Will Capt. Rex & Off. Chief Tony Stop The USS Jets Leak?

Captain Rex and Chief of Offense Tony must activate the Jets' bilge pump soon or the USS Jets will sink. Def. Chief Mike P. and Spec. Ops. Chief Mike W. can't stop the leaking without the help of the 2 people that control the bilge pump switch. The USS Jets has been deployed and will not return to port for repairs until 2013.

As each week passes, there is more and more consensus on WHY the Jets' offense isn't keeping the Jets from sinking.

I haven't hesitated in expressing my frustrations about how the Jets' offense is being deployed. It is becoming more clear week by week, that like minded members of this message board and I are not alone.

Below find some articles that express similar sentiments.

Join the battle.

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...er-use-tim-tebow-to-catch-opponents-off-guard

How Can the New York Jets Better Use Tim Tebow to Catch Opponents off Guard?

The New York Jets created a massive hoopla this offseason by bringing in the polarizing figure that is Tim Tebow, but so far have failed to utilize his talents in a way that causes opposing teams to fear what he brings to the table.

With the way the Jets coaching staff has used Tebow to this point, acquiring him in the first place now seems like more of a publicity stunt to bring in more revenue rather than an acquisition to actually improve the roster.

Tebow has talent that could cause nightmares for opposing teams, but the Jets have failed to use him in the correct manner. So far it has hurt the team and despite the offseason hype for an effective wildcat formation with Tebow at the helm, he has been delegated to a few meaningless trick plays.

The Jets can be a better team if they utilize Tebow in a correct manner and catch opponents off guard. Here's how.

Don't Be Predictable

With the Jets suffering a beatdown at the hands of the Houston Texans on Monday Night Football in Week 6, Rex Ryan and Co. decided to get tricky in the second quarter in an attempt to catch Houston napping.

Tebow, as a punt protector took a direct snap and ran up the middle of the Texans special teams unit for a first down.

The problem? It was the most predictable fake punt in the history of the NFL. New York only needed a few yards and was desperate for something positive to happen.

Forget for a moment that the Texans somehow managed to fall for the fake. All teams will now be watching Tebow closely on every single punt and the element of surprise has been removed. There are different way to draw up the fake, but now its a predictable maneuver, which is the exact opposite of what Tebow is supposed to contribute.

Let Him Throw

So far the Jets have let Tebow attempt two passes in five games. That's not good enough considering he comes in at random times as Mark Sanchez's replacement and essentially acts as a running back—again simply adding a predictable element for opposing defenses.

The Jets need to let Tebow air it out, or at least throw back to Sanchez if he is lined up at the wide receiver position.

Tebow is far from the greatest passer in the league, but with soft coverages because defenses are expecting him to run every time he enters the game, he should be able to take advantage of wide open receivers running down the field.

New York brought in Tebow with the assumption that he could provide huge plays that change games. He cannot do that running the ball, he does not have great speed or elusiveness. He's only an effective runner in short-yardage situations.

Let Tebow throw and those game-altering moments will start to become a regular part of the offense.

How to Fix Tebow

There's something to be said for a short-yardage situation in which the offense is clearly going to run the ball with a "stop me if you can" approach, but the better option for New York would be to avoid situations like that in favor of an unpredictable pass from Tebow.

Tebow is not going to win the starting job from Sanchez, there's too much money invested in the starter. The Jets brought Tebow in for a specific reason and have yet to use him in a meaningful manner.

For this season Tebow is an excellent weapon to keep the rest of the NFL on its toes. Mixing it up and allowing Tebow to use his entire skill set in any situation will make the Jets harder to beat and the investment on Tebow will be more justified.

The Jets are in a bad spot right now, but with better use of Tebow in certain instances, the season could turn around rather quickly.

 

For the record, I DON'T think it is necessary to bench Mark for the Jets to be successful.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1367890-mark-sanchez-why-its-time-for-jets-qb-to-hit-the-bench

Mark Sanchez: Why It's Time for Jets QB to Hit the Bench

At this point, if Mark Sanchez tried to be worse, he'd probably still mess up and accidentally complete some throws.

The New York Jets' quarterback situation is about as ugly as it can possibly get right now, but head coach Rex Ryan is still sitting firm with his starter (via ESPN's Rich Cimini):
Mark Sanchez is mired in one of the worst slumps of his career, but he will remain the New York Jets' starting quarterback.

"Yeah, no question," coach Rex Ryan said Tuesday morning.

"When you look at it, he played pretty good (on Monday night)," Ryan said. "I thought he was accurate with the football."

Oh really?

Sanchez undoubtedly was hurt by Houston's relentless pass rush, J.J. Watt's Inspector Gadget arms, inconsistent receiver play, a lack of running game and plenty of other things, but anytime a player completes 14 of his 31 pass attempts, it's hard to call him accurate.

For the season, it's been just as bad for The Sanchize: 208.6 yards per game, six touchdowns to six interceptions, 66.6 QB rating (31st in the NFL), just 6.6 yards per attempt (28th) and one of the worst starts to a season from an accuracy standpoint in recent memory:

Via ESPN Stats & Information:

Quarterback
Comp. PCT in Team's First 5 Games (Since 2000)

Year
2009 JaMarcus Russell - 42.1
2000 Akili Smith - 43.8
2006 Andrew Walker - 46.2
2002 David Carr - 46.3
2012 Mark Sanchez - 48.4

Let me just say this. When you are in a group with JaMarcus Russell, Akili Smith, Andrew Walter and David Carr, you know it's bad.

It's not like Sanchez is just constantly throwing Hail Mary's, either. More often than not, he's dumping it off or hitting his first read. Or maybe more accurately, missing his first read.

Call it a slump, call it whatever you want, but the fact of the matter is that Mark Sanchez is playing some of the worst football we've seen and Rex Ryan needs to get over his stubbornness. Fast.

Listen. I don't think Tim Tebow is as good as the Skip Baylesses of the world say he is. I also don't think he's as bad as, well, everyone else.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-tomaso/rex-ryan-blows-golden-opp_b_1951130.html

Rex Ryan Blows Golden Opportunity to Save Jets Season With Tebow

Of all the people who should know better, it's Rex Ryan.

Ryan had three opportunities to save the game and the Jets season in the fourth quarter Monday night and passed on all of them. In the end, the Jets lost 23-17 to the undefeated Houston Texans, and the Jets season continues to slip away with Sanchez at quarterback.

With the Jets down 23-14 with 13 minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Tim Tebow took the ball, bulldozed his way through the Texans line, ran over three Texan defenders, dragged them another three yards for a 13 yard gain and a first down at the Houston three yard line. The stadium was alive. It had Tebow time written all over it.

After a hurried up play which went for no gain, Rex Ryan did the inexplicable. He took out Tebow and put Sanchez back in the game. You know what happens next. Two incomplete passes by Sanchez that had no chance of being completed and the Jets had to settle for a field goal that cut the lead to six. The momentum was gone.

Rex Ryan should have known better.

Yet another opportunity presented itself with nine minutes to go in the fourth. The banged up Jets defense once again valiantly stopped the explosive Texans offense, offering another chance for Ryan to put Tebow in to save the game.

Yet Sanchez was back on the field. The Jets had great field position at their own 42 yard line, but couldn't move the ball deep into Texan's territory. Another punt, another wasted opportunity.

Once again the Jets proceeded to stop the Texans from doing anything on offense, giving the ball back to the Jets with a little over three minutes to go in the game, still down six points.

Ryan had a choice. A choice that could turn around not only this game, but the entire season. He could put an ineffective Sanchez back in as quarterback, or he could have looked to his bench and put in a quarterback who in late fourth quarter situations becomes the human NFL Redzone Channel.

Ryan chose Sanchez. The results were obvious. Sanchez was picked off in Jets territory with 1:51 left, and the game was essentially over. To be fair, the interception wasn't Sanchez's fault, but does anyone think the drive would have ended any different?

What makes Rex Ryan's decision to put Sanchez back on the field even more baffling, is that of all the people who should know how Tebow can put a team on his back late in the fourth quarter and turn an entire season around, it's Ryan and the Jets.

Last year against the Broncos, Tebow had the ball on his own four yard line with over five minutes to go with the Jets up three. The Broncos quarterback then proceeded to take his offense on a 96 yard drive, capped off by a 20 yard touchdown run by Tebow. This Tebow drive won the game and saved his team's season.

Memo to Rex Ryan: That quarterback is now on your team.

Save your season. Start him.

 

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2012/10/about-time-for-tebow-time

About time for Tebow time

By Zack Bartee

Keeping with the theme of quarterback controversy that has filled recent Cavalier Daily sports pages, I couldn’t help but be intrigued by the QB plight of this year’s NFL drama queen, the New York Jets.

Hard Knocks or not, Rex Ryan and his team of colorful personalities always seem to find their way into the news somehow. After acquiring Tim Tebow this offseason and a few comments that probably should have remained in-house from Santonio Holmes, the Jets seemed destined to take over SportsCenter this year.

If incumbent Mark Sanchez had just come out and played up to expectations, then there would be no talk of benching him in favor of the former Heisman Trophy winner. But praise be to Tebow, Sanchez has laid an egg of massive proportions this season, and now Skip Bayless and the rest of his cult are gearing up for Tebow Time.

Up until this point, I’ve been staunchly anti-Tim Tebow. I thought it was hilarious that he took the Broncos to the playoffs and even knocked out the Steelers in the wildcard game, but I refused to give Tebow credit as a viable NFL starting quarterback.

I don’t like the way he plays quarterback, as he is neither a traditional pocket passer, nor a speedy mobile gunslinger. Tebow looks more like a fullback than a quarterback and at times plays like one too. But regardless of my qualms with Tebow, the man is undoubtedly a remarkable athlete, football player and — although I have no idea how — winner, which is more than I can say about Sanchez.

Now more than ever, Sanchez seems to fit the mold of the over-hyped, pretty-boy USC quarterback who can’t deliver in the pros, following in the footsteps of Matt Leinart and Carson Palmer — with the exception of the two stellar seasons Palmer cobbled together with the Bengals.

Kudos to Rex and the Jets’ front office for sticking with their man and trying to feign some semblance of faith in Sanchez. But if they truly wanted to keep the heat off Sanchez’s back, they should have never acquired Tebow, the walking media circus.

The Jets have tried and failed to squash the brewing quarterback controversy. Their season is by no means over at 2-3 entering Week 6, but it certainly could be soon if they don’t have the foresight to abandon the sinking S.S. Sanchez. As the cries for Tebow Time get louder in New York, Rex will find it almost impossible to prop up Sanchez’s confidence.

Sanchez couldn’t win with Santonio Holmes, and without him I’m not sure he has a prayer. Experimenting with Antonio Cromartie on offense may look exciting on paper, but a position change for a prominent player comes off as a desperate maneuver this early in the season. Rex needs to remember he’s coaching in the NFL, not high school.

Other than a standout Week 1 performance against Buffalo, Sanchez has been abysmal this year. In each of his last three games, he has thrown more interceptions than touchdowns and completed less than half of his passes. Against Pittsburgh and San Francisco Sanchez threw for 138 and 103 yards, respectively. When you pass the ball more than 25 times per game on average, anything less than 200 yards is unacceptable in the pass-happy NFL.

I’m not saying Tebow is the answer, but he certainly couldn’t do any worse. He’s more dynamic than Sanchez, and his ability to run the option can give defenses nightmares. Tebow looked like a man possessed when he ran the ball Monday night, carrying defenders while he trucked his way to positive gains.

The biggest knock on Tebow is his passing ability. But Tebow’s paltry 46.5 percent completion percentage last year is not significantly worse than Sanchez’s 49.2 percent this year.

The worst part about watching the Jets Monday night was watching Sanchez shoot his team in the foot while they were driving to tie the game in the fourth quarter. Although Sanchez doesn’t bear all responsibility for the dropped pass that turned into a drive-killing interception, he is culpable for his failure to hit open receivers when the game was on the line.

With less than 10 seconds left and a comeback unlikely, it looked as if Sanchez had given up on the game. His play reinforced the gloomy body language, as his short pass fluttered to the ground, seemingly miles away from any receiver. Sanchez didn’t get great protection from his line, but his late game play was inexcusable. Regardless of the flaws elsewhere on the offense, I have to believe Tebow the miracle-worker would have come in and given 200 percent.

If protection is part of the problem, the gigantic, mobile Tebow could be part of the solution. Tebow is not an elite quarterback, but he is an elite competitor.

Sanchez’s most glaring issue is his propensity for becoming ever shakier as the game wears on. The numbers show he starts off completing almost 65 percent of his passes in the first quarter, and by the fourth quarter he only completes 37.8 percent. Sanchez is anything but clutch. He’s an effective game manager, boasting a 114.6 passer rating when his team is ahead. But when the Jets are down, Sanchez’s rating drops to 62.7. The team and Sanchez fall apart together.

Tebow, on the other hand, gets better as the game goes on. His rating rises from a 69.9 to an 84.0 as the game progresses. Tebow’s completion percentage is at his best when his team is behind, and I truly believe if the Jets want to win, we need to see more Tebow.

If Rex insists on incorporating Pop Warner tricks into his offense, he should start Sanchez and replace him at halftime or in the fourth quarter with Tebow. A quarterback carousel like the Rocco-Watford debacle last year is one of the worst things you can do for a quarterback’s confidence, but at this point does Sanchez have any confidence left to be harmed?

The bottom line is some guys have what it takes and some guys don’t. Sanchez has been underwhelming this season, and Tebow is a proven winner. Maybe he doesn’t always do it in the prettiest or the most conventional way, but the man wins games.

If Sanchez’s play continues to stink while Tebow sits on the bench, Rex may be signing his own pink slip by season’s end.

At the start of the season I would have been ashamed to say it, but I think it’s Tebow Time. Like Skip says, “All he does is win.”

 

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I repeat what I have said all along, I DO NOT THINK IT IS NECESSARY FOR MARK TO LOSE HIS STARTING JOB FOR THE JETS TO WIN GAMES. Somehow many Tim detractors think ALL Tim fans' default position is 'make Tim the starter'. At this point in time, there are a few Tim fans that continue to call for Tim to start but more interestingly there is a rising corus of Jets fans calling for Mark to lose his starting job. As it happens, Tim and Greg are the backup QBs so if Mark doesn't start then the starter choices are limited to the aforementioned 2.

Regardless of who starts, it is becoming more and more clear Tim is NOT being used in a way that takes full advantage of his ability to contribute.

Start Mark or whoever but at least give Tim a series here or there to do what Tim does best, direct shotgun drives down the field and put 6 points on his team's side of the scoreboard.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/s...ns-a-mystery.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=0

Five Games Into Season, Tebow’s Role Remains a Mystery

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Even now, particularly now, it is all very puzzling, this Tim Tebow thing. He was billed as a short-yardage force, but more than half of his offensive plays have come on 1st-and-10. Sometimes the Jets deploy him in the red zone, but usually they do not. He lines up at quarterback, at receiver, at running back, at fullback, performing admirably, doing as he is asked, which is not all that often.

Barely a quarter of their season has elapsed, but the Jets have reached a stage where small samples no longer exist. Tendencies have surfaced. Patterns have developed. And five games into this experiment, Tebow’s role is no less nebulous than it was back at training camp at SUNY Cortland. At least then, a certain intrigue existed, an anticipation that the Jets were concocting plays to integrate Tebow so ingenious, so creative that they could have been hung on the refrigerator.

That suspense has dissolved. In its place, bewilderment. Even as the Jets’ offense has sputtered, Tebow has been used sparingly, far from emerging as the “major contributor” that Coach Rex Ryan promised in March on the NFL Network. In that same interview, Ryan said Tebow could take as many as 20 snaps in a game. Not including special teams, Tebow has participated in 39 offensive plays all season, according to game charting by the statistical Web site ProFootballFocus, including seven in each of the last two weeks. Of those 39, 25 have come at quarterback, and only once — in Week 2 in Pittsburgh — has Tebow played three consecutive snaps.

When asked about his limited chances, Tebow dips into his stash of diplomatic responses — everything is a blessing, I’m excited for the opportunity, you do the best job that you can — that apply to another delicate (and related) subject, his satisfaction with backing up the shaky Mark Sanchez. If Tebow is at all frustrated, which would not be an unreasonable reaction, he does not show it. But even if the Jets were considering a change at quarterback, it would seem difficult for them to gauge Tebow’s readiness.

He has run the ball 12 times, gaining 49 yards, and twice more on fake punts, converting both. He has dropped back three times, absorbing one sack, throwing one incompletion (on a long pass Monday night that was dropped by Jason Hill) and connecting on a 9-yard pass (in Week 4 against San Francisco) that, oddly enough, came on his lone appearance on a play defined as third-and-short — the type of situation that would seem to be his specialty.

The only other area where Tebow theoretically could be as effective, if not more so, is inside the opponent’s 20-yard line. Of the Jets’ 38 offensive plays inside the red zone, Tebow has appeared in eight, touching the ball six times. Those plays, which included a five-yard sack in Miami, gained a total of 13 yards. All of the training-camp hypotheticals posed to Sanchez — as in, could you handle ceding touchdown glory to Tebow after leading the offense 75 yards — have been rendered moot.

It all creates a perception that the Jets are reluctant to use Tebow, which, given their stagnant running game, seems a bit foolish and a rather elaborate ruse. Or, that they have yet to figure out how to use him, as much of a challenge as it seemed when the Jets traded for him seven months ago.

From a football standpoint, Tebow appealed to the Jets much as Tom Tupa, a former quarterback turned punter, did to Bill Parcells in 1999. To Parcells, the versatile Tupa counted as two players on game days. In Tebow, the Jets gained a defensive coordinator’s nightmare, a special-teams asset and a backup quarterback — one with a specialized, personalized bundle of plays — all for the low, low price of $2 million.

Based on those criteria, Tebow has benefited the Jets. But have the Jets backed up their stated plan for him? Rewind to the night of March 21, when the trade for Tebow was consummated, when General Manager Mike Tannenbaum said, “We have a vision for the player, a role for the player.” With Tebow, he added, the Jets’ offense would be “diverse, more dynamic” and “more difficult for opposing teams to defend.”

With the exception of a Week 1 eruption against Buffalo, the Jets’ offense has been neither diverse nor dynamic, a reality steeped in injuries and inconsistency — neither of which has ensnared Tebow. And if Tebow’s presence does force opponents to account for him, to wonder just how often he will play — Wade Phillips, the Texans’ defensive coordinator, acknowledged as much to Ryan on Monday — it has yet to bewilder a team so completely that a discernible impact is noticed. It was the Jets who were confused against Houston, forced to call two timeouts in the fourth quarter because of incorrect personnel.

“Obviously, we’d like to see it be more successful on the field,” Ryan said, “but I’m confident that we’ll get better at that as well.”

Asked to clarify how he defined successful, Ryan said that he wanted the execution to improve, not the frequency to increase. Tebow, tactful as ever, offered a different opinion.

“I think you only know if that’s something if you do use it,” Tebow said. “You can guess, but who knows? If you use it more, is it going to be better? That’s just something you just have to try and find out or not.”

Or not.

EXTRA POINTS

Rex Ryan said he was hopeful that center Nick Mangold (ankle) would play Sunday against Indianapolis, but he was far less optimistic about nose tackle Sione Po’uha (back), fullback John Conner (hamstring) and receiver Clyde Gates (shoulder)... Darrelle Revis, scheduled to have his torn knee ligament repaired next week, will be placed on season-ending injured reserve to free up a roster spot.