* Calling the Jets “turkeys” is derogatory to turkeys. The players possess the talent to play playoff football; the coaching staff does not. Get rid of the staff, especially head coach Rex Ryan, and you’ll see a significant improvement. On the positive side, if there is one, the Patriots only scored 49 points against the Jets, as compared to the 59 points they scored the previous week against the Colts. The bottom line: Our local Fort Hamilton High School football team is better coached than the Jets are.
ELIO VALENTI
Brooklyn
* I think we have seen a sufficient sample size of Jets football to make a few observations: the coach stinks, the quarterback stinks, the defense stinks, the front office stinks and the owner cares more about hype than wins. Outside of that, they’re terrific. I recommend losing the rest of the games on purpose to get some draft picks which would give the new coach and general manager a fighting chance next season.
KEN DREXLER
North Woodmere, N.Y.
* Thanks to Mark “Wrong Way” Sanchez, New York really is the butt of the joke. It’s time for the Jets to jettison Rex “Blabber Mouth” Ryan and Sanchez. One is a good defensive coach and the other is just a decent backup quarterback. Next year at this rate, the New Jersey Jets will be in last place. Time for all New Yorkers to get a petition going and get the NY removed from the Jets’ (and Giants’) helmets as soon as possible.
ROBERT PIOVESAN
Rye, N.Y.
* I would like to congratulate the Mets and all of their fans. As of Thanksgiving Day 2012, they are no longer the city’s biggest embarrassment. That title now indisputably belongs to their cousins from Shea, The New York Football Jets.
JOSEPH BLACK
Staten Island
* The bad news is that the Jets stink. The good news is that at least all of their games next year will be at 1 p.m. so they won’t be embarrassing themselves nationally.
LOUIE REY
East Meadow, N.Y.
* Rex Ryan is always telling his players, “Play like a Jet.” The problem is, they do.
ALAN HIRSCHBERG
Forest Hills
Time for Tim
* Jets owner Woody Johnson should get rid of all of the cowardly, anonymous critics of Tim Tebow. Apparently loyalty to Mark Sanchez trumps winning games for these critics. Tebow’s broken ribs kept him out consideration against the Patriots, where he couldn’t have done worse than Sanchez. All we Jets fans are asking coach Rex Ryan to do is give Tebow a full game or even half a game to show what he can do when he’s healthy. The playoffs are out of the picture, so what does Ryan have to lose?
MICHAEL J. GORMAN
Whitestone
The ‘Real’ Knicks
* Friday night, at New York basketball fans had the opportunity to witness the “real” 2012-13 Knickerbockers in their 131-103 loss to the Rockets. We saw a team play no defense, hoist up too many unnecessary 3-pointers, lose their composure in the third quarter — all after continuing to have “too much to say” about their former teammate, Jeremy Lin. Meanwhile former Knicks Lin and Toney Douglas had steady games for Houston while newly acquired James Harden and second-year Chandler Parsons embarrassed the Knicks with their offensive explosion. Who has a better playoff future: The aging, often injured Knicks or the Rockets, the youngest team in the NBA? I’m going with Lin’s new team!
BILL GREEN
East Fishkill, N.Y.