stillers4me
01-18-2011, 05:50 AM
Big talk from the Big Apple's flyboys is nothing new.
From Joe "I Guarantee It" Namath to Keyshawn "Throw Me The Damn Ball!" Johnson, Jets players have flapped their gums long before coach Rex Ryan arrived in New York two years ago.
Still, these aren't the Same Old Jets facing the Steelers at Heinz Field on Sunday night for the AFC championship.
Talk about impressive: They've won four of five road playoff games the past two postseasons.
Still, the Jets, with all due respect to their more colorful predecessors, tend to make more noise than a jumbo 747 -- and Ryan is the pilot of the aircraft that had already shot down Peyton Manning's Colts and Tom Brady's Patriots on the way to a second straight conference championship game.
"You know, maybe people take it the wrong way or look at us or whatever, but we don't try to bad-mouth an opponent," Ryan said Sunday night after the Jets' rousing 28-21 win over the No. 1 seed Patriots at Gillette Stadium.
"We respect every opponent."
Sure they do...........
Read more @ http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/steelers/s_718623.html
From Joe "I Guarantee It" Namath to Keyshawn "Throw Me The Damn Ball!" Johnson, Jets players have flapped their gums long before coach Rex Ryan arrived in New York two years ago.
Still, these aren't the Same Old Jets facing the Steelers at Heinz Field on Sunday night for the AFC championship.
Talk about impressive: They've won four of five road playoff games the past two postseasons.
Still, the Jets, with all due respect to their more colorful predecessors, tend to make more noise than a jumbo 747 -- and Ryan is the pilot of the aircraft that had already shot down Peyton Manning's Colts and Tom Brady's Patriots on the way to a second straight conference championship game.
"You know, maybe people take it the wrong way or look at us or whatever, but we don't try to bad-mouth an opponent," Ryan said Sunday night after the Jets' rousing 28-21 win over the No. 1 seed Patriots at Gillette Stadium.
"We respect every opponent."
Sure they do...........
Read more @ http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/steelers/s_718623.html