Football from the Barn with Mr. Yoder: AFC Championship Game Preview
By Peter Yoder
TWIF Featured Columnist
Well now that “Jersey Shore” is over, I finally have time to write…though still gotta GTL (gym, tan and laundry of course).
MTV's "Jersey Shore"
Speaking of Jersey, isn’t that where the New York Jets play? And did you hear that the Jets were already selling “AFC Champions” apparel, well before Sunday’s game, and that some Colts fans have banned together to start a chain letter announcing this, and to send it to others for motivation for a Colts’ beatdown of the Jets?
Does this mean I should toss out my idea of selling Colts thongs with “AFC Champs” embroidered on it? (I’ll keep the one I am wearing though.)
I just want Peyton Manning to do more commercials, so do I root for them to lose so he can start on Monday for a bit for Snuggies? (He can’t steal the idea…I patented it already.)
Jets Coach Rex Ryan
And who is Rex Ryan? I “Wikipedia’d” him, and could not find anything worth of interest, except that he spent his early life in Canada hunting bears and apparently eating all of them.
I have to hand it to the Jets’ coach, though, as they are somehow in the AFC Championship Game, and he has them thinking they are all Pro Bowlers (ha, Mark Sanchez, in your dreams).
Before the Colts-Jets game earlier this season during Week 16, Indy had the second-best defense (total points allowed). Then Colts Coach Jim Caldwell took out his starters during the second and third quarters, so we can talk all we want about the Jets’ top-ranked defense, but the Colts can stop you just as well. Maybe even better.
Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis (which most of you do not know who he is because the media has never heard of him) is good, and if he can come up with a pick-six, the Jets might reach double digits in points.
Colts DE Dwight Freeney
But the bottom line is that Manning and any receiver that he throws to, along with Colts’ defensive ends Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis, will all be too much for the Jets.
Manning and the Colts should put up at least 14 points, and that will be good enough to win…next up: sun-shiny Miami and Super Bowl XLIV (Super Bowl 44 for those of you who don’t know Roman numerals).
Colts 17, Jets 10
Nice prediction, though the Colts did have me a little worried in the first half. I liked how after the game the reporter asked Peyton how he felt about the performance from his “young kids” (Austin Collie and Pierre Garcon – who were awesome), like Manning’s their nanny. I do have to say that when Garcon holds up the flag of Haiti and smiles, my heart melts a little.