(My Sportsbook) - New York Jets head coach Herman Edwards did his best on Monday to put a positive spin on his team's playoff berth - regardless of how they might have earned it

"Whether anyone likes it or not, we're in," said Edwards. "We're happy. I'm as happy...Oh, I'm very happy."

Thanks to their overtime loss to the St. Louis Rams on Sunday, the Jets needed some help to get into the playoffs and received it in the form of a Buffalo Bills loss at home to the 15-1 Pittsburgh Steelers, who had nothing to play for.

However, with losses in two straight and three of their last four games and an offense that cannot seem find the end zone, the Jets enter the postseason with as little momentum as any team left standing.

"You'd like to have momentum going in, but you don't," Edwards said. "You still get to go. It's like getting on the bus. Some people get on the bus and go to the back. Some people get on the bus and ride in the front. Don't matter. As long as you're on the bus. We're on the bus. That's all that counts at the end of the day."

Oh and by the way don't tell Edwards that "Gang Green" backed their way into a playoff spot.

"We didn't back into anything," Edwards added. "We earned our way by winning 10 games. We had to win those games. No one gave us those games."

No matter how Edwards feels going into this week's wild card matchup with the San Diego Chargers, there are some legitimate questions surrounding the offense - most notably the throwing arm of quarterback Chad Pennington, who is playing as if he is still feeling the effects of an injured right shoulder that forced him to miss three games earlier in the year.

"He has to be a little more, you know, at times accurate on what he wants to do and make decisions, not second-guess himself all the time," Edwards said. "I think at times he second-guesses himself a little bit, tries to anticipate too many things. But that's just part of the process, and he's going through it. He's our guy. I expect he's going to play well this week."

Pennington has engineered just two touchdown drives over the past two weeks and on Sunday completed 21-of-36 passes for 181 yards and a touchdown. His longest pass play went for just 17 yards, though.

"He's not a hundred percent well, obviously," coach Herman Edwards said. "If his shoulder's not 100 percent well, he's lost a little bit of his velocity on throwing the ball."

Lost in all the hoopla of the Jets' struggles was the fact that Curtis Martin earned his first-ever rushing title with 1,697 yards - edging out Seattle's Shaun Alexander by just a yard.

"I think that goes in that category of, 'This year, that's the best in the world," said Martin, who rushed for 153 yards in Sunday's loss.

Martin, who surpassed the 100-yard mark in nine of 16 games this season, now has the distinction of being the oldest player in league history to win the NFL rushing title. Prior to Sunday, that honor belonged to former Browns back Marion Motley, who rushed for 810 yards in 1950 at the age of 30. The only other Jets runner to lead the league was Freeman McNeil, who ran for 786 yards in the strike-shortened 1982 season.

"Curtis was spectacular," offensive coordinator Paul Hackett said.

INJURIES: Edwards announced on Monday that defensive end John Abraham will play this week after missing the last four games with a knee injury. Also, wideout Wayne Chrebet, who left Sunday's game with a mild concussion, is expected to practice all week and is listed as probable.

UP NEXT: New York travels to face San Diego this week in a rematch of their Week 2 encounter that saw the Jets pull out a 34-28 win.

The Jets trail the all-time series 17-11-1, but have won the two head-to-head meetings by a combined 78-41 margin. New York's last loss to San Diego took place in 1994, and their most recent road loss in the series occurred in 1990.

This will be the first-ever meeting between the teams in the playoffs. However, Chargers head coach Marty Schottenheimer coached the Cleveland Browns to a 23-20 overtime victory over the Jets in a memorable 1986 AFC Divisional Playoff.