Jets vs. Bengals 11/25/10
The Jets and Bengals battle it out on Thanksgiving night in the Meadowlands.
Cincinnati Bengals (2-8) at New York Jets (8-2)
NFL Football: Thursday November 25, 8:30PM EST
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The New York Jets have become the league’s most exciting team to watch as they continue to take games down to the wire. For four straight games the Jets have won their games inside the final two-minute warning or overtime. The Cincinnati Bengals wish they could have the same finishes the Jets have been producing as they seem to come up short week after week at the end of the game.
The New York Jets will host the Bengals Thanksgiving night and the stadium is sure to be rocking after another late game win last week against the Houston Texans. After giving up 20 points in the fourth quarter to the Texans, the Jets found themselves down four with less than a minute on the clock. After a short pass play, Sanchez hit Tomlinson over the middle who scrambled down the field for about a 20 yard gain. On the next play Sanchez hit Braylon Edwards down the sidelines inside the 10 on the Texans. One play later Sanchez hit Santonio Holmes on a in and out route that landed in the corner of the endzone beautifully into the open arms of Holmes who made getting two feet inbounds look as simple as chewing bubble gum. The comeback was complete and the Jets wrote another chapter to their historic season. The win also allows to Jets to keep pace with division rivals the Patriots atop the AFC East. As the Jets get ready for the Bengals the main focus on everyones mind will be Darrelle Revis against Terrell Owens. Both of these players have shared their feelings about each other through the media and it should make for a great matchup. The Jets have become pass happy the last few weeks and it has been a complete turnaround of their usual philosophy. Against the Bengals we should look for Sanchez and the Jets to continue the 50/50 split with run/pass plays with the pass plays starting to emerge about the 50% mark. Santonio Holmes is beginning to run this offense in his own right and this week he should have another friendly stat line.
The Cincinnati Bengals continue to fill their season with let downs with the latest being a blown lead against the Buffalo Bills. The Bengals allowed the Bills to rip them to shreds in the second half and comeback in a massive way. With the season under wraps the Bengals can only play for pride from this point forward and most of the focus in this one will fall on the wideout/corner matchup between the Bengals and the Jets. Ochocinco continues to get frustrated with more passes going to Owens and the offense is pretty much a shambles. The Bengals will have trouble running the ball against New York’s stout run defense, and are going to likely have to find somewhere else to throw the ball other than Revis and Cromartie’s direction. That doesn’t leave much room for an offense to operate and on a short week that makes it even tougher. With both sides of the ball likely to have trouble against the Jets it leaves little to the imagination as to why they have had so much trouble closing games out this season. The main focus for the defense will be to stop LT and Shonne Greene in the running game, but with Sanchez getting better and better each week it will be a real challenge keeping him under control enough for the Bengals to allow their offense a chance to steal this game.
This season has been two polar opposites for these two teams. The Jets get to walk into their home stadium sitting 8-2 surrounded by their home crowd facing a road team that is 2-8 and going backwards. Rex Ryan will have the Jets ready to play this game and they will not disappoint. Even though most of the Jets games have finished close to the vest in recent weeks they will have this game under control from the start and not let another Houston repeat occur. Watch for the Jets to take it to the Bengals in this one and cover the spread thanks to Sachez’s right arm and that tough Rex Ryan defense.
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