Joe Theismann's 'Danny Woodcock' Gaffe: NFL Network Analyst Slips On Air (VIDEO)

Pats owner Kraft builds steady, successful team
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft says he always gets a bit uneasy in the Playoffs, knowing one loss can end the season. Fortunately for Kraft, the Patriots have done more than their share of winning. Kraft's team has reached the playoffs in 12 of his 17 years. The Patriots had the best record in the NFL this season at 14-2 and are heavily favored over the New York Jets in Sunday's matchup at Gillette Stadium. Kraft says he has the best coach in Bill Belichick and the best Quarterback in T...

NFL Analyst Has Unfortunate Slip Of The Tongue, Fellow Analysts Love It
We know NFL analysts are a giddy bunch. But if you put them all together in one room, give them a ton of coffee, and suddenly one of them gets a case of the accidental profanities, well… things just get silly. Such was the case during this NFL Network segment about the upcoming slate of Playoff games. Joe Theismann , who’s already sort of known for flubs like this, was in the midst of describing New England’s potent offense. But when he got to talking about running back Danny W...

Jets Blog: Jets-Patriots Preview
The Jets (12-5) and Patriots (14-2) split their two Regular Season meetings, but the last game was a no-contest as the Pats routed Gang Green 45-3 on Monday night December 6th. It was a complete domination by New England, but was there one particular reason why the score was so lopsided. One person thinks so. “After really looking at it, I realize that I was out-coached in that game,” said Ryan. “It’s a recognized fact that (Bill) Belichick is a Hall-of-Fame coach and he&...

Keefe To The City: Chat With Jeff Howe
The Jets and Patriots will meet for the third time this season in a rubber match that will decide which team goes on to the AFC Championship and which team goes home. It’s a game that everyone in the tri-state area and New England hoped would take place and now it is just a couple of days away. Rex Ryan and Antonio Cromartie have made their feelings about the Patriots and Tom Brady known over the week and now they will have the chance to back up their words and avenge the 45-3 loss on Mond...

Wes Welker Puts His Foot Up Rex Ryan A Real Tickler
The best trash talk in advance of the New York Jets' NFL Playoff game Saturday against the New England Patriots hasn't come from the usual suspects, like the Jets' Rex Ryan and Antonio Cromartie. No, it's from Patriot receiver Wes Welker, normally just a well-behaved foot soldier. Droll and deadpan at one of a hundred pre-game Press Conferences, Welker made fun of Coach Ryan's widely publicized foot fetish. Ryan's not the only white guy with sole. Click the jump for the foot-fetish video sta...

Kraft: Patriots Stylistically Different Than Talkative Jets
NEW YORK (AP) — Don’t expect to hear the New England Patriots use an expletive to describe an opponent. That’s not his team’s style, owner Robert Kraft said. “I don’t want to speak to how other people do things or be judgmental about what motivates other people,” Kraft said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press. “But stylistically, I think we do things a little bit different than the folks we’re playing this weekend.” That ...

Fireman Ed Leads Boomer & Carton In J-E-T-S!
NEW YORK (WFAN) - “Fireman Ed” Anzalone joined Boomer & Carton on Friday morning to lead the WFAN studio in his Trademark “J-E-T-S” chant, despite morning show host Craig Carton picking the New England Patriots to win on Sunday. “I thought [Carton was] definitely going to pick the Jets,” said Fireman Ed. “I don’t know how you go into this game not thinking they’re gonna win the game.” Anzalone made waves earlier this week on t...

Jets Ihedigbo On Brady, Patriots: Its Payback
NEW YORK (WFAN) - Jets safety James Ihedigbo joined Boomer & Carton on Friday morning to preview New York’s huge Playoff matchup against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. “The tables have turned now. It’s an opportunity for us to go down there, we know it’s payback, and that’s what we’re taking this game as,” said Ihedigbo. “It’s really a payback day.” Ihedigbo had some pointed words for New England Quarterback Tom Brady...

The Patriot Way
The Playoffs are Super Bowl or bust for the New England Patriots, who amassed a league-best 14-2 record this season, earning a bye to the second round while lesser lights squared off during the wild-card weekend. Last Sunday, I felt a bit of pride when New England hero-for-life Adam Vinatieri kicked what looked to be a game-winning field goal for the Colts against the Jets, but mostly I was filled with dread. Sure, the Colts were ruined by injuries and looked slow and lousy on both sides of the ...

Jets-Patriots: Time For NY To Back Up Rexs Hubris
NEW YORK (AP) - As is their custom, the New York Jets have been doing plenty of talking leading up to Sunday’s divisional Playoff game against the New England Patriots. When these AFC East clubs renewed their rivalry last month, New England’s play on the field spoke volumes. The Jets seek to back up their words Sunday and pull off a second consecutive road upset of a perennial AFC power - a task that won’t be easy against a top-seeded Patriots team that’s run ...

Patriots Welker Chock Full Of Foot References In Presser
NEW YORK (WFAN) - Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots are well known for making trash talk a one-sided affair. Apparently, Wes Welker didn’t get the memo. While Welker never came right out and blasted New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan, he managed to make 11 foot references and metaphors during Thursday’s Press Conference. Ryan was embarrassed in December when foot-fetish videos that allegedly starred his wife, Michelle, were found online....

Hot Topic: January 14
With the Jets just days away from defending their hubris against the hated New England Patriots, Craigie has a surprise up his sleeve. Craig, believing the Jets can win, is picking the Patriots to take the game. After hearing about this stunning development, do you think Craig is still a real Jets fan? Wes Welker took a page right out of the Jets’ trash-talking playbook, firing 11 thinly-veiled foot references during Thursday’s Press Conference. Was Welker trying to get under Rex Rya...

Bloomberg Predicts: Jets To Super Bowl
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg predicts the Jets will go to the Super Bowl this year. The mayor said on his Radio Show Friday that you heard it from him first. The Jets face the New England Patriots this Sunday in the divisional Playoffs. The winner of that game will play either Baltimore or Pittsburgh in the AFC championship. The Super Bowl is Feb. 6....

Jets/Patriots Rivalry Heats Up as Reporters Switch Cities
New York (CBSNewYork) - Gang Green is gearing up to face the Patriots for a game that Jets fans hope will not a repeat of their last match-up. Will Tom Brady and his New England Patriots once again wallop Mark Sanchez and the Jets? Or, will Jets head coach Rex Ryan be able to beat his rival in one of the biggest games of the year. CBS 2′s Hazel Sanchez is in Boston ahead of Sunday’s game to tap into the long-standing rivalry between New York and Boston. And from Boston, WBZ sen...

New York vs. New England: Jets Go Jedi, De-Feet Puns Keep Coming in Newspaper War
​The New York Post today, ever the connoisseurs of great covers, features one for the Hall of Fame, especially for those who care at all about New York sports, football specifically. Pitting the New England Patriots as the Evil Empire in a Star Wars-themed graphic, Bill Belichick gets the Vader treatment with Mark Sanchez in the Luke Skywalker role ahead of Sunday afternoon's Playoff game. Inside the Post, the fantasy is even more detailed (Rex Ryan is Han Solo, his wife Princess Leia) i...

Jets Fans Get Pumped For Sundays Big Game
NEW YORK (CBS New York) - It’s all green, all the time as the Jets embark on their road to glory. The weekend just can’t get here soon enough for Jets fans. The Jets and Patriots will clash in New England Sunday for the third time this season. The last time Gang Green traveled to Foxboro it was a fiasco — the Patriots won 45-3 — but fans in New York aren’t worried. “Everybody has a bad game,” one man said. “That was ours and that’s the ...

Brady Vs. Cromartie: Who Ya Got?!
It’s been a highly enjoyable week of trash-talking between the New York Jets and New England Patriots, who square off in a divisional Playoff matchup later this weekend. The Jets, for their part, have said horrible things about New England, with cornerback Antonio Cromartie openly declaring Tom Brady an “-—hole.” And the Patriots have responded with the old “We won’t even dignify that with a response” response, which is kind of its own form of trash talk...

Jets Cromartie: Im Not Taking Back Brady Bomb
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Antonio Cromartie was surrounded by a swarm of reporters and refused to back down. Yes, he most certainly did call Tom Brady an expletive. And, no way was the New York Jets cornerback going to apologize. “Why would I regret it?” a defiant Cromartie asked Wednesday. “That’s my opinion and that’s how I feel about it. There’s no reason for me to sit back and take back anything I said about him, and I’m not.” Cromartie m...

Brady On Jets, Cromartie: Ive Been Called Worse
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady just wants to talk about football. The New York Jets won’t let him. Day after noisy day, the mouths to the south keep moving. The Quarterback tries to evade their onslaughts as if they were 300-pound pass rushers. “I’ve been called worse,” Brady said, brushing it off like the heavy snow that fell on Foxborough. “I’m sure there’s a long list of people who feel that way.” Cromartie made his comment Tuesday to ...

Division rivals to meet in NFL playoffs
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The division round of the NFL Playoffs starts Saturday, with all four of this weekend's matchups involving teams that have already met this season. Two of the games will bring together division foes and one of those, the concluding game of this playoff round, will feature what is perhaps the NFL's most intense current rivalry. Pittsburgh will open the action by hosting Baltimore in what seems destined to be a defensive struggle. Snow showers are forecast with accumul...

J-E-T-S, JETS, JETS For Your Tummy
Green & White Cookies! (Jen Carlson/Gothamist) This weekend, the Jets will face their archrivals, the New England Patriots led by Coach Bill "Hoodie" Belichick and Quarterback Tom "Goldilocks" Brady. To celebrate this Playoff game, there are ways your stomach can pay tribute to Gang Green—for instance, instead of a classic Black & White Cookie, why not a Green & White Cookie from William Greenberg Desserts? They come in three sizes: Traditional, mini and oversized, which is 9 inches and ...

Hot ticket: Seats at Sunday's Patriots-Jets game going for up to $1,450
Tickets to the NFL Playoff game between the New England Patriots and the New York Jets on Sunday are hot enough to melt the ice mounds in the Gillette Stadium Parking Lot. Don’t worry, there’s still time to grab a ticket to the game — just have your Credit Card number ready and a hefty credit limit. No matter how popular a team or tantalizing the match-up, the term “sellout” is an anachronism in the age of the Internet. With the existence of eBay, StubHub, Craigslis...

SI.com: Cam Newton and his decision to go pro
After winning the Heisman Trophy and a national championship this season, Cam Newton had little left to accomplish his senior year at Auburn. Which is why he’s going pro. The Tigers star Quarterback will aspire to be an NFL first-round pick next after announcing his decision Thursday to skip his senior season and enter the NFL Draft. Newton put together one of the greatest seasons in college football history this year, capped off with a 22-19 victory over Oregon in the BCS Title Game Monda...

Jets Sanchez Says Sore Shoulder Ready To Go
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — This practice was a little different for Mark Sanchez. Not only because the New York Jets Quarterback is getting ready for a big Playoff game against the New England Patriots. It was the first time in nearly a month that his sore Right Shoulder was no longer an issue. “Honestly, it feels the best it’s felt in three, four weeks,” Sanchez said Wednesday. “I was full practice today for the first time in a while, and that was huge. We know it&#...

Green Lantern: Jets Have No Choice But To Avoid Eating Cro
NEW YORK (CBS 2) — Please forgive Antonio Cromartie for his mouth. He just hasn’t been himself all season. And it’s all Darrelle Revis’ fault. Well, at least that’s one theory. Cromartie may have the second most difficult job on the Jets next to Mark Sanchez. Every week he is targeted by the opposing Quarterback more than any other member of the secondary. It’s not because he is a liability or a weak link. Hardly. It’s because playing on the opposite sid...