Hey Jets fans!!!  Week 3 of the preseason is typically the “showcase” game when the starters play at least a half of football and we truly get a grasp of what the team will look like once September arrives.  Well a 10-7 win over the defending Superbowl Champs is ok, but there were both positives and negatives inside this one.

Got to pound on the offense for not playing smart football.  The false start and illegal motion penalties were a near disgrace.  The first three plays of the Jets first 2nd half position didn’t get off because of penalties.  The most penalized the Jets have been under Mangini and one came at the worst time when Favre hooked up with Cotchery for a big TD in the 2nd quarter, but an illegal formation penalty killed that play and killed a lot of momentum in the first half.

The running game was unable to get going because of 1st and 15’s and 2nd and longs.  Field position didn’t help either.  The MVP of the first half of a zero zero game had to got to Giants punter Jeff Feagles.  He has been in the league seemingly forever, and still got the job done putting the Jets inside the 10 on two or their first three possessions and their best starting position was due a touchback on one of Feagles’s punts.

I don’t want to throw the offense under the bus completely because the line did a great job in giving Favre time to both setup and execute in play action.  Considering Jones and Washington couldn’t do much damage on the ground I was surprised by the amount of time Favre was getting to throw in the pocket.

The D was in a word destructive.  Eight sacks in the game is unheard of these days.  The biggest one being Calvin Pace’s 2nd just before the half moving the Giants back 16 yards resulting in a 42yd field goal hitting the upright just before the half after the Giants ran their two minute offense very well.

Like the headline states, a win is a win.  The final preseason game against the Eagles is Thursday night, so let’s get through one more without any major injuries and get ready to visit an old friend, Chad Pennington, down in Miami next weekend.

I’ll be doing a preseason recap show early next week which will include going through the regular season schedule, figuring the Jets season record, the playoff participants, league MVPs, and my Superbowl winner.  Join in the festivities, send your 2008 season predictions to hosts@jetscast.com, call the listener line at 347-410-9093, or track me down on my myspace page www.myspace.com/blueduece2. 

                                         Go Jets - Jeremy Molchan co-host of Jetscast