What’s To Come This Weekend When the Pats Meet the Jets

The New England Patriots and New York Jets are one of the NFL’s biggest rivalries, and there’s much to look forward to this weekend - especially as Jets coach Rex Ryan has been fueling the fire over the last several months, speaking out to the media about not being scared of the Patriots. He’ll have all that to prove and more on Sunday when the Patriots and Jets take their battle to the football field, and former Patriot and current NBC analyst Rodney Harrison said that Ryan’s previous quote (”I didn’t come here to kiss Bill Belichick’s rings. I came here to win… I’m certainly not intimidated by New England or anybody else”) will most certainly be used as material for the Patriots to get fired up for this weekend’s game.

“When people make comments like that, whether it’s toward an individual coach or an individual player, everyone takes offense,” Harrison said. “You keep that quote in your mind. You put it up on the bulletin board. I don’t think that’s going to make Belichick more mad at him, or make Belichick hate the Jets even more, or for them to play harder. I just think the point of emphasis will be on that.” While talk is cheap, there’s one significant player who won’t see this Sunday’s big matchup: Jerod Mayo. The big-shot linebacker sprained his right knee in the season opener and is projected to miss six to eight weeks of playtime, though he’s expected to be back for the end of the season.

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Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2009

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