Filed under: Jets, Vikings, NFL AnalysisEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- How good are the Jets? Well, their best player is a cornerback, Darrelle Revis, who's already missed two games, hasn't been full-strength in the other three and is talking about having to miss next week's game in Denver because his hamstring just won't get better.
And they don't look as if they need him. Monday night, with Brett Favre and the desperate Minnesota Vikings in town looking to stretch the field with newly acquired deep threat Randy Moss, the Jets simply put their second-best cornerback on Moss, one-on-one all night, and Antonio Cromartie handled him.
"We knew they were going to run vertical after vertical after vertical, and with Darrelle's hamstring being what it is, we didn't want him to chase a guy 50 times who's running 50 'go' routes," Jets coach Rex Ryan said after his team's 29-20 victory. "So we put Cromartie out there and I thought Cromartie did an outstanding job."
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