Hey people. Jets fan here. I need a little bit of help and I figure of all people in the NFL, you have the most experience at dealing with this.

What is the best way to engage (or not engage for that matter) the raging Tebow fans? They have invaded Gang Green Nation like locusts, devouring threads and leaving nothing but irrational player worship in their path. Some of you jumped on from day one to warn us, but I guess it's something you have to experience first hand to REALLY understand.

Also, I appear to be in the minority that's actually okay with the trade and even optimistic about potential opportunities. I'm glad to have the guy on our squad and I'll be cheering for him. This has nothing to do with my personal opinion of Tebow and everything to do with the crowd that thinks given another season or two as a starter that he'll be the GREATEST QUARTERBACK EVA!

Here's a short list:

Wes Welker and his foot jokes.

Deion Branch calling us classless.

Tom Brady... just... period.

However, despite the fact that I loathe the Patriots (I'm a Jets fan so it's my job), you know who really needs to shut up?

All you Jets fans who keep telling Rex Ryan and this team that THEY need to "shut up and just play." This is who this team is. This is what we do. That's what Rex Ryan is about. You know what happens when we spend a week buttering up our opponent talking about how great they are, how much we respect them and act afraid of giving them locker room material?

45-3 on Monday Night Football, that's what. I couldn't stand the way the team handled the week leading up to that game. It was the only time I've seen Ryan's team afraid to be themselves and I hope it's never repeated.

Rex Ryan is 3-2 against Brady and Belichick and won the most important of the 5 games as the visiting team. He's an awesome coach. More importantly, he's a FUN coach. If any so-called Jets fan wants a "shut up and play," stone face, textbook response team, well, there's a team for you and they'll be watching the conference championship game on TV this coming Sunday.

Shut up and cheer!

I must admit, I had a bad feeling we were going to get blown away. I don't know why but I think we were a bit too "blah, we're not afraid, we're the better team..." in press conferences while Brady and Belicheck were probably planning this game since before the Lions game. You better believe it. I also think losing Leonhard hurt much worse than a lot of people think because many people make the mistake of measuring his worth purely in terms of his physicality.

No one is saying the Steelers are dead and the Patriots dismantled them... at home. These games happen. They suck. Fans don't enjoy them. However, they happen.

Timmaht really made a good statement in one of his comments in another post: "The lack of identity on both sides of the ball is particularly concerning." Yeah, it is.

On offense we have no idea who we are. In fact the only thing I can identify is that we're the a team that predictably changes gears in the red zone and stops doing what worked to get them to the red zone. While our OC over thinks everything he never bothers to focus on execution or exploit mismatches--ever. It's an ongoing gag at this point that was never funny to begin with. We need an OC that plays to win. Greene ran the ball down their throats a few times last night even when they stacked the box. That's execution beating scheme and we need more of it.

Also, our QB is JUST A SECOND YEAR QB and a younger than average one at that. He's gonna be up and down. Anyone who thinks otherwise is smoking crack. Unfortunately, last night is what happens when the ENTIRE SUPPORTING CAST along with the coaches also melts down. He was forcing things last night because, after watching the defense fold early in the game I'm sure he felt like the whole game was on his shoulders. He buckled. It happens.

The defense? I don't even know what to say about the defense. I watched the Ravens--despite their loss--make life absolute hell for Big Ben. We have no pass rush. In fact, we don't have anyone on the defense that I consider some absolute monster like Terrell Suggs or Ray Lewis. I also think our defense is suffering from some of the same problems in the "cleverness" department. Sometimes you need to just rely on your guys to beat their guys. (Our draft didn't help either. It was dreadful.) Our defense really needs some kind of spark player that we lack. We need a guy that eats QBs for breakfast.

Also, our kicker sucks. That doesn't help. Unfortunately, we keep relying on him because our OC is worse.

Our coaching staff also has some issues. Rex is Rex and he's still getting his sea legs as a head coach. Before I get any grief about this I want everyone to look at Jim Caldwell--the man inherits a Super Bowl caliber team with arguably the best QB currently in the business and leads them to... 6-6 so far this year. They'll be lucky if they finish as good as we did last year and they're in a much weaker conference too.

Despite the Patriots having a young defense, what won for them last night and killed us was their leadership's experience versus our leadership's lack of experience. Our HC and QB had us totally outclassed. You could tell they had this game circled in the same red marker that Rex had it circled in and had been planning and adjusting. Our guys will learn from this and, well, that's that.

To everyone who suddenly thinks Rex needs to "shut up," drop it. That's who he is. I don't see how you can love the attitude when we win and hate it when we lose. The Patriots didn't win because of Rex Ryan's comments and attitude with the media or Hard Knocks. They won because they've been working on how to rip us apart since Sanchez outgunned Brady in week 2. That's the kind of team they are and I think of all the teams in the NFL, no one loves revenge like the Pats and karma has come home to roost a few times.

This game--not to sound like some kind of annoying optimist--is going to be good for this team. Why? Many games have exposed our weaknesses before this one. The losses to Baltimore and Green Bay did, but you can't complain too much when you only lose by a point in one and hold Green Bay to 9 points in the other. It sucks to lose, but there were plenty of bright spots. Then there were the problem games we won: Denver, Detroit, Cleveland and Houston. All of these games showed the same problems we had last night but since we won everyone seemed to sweep things under the rug, the coaching staff in particular.

I felt like I got this attitude from the coaches: "See, we found a way to win. Someone will step up. Clearly, we're doing all the right things." That will not be the attitude after this game. This game, I hope, will be a wake up call to finally address some of the serious flaws this team has. They'll adjust and we'll be fine.

With all that said, I like this team and I'm happy with Rex Ryan. I'm not gonna tear up any jerseys or start crying that the end is nigh. Experience beat us last night and really, the only way you get experience is to weather disasters like last night. How they recover from this is going to tell us more about this team than anything else has this season.

Stay positive. Stay cheering. Stop talking about the "same old Jets" because the fan base has as much to do with keeping that crap alive as any coach or player.

We've still go four games to go so... GO JETS!

I'll admit it, when Sanchez threw the interception near the end of the Houston game I turned the TV off in disgust. How could we lose to the Texans? For the first time in weeks I'd managed to breathe easy in the third quarter. "We've got this one in the bag," I thought. Then came the meltdown after the fumble. Our legendary fourth quarter, final drive defense was in full swing and before I knew it we were down by one.

After about 30 seconds of moping I turned the TV back on back on to watch it till the bitter end. Our defense managed to hold Houston to a field goal and I thought to myself, "Great. Nice time to show up guys." However, as the offense came back on the field and we had time I knew we were going to win. I just did. Why, you ask? How could I be so sure we were going to pull off the unlikely, the improbably, the miraculous... again?

We were down by four. That's why.

When this team plays like it NEEDS a touchdown, it always seems to find one. Our last minute wins in the previous game had less to do with luck and more to do with changing to a tempo that suits our team and, specifically, our quarterback. When this team plays like a field goal is an option, conservative play calling and mentality put a block wall around what our offense seems to do best.

I know Rex loves his ball control. I know Shotty loves trying to be oh so clever. However, I also know that this team has demonstrated for multiple weeks now that it excels at big plays and quick scores. Why do we save that for the last minute when we could use it to jump out to a comfortable lead and then use our ball control power from then on?

I really feel as if we're trying too hard to push a philosophy on this team that the talent isn't best suited for. Also, ball control offenses are best suited to shutdown defenses. Hype and reputation does not a shutdown defense make. Even last year, defensive 4th quarter meltdowns accounted for losses to Miami, Jacksonville and Atlanta (the difference between a 12-4 team and a 9-7 team). This year our offense is capable of saving us and if I had to trust a unit this year to save us in the end, it's the offense and not the defense.

We need to play like what we are and not what the coaches wish we were. Until we build a philosophy around our talent, rather then try to cram our talent into a philosophy that's not best suited to them, we're going to continue to play to the level of our opponents rather than dominate them. I'm not implying it's realistic for us to dominate EVERY game, but we should have handily beaten the Texans, the Vikings and the Lions. And, frankly, we should have beaten the Ravens and the Packers. (Unlike the Falcons and the Pats, we haven't been owned this year either.)

We're legit. We're the real deal. We've got what it takes to play any team. We need to let our talent play and win.

What lasts for seven minutes and thirty-seven seconds and interrupts my day-after-the-victory press conference?

An unnecessarily long and almost completely pointless string of questions about Brett Favre.

If you haven't already, take a look at the latest press conference. However, if you're interested in hearing things that are interesting and/or actually relevant to the New York Jets feel free to skip to 13:43 right about the time you hit 6:06. Otherwise you're going to be subjected to over seven minutes of reporters asking completely inane questions about how Rex could have hypothetically handled the Favre situation IF (insert scenario that didn't happen here).

The only storyline I want to hear about Brett Favre for the week following our Monday night meeting is how he got owned by his former team and how the Jets' D suffocated him and how Mark Sanchez outplayed him just like he outplayed Tom Brady a few weeks ago. We have to win this one for the good of the free world and for the good of all fans of all sports everywhere, lest we be subjected to Brett Favre in every corner of sporting news.