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Flawed Jets can still sniff playoffs

When John Madden was an NFL color analyst, he frequently used to say that winning was a great deodorant.The former Oakland Raiders coach meant that sometimes when teams won games, the victories at least temporarily masked their deficiencies.So we have the case of the 2012 New York Jets. Their unimpressive 7-6 victory Sunday over the Arizona Cardinals raised their record to a less-than-mediocre 5-7, yet kept alive their fledgling playoff hopes.After months of speculation that a controversy between Mark Sanchez and first- year Jets' quarterback Tim Tebow would materialize, it never did. However, an ineffective Sanchez was pulled in the third quarter against the Cardinals in favor of Greg McElroy, who led the Jets on their game-winning drive.The uncertainty at quarterback (head coach Rex Ryan declined Monday to name a starter for this Sunday's contest at Jacksonville) makes the Jets look like anything but a contender, however it's not as far-fetched as it may seem at first glance.Consider...

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