Yeah....true but don't forget our secondary and LB injuries. Once it became a shootout we were still trying to establish the run... The CS didn't see the writing on the wall that anything away from Revis was gonna be completed. If we'd had Green maybe we'd get a few more 1st downs but sooner or later if a team is stopping the run you gotta go with the pass especially if you plan on going back to the run. But, we chose to play it close to the vest.
Exactly my thoughts. I disagree with a few play calls also, but only because they didn't work or were incompletions. The one I disagree with Schotty on was the pass on third down when we were going to try a 52 yarder FG anyways. Its not that Feely didn't have the leg. He did. I just thought it would have been easier to kick a 48 yarder instead.
No one on the Jets to blame. Manning is a great great QB. He said he needs the week off mentally because of how much he prepared for this game. That is a testament to our defense coming from one of the greatest QBs of all time. We do have some holes, and we can thank Manning and Co. for showing them to us. We need a play-making OLB to get to the QB. Hopefully we can take care of that in this years draft.
More Cimini.....the guy does a great job of telling you what went wrong in a game or on a specific play (note the ATL-Gonzalez reference): Better-late-than-never analysis By Rich Cimini Finally got a chance to break down the tape from Sunday's AFC Championship Game. Let's start with the secondary. The following should give you an idea of how Peyton Manning dissected the Jets' defense. The list consists of the defender/number of catches allowed/number of times targeted/yards surrendered. We used situations that appear to be man-to-man coverage and certain zone coverages (if the guilty party is obvious): CB Dwight Lowery -- 9/14 for 124 yards, 1 TD CB Darrelle Revis -- 3/5 for 49 yards CB Drew Coleman -- 5/7 for 77 yards CB Lito Sheppard -- 2/2 for 43 yards CB Donald Strickland -- 0/1 for 0 yards S Jim Leonhard -- 0/2 for 0 yards S Kerry Rhodes -- 0/1 for 0 yards S Eric Smith -- 1/1 for 12 yards Looking at the 16-yard TD pass to Austin Collie at the end of the first half, a play in which the Jets admitted a blown coverage, it appears that Rhodes may have been the player who messed up. The Jets were in three-by-two coverage on that side of the field, with Smith and Lowery over Collie and Pierre Garcon, respectively, with Rhodes playing between them, several yards back. Collie broke toward the post, and Smith passed him off, expecting deep help. Rhodes stood flat footed, hesitating before breaking to the inside on Collie. Leonhard, on the other side of the field providing deep help to Revis on Reggie Wayne, arrived on the scene, but it was too late. The Jets rushed five on the play, including blitzes by Coleman and S/LB James Ihedigbo. On Dallas Clark's 15-yard TD in the fourth quarter, the Jets rushed four and dropped seven. OLB Calvin Pace was one of the rushers; he didn't try to chip Clark. He gave a free release. Clark roamed free in the middle of the field (Tony Gonzales nightmares, anyone?) and caught the ball in what appeared to be Rhodes' zone. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/jets/#ixzz0dm5YwC6l
More Cimini, and this time he basically tells you why the Jets lost Sunday and WTF happened after the 1st Quarter and why Manning went off: Pass-rush analysis by Rich Cimini The main problem against the Colts was that the Jets, after a promising start, couldn't generate consistent heat on QB Peyton Manning. They recorded four "QB hits" in the first 20 minutes, but only one after that. The Jets really came after Manning in the first half, blitzing on 16 of 20 pass plays. In the second half, they took a more conservative approach, blitzing on 11 of 21 pass plays, according to my breakdown. Here's how they fared against Manning with their various pressures: * 3-man rush (1): Manning 1-for-1, 22 yards. * 4-man rush (14) -- Manning 8-for-14, 82 yards, 1 TD * 5-man rush (13) -- Manning 9-for-12, 179 yards, 1 TD, 1 sack * 6-man rush (9) -- Manning 6-for-9, 80 yards, 1 TD * 7-man rush (4) -- Manning 1-for-3, 10 yards, 1 sack A breakdown of the individual rushers (number of rushes/production) LB Calvin Pace -- 38 (1 QB hit) LB Bryan Thomas -- 34 DE Shaun Ellis -- 26 DT Marques Douglas -- 19 LB David Harris -- 18 (2 sacks) S/LB James Ihedigbo -- 18 (2 QB hits) NT Sione Pouha -- 16 S Jim Leonhard -- 11 DT Mike DeVito -- 10 LB Bart Scott -- 5 CB Drew Coleman -- 3 S Kerry Rhodes -- 3 S Eric Smith -- 3 CB Donald Strickland -- 1 Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/jets/#ixzz0dn8U3z73
I've seen Rhodes fuck up the red zone coverage about 5 times in the playoffs this year. To watch Leonhard look back at Rhodes like "dude, WTF are you doing" convinces me Rhodes doesn't give a shit and needs to be traded.
Exactly. It sucks enough seeing the opposing team score a touchdown, but I'm sick of having to see Rhodes stand in the back of the end zone waving his arms up and down, looking to point blame on someone else.
The two things that bother me: 1) Should Lito really have been demoted as much as he was???? Why not Lito on Collie instead of Coleman (who we know blows)?? 2)The Strickland injury definately didn't help matters.
going for 50+ yds when you already missed one wasn't a smart decision IMO. I will conceed however that Feely never let us down during the season so it made sense to believe in him!
11 sums up the season just about perfectly. I agree with everything here, though I'm not sure how/why he neglects to mention the injuries to our secondary on his 2nd point.
What bothered me about having Sheppard demoted was that he was the second best bump and run cover guy on the Jets. The reason the Jets blitzing worked this season was because Revis and Sheppard were tying up guys at the LOS and forcing QB's to throw the ball away because nobody was downfield by the time the pressure got there. I figured we'd see Revis, Sheppard and Strickland bumping guys at the LOS all day.
Blaming Shotty on this one is just dumb. Anyone who knows the Jets at all knows we were in trouble when Strickland went down and dead the minute Greene went down. I think Shotty did a pretty decent job trying to overcome the lack of any running game in the second half, but simply couldn't with the tools he had and a Colts defense that only needed to protect against the pass.
