Then again, dirty is an apt way to describe Mark Sanchez's performance in last night's game against the San Diego Chargers. Sanchez and the Jets managed to eek out a victory in the second half of their game against the Philip Rivers-led Chargers, 17-14 at the final gun. Sanchez was only 12 of 23 passes for 100 yards with one TD and one interception. I would call that dirty at best. Yet, the Jets will be in the AFC championship game next weekend.Fortunately for the J-E-T-S Jets, Jets, Jets, the Chargers were even sloppier with Nate Kaeding missing three field goals and Rivers getting picked off twice. Kaeding had not missed from inside 40 yards in 29-straight attempts; he missed twice inside 40 last night and once more from a bit further away. All three were makeable from the all-pro kicker, but it just wasn't his night. Rivers's two interceptions didn't help the cause and all of a sudden the NFL's hottest team found themselves down and out. The Chargers had won 11 straight games to end the season and looked to surely make it at least as far as the AFC championship game.
Newly hot road warriors, the Jets, will go from a close win at Qualcomm in San Diego to Lucas Oil Field in Indianapolis next weekend. I wouldn't count on two picks from Peyton Manning next week though, so Sanchez better clean it up because it'll be on him to lead the Jets to paydirt.
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