Jets vs. Patriots: Can New York Overcome the Odds Tonight?

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00:00Thursday Night Football is back. My beloved New York Jets going up against hated division rival

00:04the New England Patriots. Patriots, by the way, are they beatable? Is someone going to stop this

00:09crazy run as they've now asserted themselves as the best team in the AFC East and are on their

00:16way to a possible number one seed? Consider this, though. With all the success they had in the Tom

00:22Brady era, which went on for two decades there, and all the failures we had as the Jets outside

00:28of the few years where Rex Ryan said, I ain't kissing Bill Belichick's rings, and we beat

00:32them at a playoff game at Foxborough. Tonight's game is the third biggest spread in the history

00:40of the rivalry. There were two times in the Brady era where the Patriots were 20-point favorites

00:46against the New York Jets tonight, and I know it depends where you go, they're essentially

00:51a 14-point, two-touchdown underdog tonight, and yet our head coach is acting like the

00:58cock of the walk because we won a couple games this year. You're a two-touchdown underdog

01:03against the New England Patriots, who are 6-1 in the last seven games against the spread.

01:09Look, I'm a Jet fan. Obviously, I want the Jets to beat New England. Now that we got off

01:14the schneid and we have a couple wins, and it'd be great to put a little win streak together

01:18and maybe show us that our coach can be competent on the sideline, which I've not seen just yet,

01:24and maybe, or maybe, we'll trust our quarterback to throw the ball more than 11 times tonight,

01:30although if it's Justin Fields, probably not.

01:33Game manager.

01:34But we're two touchdown underdogs tonight, and I'm not trying to think back. If you guys

01:39can remember, when's the last primetime game that we all said, that was a great game?

01:45It's been a while now.

01:46Right? It's been a while now.

01:47The Eagle-Packers game stunk.

01:49It was not great.

01:49The Thursday night game before that stunk.

01:52I mean...

01:52The Mondays have stunk. It's been bad.

01:54I'm trying to remember, like, when we had a game Thursday, Monday night, or Sunday night,

01:57where we were like, man, what a hell of a game that was. The NFL gave us a gift.

02:03It's not happening.

02:03Because I can tell you something else. You're not getting it tonight.

02:06No.

02:07We're not getting a good football game tonight. Best case scenario, from a Jet perspective,

02:12they're not down by the two touchdowns at halftime. That's our best scenario.

02:16If they're within 10 at halftime, it's probably a victory.

02:19Sadly, yeah.

02:21If it's 13-3 at the half, you probably would sign for that.

02:23Dude, like, if it's a one-score game after the first quarter, I'm going to feel like,

02:28hey, they gave us a good 15 minutes. Now I can go to bed kind of thing.

02:32I can go to bed.