Callahan was a pretty good OC and play-caller in Oakland wasn't he? I remember when the Jets played Oak, and he started the game with like 20 straight runs because the Jets run D was weak and he was exploiting it.
What does it actually mean to be in rythm as an offensive? I think when people say that they are just talking about sustaining drives and scoring points. But that is at least as much about execution as it is play calling. Schottenheimer did call quick hitting pass plays. One in particlular had Edwards lined up for a huge gain if not for the pass getting knocked down at the los. I don't see play calling as the big issue. To Schottenheimers credit he is doing a great job of developing Sanchez, and in itself is the biggest reason the Jets are now at 9-2 and on top of the AFL. Unlike the Patriots the Jets are committed to running the ball. They are not going to line it up in shotgun every snap and make a few token running plays here and there. And we are going to find out over the next couple of weeks if that is good enough or not. I believe it is, and I believe that Schottenheimer is a big reason for the Jets sucess.
I'd take him as a QB coach, under a new regime. As a playcaller, he's like Schotty. Brian Billick would be a pretty good fit for the personnel we have now.
Hence the reason we will not beat the Patsies,Steelers and Bears if Schotty continues to playcall the way he did the past few games.
With all the weapons we have, we should be lighting up the TDs. Shotty has held this team back. Let some other team deal with his play calling.
I was at the game last night and I always listen to the play by play on headphones as the game is going on and Marty Lyons made an great point. After Smith ran the TD back,I think, and we made the Bengals go 3 and out and we came out and had pretty good field position Lyons said that we should go deep on the first play and put the team away. Of course we played conservative,only throwing on the obvious 3rd and long, when the defense knew we were going to throw and went 3 and out ourselves. Then Lyons brings the point how when the Pats finally got in their rythem,how they never took their foot off the gas and buried the Lions in their wake. Scotty never has the 'go for the juggular" mentality and i've really stuck up for him in the past,but now i'm really getting tired with his playcalling. I think he needs a pow wow with Herm and a "play to win the game" bitch slap across the side of the head!
Once again, Schotty gets all of the blame when the players fail to execute but none of the credit when they do. If Sanchez plays even decently, let alone well, then the Jets put up 2 more touchdowns. Blaming Schotty because Sanchez failed to hit a wide open Braylon Edwards on a fly route or winged the ball 10 feet over Holmes head on third down to interrupt the all-important rhythm is stupid.
Callahan should take over play calling now ....just to mix it up..... but to be the new OC would be a poor choice
Until he went into the SB with the same offense he was running before Gruden went to TB... He did a hell of a job at Nebraska so trust me I'm not knocking the guy..
So does Bruce Coslet, Charlie Weis, Norval Turner, Wade Phillips, Romeo Crennel and the list goes on and on and on and on and on................
Maybe as QB coach, but not as an OC now... This is really where I was going, this team would need a polished OC, not a newb.
Months? Try years! I've fukin hated Shotty's butchering of a game. He did it w/Penny, Favre & Sanchez. It's to the point where it's comical. Anyone notice the BENGALS corners jumping routes? Why? Because what I've been saying for a while now, we run the same Fukin routes.
