Given these handicaps, not to mention a more difficult schedule than the Giants' and the task of fitting Groh's normal-sized ego into Parcells's headset, Groh will deserve the benefit of the doubt even if his Jets float home belly up from Baltimore.
Tannehill gave a glimpse of his quality as he stood firm in the face of an unblocked Jets linebacker, floating the ball over his opponent and into the hands of tight end Jake Stoneburner for an eight-yard touchdown.
In the meantime, the Jets still float somewhere between generations.
This is what the Jets' season, once floating on a cloud of unbridled confidence, has been reduced to: the equivalent of scrounging through your pocket, hoping to uncover enough loose change to buy a cup of coffee.
A fierce battle erupts just outside of earth's atmosphere, with guns blazing, people zipping around in fighter jets, and soldiers floating out into deep space.
A three-man rescue team on Jet Skis found him floating facedown.
There are sidebars about Key West "conchs" (as the denizens are called) on their bicycles, Jet Skis, trawlers and floating casinos.
Ten years after its christening, his transatlantic ship would prowl the icy North Atlantic as a kind of floating anachronism, jet planes having turned its record three-day, 10-hour crossing time into a sorry joke.
