Jets Take Houston to the Pound 11-26

Hello New York Jets fans and welcome to a much happier recap of the Bad Dog / Bad Pup podcast for NYJetsTherapy.com!

Our two Baddies are feeling pretty good after Sunday's trouncing of the Houston Texans, with Bad Dog going so far as to say he's "not even nervous right now," while Bad Pup is a bit more cautious looking ahead to the remaining schedule.

Of course, before they can even get to praising the Jets for their efforts Bad Dog is warning us of his anger to come. Bad Pup isn't ready to hear it and reminds us that the Jets didn't commit their first penalty until late in the 4th quarter and credits the whole coaching squad for the accomplishment. Bad Dog concedes Mangini is doing well and grants him a 95% genius rating.

With the good will flowing Bad Dog struggles to decide who he loves more this week, Chad Pennington or the Jets' defense. They both loved Chad's post-injury fist-pumping for the fans and his overall ballsy performance that included more than 250 yards of offense and not a single turnover.

Moving onto defense, DT Dewayne Robinson is singled out by the Bad Dog and Pup likes DE Shaun Ellis even though Dog felt he wasn't really wrapping up the quarterback. Of course, safety Kerry Rhodes got big props with Bad Dog preemptively naming him to the Pro Bowl team.

As for weekly whipping boy Dyson, little has changed with even Bad Pup finally sounding like she's given up on him. Bad Dog feels he is lining up too far from the receivers and Bad Pup bemoaned Dyson getting faked out by a cut due to a lack of field-vision.

In the "one to watch" category, Bad Dog points to #33, rookie safety Eric Smith. Said Dog, "this kid wants to play football!" even though he is from Michigan State – a sore point for our two commentators.

On the offensive side of the ball, Bad Pup starts the shout-outs with the Jets' receivers, Lavernues Coles and Jerricho Cotchery, who each had over 100 yards on the day. Pup was especially impressed with their effort on yards after the reception while Dog loved Coles leaping touchdown catch. Chris Baker got brief credit for his nice work as did Tim Dwight and Justin McCareins.

Running Back Kevan Barlow did not fair so well, singled out for missing a block that led to a hard hit on Pennington and Bad Dog called him, "at best a role-player," though he did like Cedric Huston's work protecting the QB.

This blogger's favorite player (for name only), D'Brickashaw Furguson was a topic of contention, with Bad Dog having serious doubts while the Pup sees him improving with every game.

In the podcasts' odder moment, Bad Dog airs his theory that #68, T Anthony Clement couldn't be more than 5'4", 120 pounds. "Why are they starting a midget?!" is his repeated cry. According to the Jets official site Clement is 6'8", 320 pounds… and when that was pointed out to Bad Dog in the stands he could only shrug in bafflement.

And finally, the part of the show this blogger has been waiting for all day (and you can read about it and all things kicker at http://thekickoff.blogspot.com), let the praise and forgiveness begin for placekicker Mike Nugent – perhaps the most frequent target of our duo's frustrations (except for referee Mirelli, poor guy). "I gotta eat crow today," proclaims Bad Dog. Seeking some reason for Nugent's turnaround (and Bad Dog was just kidding when he mentioned steroids) they decide it is thanks to his appearance on David Letterman and Bad Dog would like to make him the special teams asst. coach. They even squeezed in a quick word of praise for "the best punter in the league" Ben Graham.

In closing, Bad Dog and Bad Pup are feeling great about the New York Jets and are even whispering about a playoff shot…

11-19 DA BEARS game against the Jets

Greatly depressed" and "super depressed" are the words used at the opening if this weeks New York Jets Therapy podcast with Bad Dog and Bad Pup.

Following last week's exciting upset of the New England Patriots the Jets faced the 8-1 Chicago Bears who were returning to New York for their second game in as many weeks, having lately dispatched that other New York team.

However, while the scores may change one thing remains consistent and that is the lack of love for the refs. Bad Dog starts us off, bemoaning the combined challenges of the Chicago's highly-rated defense and poor calls. Obviously, most of the venom was due to an overturned call on what appeared to be a fumble and moved on to the hefty fine levied against Hobson ($7500!) for the hard hit last week. BadDog couldn't help himself and let the anger show against last week's target, Mirelli, "The integrity of America is going downhill," is how Bad Dog put it.

As for the rest of the game, Bad Dog didn't have much to say about Chad Pennington's mediocre performance (19-35 for 162 yards and two INTs) but they both felt the offensive line held strong. Bad Dog also drew attention to RB Cedric Huston who made only his second appearance of the season running 11 times for 45 yards and showing signs of more to come.

At the same time Bad Dog still has it in for Dyson and Coleman, who he felt both failed the team again on Sunday. Bad Pup, looking for the positive, pointed up the success of the Jets defense, especially their first-half performance.

Brian Urlacher's stellar performance elicited extremely kind words from BadDog, "A 100% football palyer," while Bad Pup wondered why nobody thought to put something in Brian's breakfast to slow him down a little. "Is that cheating? I guess so," concluded the Pup.

Discussion moved back to Pennington and BadDog put him on notice, warning that if he didn't get it together he could certainly see head coach Mangini replacing him for next season. Bad Pup was not quite as ready to completely give up on Chad.

After a brief technical glitch (blamed on the NFL refs) BadDog took the high road congratulating the Bears and Urlacher for their well-earned win.

He also gave some props to Anthony Clement for staying out of trouble and Bad Pup is loving the rookies for working hard. Mangold was even pegged for the Pro Bowl. Props also went to Rhodes and Hobson.

Bad Pup definitely took exception to Mangini's decision to go with an onsides kick but Bad Pup was willing to defend "the Penguin" and gave a shout-out to this writer's favorite position on the field, the punter, serving up kind words about Ben Graham. "He's putting missiles up there" but was still bemoaning place kicker Mike Nugent, "This Nugent's got a pussy leg" (for all things kicker checkout HERE'S THE KICKER at http://thekickoff.blogspot.com). Later in the podcast BadDog returns to the subject of Nugent, begging Mangini to head to Australia to find a better man for the job.

Looking ahead, BadDog sees a lot the teams the Jets are yet to face improving and doubts the team's ability to catch the still-strong NE Patriots while Bad Pup sees the need for some of their rivals to take a few losses to help the Jets' playoff picture.

Before signing off Bad Pup needed to hand out her biscuit of the week to Tim Dwight and Bad Dog agreed enthusiastically with the call.

And, of course, this week's secret phrase was uttered but I'm not tellin'!

Jets Poop on the Pats-Bad Dog and Bad Pup overview of podcast by D. Title

Bad dog and Bad Pup are still recovering from the huge win over New England on Sunday. Of course, they were still able to hand out their “Classless King” award to Patriots’ coach Bill Belichik for the on-field snubbing of his one-time assistant. Bad dog went so far as to invoke Belichik’s deceased Navy vet father in his little tirade. Not that it wasn’t deserved. Bad dog wrapped up this thought by predicting this was officially the beginning of the end for the Patriots.


Next up was the “Blind Man” award to ref Iron Eagle for yet another blown call. This opened up the floodgates for a series of Bad dog finger-wags starting with Jaworski and Boomer for picking the Pats over of the Jets. Bad Pup chimed in with a snap of her own at Adam Shine for a similar offence and handed out the “Perogi” award to Jaworski although Bad dog wasn’t letting Boomer off the hook.



Taking a break from the negativity, Bad dog turned his attention to the excellent work of the offensive and defensive lines for the Jets who held the potent Tom Brady and company to only 14 points and provided their own QB with plenty of time to make the right throw. Shout-outs included Nick Mangold, D’Brickashaw (man, I am totally naming my first son D’Brickashaw!) Ferguson, Leon Washington, Rashad Moore, Shaun Ellis and Dewane Robertson. Bad Pup also took pleasure in the fact that Brady’s back was awful dirty by the end of the game and bemoaned the fact that Victor Hobson was robbed of a sack by another bad call.



Boy, did that pinch a nerve on the Bad dog. The man who blew that call was a referee named Phil Mirelli and Bad dog proceeded to let the man have it, not only for that call but for a call from last year’s playoffs. Bad dog recommended that he give up on football and start refereeing croquet (pronounced “crow-kette”) over in Greenwich. Bad dog got over this long enough to give a pat on the back to B.J. Askew and Chris Baker for their fine work. Back on the feel-good train, Bad Pup tossed a biscuit to Safety Eric Coleman for his 6 tackles and an interception.



Emotions seesawed as talk swung from to Andre Dyson and Drew Coleman, who got no lovin’ from the dogs, to the excellent run-back skills of Justin Miller with Bad dog going so far as to call him the best return man in the game – though this was before the Giants/Bears match and Haskells amazing return. Nothing against Miller but he has some serious competition.



Bad Pup turned the focus to the Jets receivers, showering them with praise for their efforts especially in terms of yards after the catch. This was also about the time the first secret phrase for the Buffalo tickets was uttered, but you’ll just have to listen to the podcast for yourself if you want a shot to win.



The coaches received mixed blessings, with Marty Shotenheimer’s son singled out for his super offensive play-calling but Bad dog had some questions about the whole 3-man rush.



Before signing off Bad Pup had a few choice words for kicker Mike Nugent. Now, I love the Bad Pup, but seeing as my other blog (http://thekickoff.blogspot.com) is dedicated to the kicker I feel like I have to side with Bad dog who gave Mike props for his excellent kickoffs.



Next week, bring on the Bears!