On Sunday the New York Jets travel up to western New York to take on the\u00a0 Buffalo Bills in a huge AFC match-up.\u00a0 On Wednesday several Jets players shared their thoughts on the upcoming game against the Bills, their ability to play better coming off of a bye week, as well as on the difficulty of the next 2 games which also includes the Patriots.<\/p>\n
Santonio Holmes<\/strong><\/p>\n On coming off the bye week\u2026<\/p>\n “I think it\u2019s putting in as much effort as we put in the game before going into the bye week. We pretty much have to come out with that same effort and intensity and give it to these guys come Sunday. We know what is at stake right now. Going up there with another AFC game and a divisional game as well, and we have to make the best of it.”<\/em><\/p>\n On how tough the next two game stretch will be\u2026<\/p>\n “I think this is the best part of football. Once you get that bye week out of the way, everything pretty much lies in front of you, knowing that you control your own destiny. And I think that\u2019s where we are right now.”<\/em><\/p>\n Dustin Keller<\/strong><\/p>\n On the possibility of making big plays against Buffalo\u2019s aggressive defense\u2026<\/p>\n “Without question, and they\u2019ve been getting a lot of turnovers because of those gambles they\u2019ve been making. But, you also could give up a huge play. So when the opportunity comes we\u2019re going to make sure it\u2019s a big play and not a turnover.”<\/p>\n On getting a read on what Buffalo\u2019s secondary does\u2026<\/p>\n “I think they switch it up, they switch it up fairly often, so it\u2019s kind of hard to get a read on them, and so far this season it seems we\u2019ll look at how teams have been playing other teams and try to get a feel for that, and then we go into it and it seems like more times than not we\u2019re seeing something completely different. So you obviously have to study all the gameplans and stuff that they\u2019ve done in the past, but you have to be ready to make a change at any second for a different defense that you haven\u2019t seen all year. And I think these last few games, that\u2019s something we\u2019ve been good at.”<\/em><\/p>\n Bart Scott<\/strong><\/p>\n On the significance of the next two games\u2026<\/p>\n “Of course, we control our own destiny. The two teams that are ahead of us, we play them, and if we\u2019re successful, we\u2019ll be on top. That\u2019s the challenge. Going out and playing two divisional opponents and trying to take control of this division. After everything that has happened and things that have been written and said about us, if we win these next two weeks, we\u2019re right exactly where we want to be.”<\/p>\n On the difference between the Bills offense this year and last year\u2026<\/p>\n “Absolutely no difference, all they\u2019re doing is executing doing what they did and what they\u2019ve always done, they\u2019re just doing it better. They\u2019ve been together, they\u2019ve been able to get some chemistry with each other. Their line is playing up to each other and working well together and they\u2019re just executing well. It\u2019s the same exact plays that they\u2019ve had ever since I\u2019ve been here. They spread you out to run, more of a spread-type of offense. I think now they\u2019re just executing better and they\u2019re not hurting themselves by getting penalties and turning the ball over.”<\/em><\/p>\n On if the team has lost their swagger\u2026<\/p>\n “We\u2019ve faced adversity, Mark (Sanchez\u2019s) rookie year, we experienced two three-game losing streaks. We still believed in each other, we still believed in the coaching staff, and we know we can dig ourselves out of any hole. We don\u2019t want to be in those holes, but we still believe that it\u2019s not over until it\u2019s over. We\u2019ll just keep playing and see what happens. I think we\u2019re finally figuring out how we want to go about winning and how we want to go about playing. And I think even some of those games, like that Patriots game, we may have lost, but that was the first time I believed where we played the way that we wanted to play and dictate our style and our pace on other people. But to say that we had a bit of an identity crisis at the beginning of the year, I think a lot of teams were trying to figure out how they were going to go about the season.”<\/em><\/p>\n As expected the player’s are saying all of the right things as the challenge in front of the team is pretty obvious.\u00a0 If Gang Green can take care of business against the Bills and Patriots, they can make a legitimate run at a division title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Sunday the New York Jets travel up to western New York to take on the\u00a0 Buffalo Bills in a huge AFC match-up.\u00a0 On Wednesday several Jets players shared their thoughts on the upcoming game against the Bills, their ability to play better coming off of a bye week, as well as on the difficulty […]<\/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-9708","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-2wA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708","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=9708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9711,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions\/9711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}