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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Tramon Williams has watched Charles Woodson every day in practice during his four seasons in Green Bay.
On Sunday, it was Woodson,who emulated Williams, stripping the ball from the Jets' Dustin Keller for a fourth-quarter interception the way his younger teammate had done it from Jerricho Cotchery in the second.
Strip interceptions. Two of them. Plus a "fumble'' that was also a strip -- this one by rookie linebacker Frank Zombo from Brad Smith on a run in the first quarter of the Packers' 9-0 win over the Jets Sunday. And two stops on fourth down by Green Bay -- "I count it as five turnovers we got,'' coach Mike McCarthy said.
This old-fashioned slugfest, the kind they used to play in the early days of the NFL when scoreless ties were not unusual, was in part set up by the Jets themselves before the season started, even before "Hard Knocks.'' You know, the "we're going to the Super Bowl talk.''
Several Packers said this made New York a team they wanted to beat although until Sunday, the Jets had backed up the talk pretty well, winning five straight after an opening-night loss to Baltimore in a game that was similar to Sunday's: field position was huge and a field goal almost seemed like a touchdown.
Or more than a touchdown -- Mason Crosby's 20-yard field goal with 4 minutes and 46 seconds left in the first quarter held up for nearly three quarters more, what almost seemed like (using soccer terms) an insurmountable 3-nil lead. It held up for 42 minutes and 45 seconds, or until Crosby kicked a 41-yarder with 6:36 left in the game for a truly insurmountable 6-0 lead -- with a 20 mph wind swirling around in what was the New Meadowlands Stadium's first true "wind game,'' it was hard to see Mark Sanchez getting the Jets into the end zone.
Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/10/31/larcenous-packers-defense-makes-anemic-jets-eat-their-words/
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