an excellent choice hopefully the Jets add Haley shortly better these guys than the poisoned fruits of the Belichick tree that might have been available
“Certainly I come in with a little different system and a little different style than maybe Brian had,” Sparano said in a conference call with reporters on Friday. “This will be different. It’ll be different for the players that way. I am a guy that believes that you have to form an identity. I want to have an identity here offensively. I want our players to be able to walk into the meeting room and not be surprised about some of the things that are going to be in the gameplan each week, because they believe that we’re going to do them really well. That’s going to be important. I do believe in getting the ball down the field and advancing in chunks. If you can’t get 20+ yard plays in our league, it makes it hard to advance the football.” Sparano, who was fired as the Dolphins’ head coach after Week 14, left no doubt that the Jets’ won’t have a finesse style moving forward. “I like playing a physical style of offense,” Sparano said. “Anybody that knows me knows that I want to be physical. Being physical doesn’t mean you’re going to run the football 55 times a game. Being physical means that you’re going to protect the quarterback… it comes in the attitude of the receivers and how they go about what they’re doing… and it also comes from the quarterback position. I like a physical mentality.” He reiterated the need to make plays down field, one of the biggest offensive elements that was missing this past season. “So we’ll be explosive,” Sparano said. “We’ll be able to get it down the field. We’ll be able to do all those things. I learned a lesson a long time ago about how you win and lose in this league… I believe that you have to have some element to running the football.” Sparano admitted that he’ll be able to help Mark Sanchez “in a lot of different ways.” Sparano was on the Cowboys’ staff in 2006 when Bill Parcells & Co. transitioned from Drew Bledsoe to Tony Romo. He was also part of the change from Chad Pennington to Chad Henne in Miami. “We’ll be able to help Mark in a lot of different ways,” Sparano said. “Once he gets in here, we want to start with some of the basic philosophies and fundamentals at the position and then go from there. The list is long in how a quarterback gets developed and continues to get developed.” Sparano said he’ll stress game and clock management with Sanchez in the offseason and work to improve his ball security with Sanchez. Every offseason, Sparano says he works with his quarterbacks to “get them back to square one and break them back from a fundamental standpoint.” Sparano said that he wasn’t overly concerned about the fractures in the locker room last season. He’s giving every player a fair shake on a n offense that he believes has “a lot of good pieces in place and a lot of weapons.” “I’m kind of a show-me guy,” he said. “This is a show-me business. It’s a show-me game. Once these players get here, it’ll be a blank piece of paper as far as I’m concerned. Sometimes change is good. We’ll get a chance to know each other a little bit. But they’ll clearly know where I’m coming from.” That has me excited.
Mad respect for Bill Parcells. Not going to hate on Sparano before he gets to work, and I hope we bring Haley aboard.
"Protect the QB"-how novel. "Take shots downfield, be explosive"-revolutionary. It's amazing how Schotty lacked even a modicum of common sense. In the creative world, there's a saying.."If you stay in the monkeyhouse pursuing a tunnel vision type of idea long enough...after awhile you can't smell the shit"..."while everyone that steps inside the monkey house is overwhelmed by the smell of shit". Schotty was living in his monkeyhouse for a few years now, rarely changing his shitty ways. It's nice to finally clean out the cage.
Over the next few weeks I'm going to review many Cowboys games from 2006 and 2007 to get a better understanding of what Sparano did with their offense. I think talent wise (outside of receiver) we are similar to what they had back then. A good OL (once we upgrade at RT), A good running game and a young QB and a pass catching TE.
I was initially luke warm to the Sparano hire, but I have to say after a few days I'm warming to his approach. Will it work out better than BS's scheme? Who knows, but philosophy-wise he and Rex seem like a good fit. The other thing I like is that he's faced Mark the last 3 years, and if I'm looking for a job that might someday lead me to another HC job, I wouldn't just take a job with a team led by a QB that I don't think I can be successful with. 2 players that I believe will excel in his offense will be Keller and Kerley. In Miami he fed Fasano (TE) a lot of balls and Kerley can slide into the role Devone Bess had.
lmao, You think Greene is "slow"? wow... [YOUTUBE]L8dtySlji1A[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]2g80WQJqwLA[/YOUTUBE]
This should have been the Jets offensive philosophy from the day Sanchez got here. Max protect, run the ball, and look for the big play. Schotty left Sanchez in empty backfields with no help, had receivers run 4 yard patterns all year, and put Sanchez and the Jets in empty backfield shotguns on 3rd and short over and over. How does that fit the identity of the Jets and play to the QBs strength. Schotty just sucked. This sounds very promising.
that was Julius Jones and Greene is faster than Julius Jones. although all of them are vastly faster than the snail like FreeMcNeil of your monikers fame
