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The bar has been raised and it is awfully high right now. The New York Jets fans see Mark Sanchez taking them to the playoffs. Not two years from now, they expect it this coming season. Ryan and Flacco have altered the landscape for rookie quarterbacks and throw in the fact that this is New York and the pressure is on.

Mark Sanchez will be expected to take Jets to playoffs, ouch!

Meanwhile, Mark is saying all the right things.

“You can’t promise that you are going to make the playoffs and you can’t promise a Super Bowl win or anything like that,” Sanchez said Sunday. “If I’m playing, I’m expecting success. I’m betting on myself. I’ve got to, as competitive as I am, that’s the way I am. Us as Jets, we’ll bet on the Jets.”

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The Jets started out hot last year with Brett Favre playing quarterback, but went cold at the end of the season and Brett Favre retired once again. The Jets have a middle of the road team and even with an experienced quarterback, it would leave them with very little margin for error to make the playoffs.

Maybe we should relax and watch Mark go through his growing pains. This is a quarterback that had about 16 college starts, but has tons of athletic ability. Hopefully, New York will not turn on him if the Jets start losing.

Then again, this is New York, better strap on that helmet, Mark; you are going to need it.

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Donovan McNabb can forgo the Statue of Liberty play in order to pass to actual good receivers

What do you make of Donovan McNabb?

Words like mercurial come to mind.

Questions why all that talent has failed to produce a Super Bowl victory come to mind.

Doubters wanted to get rid of Donovan, pretty much every year of his career. How would that make you feel?

Can there be more to it than that? Yes, there can and there is. Donovan McNabb needs to have other players around him.

This brings up the great build-a-team debate and how it all works. The theories are endless, but when you get down to it, there is no denying that having a very talented, cool as a cucumber, quarterback is an asset not to be denied. Hmm, Kurt Warner comes to mind.

Now that we have established that a great quarterback is a good thing and aren’t we smart, then the next thing is that the most talented, cool as a cucumber, quarterback cannot do it alone. He needs something else.

What?

Something. Something, like a great defense. See Pittsburgh or Baltimore. Something, like a great offense. See Indianapolis and Peyton Manning. Something, like great players and that brings us back to Kurt Warner.

Now this is not a knock on Kurt Warner, but just how well would he have fared with Donovan’s list of great teammates or vice versa.

On Warner’s side of the ledger: Larry Fitzgerald, Isaac Bruce, Anquan Boldin, Torry Holt, Marshall Faulk, Tiki Barber, Amani Toomer, Jeremy Shockey, Az-Zahir Hakim.

On McNabb’s: Brian Westbrook and Terrell Owens. They are the only two weapons McNabb has had that would qualify for Warner’s list of elite teammates.

There is always a chicken-and-egg relationship between quarterbacks and their receivers, but there can be no disputing that Warner has played with more blue-chip offensive skill players during his career than McNabb has. It isn’t even close.

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Donovan McNabb with receivers

Finally, this year Donovan McNabb finds himself with receivers that he can trust, receivers that he can just throw the ball up in tight spots and they will go up and battle for the ball and, more times than not, Read more

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Cardinal Cheerleader

The Cardinals are looking up!

Eagles Cheerleader

The Eagles are looking good and could win it all!

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Donovan McNabb rushes for a touchdown against Eagles

It was mano a mano going into the 4th quarter. May the best quarterback win.

Donovan made the plays and Eli Manning did not.

Donovan ran for one touchdown and passed for another during the game.

Entering the 4th quarter the score was a very odd 13 - 11. Don’t even ask me to explain that one. Even the ending score was a NFL 1st with the score of 23 - 11. Weird.

It is not that McNabb set the world on fire, because he didn’t. He threw for only 217 yards on 22 - 40 passing, but he made the plays he had to make including a 1 yard play action to Brent Celek for a TD to start out the 4th.

Meanwhile, Eli Manning appeared bothered by the swirling winds and only threw for 169 yards.

The Eagles will play the Cardinals for the Conference Championship just like, just like, uhh, just like nobody predicted at the beginning of the season.
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Your 401K? It is shot.

Your house value? It has also gone down the tubes.

Your job? Well, let’s just say your boss may be telling how lucky you are to even have a job, because a lot of people don’t.

Thankfully the NFL is going to reduce some prices too. They have announced a 10% reduction in playoff ticket prices.

Citing economic challenges facing fans as the reason for the reduction, the NFL confirmed the lower prices Wednesday. But the specific leaguewide average playoff ticket price cannot be determined until the home playoff sites are decided; prices vary from market to market depending on costs for regular-season tickets.

“We want to be responsive to the economic challenges facing our fans,” an NFL spokesman said.

The average price of the playoff tickets sold last year for wild-card and divisional rounds, and conference championship games was $121.

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Brett Favre is a New York Jet

Good bye Chad Pennington. We hardly knew you or better yet, we knew you were not as good as Brett Favre.

Today the Jets signed Brett Favre and released Chad Pennington.

This was a fabulous off season for the Jets.

Coming off a 4-12 season in 2007, the Jets had already spent approximately $140 million in the offseason, counting all-pro guard Alan Faneca, Pro Bowl fullback Tony Richardson, emerging linebacker Calvin Pace, former Pro Bowl defensive lineman Kris Jenkins and tackle Damien Woody among their haul. They also drafted Ohio State pass rusher Vernon Gholston with the sixth pick of the draft and traded back into the first round — courtesy of Favre’s former team, the Green Bay Packers — to snare Purdue tight end Dustin Keller.

New York’s maneuvers clearly signaled the franchise was focusing on its immediate future much more than its long-term future.

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Sure Barry Sanders can laugh now. He left.

It is a curse put on me over 1,000 years ago by a witch. How could she have known the Detroit Lions would be so bad?

My father used to tell stories of the Lions in the 50’s winning the World Championship. They did not have the Super Bowl back then. The Detroit Lions have never played in a Super Bowl.

One time the Detroit Lions were in a playoff game against the Packers and Barry Sanders gained a -2 yards. Yeah, -2. Such it is to be a Lions fan. Still as fans we persevere.

Detroit Lions fans are a special group, because we do quit.

You thought maybe that was written wrong, but it was not. We do Quit! Tell that to Matt Millen. Tell that to Mr. Ford. We quit all the time.

Most fans will watch an entire ballgame early in the year and then after about the 3rd game, you begin to realize the Lions will never win enough games to go to the playoffs and certainly won’t be in the Super Bowl. In fact, they look so bad that you begin to shut off the TV at half time while screaming obscenities. Detroit Lions fans know a lot of bad words.

But we keep coming back and back, only to quit again.

There is no justice in being a Lions fan. For a while we had Barry Sanders, but even Barry eventually just walked away. He did not even say anything. It was just enough. You can lose only so long. It was time to go.

Detroit Lions fans love football. We quit.

My prediction this year is for the Lions to win it all. Until my revised prediction after game 3, which is never to watch a Lions game again in my life. We quit. Don’t worry, Squibster will be back, if only to see how the other teams pound my Lions.

Oh, when will the curse be lifted?

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Could Brett Favre be playing football in the sunshine next year? Would Deanna Favre be happier?

The Squibster is after the all time record for writing about Brett Favre or maybe just an invite to the house on Thanksgiving. Only this year it looks like he won’t be torching my Lions.

Favre’s career with the Green Bay Packers is all but over after two days of extended meetings with coach Mike McCarthy and General Manager Ted Thompson, so the sides turned this afternoon and evening to possible trades for the quarterback.

Thompson is remaining firm about not trading Favre to NFC North Division rival Minnesota, and Favre appears unwilling to try to leverage that deal by staying at training camp.

So the subject has turned to the two teams that have shown keen interest in acquiring Favre for more than a week now, Tampa Bay and the New York Jets.
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To Tampa Bay? What does that say about how much they like Jeff Garcia? Didn’t he take them to the playoffs?

To the New York Jets? Ok, it is only Chad Pennington and crew. This one is different. The Jets really improved their lines and now would love to have a QB of Brett Favre’s stature.

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