Featured Editorials
The Top 10 Jet Moments (Past 10 Years)
By Tyson Rauch Jetnation.com Columnist With the holiday season quickly approaching with joy and cheer in the air, we decided to look back at the top 10 Jets moments over the past 10 years. #10) April 20, 1996 — New York City – The chants began increasing in volume as the time approached. Keyshawn Johnson… Read more
Mid-Season Awards – AFC
By Frank Barone Jetnation Columnist AFC Coach of the Year – Tie Tony Dungy and Marvin Lewis The Colts are the best team in the AFC right now, and they have finally shown improvement on defense, positioning themselves capable of winning it all. Lewis has changed the mentality with the Bengals, who lead their division… Read more
Face the facts: It is Chad or Bust in 2006
By Tyson Rauch Jetnation.com Columnist Open your eyes, Jets fans! You want to see your leader for 2006?? Look no further than #10 Chad Pennington. Think I am crazy? Well, let’s analyze this a little bit. 1) All about the almighty dollar: Chad’s salary and his cap hit forbid the Jets from getting rid of… Read more
May The Curse Be With You
By Jet/Bosox Fan Guest Columnist Well, well, well, Yankee fans, here we are at the end of another season and for the fifth straight year we have NOTHING to show for it. In “JBF’s Preseason Forecastâ€? I laid out the oncoming year as I saw it and 99% of you laughed when you saw that… Read more
Some Things Never Change
by Tyson Rauch JetNation Columnist Angry. Annoyed. Frustrated. Depressed. Pissed Off. Embarrassed. Then there are the sayings: “Same Old Jetsâ€?, “Just End the Seasonâ€?, “Played Hardâ€?, “Learning new schemesâ€?. Does it ever end with the New York Jets? It is the same thing over and over, year after year. All of the diehard fans knew… Read more
The JetNation Report Card: Jets vs. Bills
by Tom Shane JetNation Editor The Jets hung in and slugged it out against the Bills, but lost 27-17. QUARTERBACK: C- Vinny Testaverde (12 of 26, 2 INT’s) was fairly efficient for most of the day, firing darts to Justin McCareins and Lavernues Coles when he was given time to throw. Unfortunately for Vinny and… Read more
Buffaloed
by TomShane JetNation Editor This is exactly the way it was drawn up during the off-season: The Jets, spending the Fall battling for their share of first place in the AFC East, Curtis Martin following up his league rushing title with twisting, darting jaunts down the field, leading the Jets to victory. Except that the… Read more
Paying (Back) the Bills: Jets-Bills Preview
by TomShane JetNation Editor Almost an entire year has passed since Chad Pennington hit the turf at Ralph Wilson Stadium. He still hasn’t gotten all the way back up, and neither has the Jets franchise. So it will be something like Custer returning to Little Big Horn on Sunday when the Jets return to Buffalo… Read more
YO VINNY!!!! OY NUGENT!!!!
by Alex Parziale JetNation Columnist On a Sunday afternoon where all eyes were on the return of Vinny Testaverde, the last drive of the game made you forget Vinny and think back to the two missed FG attempts by our first pick in the 2005 draft, Mike Nugent. Nugent, who said during draft day interviews… Read more
The Buc Stops Here: Vinny, Defense, Beat Tampa Bay
by Tom Shane JetNation Person With Chad Pennington waving a white towel on the sidelines, making like most Jets fans who have been waving the white flag since #10 went down for the season, the Jets pulled off a huge upset Sunday, beating the previously undefeated Tampa Bay Buccaneers 14-12 at the Meadowlands. Stepping in… Read more
From Football to Hardball: MLBers that could have been NFLers
by Rigs JetNation and DraftDaddy.com Columnist With the Major League Baseball playoffs getting started, we thought we’d do something different at Draft Daddy, by looking at some current Major League baseball players who once played prominent roles as college football players and a few others that where signed or recruited to play big time college… Read more
All Wrong: The Terry and Herm Regime in Retrospect
by JetMoses JetNation Columnist I’ve never been able to figure out Herman Edwards and Terry Bradway. When they took over in 2001, did they think this was a “win nowâ€? team? There are things they have done that would indicate they did, such as re-signing Curtis Martin and Wayne Chrebet to long-term contracts. Or did… Read more