There is a clip they're playing on ESPN radio lately with Magic Johnson in the studio. One of the hosts of the show (don't know his name) tells a story about a basketball game he played in highschool. [paraphrase] Everyone in the studio had a laugh over the story and then Magic piped in. [paraphrase] Schotty - you made a great behind the back pass in the Titans game. Everyone thought your game plan was brilliant. It seems like maybe you're trying to make an even better behind the back pass every game now. Take a step back and get back to fundamentals - commit to the run, call the quick slants, sprinkle in the screens, run play action. You do not need to deceive the opponents with what you think may be brilliant game plans. If the Jets can master the fundamentals, they'll have a long season, but it has to start now.
p.s. Even sorry-ass ESPN knows Leon is our most explosive player, maybe he should get more than one carry.
Ya' Think ? ... Doesn't take a brain surgeon ( 'cept for the one that REMOVED SHOTTY'S BRAIN ) ... Leon with 1 carry and the LEADING AFC rusher getting 11 carrries .... What's WRONG with that picture ??? Against one of the lowest ranked run defenses in the NFL ...
This guy is terrible. I don't think the Titans game plan was brilliant. It's the same gameplan we run every week. It's just everything just happened to work that game and we got a lot of plays to run.
In his defense, we only ran 11 times. We can't complain that Thomas Jones, Leon Washington, Dustin Keller, Laveranues Coles, and Jerricho Cotchery all didn't get the ball enough. Other players (Stuckey, Baker, and Brad Smith) had 7 touches combined, and I like Stuckey who had four of those. Washington did have 6 receptions, so it's not like we never gave him the ball. The problem with the game was that we had 28 less plays than San Francisco, and the coaching staff abandoned the run, which is clearly our strength.
I think balance is our strength, and the absence of it cripples this team. The only complete games we have played this year have been a fairly even amount of runs and passes. We went into the half at a 7 point deficit, the defense did a passable job avoiding letting us get behind any further, we tied the score mostly because of field position following an INT and 2 very good runs by Jones, and when we went down by 3, Shotty abandoned the run completely. He panicks. Much like his father. Maybe there's a hereditary anxiety condition in the Shottenheimer gene. Except the father got the runs and the son got the passes.
Bingo. As soon as things start to go awry, he becomes like the Coach in The Waterboy, talking into a disconnected phone, wearing high heels and lipstick.
If the following are true: 1) Jeff Fischer is a good NFL coach. 2) The Titans DBs weren't expecting so many short passes. Wouldn't that lead one to believe the Jets had a different game plan than usual? I don't get your logic here, please help me.
My logic is really very clear, I believe you are reaching for cleverness with your comments. Anyway, the original poster tells a story about behind the back passes and then makes that a metaphor for the Jets season. Serphnx then claims the analogy is flawed, to use the OPs metaphors, Serphnx claims we are not throwing behind the back passes that worked once, we are throwing bounce passes that worked once. I agreed with Serphnx, and made the point that the reason the simplistic short passing game was so successful was because the Titans were not expecting it. Is it impossible for Jeff Fischer to not foresee something because he has been a slightly above average coach through out his career? In my opinion even the best coach will make mistakes, perhaps you disagree with that. I will give you the 5 hours you need to formulate what you consider to be a witty reply and then check back.
Your post makes no sense at all. Serphnx said we use the same offensive game plan every week. We don't. The offensive gameplan we used against Tennessee was unique to Tennessee. Watch how the quick passes were executed repeatedly. Watch the unique PA that is done. Then show me which other Jets game those things were done in consistently. While it may have been simple things, they were simple things designed to neutralize a dominant d-line and pass rush. They kept the defense on their heels and helped to open up the run game. The game plan was specific to beating that defense and it worked great. I have to agree with the OP 100%.
