'A Great Example of the Offense We Can Be'

WhiteShoeWillis · Sep 29, 2008

09/28 ? Where's the offense? Why, it was right here at the Meadowlands in today's Jets-Arizona slugfest.

There were plenty of coaching points for Eric Mangini to stress to his team this week heading into the bye and next week heading into the home game with the Bengals. As sublime as the Jets' 34-point second quarter was, the Cards' 21-0 third quarter was on the scary side. "I was a part of both of them," Mangini said, "and I can tell you I liked the second quarter a lot better."

But in some ways this was an excellent game plan. The Jets defense hit Kurt Warner early and forced Arizona into a display case full of turnovers. And then when the Cards' very talented offense kicked in, which everyone thought it might, the Jets' offense took over.

"It was special," said RB Leon Washington. "The offense, we've been working hard over the last couple of weeks trying to build that camaraderie and that chemistry."

"Today was a great example of the offense we can be," WR Jerricho Cotchery said. "We felt like the sky was the limit."

As everyone knows, there are three types of lies ? regular lies, damned lies and statistics. But it doesn't feel like coincidence that the Jets have increased their production from 10 points vs. New England to 29 on Monday night at San Diego to 56 today.

And those 56 points are the second-most in a game in franchise history, trailing only the 62 hung up on Tampa Bay in 1985. The 34 in the second quarter are the most in any quarter in franchise history, four more than the 30 rung up on the Dolphins in the Monday Night Miracle in 2000.

A major part of the explosion was the hookup between Brett Favre and Laveranues Coles. TD passes of 12, 34 and 2 yards in that magical second quarter, eight passes in all for 105 yards, six for first downs, four for third-down conversions.

"I know there have been some things said about me, like not being happy about Brett coming here," Coles said afterward. "But none of that's true. We've had great conversations from the time he walked through the door. I've done nothing but try to get on the same page with Brett since he's been here and I'm sure he'd say the same thing."

In fact, No. 87 said he's talking a lot with No. 4 post-huddle.

"I'm always in Brett's ear," LC said. "I know he's getting more comfortable with the offense and he's giving me the go-ahead to talk to him when I'm coming out of the huddle to tell him what I have. He's allowing me to say what I think I can win on."

Not only does Coles have Favre's ear, but he jumped into the QB's arms after the second TD, and after the third, he gave the touchdown-reception ball to Favre.

"He deserved it," Coles said. "Our offense has taken a lot of criticism. We haven't been as explosive as people thought we'd be. It was the first time I'd ever had three touchdowns in one game. It meant a lot to me to go back and give the ball to a legend and say thank you for everything you've done for me."

"Not too many times in my career," Favre said, "has someone given me the ball. He said, 'I've already had two today. Here's one for you.' "

It's not good enough to say, well, look who the Jets scored on. The Cards' defense, despite looking like Swiss cheese today, had not been chopped liver this season. Their No. 5 ranking in points allowed after three weeks was the team's highest ranking hadn't been higher since they were fourth after seven weeks of the 2002 season.

Every bit as important than the 34 points in the second quarter, which were a part of one huge snowball on this overcast, rainy day, was the 22-point last quarter. As Mangini said, "That was a little more exciting than it really had to be."

Yet while the "D" was scuffling with trying to slow down the Cards' "10" personnel (one back, no tight ends), the offense had an answer every time so that the visitors only once had the ball down by two touchdowns. And they had it for only one play at their 35 when they turned it over for the seventh time to the offense, which struck for the final score of the day, Favre's fourth-down 24-yarder to rookie TE Dustin Keller.

"They were moving the ball all day," DE Shaun Ellis said. "They were doing a great job. It's good when you can put points up like that."

"We were just looking at the work we put in as an offense," Cotchery said. "The defense had some games where they dominated, the special teams had some games where they dominated. So we wanted to step up as an offense and try to dominate on our end of the bar. I think we did a good job today ... we did a really good job."

Mangini, who has done a lot so far this season to look after his players ? from the reduction of training camp practices to two hours to taking his players out of pads for their short week this past week in healing up and preparing for the Cards ? now gets this season's early bye to coach the Jets up from their 2-2 mark for the month of October.

And Jets fans know what has happened after the first two bye weeks with Mangini at the helm.

"We've got a chance here," he said, "to really go back and look at the things we've done over the course of the first quarter of the season and make some progress in all three areas."
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It's only one game, but I'm salivating over a Jets offense actually being potent. It CAN be.

xxedge72x · Sep 29, 2008

Broadway Brett said: ↑

http://www.newyorkjets.com/blog/posts/715--a-great-example-of-the-offense-we-can-be-

It's only one game, but I'm salivating over a Jets offense actually being potent. It CAN be.
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If the Jets build on the Arizona game this will be a really fun year!

Hopefully the defense can help keep the offense on the field!

IIMeanDeanII · Sep 29, 2008

It has been proven that we are capable of big things, I think teams are going to start to take a whole other view on this team now. I'm not saying we are superbowl bound but we do have some talent here. It feels good to finally be a fan of a team that can be exciting.

Revis Flytrap · Sep 29, 2008

The success we had in passing should open up the run a bit as well--not that I am recommending we run very much.

MBGreen · Sep 29, 2008

Favre will be that much more effective too..once his ankle heals up.

boogerstyles · Sep 29, 2008

xxedge72x said: ↑

If the Jets build on the Arizona game this will be a really fun year!

Hopefully the defense can help keep the offense on the field!
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Yeh, offense looked good, but let's not forget, our defense look awful, and they forced 7 turn overs!!!

How is that possible? That was a bizzare game.

xxedge72x · Sep 29, 2008

boogerstyles said: ↑

Yeh, offense looked good, but let's not forget, our defense look awful, and they forced 7 turn overs!!!

How is that possible? That was a bizzare game.
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Arizona sucks.

GreenScreen313 · Sep 29, 2008

xxedge72x said: ↑

Arizona sucks.
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your mom's name is Arizona?

:rofl:

Kris 15 · Sep 30, 2008

xxedge72x said: ↑

If the Jets build on the Arizona game this will be a really fun year!

Hopefully the defense can help keep the offense on the field!
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That's not a problem, seeing as how the D is letting the other team score TDs on 2 minute drives. :smile:

xxedge72x · Sep 30, 2008

Kris 15 said: ↑

That's not a problem, seeing as how the D is letting the other team score TDs on 2 minute drives. :smile:
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True! :smile:

WhiteShoeWillis · Sep 30, 2008

FAVRE, JETS SHOW 'POTENTIAL' OF OFFENSE

It took Chad Pennington Chad Pennington 260 passing attempts last season to throw 10 touchdown passes.

It took Kellen Clemens Kellen Clemens 250 attempts to throw five of them.

For those of you scoring at home, that's a total of 15 touchdown passes thrown in 510 attempts for Jets New York Jets quarterbacks in 2007.

Brett Favre has 12 touchdown passes 124 attempts through four games this season.

Any more questions about whether he's still got it at age 38, whether he's learned the Jets' offense yet or whether he's "in sync" with his receivers?

You can pass off Favre's six-touchdown pass performance in the Jets' 56-35 win over the Cardinals Sunday at Giants Stadium because it came against, well, the Cardinals.

But to be fair, the Cardinals entered the game allowing fewer than 16 points per game in their previous three games.

So take it for whatever you choose, but the reality is the Jets' offense broke out in rather dramatic fashion Sunday and it gives them reason to be optimistic as they enter their bye week.

The Jets' next three games after this week's bye come against the dregs of the NFL - the 0-4 Bengals at home, the 1-3 Raiders in Oakland and the 1-3 Chiefs at home. Then, after a trip to Buffalo to play the 4-0 Bills, the Jets get the 0-4 Rams at home.

So, minus the game against the Bills, the combined current record of four of the Jets' next five opponents is a sterling 2-16.

More reason for the 2-2 Jets to feel good about themselves this week - particularly after their offensive explosion Sunday.

Leave it, however, to the veteran Favre, who leads the NFL in TDs and passer rating (110.8) and is second in completion percentage (70.2), to temper enthusiasm - albeit while still projecting positive thoughts.

"I think it shows the potential of what this team has," Favre said. "But it's no reason to start going out and buying playoff and Super Bowl tickets. It's just one game, but it's a great start.

"Again, it shows a lot of potential, but I wouldn't look into it more than that. It was a great game, a great win and hopefully something to build off of."

The Jets hope to build off of this bye week the way they've built off the previous two byes in the Eric Mangini regime. This, however, is a different bye week position for the Jets, who've entered their bye week off of losses the last two years.

In 2006, the Jets came off a lackluster, underachieving home loss to the Browns, used the bye to refocus and beat the Patriots 17-14 in their next game.

Last season, the Jets entered the bye week having lost six consecutive games to fall completely out of playoff contention and they came out and beat the heavily-favored Steelers 19-16 in overtime.

Mangini yesterday preached his players having the same focus during this bye week despite coming off a win.

"To me, it should be viewed exactly the same way, because those have been productive weeks for us, and you get only one shot at this, you get only one chance to improve the team with this time," Mangini said yesterday. "If you look at it any differently, based on a win or loss, you could end up losing that time, regretting it in the future."

Favre said, "I think this week will be a good week for us to simplify what we're doing right and get better at [those things], because there are a lot of things we can get better at - starting with me. The fact that I get to work with these guys one more week I think each week we can become better."
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nyjetsfan1971 · Sep 30, 2008

That truly was an exciting game, what I saw of it, (had a family function so I missed most of the second half, dammit!)

I gather in the second we went to the craptastic prevent D hence letting them back in the game for a bit.

Since I mostly read the forums and dont post to much I cant start a new thread so I think this is a fitting thread to ask this question.
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesnt Vinny T hold the record or is tied for the record with 29td passes in a season, most by any Jet? If that is the case Favre is on track to shatter that. Just some food for thought :beer:

MeanGreens08 · Sep 30, 2008

The thing that made me feel a little better after they started scoring in the second half was that our offense was able to score also. In years past we would have just barely squeaked that game out.

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