1. New England Patriots
-As anyone else who writes for this blog can attest, I hate this team and pretty much everything about it (minus Brandon Meriweather and Vince Wilfork--U). However they won the division last season and may have actually gotten better. Brandon Tate should add another weapon at Brady's disposal, and Moss will be out to prove people wrong after a dismal season by his standards last season. The defense is nothing to write home about, but are the Jets really potent enough offensively to take advantage of it? The three yards and a cloud of dust offense doesn't threaten enough to do so.
2. Miami Dolphins
- What's that? The Jets aren't even second?! No they are not. The Dolphins have a budding QB in Chad Henne who did terrific things down the stretch last season. Now subtract slippy hands Ted Ginn and insert Brandon Marshall in his place. This is arguably the greatest upgrade in the NFL this season--then factor in the addition of playmaking Karlos Dansby at LB and Ronnie Brown coming back fresh from his injury and the Dolphins are being vastly underrated. They played a first-place schedule last season and didn't have the same success--this year they get a third-place schedule which will be much easier. I expect the 'Fins to make the playoffs.
3. New York Jets
- But they aren't as bad as the Bills at least! What the Jets did last season was a good story, riding Rex the Rhino's big mouth to the AFC Championship Game. But let's look at what they actually did: backed into the playoffs--beat a one-dimensional Cincinnati team (something good defenses feast on)--beat the San Diego Super Choke Artists. All the credit in the world to Mark Sanchez for not losing those games. However now they lose their workhorse Thomas Jones to KC, (sorry I don't think Shonn Greene is quite ready to be THE man) and replaced him with Tomlinson. A sizeable downgrade if you ask me. Now comes the news that Darrelle Revis is holding out and is willing to not play at all this season. Hey Jets, Give him what he wants! He's the best defensive player in the league. Revis holds pretty much the greatest leverage possible. This team has no hope of even making the playoffs without Revis--combined with him being underpaid and in a possible lock out season next year Revis wants and deserves security.
4. Buffalo Bills
- Oh, the Bills. After pursuing Mike Shanahan for their head coaching vacancy instead they hire...Chan Gailey. Chan...Gailey. Nevermind that interim coach Perry Fewell did a pretty nice job at the end of the year for the Bills. The addition of C.J. Spiller will finally add some excitement to an offense void of any. Trent Edwards/Ryan Fitzpatrick back to pass and throwing to...Derek Schouman? Steve Johnson? Aside from Lee Evans no receiver scares the defense and even he isn't the same. There's a reason TO looked tired and old in this offense...it's tired and old. The defense is not half bad and forced a ton of turnovers last season, however don't expect them to perform as well this season.
I'm liking these division previews, Nate! So what do you think is going to happen with Revis? You're right, he has all the leverage in the world, but will the Jets succumb?
ReplyDeleteP.S.: I'm a Giants fan, but the Revis situation is impossible to ignore.
Preciate the support len. I think eventually the jets will give into Revis, they have to, all hope they have of winning a super bowl or even making the playoffs could go away with him.
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