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Is this just Mangini psyching us out, or is he being sincere?
Jets still believe Buffalo will break out
The Jets may be more optimistic about the Bills than the Bills.
While the downtrodden Buffalo team is off to an 0-3 start, at the bottom of the league in both offense and defense, and facing so many injuries that guys who were on the street two weeks ago are in the starting lineup, the Jets are convinced that the Bills are a slumbering juggernaut.
That might be part of the mental preparation for an NFL game, a way of avoiding a letdown against an inferior opponent. And there's no sense in riling up the enemy by telling them that they stink. Let them be 0-3 before the game, 0-4 after the game, maybe even 0-6 when the teams meet again in four weeks.
But the way the Jets were carrying on Wednesday, it's as if some of them should have been wearing throwback Jim Kelly jerseys and those big foam No. 1 fingers in red and blue.
While the downtrodden Buffalo team is off to an 0-3 start, at the bottom of the league in both offense and defense, and facing so many injuries that guys who were on the street two weeks ago are in the starting lineup, the Jets are convinced that the Bills are a slumbering juggernaut.
That might be part of the mental preparation for an NFL game, a way of avoiding a letdown against an inferior opponent. And there's no sense in riling up the enemy by telling them that they stink. Let them be 0-3 before the game, 0-4 after the game, maybe even 0-6 when the teams meet again in four weeks.
But the way the Jets were carrying on Wednesday, it's as if some of them should have been wearing throwback Jim Kelly jerseys and those big foam No. 1 fingers in red and blue.
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