Comments on: Link: More Leon Please

By: BigKatFan

BigKatFan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:57:27 +0000

jim is right. Washington can run a MEAN deep route.(think back to 2007 preseason)

By: jim

jim — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:14:14 +0000

glock…you can never get enough cowbell….

and leon needs more than two carries a game

id like to see him out as a reciever once in awhile too

By: Joe B.

Joe B. — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:32:53 +0000

Screen to Leon. Screen to Leon. Screen to Leon. Screen to Leon. It’s not complicated.

By: GlockNSoul

GlockNSoul — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:35:27 +0000

Two things I need more of:

1) cowbell

2) Leon

By: ridinmywave

ridinmywave — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:13:18 +0000

good one brian, that would be somethin. but honestly…..its about damn time we start seeing leon and thomas on the field together. its bad when commentators start to realize how predictable the jets are sometimes, that mainly being becuase of our sub packages. thomas and leon are ALWAYS watched for the screen, its like everbody on offense is regulated to ONE job. mix it up for christ sake, you see what happens when we do!…favre rumbling for 27 yards, and tony richardson probably averaging 10 yards a carry, lol. stop delegating one common task to these guys, have clowney, keller, smith, or stuckey out there catching some screens or short slants, these guys are heavily under utilized…i think all of them are amazing with the ball. for god sake you the same dumb asss wildcat play from the jets….smith running with the ball…this has to be pretty offensive and disrespectul to opposing defensive coordinators, lol.

By: brian311

brian311 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:27:31 +0000

there is no law against having TJ and Leon on the field at the same time. see the vikings with AP/chester tayor, and the saints and bush/deuce. a good point was made about not overusing leon – but what i am trying to say is that he could be just effective in NOT getting the ball, as long as he is on the field. running a misdirection play using him as a decoy would cause the defense to overpersue – and this should be able to open up lanes for TJ.

in addition, opposing defenses are rightly concerned with the screen pass, why not have clowney and leon on the field at the same time? fake a bubble screen to leon and send clowney on a go.

just get him on the field!!

By: Electric Ham

Electric Ham — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:51:31 +0000

Bent I completly agree with what you said about the big play take a look at the Denver game, TJ had two huge TD runs and as far as i remember we got killed on TOP.

I think we did alot better when our game plan was run first pass when needed. I think Shotty has such a huge boner with Favre behind center he cant resist letting the guy throw bombs. He needs to relax and go back to what we are good at.

Please start running the ball like we used to.

About Leon, I love the guy probably my favorite guy on the team. There are a few reasons of which I can think of why we dont use him much on O.

1- He is responsible for all kickoff and punt returns so the coaches dont want to wear him down when we may need a big special teams play in the 4th.

2- He is a small football player and too many carries up the middle = risk of injury and with an injury to him we are screwed on ST.

3- TJ is a workhorse

Either way its crunch time now and we need to find ways to get him the ball in space more often which I truly believe they will do alot of this week in Seattle.

Expect a great game plan from the Jets. I think the coaches will shut everyone up this week. GO JETS

By: vincent

vincent — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:31:55 +0000

The two main weapons of the offense should be run, and play action pass. The empty backfield shotgun plays are used too much.

By: R in CT

R in CT — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:15:02 +0000

I know it’s tough with all the weapons they have on offense, but I’d like to just see him on the field more so defenses won’t automatically key on him the moment he comes into the game. Washington himself was saying that it’s been hard for the team to use screens for him a lot because when he steps on the field, the opposing defense is shouting to watch out for the screen.

It’s a bit similar to the problems they had using Brad Smith early on — every time he stepped on the field, opposing defenses were ready for a gadget play. The way they got through it was having Smith on the field more often — the same applies to Leon. Like Bent says, he can have an impact simply as a decoy.

Now who you take off the field so Leon can get on more … well, that’s another problem

By: Bent

Bent — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:36:47 +0000

Usually, a time consuming drive is better than a big play because it wears down their defense instead of yours.

I’d throw this week’s game out because of the way Leon hit his head after the TD. They didn’t look for him after that and although he still returned kicks well, he did not look comfortable fielding punts.

Not saying he was concussed necessarily, but I’d be surprised if he wasn’t knocked a bit silly, so the Jets were more cautious with him, albeit still using him as a decoy on offense at times (a la Maynard in SBIII).

On the whole, yes, Leon and TJ should get more carries than they have averaged over the last few games, but when the game plan is obviously to pass early and open up the running game later, this often goes out the window when you fall behind.