The New York Jets lost a tough important divisional game Sunday night against the New England Patriots, but they don’t have any time to mope about it.
They had to regroup quickly with an extremely short week, as they’re in Denver tonight to take on the Broncos (4-5) in Thursday Night Football action.
“It’s a good challenge,” Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez told reporters Tuesday of the quick turnaround. “There’s two ways to look at it. We can kind of hang our heads from the New England game and be upset about not being in the driver’s seat in the division, or we can turn right around, get the bad taste out of your mouth and play well on Thursday in a short week.
“And I think it’s obvious what guys wanted to do. We want to make this quick turnaround worthwhile, focus on this road trip and be ready to play against a good team.”
The Jets (5-4) have had success on Thursday night games as of late, defeating the Bengals on Thanksgiving last year and the Bills on a Thursday night in 2009. The Jets also won a Thursday night game in 2008 over the Patriots.
“I guess the only thing that’s helping us right now is we lost the last game and we want to get back out on the field and win and have a good feeling going into this weekend, being able to watch a lot of the other teams play on Sunday,” Sanchez said. We want to get to Denver, get in and out of there, win the game and come home and relax. We’ve got to prepare well.”
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