Comments on: Feature: Who Is Martrez Milner?

By: Cabras

Cabras — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:49:29 +0000

Another example of the lack of depth put together by Tanny.

By: jvsvn

jvsvn — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:57:30 +0000

I disagree that this is not that important. It’s very important. We will have a run-first team playing with a very inexperienced QB (whoever it turns out to be). Anything that impacts the play of the OL (including the TE) is critical to our season. We don’t need anything spectacular, but we do need someone who can reliably get the job done in the trenches and be a solid counterpoint to Dustin Keller. Let’s face it, we need someone with the skill set of Chris Baker. The problem with Baker was that he had delusions of grandour and didn’t want to play the role we had for him. The team was right to let him go. But let’s not kid ourselves. We now have a hole at TE that still needs to be filled. As I said above, I expect the team will be bringing guys in throughout the summer to see if they can find someone. If no one pans out, I woundn’t be surprised to see a late August trade for next year’s 5th round pick (or something like that) for a solid TE. While I hope it doesn’t come to that, the play of the OL is simply too important to be winging it.

By: LWSquad

LWSquad — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:01:31 +0000

Thank you Bent.
Off topic- Anyone remember seeing these hints at a complex, moving-parts offense during pre-season? I remember thinking as I watched our line pop up and out while rotating blocking assignments, “Wow, this is gonna be hard to defend when it comes up in the regular season.” Only problem….I never saw it in the regular season. I only hope Schotty is looking to run a confusing offense, much like Rex and Mike P. will run a confusing defense. I don’t believe we need a lot of these pieces people think we do (although I wouldn’t argue with a big name WR or second tier LB/DE). I believe that we are going to have our own brand of Football and our guys will have it drilled into their heads and it will shine on Sundays. Our main objective has to be getting to the QB within 4 secs of the snap on Defense, and on offense, sustain 6-8 min drives. Sounds like a tall task, but last year when we controlled the clock and didn’t make silly mistakes, we did this at will. Anyone saying that Defenses won’t respect the pass like they did with Favre….We have upgraded our running game and the whole point of our offense as Rex has stated is to run well when the other guys know you’re gonna run. Favre (God Bless that crazy redneck) is gone along with all those veteran mistakes, and half-hearted…..empty-hearted rallying speeches. What we have now are two guys that will make mistakes, but probably not as many, and are MOTIVATED! KC has to think about getting signed by another team to support his growing family (Congrats) and Mark….well I don’t have to tell you about Mark’s motivation. We read about it daily. I’m a pretty optimistic guy and I always shoot for the Superbowl no matter how reckless a claim it may be. All I know is this year should be one of the most unpredictable (hopefully in a good way) we’ve had in recent memory…..Man I hate the Off-season…..Here’s to ’09 and hopefully into ’10. J-E-T-S.

By: Harlan Lachman

Harlan Lachman — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:56:15 +0000

SD99′s insightful comments illustrate something more important than the importance of having a solid blocking TE. He highlights a severe problem that has limited the Jets’ success of late.

Good coaches, develop their schemes based on the players they have. If you have good slot WR and a TE who can get down the field, but you lack a solid TE who can block, rather than constantly pound the square peg into a round hole (or look for the square peg that doesn’t really do the job), the smart coaches figure out how to get what they want with who they have.

SD99 points out two teams who have accomplished that.

The problem is not that we lack a run blocking TE. IF WE HAVE a problem, and this season will reveal all, it will be that our OC lacks the ability to use the talent he has.

harlan

By: ramble914

ramble914 — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:41:44 +0000

Sackdance99,

Those mythic proportins are not just limited to “blocking TE’s” they also apply to the “tall WR” on this blog.

By: ramble914

ramble914 — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:35:11 +0000

head_coach,

Besides what Bent has described above, he is a guy the Jets are looking at to see if he can help the team. Nothing more, nothing less.

By: head_coach

head_coach — Sun, 31 May 2009 07:36:46 +0000

and again i ask who is martrez milner???

By: miketaliaferro

miketaliaferro — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:59:06 +0000

jvsvn — spot on.

The door will be swinging in Florham Park faster than a kitchen door in a highway Diner after the bars all close…

By: miketaliaferro

miketaliaferro — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:51:51 +0000

ALL PROPS TO BENT FOR GIVING US SOMETHING TO READ (and yak about) ON A SLOW SATURDAY AFTERNOON!!

Kudos to you, sir. Thanks.

Brett said he liked Keller. Then, it sounds like he’d LOVE Milner. Yogi and others have been bad ball hitters — could Milner be a bad ball catcher? :-)

SackDancer99 — actually, I believe Shotty said they’d like to have a “blocking” TE more for disguising packages, rather than for a person’s particular pass catching abilities. Having the tackle lined up there makes it pretty obvious what they’re going to do. This way the D can’t sit on a run. Even with a stiff like Anthony Becht there’s always the chance that he might slip out this time and catch something other than a cold. So, they can read run, but have to cheat a bit to guard against the pass. That’s all he was saying.

By: SackDance99

SackDance99 — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:12:35 +0000

The importance of a “blocking” TE has taken on almost mythic proportions on this blog. Antonio Gates’ blocking makes me giggle. It hasn’t exactly affected LT’s HOF career. Tony Gonzalez’s blocking is close to non-existent, but Larry Johnson and, before him, Priest Holmes were always league leaders. Fact is that a guy like Keller will occupy an LB because of his pass-catching ability. That’s how Gonzo and Gates “take out” LBs. If the Jets need an extra blocker at the goal line, bring in an extra lineman. Also, in the Schotty era, the Jets’ TE (whether Keller or Baker) has been primarily a pass-catcher running WR-like routes. So, the Jets probably should get a “blocking” TE, but it’s not critical, esp. since the Jets have T-Rich at FB.