Comments on: Opinion: Great Kid, Don’t Get Cocky!

By: dave h

dave h — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:56:15 +0000

the big change in the 2nd half was because Jenkins was taken out, it hurt the pass rush and put too much pressure on the secondary, warner is too good to be given that much time especially with the likes of his recievers. the 3-4 is not effective without KJ, they need to find a suitable back up, or change the defensive scheme when he is out, especially when playing against such an explosive offense, all things said though, our offense did pick up the slack, and keep the game out of reach.

By: billvv

billvv — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:02:33 +0000

And, you got why the second half was so different from the first? Running no huddle caused the Jets to run the same D throughout. That was very smart of the Cards and Mangini said it would be a point of the off week to fix that. From prior years, we know that will happen!

By: Najy

Najy — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:36:14 +0000

Get a hold of this…

Jets release Ben Graham and sign OL Will Montgomery….

By: The NYC Parking Expert

The NYC Parking Expert — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:34:33 +0000

I was there and it was certainly fun. That being said, I was nervous throughout a lot of the 2nd half. Scoring 56 is incredible, letting the other team score 35 in one half is not good. Sorry to harsh anyone’s buzz, but the D needs a lot of work, as they were repeatedly torched in the 2nd half. Many of the cards TDs took less than 2 minutes! The D played great in the 1st half (I’ve been to about 30 games and that was the most complete half of Jets football I’ve ever seen) but disappeared for much of the 2nd half. Jenkins didn’t play much in the 2nd half. It is clear to me that without him, our D is not very good. As I said, I was there and the 20 yard cushion they were giving the cards receivers on the out patterns wasn’t working. I understand giving up the little stuff when you have a big lead, but it was only taking them 5 or 6 plays to score! Why not stay aggressive and not let them come within a botched onside kick that almost worked of making this game way too interesting?

Favre was awesome, but let’s spend some time looking at our D that played one great half and one piss-poor one.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:14:01 +0000

Really, I am commenting on the first half– the two big guys did nothing. They did move the ball when they didn’t turn it over, and they moved it by hitting secondary recievers.

By: ramble914

ramble914 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:03:25 +0000

Anthony,

I don’t know how you can say they shut down the big two receivers, their three receivers each had over a hundred yds. and three TD’s. I think we should do away with that prevent D, we seemed to shut off the pass rush too often.

By: Dean Barbella

Dean Barbella — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:00:14 +0000

I love it when I’m right… especially when Jets win for Bassett to see up close and personal at the Meadowlands!!!

With Jenkins playing, Jets able to expose Cardinals pathetic running game. Ol’ Man Warner was forced to pass for 472 yards with six turnovers and five sacks.

- He fumbled the ball four times, losing three.

- Also tossed three interceptions.

Conversely, Brett Favre piloted Jets to Six TD Passes; of which, he dialed right down the middle to reach out and touch Laveranues Coles for Three!

… It’s just a matter of time (touch), before Chad Pennington gets dropped from Coles’ Top-Five.

Go Jets!

By: RK

RK — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:40:56 +0000

Bassett I believe the line from Family Guy was “Great kid don’t get penisy!”

Still the Jets biggest weakness seems to be 3rd down, and for some reason 3rd and long, stops. That I just don’t get. Am I crazy to think that when a team is in long yardage on 3rd down that is the time every defense throughout the history of the NFL is drooling for a blitz? Yet over and over again I watch, they drop 6, 7, 8 players and the O converts. That is a travesty to allow the 3rd down and long conversions time and again.

Also this week I started seeing the D line jumping when a pass was thrown. It was almost like the didn’t know how to jump with their arms in the air as the QB was rearing back to throw.

The games so far have been quite odd. It seems as though the pace of the game is slowed and that no team is really in control. Until the Jets scored finally in the 2nd half it looked like the game was coming back into reach.

The Jets need a better running game if they want to win a super bowl IMHO.

By: Rollercoaster

Rollercoaster — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:40:17 +0000

Great win yesterday, but we still got a lot of issues to work on. Hopefully we use this bye week to its fullest and work on the running game.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:03:50 +0000

This is exactly what we needed. I good feeling going into the bye week. Now if we come out and lay and egg against the Bengals then you can say Same old jets!!! I was just wondering if Mangini would have coached the game the Whisenhunt did how quickle the fans would have killed him. What an awful showing from the Cardinals coaching staff. Did anyone mention what a bad call the end of the 1st half pass play was? 10 secs to go from your own 20….down by 31?? Throwing passes that get your best WR killed with secs to play?? Mangini would have been crucified.