I can't give them this much credit. I absolutely think that winning wasn't a top priority for a multitude of reasons... mostly assurance from the top that you're fine no matter what and trying to find diamonds in the rough/young guys you can develop during a transition year especially after you've locked up your cornerstones for the next 5+ years. But there's no way in hell they wanted to be this bad. That's a product of terrible coaching.
I mean they lost 5 games by 1 score only. 3 of them by 2 points. They aren’t getting run off the field. They are keeping it close, playing rookies everywhere, and running out the clock at halftime instead of trying to score, for example. They look like a tanking team looks to me
I’m not going to give much credit at all to those close losses outside of the Pitt game. We were being blown out in the Miami and Tampa games going into the 4th quarter and only got close when their defenses let up. We were close vs. Denver and Carolina but even then, once Carolina went up 10-3 I was like ok game over. The scores were close but the reality was not as close as we were so ineffective on offense last two games
I think a team with better coaching would have won at least three of these games though, probably four (Steelers, Dolphins, Bucs, Panthers). That's why I don't think it's intentional.
This was almost certainly the plan. But now that we are staring at a top 5 pick, I feel like they should pivot.
The fact that there are some die hard fans of this team who are saying the coaching looked so bad, it may have been an intentional tank, is really all you need to know about this coaching staff.
The line and tackles seemed to hold up decent. It’s hard to tell when you throw the ball 11 times with a guy who holds onto the ball forever but Garrett and the front 7 didn’t wreck the game as anticipated.
our tackles, specifically Membou have been holding up against elite pass rushers all season. I think there’s enough of a sample size to say that he’s been mostly lights out. I really do think once we have a competent NFL quarterback under center the offensive line is going to look a whole lot better than the numbers make them out to be. At least half of that is on the quarterback if not more.
I would like to see the Jets go get a big time center in the offseason. Either by way of the draft or in free agency. After Herbert’s rookie year, they went and paid Corey Linsley a bag and they said how much it helped him because a lot of the line calls and blitz recognition and crap was off his plate. The Pats signed Garrett Bradbury this offseason, the Commanders brought Tyler Biadasz in, etc. Myers has been ok. Tippman is a guard and needs to stay there. We need a good center to help a young QB.
Tippman absolutely has to stay at RG. Him and Membou can be the guys through the next QBs entire rookie contract. I still really want to see what this offense looks like with a competent QB and I don't know that we'll get that before the end of the year.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. If we can get a Linderbaum type in the draft or get a top veteran with great communication. That was one of the biggest strengths of Mangold and it helped Sanchez a lot. We can probably give AVT a prove it deal and let Tipp/Simpson/AVT battle it out for two Guard spots and even bring back Myers as a back-up, like he was supposed to be last year. But I do think we need a high end Center for the rookie QB next season, whether free agent or high draft pick.
Linderbaum is a free agent actually. Would love to get him and they weirdly enough declined his 5th year club option. I’m not sure what centers are good or bad but there’s 4-5 starters available this upcoming FA period. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/_/_/year/2026/position/c
I haven’t read through this entire thread, but for all the good and bad, how much would they improve with a quality vet behind center? One that can make adjustments at the line, throw, etc.
