Comments on: The Road Gets Easier

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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:02:48 +0000

[...] TJB reports things are gonna get easier. [...]

By: RAJ

RAJ — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:05:26 +0000

There is only fact that defines the Jets for the last six seasons… No Pennington, no playoffs. The rest is all ill informed media writers and Jet fans who take the green Kool Aid intraveneously. and it doesn’t matter who the coaches are how many bad drafts and poor free agent signings the Jets have made.

The only scenario that has the Jets turning into a 6 – 10 disaster is the D’Bust ending Pennington’s career by yielding another sack.

By: Prince

Prince — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:22:20 +0000

I’m on it, Bent…

By: Prince

Prince — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:21:39 +0000

I’m firmly on the playoff band-wagon, and need to see the Jets lose to a team they are supposed to beat before I can be knocked off. I also expect them to be extremely competitive in the next 4 games, and win at least 3 of them if not all 4.

Before spy-gate, Mike Felger ranted on his afternoon show about how overrated playcalling is a measure of a coach, and instead applied 3 litmus tests to determine if a team is well coached:

- below average number of offensive penalties. (sorry, Mr. Billick. I think you suck.)
- gets better as each game goes on.
- gets better as the season goes on.

I would say Mangini last year showed all three attributes, and so far this year has shown the first two. The third will determine success or failure for the season. I just refuse to see any on-field things that can’t be fixed by a good coaching staff.

By: Bent

Bent — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:14:49 +0000

Where’s prince? We could do with a series of streaking posts. Maybe that will get us going.

By: Matt M

Matt M — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:01:07 +0000

I’m not disappointed with the record, but I am disappointed with the philosophy shown by the coaching staff. Last year, everyone knew we didn’t have the personnel to beat teams with our base defense and a typical offensive game plan. So the coaches were brilliantly creative (the Brad Smith plays, the end-arounds, the stunts and blitzes on D), and they took risks (onsides kicks, lots of going for it on 4th down, giving playing time to Leon and Cotchery).

This year, the coaches seem to think that this club is far enough along in its rebuilding that it can win games essentially by playing teams straight up; when we all know we can’t beat New England or Baltimore straight up. Either that, or the coaches are looking so long-term that they just want to stay in the base offense and base defense from now on, knowing that the experience the players get within the system will eventually pay off.

I understand planning for the long-term, but from the trading of Pete Kendall, to the six-year contract for Revis, to the drafting of Kellen Clemens, I’d say the FO does enough to help the long-term situation. Personally, I’d like to see us have gameplans that make us competitive every week, and worry about the long-term at practice and in our personnel moves. The coaches did seem to begrudgingly give in to the short-term in the second half, when they went to more defensive sets with four down linemen. This ploy was highly successful.

In regards to planning for Sundays, Herm might have actually said it best–you play to win the games.