Just look what happened to our D in the San Diego game and late in the year when we didn't have him in there 100%.
It would make me nuts when I'd see him on the sideline. I understand the dude is the size of a small house and needs a play or two off, but jeez.
Link: Similiarities Between Favre & Cutler More Than Anecdotal Posted on March 20th, 2009 by Bassett KC Joyner writes a great piece on Fifth Down about how Jay Cutler is basically the same guy as Brett Favre in many ways. Although Cutler did a better job of airing out the ball than Favre in 2008, he also ? if you can believe this ? made worse decisions than Favre did according to Joyner. ? Cutler had better deep pass catchers and yet barely topped Favre in downfield passing. He also had more interceptions/near interceptions and made risky throws much more often. In other words, Jets fans, if you liked what you saw out of Favre last year, Cutler?s your guy. If not, you should let New York?s management know you aren?t on board with this! So .. as always, fellow Jets fans ? be careful what you wish for.
Favre threw a pick per every 23 passed he attempted. Cutler threw a pick for every 33 passes he attempted. Rothlisberger was 1:31 and Brees was 1:37. On his career Cutler is 1:34. Peyton Mannings career INT/Attmpt ratio is 1:36. Penningtons is 1:38.
Those are meaningless stats. INTs are often thrown at the end of halves or games, or on 4th downs, that have far less impact than other INTs which are killers, yet they all count the same.
The article tries to say that Cutler is just as risky a passer as Favre was last year. If you look at the number of INT's per attempt Favre was by far more risky when passing. If you want to take into account the end of halves and games and trying to come from behind. I'd say Cutler had a much worse defense to work with and probably had more of those types of INT's than Favre. We all know a lot of Favre's INT's were just ridiculous throws in unnecessary spots.
A lot of times it's just the circumstances of the game and has nothing to do with your defense. You get a chance to heave it to the end zone going into the half and it gets picked, or it's 4th and long inside the 40, etc. All types of scenarios that don't lend themselves to a standard, one-size-fits-all stat.
I don't disagree with what you're saying. Think about the Favre INT's last season and tell me how many of them fit a description of unnecessarily risky. Most of them were.
The stat is able to fit all over the course of 4+ year careers because all of the significant and insignificant INTs will average out evenly for all QBs over that type of time period. The longer the period, the better the comparison. Your argument seems to be dismissing the statistic entirely, which is fine if you don't believe in stats at all.
JayWatch update .............. (of sorts) Tend to agree with this article........ There is also a poll on this site , http://www.nydailynews.com/nydn/pol...ter,+they're+still+the+Jets&vote=view+results Remarkebly , only 67% think that the aquisition of Cutler would make us contenders.
The other 33% are probably the fools from this site. Oh, and people around here also like to call Tannenbaum some sort of genius. That article also says Tannenbaum was trying to trade up to get Leinart after passing over cutler once already that day when he took Ferguson. Some genius. That's also why I doubt the Jets could or would pull it off now too. You still have tweedle-dumbdumbdumb pulling the strings. He and high draft picks or high impact players just don't go well together.
How about CUTLER throwing 37 INTS in 37 NFL games! How about CUTLER ALWAYS having problems winning! Despite great stats last year he was 9 and 7. So was Favre and he was injured and a lot older. Exactly what has CUTLER done to show that he is a consistent , winning NFL QB? 8 and 8 and 9 and 7. So was Pennington capable of that and did do it several times. We do not know what we have at QB until we give the guys a chance. CUTLER has had his chance and he is waht he always was: a vastly talented QB with a BILLION DOLLAR arm and an ego to choke choke a horse with! On top of that he is thin skinned and not suitable for the NY market. If he lost a few games in NY due to INTS and the boo birds got on him, he would crack and demand a trade! T%hat is what you get with CUTLER. His record proves it!
He would thrive in NY, he has the perfect personality for it. It's the meek that melt in NY. If some beat writer tried to get under his skin he would just tell him to fuck off.
You're kidding, right? He has the exact opposite personality of what he needs to thrive in NY. He can't cut it in Denver, yeah, great idea, bring him to NY where he's scrutinized for every word out of his mouth.
Are you suggesting he can't cut in Denver because a 32 year old first time coach wanted a QB who knew his system and lacked the balls to build the team around it's single best assett? It may well be that the new HC can't cut in Denver much like Mangini couldn't cut it in NY?
I'm sick and tired of hearing people say that giving up two first rounders (this year's and next's) for Jay Cutler is "too much" or "not worth it". First round picks are NEVER guaranteed to be successful, and we've seen time and again many of them go bust, especially QBs. We have a chance to obtain a PRO BOWL quarterback, a proven winner, and one who can potentially lead this team for another 10 years. Opportunities like this almost NEVER happen. We should be all over this, and every single Jets fan should be behind it.
