Though the New York Jets have more than a few guys who like to chirp, that fact doesn’t mean that none of them will ever make good sense.
Today, linebacker Bart Scott offered up some astute observations regarding his team’s chances of making good on coach Rex Ryan’s boast that the Jets should be favored to win the Super Bowl.
“We are just going in there with a sense and understanding of what type of moment we’re in,” Scott said of Sunday’s rematch with the Colts in comments distributed by the team. “Four quarters and we’re going to the Super Bowl. The opponent really doesn’t matter. To get to the Super Bowl, no team has an easy ride. Everybody has to go through something. If you want to earn the right to go to the Super Bowl you have to go through teams that you are not supposed to beat.
“Look at the [2005] Pittsburgh Steelers. When they made their run the first time, they had to go through the Colts, they had to go through the tough teams. It’s never going to be easy. Anybody has the chance against anybody. We don’t have to be the better team, we just have to be the better team that day.”
He’s right on the money. There are three more games that count. One team will win two of them and thus the Super Bowl, not by being the better team on paper or by having the most regular-season wins or the most first downs or yards gained but by scoring more points than the opponent in the next two games played.
It could be the Jets, the Colts, the Saints, or the Vikings. Sure, the Colts and Saints have a better chance to get to the final game because they play at home, but each of the four teams that won last weekend is capable of winning next weekend -- and two weekends thereafter.
So while roughly half of the first eight games of the 2009 playoffs won’t make any NFL Films top ten lists that don’t include the word “boring,” each of the last three could end up being incredibly memorable.
We hope.
