Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl
Really?! Damn, Jets don’t stop! Talk that talk, but watch my GMEN win in the end! Stay tuned…Huge game Saturday afternoon!
On the cover of the Jets’ playbook each week is a message in the form of a picture — an inspiring scene relative to the upcoming opponent.
This week, it’s a picture of Calvin Pace barreling into Eli Manning’s blind side during the Jets-Giants preseason game in 2010 — a freeze frame of the initial impact that came an instant before the now-famous image of the bloodied Giants quarterback.
The message?
“I guess, do it again, hit him again,†Pace said. “But they do that every week, depending on who we’re playing. If they can find a good picture they’ll put it on there. So I just happened to get chosen this week.â€
Coach Rex Ryan said it was the perfect cover to encapsulate how intense the last two preseason games have been between the Jets and Giants, and what the Jets can expect Saturday.
“If you look at the preseason game this season, the fans thought it wasn’t that great of a game, but are you kidding me? That was a football game. We had a fight between (Brandon) Jacobs and Muhammad Wilkerson,†Ryan said. “That was old-school football and I think it’s going to be more of the same this week.â€
He also recognized that Manning was bloodied up more because of an ill-timed collision with a Jet player’s helmet, and not because of the hit.
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WRITTEN BY Conor Orr/The Star-Ledger  & FULL STORY HEREÂ
