What are they supposed to say though? If the offense fails this year the odds are pretty good a few people are going to lose their jobs and Rex and Sparano are high up on that list. I understand them whistling by the graveyard and hoping "BRAAIIIINS!" is not what comes next. Tannenbaum I don't understand at all at this point. There was no question that Wayne Hunter and a bunch of ineffective WR's crippled Sanchez last season. Keeping Hunter, signing Sanchez to an extension and then bringing in Tebow and a bunch of likely ineffective receivers was about the worst sequence of events the Jets could have made. I suppose it is possible that the cap situation is so bad moving forward that Sanchez had to be restructured at all costs. It just seems so counter-productive though to increase the chances he will fail this season while doing so.
I genuinely wonder if Hunter is still around because: a) Rex / Sparano / Gugs believed he could be salvaged / coached up. OR b) Tannenbaum was looking for a bargain basement player somewhere in the starting units and decided for whatever reason that EZPass should be that guy. Which direction did the support start in? We'll obviously never know but something to consider nonetheless.
At this point, finding a free agent RB seems to be the better route than finding a RT through FA. They could trade for a RT and sign a FA cast off or last minute cut.
1997...after 1-15 most were saying....6-10. Ended up 9-7 and almost playoffs 2002...no huge expectations, but a division title (our last to date) after 2-5 literally set an NFL record. No team has done that before or since. We had super bowl hype in 2005. Look how that ended up.
Hunter is not bargain basement. He's making a successful journeyman's salary this year at $2.45 million. In fact most journeymen have to renegotiate when they are at that figure because otherwise they become a cap cut.
Would absolutely love this and I know you were just throwing our a "dream" scenario... But cap factor AND you have to sign him or deal w/ hold out AND you have to tear the playbook up. I'm still 100% in favor of dumping Greene or Kyle Wilson (whoever has more value on the open market) for any lineman and letting Powell or McKnight or any other nickelback take over.
We wern't that good in 2006. We only beat teams with a losing record. We knew we would be good in 2009?
Chris Mortensen @mortreport RT @Off_White_THE: Are the #jets looking at any FAs or trades to replace Wayne Hunter at RT? >> Yes. No longer in denial #NFL32
Rookie coach and QB, expectations for 2009 I don't think were too high, outside of Rex and the team of course. True 2006 wasn't one of the all time great teams but nobody thought we'd beat any teams, good or bad. Rookie coach, rookies on the OL, no RB, Chad off another surgery, not a great looking team. We did beat the Pats in Foxboro, pretty sure they had a winning record, beat the Dolphins in Miami on Christmas night to help get in the playoffs. A much better Christmas than last year.
http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/35096/s-a-c-k-why-pass-protection-might-be-the-jets-biggest-problem Good article with illustrations.
1997 we expected to be much better b/c of BP. In 2002 we were the hot team coming out of camp w/ many SB predictions after an undefeated preseason. Expectations went down after the awful start but we were the hot team cominf into that season.
Yep, the highest expectations the Jets have had recently, was last year and we were average. Even in 2010 most of the media doubted us until we started 9-2. I much prefer underdog status.
It's the attitude, like how dare you question our stellar offense that is running plain vanilla plays. Guess what, so is every other team and they can execute! Notice I didn't refer to scoring, I just want to see execution. That is what the preseason is about. They didn't execute. Own up to it don't hide it. After the retched display of offense they put up in the first two games they should be a little more contrite. There are ways to spin positives and get that across without acting like nothing was wrong. Highlighting Sanchez's completion rate to distract people away from the other issues doesn't cut it. He SHOULD have a high completion rate with the type of passes he was throwing. 9 completions for under 60yds is something to highlight? Its embarrassing. If Hill is your deep threat, throw him the ball deep in a game situation. I don't care if its completed or not, they need to see if there's separation. How many times was he lined up in single coverage and they completely ignored him.
Even going back, 1983 and 1999 we were favorites to be in the Super Bowl and fell flat for different reasons. In 1980 we were the trendy pick for an up-and-coming team and went 4-12. Turned out those predictions were one year early, we got good in 1981.
1992 was another nightmare year. Lots had us at 10-6, supposed to mount a real challenge to the bills and fish. Coslet improved us steadily from 4-12 to 6-10...to 8-8. Then he decided BrownNose Nagle should be our starting QB, Toon had a career ending concussion, Terance Mathis wasn't getting the playing time he deserved, and our kicker to start the year (sturovsky) was like 2 for his first 8. That team was all out of whack
