New York Jets NFL Betting Odds

2010 Season

The New York Jets have every right to be frustrated after they were knocked out in the AFC Championship Game last season - the second time in so many years. The phrase 'so close, yet so far' is still ringing in the ears of the Jets and their fans alike. Of course, if the team's outspoken head coach Rex Ryan has anything to say about it, the Jets are a shoe-in to win the Vince Lombardi trophy this year.

2011 Off Season

In the off season, Ryan concentrated more on the Jets' (already superb) defense than offense, using the 2011 NFL Draft to great effect by signing DT Muhammad Wilkerson and DL Kendrick Ellis. And although he failed to sign free agent CB Nnamdi Asomugha, Ryan did sign up former Jets CB, Donald Strickland. Offensively, the coach retained the services of talented WR and free agent Santonio Holmes, while also signing controversial WR Plaxico Burress, who spent the last two years behind bars on gun charges, but has bucket loads of raw talent.

2011 Preview

Looking at the New York Jets over the last couple of seasons, they have pretty much fired on all cylinders. But it goes without saying that they need to dig a littler deeper to progress beyond the AFC Championship Game, for a coveted place in Super Bowl XLVI. To help accomplish this, head coach Rex Ryan has been tweaking the team's defense, which dipped slightly in quality last season from the season before. The addition of Wilkerson, Ellis and Strickland should give the team more depth here, while LB David Harris should add his two bits. Offensively, Jets QB Mark Sanchez is expected to have a 'humdinger' of a year, and could even go All-Pro. Plus, if Burress can regain his form from a few seasons ago, he and and Sanchez could become quite a force to be reckoned with.

2011 Prediction

New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan seems like the kind of man who would happily travel to a hostile country to free U.S. prisoners, a guy with a 'never say die attitude' who knows what he wants. And what Ryan wants is to win Super Bowl XLVI. If 'third time lucky' means anything, this could be the year of the Jets, and the ideal chance to return the Vince Lombardi trophy to the Big Apple. Expect fireworks when the Jets face the Patriots in Game 5.

**Our Pick

Obviously the big NFL betting question is whether Rex Ryan can fire up the New York Jets enough to secure a spot in Super Bowl XLVI? For our betting buck judging by the Jets' acquisitions and changes in the off season, this is highly possible. And even though the Jets will in all likelihood again  finish second to the Patriots in the AFC East division (possibly on 12-4), it's which teams that make it through to the playoffs and beyond that counts.