Just three weeks after closing out maybe the most highly-publicized 6-10 season ever, the New York Jets got right back to doing what they do best: creating headlines without winning football games.

This time, the Jets stirred up a media ruckus when rumors started swirling that their best player, cornerback Darrelle Revis, the nigh-undisputed most talented player at his position last year until he tore his ACL, might be available for trade.

Revis has one year left on his contract with the Jets, and even though the Jets captain has hinted previously at being a Jet for life, the fact remains that winning is good, and the Jets, with a holey roster, two quarterbacks who can't throw, and a head coach who somehow still has his job after dropping four of six to close out a laughably sad year, are due for a lot more losing before some winning happens.

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You have surely seen the picture of Jets coach Rex Ryan on the front page of today's New York Daily News by now. Ryan was captured shirtless and sunbathing in the Bahamas, displaying a previously unseen tattoo of his wife, Michelle. The tattoo shows Michelle kneeling in a come-hither pinup pose wearing nothing but a Mark Sanchez jersey. If you woke up from a 20-year coma today and sprinted to a newsstand to find out about the modern world you finally inhibit with conscious mind, you would see the New York Daily News's cover and have many, many questions. So do we.

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Let's cut that boy some slack. All he's really done so far in his life is play football, win more than he's lost, be really, really open with his relationship with God, say super hokey, humble shit when the cameras are on him, and not have sex ever. The not having sex ever aside, the guy hasn't really done anything. And yet we hate him. We love him. We know his name.

That he's neck-and-neck with LeBron James as the most polarizing person in professional sports is amazing, because compared to James--hell, compared to hundreds of players in the NFL alone--he hasn't really done anything.

It took us awhile, America, but we've identified the problem, we've identified why we love and hate this evangelical, almost-aborted (his words!) backup quarterback from Manila: because we hear about him all the time. And more recently, we've identified why we hear about him all the time: because ESPN is whorish.

There's plenty written about it already, but the gist is that to increase their ratings,ESPN specifically has taken a mediocre talent who hasn't started a game this season for the New York Jets, and is responsible for a whole 126 more of his team's total yardage this year than your mother is, and turned him into a superstar. This is bad, really bad, because ESPN is, or at least plays at being, a journalistic organ solely meant to report the news as opposed to make news themselves for the purpose of financial gain.

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...C'mon, son.

So yesterday, the New York Jets played the Arizona Cardinals in what will go down in the annals as maybe actually the single most unwatchable game in the history of sport. They won 7-6, but that wasn't the important part, because they still suck and are only 5-7 on the season, and although their last four games (at Jacksonville, at Tennessee, home to San Diego and at Buffalo) are in theory all winnable, and although they're still not technically eliminated from the playoffs, you're doing white drugs if you think they're going to the playoffs. What was important, however, was that Mark Sanchez threw three picks before half, forcing still-svelte-ish head coach Rex Ryan, down 3-0 midway through the third quarter, to do what pundits and fans alike have been begging Rex Ryan to do since Sanchez was drafted into the league: sit his ass down.More »

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Tim Tebow

Here's the situation: The Jets have two running backs in Shonn Greene and Joe McKnight, both of whom are better at returning kicks than running the ball, even though Shonn Greene doesn't return kicks. Santonio Holmes and Stephen Hill are injured, so the Jets are down to two wide receivers, Jeremy Kerley and Chaz Schilens, who may sound familiar, but only if you watched the Jets last week. The Jets have an offense that, according to ESPN's Monday Night Football crew, has scored two touchdowns in its last 45 drives, a statistic that we at the Village Voice could come close to duplicating if we had a short field, four guys from the publishing side, and a half-pound of meth. The Jets have two quarterbacks, one of whom you can't trust to throw the football, and the other whose name is Tim Tebow.

And that's not even the bad news.

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"Jets make easy work of Redskins" read the banner on the home page of NFL.com. Were they serious? Did anyone actually watch that game?

Once again -- stop me if you've heard this already -- the Jets were trailing an inferior team in the fourth quarter -- in this instance, down 16-13 to Washington with 4:49 on the clock -- when suddenly they seemed to remember that they are the Jets and they were playing the Redskins. Sanchez threw a perfect 30-yard TD strike to Santonio Holmes, who ran a perfect pattern.

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Do you want to know if this is really going to be the Jets' year? Here's your clue. It's not whether they beat the Jacksonville Jags this Sunday. It's not even whether or not they beat the point spread — 9½ as we go to press, which strikes us as a lot for any NFL team.

What is the real test as to whether the Jets are on the fast track to the Super Bowl or simply to sit glumly in front of their lockers after the AFC championship game for a third consecutive year wondering why they didn't get started a little sooner?

The real test is whether or not the Jets can get started sooner. By sooner, we mean the first quarter.

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Is Tony Romo the dumbest mo-fo in the National Football League?

"It was a dumb decision," he said of the throw that lost the game to the Jets last night. "I should have made sure, and that was my fault. We win that football game if I don't do what I did . . . "

Well, Tony, that's not exactly correct. The score was tied with 59 seconds to play, and the Cowboys had the ball at their own 41-yard line. Given the fact that Romo had already fumbled away a likely touchdown earlier in the quarter, there's the distinct possibility that he would have found other ways to lose the game.

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"Broadway Mark"

Lost in all the fuss over Mark Sanchez's photo spread in the September GQ is that it was a charity gig for Tuesday's Children, which benefits children of people who died on 9/11 and in other global terrorist attacks.

You'd expect that his QB counterpart Aaron Rodgers, who does a great deal of charity work himself, might have cut some slack, but no dice.

Sanchez thinks that Rodgers is "... obviously, making a joke out of it, and that's fine, giving me a good ribbing like the guys on our team." But Rodgers doesn't sound as if he's joking. The Green Bay Packers' Super Bowl MVP QB went after the Jets' passer in an interview with ESPN Milwaukee: "I mean. Look at this here. That's embarrassing. Page 94 of the GQ thing here. That's terrible." Judge for yourself.

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The best trash talk in advance of the New York Jets' NFL playoff game Sunday afternoon 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 starring Ryan and his wife, Michelle.

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