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"New York Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards will be blogging for GQ all season. Check out all of his previous posts here.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterestEDWARDS_Rubric12.gif\n\nWe had another huge win on Sunday against the Texans. That last-minute drive was incredible. Mark hit me and 'Tone for big plays and we played great as an offensive unit for our third close victory in a row. It's kind of a unique situation to be playing again on Thanksgiving with only a three-day break, but as far as changes in our preparation, we're going about it like we always do. The only change is with the short week, we had to come in on Monday without rest and get that gameplan going for the Bengals. Tonight after practice we'll go to the hotel, and then get right out there for that quick-turnaround home game tomorrow against Cincinnati.\n\nAs far as life around New York goes, I did eat at one new restaurant the other day that I'd like to point out. It's called Blue Ribbon. It's this little spot in the West Village with amazing food and personable people\u2014very quaint. I had a great time. The DJ had some good music on when I was eating my oysters. I'd highly recommend it.\n\nOn the shopping front, I haven't really bought much in a while. My mom has been telling me to save money; she's put me on a motherly budget. Ha. The big thing with my mom right now is as a player with the lockout coming\u2014and it's pretty much certain that the lockout will happen\u2014you want to make sure you have everything intact. You never know what can happen. You go into the lockout and suddenly there is no income, no money coming from anywhere, and you don't want a situation of panic (not that that's necessarily going to be the case)\u2014but it's a small lesson in savings. My mom's been saying it since the season started. When I was going back for training camp, she was putting things in my head, talking about the potential of that kind of loss. It makes sense. There's no need to spend on tons and tons of clothes (which I never wear anyway), so I take her advice on this one.\n\nGuys talk about the potential lockout a lot. It always finds a way to sneak into conversation. Something will come up, you'll see something on TV and guys are up talking about it. Guys know it's serious. I believe we have great player representation\u2014especially Tony Richardson. It's incredible to have a 16-year vet who's a teammate of mine on the ecutive board, this guy who's an outstanding player and person. We have guys who know what they're talking about and are studied. They go and sit in on the meetings and give us the skinny. These guys are doing their best to let us know this is serious, so we listen and we're getting ready for war for the most part.\n\nAs far as the last six weeks of the regular go, we look often at that December stretch. At New England. Home against Miami. At Pittsburgh. At Chicago. That's as tough a stretch as anybody we play. We have New England on Monday Night in a couple weeks, maybe playing for the division title, but no way we're focusing on just that. That stretch is a beast."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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