Late-breaking prediction
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- November
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A little behind on this weekly feature but…
Redskins 14, Jets 10 – Pete Kendall catches two touchdown passes after reporting as an eligible receiver.
As Kendall might say, that would show an incredible espirit du corps.
My real thoughts on the game are that the Jets’ offense will definitely get a bump from Kellen Clemens, mainly because at least now the rest of the players know what direction the team is going. This QB thing has hung over them for about a month; it wasn’t easy on them, no matter what they say publicly. We’ll get the inactives shortly (which I’ll post) but I daresay Laveranues Coles will be inactive. Everybody, including his mother, hopes, for his own sake, that he takes it easy this week.
I just don’t think the defense is good enough right now to win an NFL game. And that’s just about it for analysis, pretty much begins and ends there.
Meanwhile, still shaking off the effects of a great Van Halen concert last night here at the Meadowlands. Have to admit, didn’t go in with high expectations because the VH boys have been through a lot and David Lee Roth didn’t have the greatest voice even when he was young.
But I’ll tell you what, they were in-freakin’-credible. What impressed me most was they took the stage at 8:55 and played straight through till 11. Literally, one song ran into the next, no long-winded stage talk from DLR, no milking the audience for applause, just rock. Even the encore came with minimal effort. They played Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love, DLR said, “Thanks, good night,’’ and three walked off stage while Eddie stayed on for an insane guitar solo. Then they came back for Jump, which, to be honest, I really could have down without.
But Unchained was off the hook, as was Everybody Wants Some and Somebody Get Me a Doctor.
Good, good stuff, surprisingly so.
Only bad part was searching the Meadowlands parking lot for a half hour trying to remember where we parked. We were all turned around. Luckily, we found the car before we had to take a ride in the Loser Van – the van that drives around the Meadowlands parking lot after events helping people find their car. My buddy once rode in that for about two hours.
Also, a funny scene from the Verizon Wireless store in Nanuet the other day. A couple is getting a new phone and, in the meantime, they spy a Jets cell phone case. They asked the Verizon representative if those were being given away for free now since the team was doing so badly.



Jane McManus 







Let’s just hope that the Jets allow Clemens to open up the playbook and take some shots today. I know Mangini constantly preaches the situation, etc in regards to playcalling, but if Kellen comes in and launches a couple of throws, he will get this crowd fired up, make the Skins take notice and hopefully loosen things up. He will make mistakes today, possibly a pick or two, but hopefully the line will give him some time and let him do some good things.
2nd late breking prediction-Justin McCareins will be the NFL offensive player of the week!! (Knowing this regime, he will probably be inactive today)