Dave’s Football Blog

The New York Jets are in a tailspin. Chad Pennington’s recurring rotator cuff injury may mean the end of his career. Jay Fiedler is hurt, too. Curtis Martin is hobbling and may be starting to show his age. Worst of all, one of the Jets’ offensive linemen is only seven inches tall.

It’s gotten so bad, Adrian Wojnarowski thinks the team should just give up on this season and chase after Matt Leinart.

Jets fans should be privately rooting that this team doesn’t save the season, but rather the future of the franchise. There is Leinart, and everyone else in the 2006 class of quarterbacks. Had Leinart left college after winning his second straight national championship and the Heisman Trophy a year ago, the big, strapping left-hander would’ve easily been San Francisco’s No. 1 pick over Alex Smith.

It goes against every football instinct of surviving a season, but the best-case scenario isn’t sneaking into the AFC playoffs at 9-7, but telling Fireman Eddie to sit down, shut up and let the bottom drop out.

Somewhere in the background, Jets head coach Herman Edwards was heard repeating, “YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME!!!”

Brooks Bollinger will start for the Jets this weekend and will be backed up by newly-signed septuagenarian Vinny Testaverde. The Jets take on the Baltimore Ravens, who start Anthony Wright at QB and will have Kordell Stewart as the backup. Which begs the question: will anyone actually score in that game?

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