If a win against the banged-up New England Patriots is a statement game, what would a road victory over the undefeated Titans be for the Jets? Wouldn't they love to find out! The Jets travel to Nashville to face the team that ripped off their old nickname in a battle that could be a playoff preview. The Titans are 10-0 and do it with a ground game, a controlled Kerry Collins and a stout defense.......

Photograph of the Jets' Laveranues Coles pulling in a reception as New England Patriots cornerback Ellis Hobbs, left, and linebacker Mike Vrabel move in by Winslow Townson/AP Jets 34 Patriots 31 (OT): Before the game you could have debated if this was a must-win for the Jets. But after taking a 24-6 lead Thursday night, the Jets had no choice but to win this game. New York took the opening drive down the field......

Forget for a second that the teams don't like each other and that the coaches, who once formed a famous mentor-protege relationship, now can't bring themselves to cordially shake hands at the end of games. For once, the bickering and dislike can take a backseat to football. For once, the Jets are a worry to the Patriots. The winner of Thursday night's game will have sole possession of first place in the AFC East and......

Photo of Brandon Jacobs running in the third quarter by AP/Mel Evans; Photo of Thomas Jones, Brett Favre and Tony Richardson celebrate a fourth quarter TD by AP/Bill Kostroun Giants 36, Eagles 31: January may be the next time the Giants play a truly critical game. By beating the Eagles in Philadelphia on Sunday night, the Giants moved to 8-1. More important, however, is their 3-0 record in the NFC East -- a mark......

Playing in the AFC East was once thought to be tough. But New England's Tom Brady out for the year and the NFL's schedule rotation has the division against the two weakest in football -- the NFC and AFC West. That makes things a lot easier. As Bill Simmons said, the NFL did everything for the AFC East except schedule Columbia and Georgetown. The Jets' last easy game for a while comes Sunday against St.......

Giants 35 Dallas 14: The only thing that was going to stop the Giants Sunday was the Giants. New York stacked the line and dared the Cowboys to throw the ball to beat them and Dallas wasn’t up to the challenge. The Cowboys managed fewer than 200 yards on offense and turned the ball over four times as New York put this game out of reach early. The Giants improved to 7-1 overall and 2-0......

Well, maybe the Ravens. But the Jets, despite their winning record, have looked generally dismal in the past several weeks. Other than its 56-point performance against Arizona, Brett Favre's offense has been mediocre. To make matters worse, their schedule, to this point one of the easiest in the league, is about to get a whole lot tougher. If the Jets don't stop playing down to their competition -- if that's really what they have been......

The Jets fan who spent $400,000 for the personal seat licenses to two seats at the 50-yard line at the new Meadowlands revealed himself to the Post, saying, "It's a function of wanting the best, both as a lifelong fan and as a business investment." David Findel, who has a mortgage lending company, will also need to spend another $14,000 a year on the seats themselves--"which come with a private VIP entrance, parking, a full......

Giants 21 Pittsburgh 14: This was game that lived up to the hype. Both teams left it all out on the field and at the end, the Giants won because they finally took advantage of the breaks the Steelers kept giving them. The first five times the Giants reached the red zone they settled for less than a touchdown. Four times they settled for a field goal and once they turned the ball over on......

They were supposed to win last Sunday against an inferior Oakland team, but the Jets lost a heartbreaker in overtime. At least they were on the road in that one. New York will have no such excuses when it hosts Kansas City on Sunday. They'll be playing an even worse team at home, and, to make matters even easier, will be facing third-string quarterback Tyler Thigpen. Brodie Croyle and Damon Huard, the Chiefs' top two......

Sometimes coaches outsmart themselves. With the Jets trailing by three late in the fourth quarter, Brett Favre drove them down the field and into position to attempt a very distant field goal (52-yards). Jay Feely lined up and kicked the ball, but it hit off the upright. Luckily, for New York, the Oakland coaches had called a time out to try and “ice the kicker”. With a second chance, Feely made a correction in his kicking motion and knocked it through to send the game to OT....

Name the worst teams in the NFL, and chances are the squads picked will appear on the Jets' schedule. Bengals? Check. Chiefs? Later on. Same with the Rams. This week's foe: the mighty Raiders, who are 1-4 and on their second coach this season. The only thing the Raiders are good at is running the ball -- they're fourth in the league. They're toward the bottom in everything else, including 24th in defense. With Brett......

Thomas Jones scored all of two touchdowns -- one rushing and one receiving -- last season. In Sunday's 26-14 win over the Bengals, he found the end zone thrice. The win wasn't as convincing as some may have hoped, especially since Cincinnati was without Carson Palmer, but as Brett Favre said, “I don’t believe in ugly wins. That one felt as good as any win I’ve been a part of in recent memory.” That last......

Jets coach Eric Mangini gave his newborn son the middle name "Brett" after quarterback Brett Favre. Zack Brett Mangini, 7 pounds and 13 ounces, was born on Friday, which is also Favre's birthday! Mangini apparently promised to bestow Brett on his unborn child when the Jets were wooing Favre, who said, "The odds of the child being born on the same day as my birthday, I don't know what the odds are ... The odds,......

Things are going well in Jets land. Eric Mangini's wife had a baby. The child has the middle name of Brett and shares a birthday with the Jets' starting quarterback. The team is coming off a bye its biggest offensive output in recent memory. To make things better, the 0-5 Bengals that are coming to face them will be without Carson Palmer thanks to an elbow injury. So a team that made the Cowboys and......

Although the Jets gave their fans a partial reprieve from personal seat licenses by not including upper deck season ticket holders in the scheme, the Jets are charging PSLs for 2,000 of the best seats in the new, under-construction stadium. The Jets have launched a new TV ad to entice fans--and it includes a familiar face: Uh-huh: The Donald (Jets owner Woody Johnson is friends with him). Jets vice-president Matt Higgins tells the Post the......

Florida 4 Mets 2: Where do you go from here? While 2008 is not as bad as 2007, the fact is the Mets blew a 3-1/2 game lead with 17 to play. For all the talk about the bullpen, or lack thereof, they managed only five runs during the final weekend series with the Marlins. Some changes have to be made, but it seems stupid not to officially hire the manager who led them to......

Chargers 48, Jets 29: Talk about blown out of the water. David Barrett's interception return gave the Jets a 7-0 lead. Then the Chargers got a field goal and another quick touchdown before Antonio Cromartie returned a Brett Favre interception -- one of two on the day -- for a touchdown. The Jets errors in this game included a lost fumble, a missed onside kick and generally sloppy defense. The final score reflects a wide-open......

When ESPN secured this game for Monday Night Football, the network couldn't have dreamed that it would be a Brett Favre showcase. It also wouldn't have bet that the Chargers would be 0-2 after losing two of the most heart-wrenching games possible. The 1-1 Jets will be facing a team that all but needs a win to keep its season alive. Eric Mangini's club looked just good enough in Miami in Week 1 and more......

Patriots 19, Jets 10: Brett Favre got a rousing welcome from the Meadowlands faithful, but after his introduction, things turned sour. The Jets -- who got plenty of love following a Week 1 win -- played a sloppy and uninspired game against the Tom Brady-less Patriots. Whether it be Jay Feely's missing a 31-yard field goal or Favre taking a 20-yard sack, the Jets put forth a C effort. The Patriots defense, as old as......

Let’s face it, the minute the Jets traded for Brett Favre, today’s game became one you circled on the calendar. It was going to be a measuring stick to see exactly how good the Jets really were. Play a competitive game against the Patriots at home and you would feel that the trade was worth it. That all changed in the first quarter of last week’s Patriots game. As Tom Brady limped off the field,......

With the amount of love lost between the Patriots and Jets, don't think Eric Mangini and Co. sent a condolence card to Foxborough after Tom Brady's knee got torn apart. But also don't count on the Patriots' rolling over and dying in the 2008 season. They may have lost one of the game's top all-time quarterbacks, but they still have one of the game's all-time coaches in Bill Belichick. Even without the tangible benefits of......

Yesterday afternoon, the Giants and Jets announced it ended talks with Allianz, a German insurance company that was interested in buying stadium naming rights at the new stadium. Earlier in the week, the NY Times suggested that Allianz was a frontrunner in the rights race and detailed Allianz's Nazi ties, such as insuring Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps and not paying life insurance policies of Jews. Yesterday, the president of New Meadowlands, Mark Lamping, told......

As the Giants and Jets consider possible companies to buy naming rights to their new stadium, one serious suitor appears to be German insurance and financial services company Allianz. Some say a 30-year deal could go for $25 million. However, the NY Times' Richard Sandomir has an article about Allianz's "disturbing connections to Nazi Germany. Allianz insured facilities and personnel at concentration camps like Auschwitz and Dachau." It also refused to "pay off the life......

Reports that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady suffered a torn ACL suggest that he may be out for the season. Brady went down on the 16th play in the Patriots' home opener against the Kansas City Chiefs yesterday-- he screamed in pain when Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard hit his left leg. Pats receiver Randy Moss said the team is ready to embrace backup Matt Cassel, who led the team to a win, but Moss added that......

Jets 20, Dolphins 14: They didn't make it look easy, but the Jets took down the Dolphins to get the Brett Favre era off to a solid, if not resounding, start. Favre, came out of retirement and got traded to the Jets from Green Bay, threw two touchdown passes. The first, to Jerricho Cotchery, was a well-executed play on both ends. The second, to Chansi Stuckey, was not. On a fourth-down desperation play, Favre simply......

Photo of Brett Favre during his first pre-season game with the Jets by Bill Kostroun/AP With the Jets in Miami to start their 2008 season, Brett Favre is ready to play football again. After retiring and unretiring -- and reportedly turning down $20 million from the Packers to stay inactive -- Favre forced a trade to the Jets. The Packers legend will face a new test in the green and white of the Jets, but......

Some good news for Gang Green fans: Only some Jets' season ticket holders will have to pay the personal seat licenses for the new stadium while those in the upper decks won't have to pay PSLs. Because the Jets and Giants are building a stadium without public subsidies, the teams have resorted to asking their fans to kick in more. The Jets' PSLs, which range from $4,000 to $25,000, have been a source of controversy......

Yesterday, the Jets beat the Giants 10-7 in their pre-season meeting (and only meeting until, if they are lucky, the post-season). The new defensive line was great in stopping the Giants, but it wasn't all great news for Gang Green: The Jets' offensive line had many penalties, leading the Daily News to proclaim, "Brett Favre, Jets' offense take step back in sluggish performance." However, Brett Favre told reporters he's ready for the regular season, "I......

Right now at Giants Stadium, there is a rally to protest a seat-license policy which will charge Jets and Giants season ticket holders thousands of dollars in a one-time fee for their seats. Both teams are implementing the fee to finance half the construction costs of their new stadium. Jets fan Steve Kern organized the rally and thinks that the fees should be limited to the most expensive seats or season ticket prices should be......