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At 4-5 the Jets find themselves in a hole that they need to climb out of if they are to keep their playoff hopes aliveA and what better way to do that than with a win against division rival New England? Yes, though the Jets have struggled lately they do have the talent to go out there and win but execution andA perseverance will essentially ...

I exchanged five questions with Patriots blogger Eric Cunningham of http://Patschowder.com about tomorrow's game, here is our conversation: PC : I read in the Boston Globe yesterday that Braylon Edwards' arrival in New York may be too much for the rookie quarterback to handle.

Check out Joe's interview here, and his work over at TurnOnTheJets.com . For the record, Joe predicted a score of 23-17 in favor of the Patriots for this weekend.

Rex Ryan may want to kiss Bill Belichick's rings, after all. Belichick's bizarre decision in Sunday night's crushing loss to the Colts, going for it on fourth-and-2 in his own territory, means the Jets still have a pulse in terms of the AFC East race.

All the swaggerlicious big-talk bravado that began in the offseason with coach Rex Ryan's "kiss the rings" message for Bill Belichick and the rival Patriots that hasn't ceased.

The Jets have had some tough times this season. Here, Braylon Edwards tries to console quarterback Mark Sanchez in the final seconds of the Jets' loss to the Dolphins last weekend, after the Jets failed to score on their last possession.

Through 8 weeks of the season the New York Jets stand at 4-4, 1-3 in the AFC East.

The Jets 30-25 loss to the Dolphins yesterday at Giants Stadium was, in so many ways, inexplicable.

Despite a great start to the season, Mark Sanchez has looked like a rookie lately, as the Jets 0 - who started 3-0 - are now 4-4 at the midway point.

Dolphins receiver Ted Ginn, Jr. looks back on his way to the first of his two kickoff return touchdowns Sunday against the Jets.

There wasn't a need to start trying two-point conversions near the end of the third quarter.

Rex Ryan is giving his players six days off, and he's pushing his assistant coaches out of the New York Jets ' facility by Thursday.

Transcript of interviews in the Jets locker room following the 30-25 loss to the Miami Dolphins at the Meadowlands on Sunday: HEAD COACH REX RYAN First off, sometimes things just don't make sense.

Jets running back Shonn Greene has been nominated for a set of Week 7 awards - the FedEx Ground Player of the Week and the Pepsi Rookie of the Week - after his 19-carry, 144-yard, two-touchdown rushing performance in the 38-0 victory at Oakland.

Did you recognize the pigeon playing special teams for the Raiders? Parents with small children identified him immediately.

Needless to say it has been hard on us Jets fans the past three weeks, many supporters of Gang Green have "quit" and to top it all offA the Jets have lost Kris Jenkins for the season.

It was a Same-Old-Jets performance, straight out of ... well, 2008, except this time they couldn't blame a broken-down quarterback or a trip to the West Coast.

The kid's going to be all right. Has Mark Sanchez looked like the "Sanchise" during the Jets' three-game skid and thud that's included only one touchdown pass, eight interceptions, a lost fumble and a lot confused looks on the sideline? Of course not.

It's not often that a team rushes for more than 300 yards and a player sets a franchise record on the ground and still loses, but that's what the Jets managed to do yesterday.

Guard Donald Thomas is mourning the murder of Jasper Howard , his former Connecticut teammate, who died Sunday following an on-campus stabbing in Storrs, Conn.