Featured Editorials
AL Central Preview: Anybody's Guess
by Mavrik Contributing Columnist In the age of exploding payrolls and spending wars between a few select baseball teams, no division in major league baseball represents the ideas of parity and “small marketness” more than the American League Central division. The division features 5 teams whose payrolls not only are no larger than $70 million… Read more
2005 New York Yankees : C’ya in October
by Shawn306 Guest Columnist The question facing the 2005 New York Yankees is not will the make the playoffs but will they vanquish the demons from last years historic collapse in the ALCS against Boston and once again represent the American League in the World Series. Here is a look at the good, the bad… Read more
AL East Preview: King Kong vs. Godzilla?
by Tom Shane Content Editor The AL East is everything that is right and wrong about baseball. It’s right because Yanks-Red Sox is the best rivalry in sports….ever. They are two teams that push the rest of the league–or those who care about winning–to improve their rosters and their front office philosophies in order to… Read more
Dollars, Steroids, and a Dream: JetsBosoxFan Breaks Down the 05 Yanks-Sox Rivalry
by: Jet/BosoxFan Contributing Columnist Greetings and salutations to all Major League Baseball fans residing in our beloved cyber-home known as JetNation.com. The 2005 season is upon us and it is shaping up to be another track meet between the Mighty Red Sox Nation and the Bronx Bombers. Brace yourselves for seven grueling months of speculation… Read more
West Side Stadium
From The NY Daily News 03/30/05: Jets poised to score stadium Seven MTA board members support the West Side football plan The Jets should get ready for a victory dance in the end zone – the team is on the verge of winning the MTA’s West Side railyards. Seven members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority… Read more
Book It: The Jets Will Win It All in 2005
by JetFan80 Contributing Columnist In years past, the Jets have been an easy punch line to a played-out joke. “No Super Bowl titles in 36 years.” “Just End The Season.” “Same Old Jets.” It may never get old to opposing fans, particularly Patriots and/or Dolphins fans, but it sure as hell has gotten old in… Read more
Why the Patriots Win (and Why You Don’t): Part Two
by RichardSeymour Guest Pats Columnist The Patriots win Super Bowls. The Jets do not. In our continuing series, we have asked for articles dissecting why, exactly, this is, and what it will take for the Jets to overtake the Pats in the AFC. This week’s contributor is RichardSeymour, who breaks down the coaches, the fronts… Read more
Curtis Martin–One Too Many?
by Frank Barone JetNation Columnist In my evaluation of the coming Jets season and our prospects for winning a title, I reluctantly find myself questioning how Curtis Martin fits in. I am forced to ask myself the question, Has the Jet organization gone one year too many in counting on him to be the feature… Read more
Five Reasons Why the Jets Can Dethrone the World Champions
by PatsFanTx Contributing Columnist It has been almost three months since Steeler kicker Jeff Reed’s 33-yard overtime field goal sailed through the uprights, ending the New York Jets 2004-2005 season at a cold and blustery Heinz Field. To most Jet fans, the season ended with a lot of “what if’s”: What if the Jets offense… Read more
The Fruit of the Matter: Why the Patriots Win Super Bowls and the Jets Don’t.
by Garbanza Guest Pats Columnist I was grocery shopping the other day. There I was in the exotic fruit area – feeling up a big, red Pomegranate (or as it is sometimes referred to, the Wisdom Apple); and it occurred to me, if Bill Belichick were a fruit, he would be a Pomegranate. I placed… Read more
WWBD: What Will Bradway Do? Draft Profiles for the #26 pick
by Tom Shane Managing Editor, JetNation As of right now, the Jets have the 26th pick in the first round of the 2005 NFL draft. This may change, as the status of DE John Abraham—speed-rusher, malingerer, and general panty-waist—becomes clearer. Abe could still be traded for picks, or for a bag of pork rinds (either… Read more
The Shoulder of Burden: Pennington’s Surgery and the 2005 season
Like it or not, Chad Pennington and the NY Jets 2005 season are behind the proverbial 8-ball right now and success rests solely on the repaired shoulder of Pennington.