Comments on: Link: Rick Gosselin Bullish on the Jets?

By: vgo

vgo — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:08:53 +0000

They will be good, as long as they stay healthy. They need to bolster their backups in most positions though. I think they are a little thin in that dept.

By: Gregory Rasputin

Gregory Rasputin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:30:26 +0000

Dear Fonzie,Your idea for patience and development is an important one.

Obviously Ryan thought long and hard about what kind of flowers with which to be patient and which with not to be… and he made those deletions and additions.

Coach Ryan obviously drew some different conclusions about the potential of this garden and decided to do some pruning.

That pruning will probably not reach it’s zenith until the free-agency period and draft are over next year when he has had a season’s go around with which to make a total evaluation.

For now,he has little idea on how these parts shall mesh.He just knew that some things could not work.

I agree with you that every player’s performance is affected by his immediate partners.However you are overstating the external aspect to the exclusion of the internal.What a player like Sheppard will or won’t do is unknown even to him at this point.

Dear Ramble,
Of all the coaches I’ve ever seen come into a job and exude the real auric qualities that auger longterm success it’s…Ryan.

Further Coach Ryan has something many other coaches don’t have.He brings amusement and fun to the game which goes a long way to create joy…as any part of football life is about losing.He also is eccentric and that means that we shall have the added sideshows of ascertaining,evaluating,and enjoying his originality to football sculpture.

I strongly suspect that the Jets are going to be successful under Coach Ryan but what I know is that they are already much more fun with which to be involved as a fan than they have been in ages.

Viva Coach Ryan!

Like a bed of Roses resituated further out to a more sunny spot Sheppard might do as other players have done in the Swan Song of his career and have his best moments…or he might continue to shrivel.

Dispositionally Sheppard seems more likely to create big moments than Revis because of his gambling nature. But in any case any projection positivie or negative is baseless.

We’ll see…

By: fonzie

fonzie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:40:52 +0000

The defense should be left alone. It should grow on its own. Ryan had an attacking defense when he was a defensive coordinator in Maryland but Ray Lewis was there to help let the defense grow that is why he doesn’t take all the credit for their success. We are not letting the defense grow from last year by replacing all these parts and adding these players who have their potential already maxed out. Sheppard can only play as good as the cornerback opposite of him. Leonhard can only play as good as Rhodes and Douglas (and the choo choo train of guys behind him in depth) can play as good as Ellis on the other side. If Harris starts Scott can only play as good as him as Scott has no idea who Bryan Thomas or Calvin Pace is on the field on gameday. That is why he got familiar with the number 6th overall pick the Incredible Hulk to create a carbon copy of himself. Gholston can still change Thomas and Pace not as likely. Well like I said before I don’t think Harris is going to make it fellas.

By: SackDance99

SackDance99 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:49:15 +0000

This defense should be much better because Rex wants to force the offense to react to his pressure defense. If the pressure is unpredictable, the offense will be on it’s heels. I thought Mangini came up with great game plans, but if the offense changed its tendencies, he was poor at adapting. The 49ers game was a good example last season. Kerry Rhodes said that the 49ers threw a different wrinkle at them with Bruce’s crossing patterns and the Jets didn’t know how to react. Basically, Martz out-foxed Mangini. Because the Jets defense will be based on pressure coming from different areas, Rex’s defense should be better able to adapt to neutralize a particular play, especially a crossing pattern which needs time to develop.

By: SackDance99

SackDance99 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:38:39 +0000

In case anyone was wondering, Favre threw 4 pick 6′s last season. They were against San Diego, KC, Buffalo (1st game) and Miami. The Jets’ record in those games was 2-2 and, IMO, the only one that potentially cost the Jets a game was against Miami, which was his only pick 6 in the final 8 games. Interestingly, Chad and KC each threw 2 pick 6s (for 4 total) in 2007, all in losses (Cincy, Giants, Dallas, Pats). In 2006, Chad threw 2 pick 6′s, both in losses (but only 1 during the regualr season and, ironically, 1 in the playoffs to Assante Samuels). I only mention this because I don’t know what an inordinately high number of pick 6′s is or what is the winning percentage of a team whose QB throws a pick 6. I don’t have a big sample, so I don’t know, but Favre’s Jets record was .500, while Chad/KC lost each game in which they threw a pick 6. I want to see far fewer INTs, but I don’t think that Favre’s INTs directly and adversely affected the defense as much as some here have supposed. Favre threw 10 INTs in his 9 wins and 12 INTs in his 7 losses. For instance, Big Ben threw 10 of his 15 INTs in 4 losses and Pittsburgh’s defense was no. 1 in the NFL. I’m guessing that it wasn’t Favre’s INTs as much as the fact that he stopped tossing TDs that cost the Jets’ defense more.

By: ramble914

ramble914 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:38:04 +0000

Grasshopper…I mean Gregory Rasputin, I quess you’re on board with Rex? I don’t know?

By: AKA.....Drew

AKA.....Drew — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:27:16 +0000

MSM,

Dont get me wrong…….I am all for sending the kitchen sink at a QB but if it gets blocked your defense is vunarable to very big plays….

Ramble.

I am with you brother. Nothing more frustrating than 3 and 7 and we rush 3 and the QB has all day to find an open guy. I assume that wont be an issue this year

By: Gregory Rasputin

Gregory Rasputin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:59:06 +0000

Coach Mangini did not succeed defensively because His priority was to confirm and demonstrate his values systemically and philosphically.

That’s a very different thing than trying to find what works in a particular situation to win within the context of one’s own internal vicissitudes and inclinations..

Coach Mangini hasn’t yet awakened to the aspect of harmony with the outside world.He is only coming from the inside.

That spells integrity…but integrity without harmony can never be more than sporadically successful.

I suspect that Coach Ryan is much more in tune with the in and the outs of his situation.

The result of that sagacity will be that each Jet’s player individually and integrally will succeed more more often.

Correct understanding can’t bring about a championship alone but it can when coming from the coach …imbue the team with genuine championship potential each game.

You can feel it from Coach Ryan before the first snap.

By: MSM

MSM — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:28:09 +0000

AKA… I totally agree with you on the blitzing but im not so sure about the big plays and the boom or bust theory. If anything, the blitzing should be a key element of making big plays on D because of the way it minimizes comfortable pocket time for the opposing QB. With our new corners and a roaming Kerry, we should be picking off QBs rather than making them look like Joe Montana (ala Mangini vs. Cassell, Cutler, you name it, last year…). We were so reactionary on defense last year that we allowed the underneath stuff to develop, we gave the QBs hours in the pocket. Im liking the Rex Ryan plan… straight up BOOM

By: ramble914

ramble914 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:15:54 +0000

It’s the underneath crap that keeps drives alive, and sends me into a rage!

Agreed, Rex’s defense will be more boom or bust, and I trust that it will be more bust and therefore less points. The boom or bust will also result in keeping the defense off the field.