ronnie-and-ricky-wildcatIdiot savant Calvin Pace, the Jets linebacker who was suspended for four games this season after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs, had this to say after New York lost to Miami 31-27 Monday:

Pace called Henne a “second-year clown quarterback,” saying “you have to give him credit, but our defense lost the game today.” Pace added: “I’m going to be honest. I can’t respect that stuff, all that Wildcat. Because we’re in the N.F.L., man.” He called the Wildcat “nonsense” and said: “They got us today. But we’ll see them again.”

Word got back to the Dolphins. The following will hopefully make the Nov. 1 Dolphins-Jets rematch the CBS national game at 1 pm.

Channing Crowder: “They nonsensed their ass all the way up and down the field. Nonsense, I love nonsense. They say gimmick, gimmick this, gimmick that. We’ve won games with the Wildcat. They ran two fake punts. So if you’re going to say gimmicks, those are real gimmicks. Wildcat is an offensive formation, they run it for two years. They have thousands of plays on film about it, go stop it. Shut up about all the junk talking and whatever they’re talking about they ain’t going to give us no credit. We’ll see them in three more weeks, we got to play them again, so the hell with them.”

Jason Ferguson (former Jet): “Who is this guy? What’s his name again? Ain’t he a rookie or something? Isn’t that the rookie from Ohio State? Or you talking about the guy from Arizona? Yeah, ok, it’s cool, if that’s what he sees. It ain’t nothing. That’s how ya’ll want to treat it, it’s cool. You’ll see it again in two weeks. No comments here. I’m good. I’ll stay away from that one. He’s fooling himself. I got nothing for Calvin. I don’t even know that dude. I’ll let him have his battle with the Wildcat. It looks like he lost already.”

Crowder, you may remember, is the Rhodes Scholar who couldn’t find London on a map. We can only hope Ferguson’s backhanded remarks go right to the heart of 2008 1st round bust Vernon Gholston, who has done absolutely nothing five games into his second season. Gholston, a star at Ohio state, was drafted to sack the QB, and in 20 games as a pro, has yet to record one. In addition to Gholston being on notice, Pace better show up against the Bills Sunday after the disaster against the Dolphins. We know star linebacker Bart Scott will:

I can’t wait to hit somebody. I can’t wait to step out there and see somebody in another jersey so all this pain and all this embarrassment that I’m feeling … I can inflict it on someone else.’’

The Jets are only 9.5 point favorites at home against a team that has cratered downhill since an impressive opening night showing in New England.

Miami Dolphins Respond to Calvin Pace  [Miami Herald]