for a good story, I would rather hear about how Ryan caught the players attention with a physical practice.\u00a0 The Jets were manhandled and as a team have not been playing crisp for about 5 weeks now.\u00a0 I think it is time for a wake-up call before things get out of hand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Jets will not defer on kickoff-<\/strong> On Wednesday Rex Ryan stated that if the Jets won the opening coin toss they would take the ball instead of the usual deferring.\u00a0 The thinking is that by getting the ball first, the Jets offense will get on track sooner.\u00a0 Not for nothing but to me this is pure silliness.\u00a0 The fact of the matter is that the Jets as a team have been starting out slowly.\u00a0 The defense is having problems getting off of the field in the 1st quarter, while the offense looks like it is stuck in the mud.\u00a0 It all comes down to having the team prepared coming out of the tunnel and not relying on halftime adjustments to save the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the blowout loss to the Patriots still resonates it is time for Jets nation to move on to the final quarter of the season.\u00a0 With four games remaining Gang Green continues to have one of the best records in the AFC and could possibly clinch a playoff spot this weekend.\u00a0 Here are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6613","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-1IF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6620,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}