Jets Now Competition? Favre From It.

The New York Jets, one of the Patriots’ biggest rivals, just got a little better by acquiring Brett Favre via trade.  With a future hall-of-fame quarterback besides Tom Brady in the AFC East, should the Patriots be nervous that their stranglehold on the division will be loosened?  It’s doubtful.  The Patriots are almost the exact same team that won 16 regular season games last season, though the departure of Asante Samuel was a big loss.  The Pats probably won’t go undefeated again, but keep in mind that no other AFC East team finished at or above .500 last season.

The addition of Favre makes the Jets a decent team, but a doubtful playoff participant.  This blogger sees no way that New York can challenge the Patriots for the division crown.  Favre’s presence will make this season’s games against the Jets more interesting, but it’s hard to imagine the Patriots losing a single divisional matchup this year.  The Patriots’ toughest games will come against the Indianapolis Colts, San Diego Chargers, Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants.  Those are the only four games this blogger could see the Patriots losing in 2008.  Even if the Pats were to lose all of those games, that still puts them at 12-4.

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