Okay, so Carolina Panthers (4-7) quarterback Jake Delhomme may be tied for second in the NFL with 18 interceptions this season (yes, even more than our own Mark Sanchez), but that shouldn’t take away from the fact that our defense picked him off 4 times on Sunday, en route to a 17-6 victory. To add to that, we didn’t allow a single touchdown to Carolina, and held their aggressive two-headed rushing combo of DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart to just 75 yards on the ground.
With our defense having underperformed in recent weeks, and our passing game being pretty ineffective as well, at least one of the two needed to improve significantly, and the D really stepped up this past weekend. One of the standouts who definitely deserves mentioning is Pro Bowl cornerback Darrelle Revis, who had 2 of the Jets’ 4 interceptions on Sunday, running one of them back 67 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter. Revis, who many have argued is the best CB in the league right now, put New York (5-6) up 7-0 early — a lead they would never relinquish. “That was a sigh of relief,” Revis said. “That was an easy score right there. It doesn’t get any better than that to start us off.”
It’s always a good feeling when your team scores first in a game, and especially in one which you absolutely need to win to keep any hopes of making the playoffs alive. And that’s exactly what this game was — and just about every one from here on out will be.
While he may not have been playing all that well lately, our rookie quarterback — “The Sanchize,” which he is often referred to as — did give us Jets fans a bit of a scare Sunday when he took a while to get up after being tackled out of bounds on a QB scramble. Having hurt his left knee, he only missed one offensive series (4 plays), and was back in action for the next drive, during which his first pass was intercepted. Luckily, it didn’t cost us the game, as his mistakes have done multiple times over the course of this season. But then again, he IS just a rookie…
Sanchez should play against Bills
Looking ahead to Week 13, we are playing the Thursday game against Buffalo (4-7), so we have a short week to prepare. We still have some hope of sneaking into the playoffs, with both the Pats (7-4) and Dolphins (5-6) losing this week. However, we still have a ways to go. All we can do is take it one week at a time…
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