what's more depressing than that to me is that in this age where an average passing season in terms of yardage is around 3500 yards (give or take on any given season) the Jets have not had anyone over 3500 since Vinny did it in 2000 and prior to that you have to go back to O'Brien in 1986. In an era when 4000 yard seasons are fairly common the Jets have had 1 QB to break even 3,900 yards...Namath with 4007. He was the first ever 4000 yard passer and the last Jet to eclipse 3900 yards. It took 12 years and several changes in passing rules before another QB would break 4,000. But since that Namath threw for 4,000 there have been 118 4,000+ yard seasons...in that time there have only been 4 Jet seasons where the QB threw for at least 3500 yards (including Namaths 4K season. The Jets have just had a dearth of QB's over the years.
Actually it's also rather sad that 4 of the top 5 receiving yards in a season belong to a guy who played all his games in 14 game seasons and retired in 1973.
Holmes was a cat hair off of a thousand-yard pace during his first 12-game season (746 yards). But yeah that's pretty bad, but can you really blame the lack of a thousand-yard receiver on Rex or blame that with the bad QB's we've been collectively saddled with?
The NFL's best defensive minds, Rex and Rob Ryan, are the only two coaches (HC/DC) without an interception.
It's totally Rex Ryan's fault and nobody elses we haven't had a true #1 receiver his whole tenure huh? Holmes and Decker are good but prime #2's if anything. Where we messed up was not spending enough picks on the position the past few years and the one time we do we trade up to get Stephen Hill, when Alshon Jeffrey's on the board..
Think about this for a second too...our last first-round pick that was an offensive player was Sanchez in 2009. Before that Keller, who isn't even on the team (or in the league I think). Our last WR first-rounder was Santana Moss in 2001.
May have more to do with the fact that we haven't had a head coach with an offensive background since the Clinton administration - and you have to count Kotite as an "offensive mind" to even make that work.
That 2014 Buffalo Bills defense that will go down as the greatest in NFL history is currently sitting at 10th... Go find the nearest building, walk to the top, and jump.
since our last 1,000 yd WR we have made the playoffs twice, won 4 playoff games, made 2 title game apps and had just 1 losing season. In that same timeframe Buffalo has had a WR eclipse 1,000 yd 3 teams and hasn't won more than 6 games. You were saying something about pathetic?
It's the overriding defense first mentality that is the deciding factor here. It's always defense first on draft day. Its almost always defense first in FA. When you hire Tony Sparano to run your offense, there's a disconnect there that is obvious. If the HC knew anything or cared anything at all about offense, it wouldn't be defense first and foremost. Yep, that's on your hero Rex Ryan all day long. It would help if they actually could recognize talent on offense too but alas, that hasn't happened often enough over the last 6 years. Remind me, who was HC during that time span?
Rex is now a HC in name only, he's been castrated by Woody and Idzik. It seems very obvious that he was told you can keep the title but you're really our DC, Marty is the OC and you each run your side of the ball. You've seen it in the way he conducts interviews, the way he discusses personnel and potential changes etc. I wouldn't call him the walking dead yet but he very well could be before the bye week if they don't turn it around. The real question now is will Idzik start drafting more offensive players as their needs on defense get filled. Aside from CB the only real position of need on defense is LB. I'm tired of the Jets drafting their "franchise" QB in weak QB draft years. Smart teams don't do that..
