A Quick Look at the State of the Jets
Do the players or coaches pay attention to the media for bulletin board material? Sometimes, maybe they should. I think that this would probably be one of those times. Here’s a quick look from some of the beat writers as they wonder what this team is capable of after seeing Sunday’s terrible loss to the Raiders.
Hutch writes that he’s confounded by the Jets inability to get it going in both phases of the offense. [Star-Ledger]
Overall, it seems the Jets simply can’t put a complete offensive game together. They can either run or pass in a game, but can’t do both. They rushed for a season-high 242 yards versus the Raiders but threw for just 197 yards on 38 attempts. The Jets haven’t had a 100-yard rusher and 200-yard passer in a game this season.
Cannizzaro is concerned that the team can’t rise to the challenge. [NY Post]
What have the Jets, who’ve won only two so-called “signature” games they weren’t supposed to win the last two seasons, shown to make you think this year is going to be different?
You have to wonder if even the great Favre does not have enough superpowers to overcome the Jets’ general malaise. You wonder if he’ll get sucked into the murky green hole of unfulfilled promise this franchise has been stuck in more often than not since Joe Namath gave it its one shining moment.
Boland sees the cracks too, but is cautiously optimistic. [Newsday]
Now, it is definitely premature for the vultures to begin circling overhead on this Jets season. As bad as Sunday’s loss was, at 3-3 the Jets haven’t eliminated themselves from anything. Those who don’t think the Jets can beat any of the tough teams on their remaining schedule haven’t been paying attention to the 2008 season.
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Well I guess I’ll start this off. By now everyone knows I feel our problems are completely coaching. The “new additions” thing is silly-they had six months to get to know and integrate these guys into the system. The punter/kicker stuff the same-six months to fix it. D’bric (if that’s what bothers you) the same -fix it in off season.
We have not played one good complete game yet this year and were 4-12 last year–so what now.
Nobody ever said the NFL was easy but it is a level playing field. Every team drafts in reverse of record, can sign free agents and plays a record based balanced schedule.
It all comes down to FO and the coaching staff. The bad teams -Oakland, Cin, Det etc can all be identified by bad FO/Coaching.
And so-
Jas,
You remind me of Johnny Styne, wherever he is. You are clueless as to what mangini is doing to this team here. You only see the games and judge the losses on the hands of the coaching staff who have not taken a break except for the bye week and are still trying to get the team to gel together. You see this is a mistake the Jets owner to make money off the PSL’s. What he did was he grabbed BRETT FARVE and forced Mangini to work around FARVE which as you seee now isn’t really working. The team is out of sync as far as stability without their true leader CHAD PENNINGTON and having FARVE in there has continued to slow down the process of chemistry this team has.
Fonzie-
We can agree to disagree except for one thing- you’re right all I do is watch the games——————————————————-and then throw up!
Jas,
Answer me this queston and i will stop all of this nonsense.
Why are all of you FARVE worshippers blaming the coaching staff when BRETT FARVE has the go-ahead to call the plays and the audibles and even after and shottenhiemer dummied down the playbook for FARVE? Does ANYBODY on this blog have the guts to answer this question so we can finally put this to rest?
Ok-
First there is the package problem. Running from certain set ups limits audibles and vice versa. Favre can only do so much with audibles.
Second -do you really believe that Favre called 5 straight shotguns set up for quick release 5 yard passes. If he is in that set up, fake the short and go long-he’s 7 yds back for pete’s sake.
third-there are consistent biases in this coaching staff-no risk, stay close, dink and dunk, etc. We all thought that was because Chad was limited. Watching the games you can’t tell who the QB is from the plays called. They are turning favre into Chad.
fourth-we have one of the top five throwers of all time and Shotty is calling a chad game. Could the result really be different if we tried to be aggressive.
Several of the picks came off broken plays and falls by receivers. This team is just way too predictable. 30% of favres completions in his career came off of slants. seen any of those lately.
I don’t give favre a complete pass on this but the game schemes don’t work.
There is no chance favre is calling the plays or this would look more like his GB days.
Fonzie,
It’s not that nobody has the guts to answer the question - it’s just a bizarre question based on complete conjecture. (Have you tried getting a job with the NY media?)
Favre has admitted that he discussed with the coaching staff simplifying some of the pre-snap movement, but the playbook has remained unchanged (and is in fact more varied, certainly in terms of the running game, than it has been the last two years). This change was agreed with the coaching staff because Favre, having spent the best part of 17 years in a conventional West Coast Offense, said that he can read the defense better without the movement.
Favre has called some audibles (for example the one against Miami where he threw a 56 yard TD pass to Cotchery), but not many. I think he called more audibles in that KSK parody than he has all season. I didn’t see him change the play much on Sunday at all.
If what you were saying were true then I would agree that Favre should get all the blame. All evidence says that it is not the case, but I hope this is what you needed to hear.
Now, somebody has answered your question, I trust you can give it a rest as promised. You are entitled to dislike Favre, but don’t have a go at the rest of us for rooting for our team.
P.S. Fonzie and Hank: You are both posting from the same computer and in the past you said this was because you are Father and Son. By all means continue to make the same arguments, but it doesn’t strengthen your argument to pretend you have no connection.
jeepers-
i quit posting cause fonzie told me to. now i find out he and hank are the same guy. Damn!
Go Jets.
Motivation is key, and Mangini does not come across as a coach who can rally his team, he’s too stone-faced.
You’ll always see great coach, i.e. Shanahan, Bellichick, etc…rally up his team from the sidelines. Mangini just stands there looking pissed off.
I feel like he needs to communicate more with the team during games, and not look so rigid when one of his players make a mistake.