Comments on: JMattera’s Gridiron Grudges – Week 8

By: JustAGreenGuy

JustAGreenGuy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:26:37 +0000

Ghouls and Ghosts broke my spirit. That game is frickin hard!

By: ckrenek

ckrenek — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:17:29 +0000

Looks to me like they were trying to setup the run with the pass early on against a solid secondary of the raiders. How bout we try the opposite this week like most above average teams do and setup the pass with the run. We all know herm loves the cover 2 and what happened with playaction. Also how bout some pressure on the QB, rusell had all day back there, maybe vernon “ghouls and gholston” can get some pressure or how bout calvin pace stops running like orlando pace and get some pressure

By: JesusRevis

JesusRevis — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:01:24 +0000

Youre right Najy, that stuff was acceptable when we needed to do it in order to be successful, But with the talent on our O-Line, and an all-pro FB, and a hall of fame QB, we should not need to use all these gimmicks, and motion, and all the other cute stuff our offense does. If you ask me we have one of the best rosters in the NFL on paper, so why not just line up and PLAY FOOTBALL

By: Najy

Najy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:04:18 +0000

*CHad Penn was at Qb.

By: Najy

Najy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:02:44 +0000

MY belief is that we have enough talent on our team to line up and play footbootball.

All the cute stuff and extra motions was kool when he had no talent on our team and Victor Hobson was starting on D and Kevin Barlow and Cedric Houston where running the football behind Kellen Clemens at QB. Not to mention the great Jacob Bender and Anthony Clement blocking.

By: JesusRevis

JesusRevis — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:29:36 +0000

They wont be able to run the ball, Dwyane Bowe will be invisible just like he was last year when he faced Revis, my only concern is tony gonzales since the jets have shown trouble covering the TE. Other than that, I just want mistake free football from the offense.

By: Pete57

Pete57 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:33:42 +0000

Subway, you took the words right out of my mouth (or keyboard). Winning by 40 pts doesn’t get you anything. Win the game handily, meaning dominate line of scrimmage. Show improvements in the areas where we’ve been weak the last few weeks, ie, protect the QB, win turnover battle, no stupid penalties.

By: subwayfare

subwayfare — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:27:29 +0000

Considering that it’s possible our starting RT and both starting WR’s could be out, along with our best blocking TE, I don’t care about statements or easy victories, I just want to make sure we play sound, fundamental football and win. For those who’ve pined to see Keller get some chances, this may be the day. Solid running by TJ and Leon setting up seam passes to the TE and play action to Stucki and Smith should get it done. I also hope to see the D come out in a fiery rage and dominate, possibly even score one TD.

By: Jose the Jet

Jose the Jet — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:13:57 +0000

You still need to run the ball. Control the line of scrimmage. Brett still needs to read the defense and take what they give him. Like a screen!! Run if its there or throw. KC is very young. I’m sure he’ll be able to thow for three tds Sunday. This is the type of game where we win and the defense needs to make a decision. Play prevent or or go forward and work on playing man on man defense. I would really like to see them be aggressive.

By: Bent

Bent — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:02:32 +0000

Beware of Charles, (it’s JAMAAL, by the way), he has great open field speed. His weaknesses are that he is not a good pass protector and he has had issues in the past with fumbles. Let’s hope the Jets can captialize on these facts.

In the NFL, I’ve seen the situation before where a really lousy run defense comes up against a running game that is on form, everybody predicts 400 rushing yards and goes wild for fantasy purposes, but then the outcome seems to be that the defense focuses more on the run and the more significant damage is done through the air. So, while the Jets should definitely pound away at that fragile defensive front, they will need the passing game to come up big for this to be the comfortable win we are all hoping for. I wonder how much of a downgrade Hunter will be over Woody, if he takes his place? He seemed to do OK in spot duty last week.

I am very scared of the “Mets-always-struggle-versus-pitchers-they-don’t-have-the-book-on” corollary that I’ve mentioned before.