All week nothing could dissuade him from going on and on. This game is a big deal he said, and the Jets are going to win it.
When people suggested he should talk less and let the game speak for itself he said, "That's your opinion. My opinion is what counts to me."
Now it is once again clear his opinion doesn't mean much as the Giants whipped the Jets yesterday 29-14. What is it about the Jets? It seems to be a characteristic of the franchise that they always have to talk a huge game. They don't agree with Teddy Roosevelt, they don't speak softly and too often carry a tiny stick.
We have :Broadway Joe" Namath guaranteeing Super Bowl III for the Jets only Super Bowl. Since Rex has come to New York, it's as if it's necessary for him to guarantee every game as if this is the only way his team can get up for important games.
Like Monk would say, "it's a blessing-and a curse", assuming it's a blessing at all. As a Giants fan of course it was very gratifying. Still Brandon Jacobs had the best line of the week in answer to Rex's claim that after the Jets win they would no longer be the second team in NY-Jacobs answered it will take a lot more than that.
There's truth in that-the trouble is the Jets have a record of futility. They have not made another Super Bowl since Super Bowl III. Meanwhile the Giants have made 4 super bowls winning 3 of them since 1986. Yet Rex believes that beating the Giants in one single regular season game would equalize them?
The trouble with the Jets is they have a second team complex. I spoke to a Jets fan a few weeks ago and he kept bringing up the Giants game-can't wait to talk to him again...-and he started talking about 1988, that was a year that the Jets beat the Giants 27-21 in the final game of the season effectively knocking them out of the playoffs.
That's the whole problem with his mindset I pointed out to him. His high points are not super bowl victories like for me with the Giants, but a season the Jets were able to ruin the Giants season one single year, while themselves missing the playoffs. The Jets by that game had already been eliminated from contention-and this was a great season for him?
He also had the impression that the Jets have the Giants number. Nope. They did get the better of the Giants in that one game, but the very next year the G-Men were 12-4, the Jets were 4-12, and the next year after that-1990-the Giants won their second super bowl.
It's true the Jets did win again in 1993, though this game did not turn out to be very important as the Jets missed the playoffs and the Giants did make it. However, with yesterday's win that's now 5 straight for the Big Blue, the Jets haven't won since 1993.
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