Did you know these facts and connections for our seventh home game of the season against the Oakland Raiders on Sunday at MetLife Stadium?
■ The Jets trail in this original AFL rivalry, 23-17-2, including playoffs, but they lead the Raiders at home, 10-8-1, and have won their last 3 games in the Meadowlands.
■ This is only the third time in the last 13 meetings with the Raiders that the Jets are playing at home.
■ Under head coach Rex Ryan, the Jets played the Raiders twice @ OAK, winning in 2009 by 38-0, losing by 34-24 in '11.
■ Nick Folk is 25-for-26 in FG tries this season and has hit his last 16 attempts at MetLife Stadium dating to last season.
■ DE Muhammad Wilkerson has 10 sacks for the year, becoming the first Jet since John Abraham in 2005 to reach double digits in sacks.
■ The Jets defense, ranked 1st in the NFL against the run for the 6th consecutive week, faces off against Oakland's 5th-ranked rush offense today.
■ LB Calvin Pace has 7 sacks for the season, one shy of his career high of 8 set with the 2009 Jets.
■ Bilal Powell and Chris Ivory have combined for three 100-yard rushing performances this year, all in home wins over the Bills, Patriots and Saints.
■ Jets WRs coach Sanjay Lal was in Oakland's training camp in 1995 and was an assistant coach with the Raiders from 2007-11.
■ Jets quality control/defense Bobby April III, Raiders ST coordinator Bobby April Jr. and Jets OC Marty Mornhinweg all were Eagles coaches last year.
■ Raiders DBs coach Johnnie Lynn was our 4th-round pick out of UCLA in 1979 and Lynn's 17 career INTs from 1979-86 are tied for 15th on our all-time list.
■ Tony Sparano, Oakland's assistant head coach/offensive line, was our offensive coordinator last season.
■ The last Jet to return a blocked field goal for a TD was Ray Mickens, who turned the trick against the Raiders at the old Meadowlands stadium in '97.
■ The last Jet to block an extra point try at home was Marvin Washington, who rejected Cole Ford's PAT for the Raiders in 1995.
■ Chad Pennington, our first-round draft pick in 2000 and the Jets QB from 2000-07, is Sunday's Runway Pilot and Honorary Gameday Captain.
■ S Dainard Paulson set our record for most takeaways in a game with 4 (3 INTs, 1 FUM), vs. OAK at the Polo Grounds in 1963.
■ The first playoff game in franchise history was the Jets' 27-23 win over the Raiders in the 1968 AFC Championship Game, with Joe Namath throwing three TD passes, two to Don Maynard.
■ Joey Clinkscales, the Raiders' first-year director of player personnel, was a Jets scout and personnel man for 17 seasons.
■ The first playoff game in franchise history was the Jets' 27-23 win over the Raiders in the 1968 AFC Championship Game, with Joe Namath throwing three TD passes, two to Don Maynard.
