Daily Links: Serenity Now
Posted on November 3rd, 2009 by Bassett
- George Bretherton lends us some stability.
- Ryan responds to charges of having an “oversized ego.”
- Bart Scott is doing an ESPN chat today.
- Most absurd AFC East game? Sunday’s gets a nomination.
- Cimini breaks down the kick returns.
- Westhoff said it’s his worst game ever, but has no regrets.
- The Jets are trying to stay positive.
- At least there’s no setbacks for Cotch.
- TE Ben Hartsock is on notice.
- JRSportBrief talks with Darrelle Revis from his appearance a few weeks ago at 12AM.
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Hartsock should be on notice. His name should never be spoken by broadcasters ever… I have heard his name way too many times already this year for stupid pealties.
Second game Hartsock has cost them a chance to win. His holding penalty in OT against Buffalo took them out of field goal range.
Glad someone has noticed Hartsock penalties because as stated above, it has possibly cost the Jets two games. The holding penalty against Buffalo in OT cost them a run down to the 12 which would’ve set up a chip shot FG for the win and his penalty this week cost them 2 points and a chance to tie at the end with an FG
Assuming he makes it into the off-season, what do you think Mangini’s gonna want for us to take that Top-3 pick off his hands in the next NFL Draft? Marcus Coleman, maybe? Danny Woodhead?
Anyone missing Chris Baker?
Whoever the Browns hire to replace their GM is going to have the authority and control. I feel like the owner is realizing his mistake in hiring Mangini with complete control and will either strip him of personnel control or just get rid of him entirely.
Hartsock is creating too many penalties because he is not a consistent player. He has no competition right now in the depth chart. He is basically dead weight for this team. Mangini would NEVER acquire a player like Hartsock who lacks the discipline to play his position. If Mangini has turned the Browns from the most penalized team in the league at the beginning of the season to a team that averages around the rest of the league in penalties then you can tell he would not put up with a player like Hartsock. The jets are shooting themselves in the foot right now. Ryan clearly has NO plan of discipline or consistency. Some weeks practice is good enough to play on weekends sometimes there is not enough focus from the players on the practice field.
From Eric Allen’s column:
“‘Obviously we have a ton of work to do,’ added Jets head coach Rex Ryan. ‘We put ourselves in a hole here.’”
Aided and abetted by fellow members of the National Football League, of course.
fonzie, your boy Mangini is about to be unemployed. GIVE IT A REST.
It is interesting really. The jets are finding ways to lose the complete opposite of what Mangini has preached and taught the jets the last three years. Its amazing how one fat baffoon can talk his way through to his team and change it. He tries to get the jets motivated through his talk but even a 400 pound tub of lard is going to run out of his talk whether his fat prohibits him or his lips fall off, or he gets punched in the mouth enough times he is going to shut up. I just hope the jets players don’t die with him. The strong character players on this team won’t though.
fonzie,
Do you have something of substance to say? Or do you just want to bash Ryan for his weight, which he does to himself on a regular basis.
“The jets are finding ways to lose the complete opposite of what Mangini has preached and taught the jets the last three years”
You’re right, Mangini did preach and teach the Jets to lose the last 3 years with class. Whoopty doo. It’s still losing. And go read interviews with players about Ryan’s talks. They are apparently profanity-laden tirades that pump up the players to the point they want to go kill someone. I’d take a Rex Ryan pep talk over a Mangini gum-chew anyday.
I didn’t realize until this morning that SOMEONE ripped a giant hole in our kick-coverage team by de-activating four of our top kick cover guys — Ahmad Carroll, Marquice Cole, Brad Smith and Marques Murrell — and then sent VG and Woodhead out to do a man’s job.
This will come as a shock to some among the Jets’ leadership, I know, but this was the unit — and the decision — that cost us the game.
Now the question is, WHO made that decision that cost us the game? Whose call was that? Was it Sexy? Tanny? Woody? Westy? Sleepy? Grumpy? Doc? The board of directors of Johnson & Johnson? A committee of the above?
THAT’S the bozo(s) everyone should be pissed at. And THAT’S the fool I want to be MAN ENOUGH to step forward and say, “Damn, that’s MY bad. Everyone else did enough to win this game. MY decision cost us this game.”
It wasn’t “Special Teams” that lost this game — it was the person who ripped its guts out on Saturday night who lost this game for NY.
Didn’t Bent, I and other people have a discussion just this week on the differences of running back-types (a la Leon, which Ginn isn’t) vs. straight-line speed guys (a la Miller’s ghost, which Ginn is) after the change from three-man to two-man wedges?
THAT is the question that will dog this team during the Bye Week:
“WHO SAT the Four Horsemen of the Kick-off Team? AND WHY?”
Smith was hurt. Cole and Carroll were deactivated to get more big bodies to defend the wildcat, which worked since the wildcat was useless against the defense. Murrel…maybe he had a bad week of practice or something. Gholston had been on specials all season, and played them last year, so I think he knows how to do the “man’s job”.
I don’t think I’ve ever said something bad about the guy, but this is Westhoff’s fault. From everything we’re told, he has autonomy when it comes to special teams, so this falls on him. Rex needs guys to combat the wildcat (and anyone who gives a “he only cares about the defense” rebuttal is a joke because we needed those bodies so we wouldn’t get embarrassed again) and Westy should have guys ready to fill in at those positions.
I am not one to play the blame game, but unfortunately it’s clearly the fault of the special teams units that this game was lost.
Cimini outlines above just what the Jets were left with while the boys were on the field and the men were on the sidelines in their civvies.
Sorry, Brendan. Don’t buy it.
This was a serious and crucial decision made by someone among that leadership.
If, as you say, WHOEVER decided to steal from ST to bolster the D vs. the ‘Cat, fine. I can go with that. It didn’t work, but I can see the value in the idea going into Sunday.
But two things:
1) You drop other names off your ST roster, not your top guys;
2) Be MAN enough to come to the podium, and say, “Hmm, it looked like it was gonna be an OK swap going in, but I guess it didn’t work. We weakened our ST unit too much, and that’s MY responsibility. I goofed, and that’s what cost us.”
Simple. Then, everyone yowls for a day, and you move on.
They’d rather go down with the ship, saying there’s no hole so they shouldn’t be sinking, rather than admit they hit an iceberg.
What I sense from the Ryan Bunker is that stale air of “My stuff doesn’t stink! We’re better than anyone! It’s all just unfair.”
I don’t mind the bravado. It’s the extreme of the pride and the hubris that hurts us, because it makes our leaders blind. I like the cojones. But you have to know what’s broken, and admit it’s broken before you can go ahead and fix it.
And lopping off your top 3 kick coverage guys when a 4th is already injured to fill another hole is ‘broken’.
Rex: “I have belief. I think that’s it. I have a belief.”
I think he should have a mentor at his side, as well.