Just think if we would have a legit PR in those years you mentioned maybe we would have appeared in the SB :sad:
I understand they don't grow on trees, so maybe we need to stop spending money on guys like Holmes (after discarding Cotchery and Edwards) and put the money there. The weakest link will always greatly dimish the strength of all the others. In other words, Revis and Cro's ability to totally shut down a Brady or a 3rd-down Victor Cruz 99-yard pass is enhanced 3 fold with the addition of just that one key player. And I'm not saying the defense was our worst problem last year because it wasn't. I am commenting on the one glaring deficiency that we need on defense to fix it (if nothing else is tweaked). On the other side of the ball, I can find plenty more with our offense. I am VERY concerned. It seems like Sanchez requires complete perfection at all times to even have a shot at converting. After a pass-rusher, this is where all the concentration should be this year.
True and Rexs pressure schemes wreaked havoc but once everyone realized how and what he was doing they were prepared for it the next time.
w/ the O it's all about the OL, if we have a good OL we'll have success. Hopefully Slauson is healthy along w/ Moore and Mangold and we'll have a healthy unit this year.
Wrong. The defense is swiss cheese because they didn't win the Super Bowl. Hopefully next year we'll have a havarti defense, I could see us going far with a havarti defense, maybe a monterray jack defense, but that's wishful thinking.
no no your missing the point entirely, 8-8 IS swiss cheese, you just need to get rid of the hyphen and add a little imagination and 88 looks a lot like swiss cheese
Agreed. Sanchez can move the ball effectively when the threat of a run game is there... He's great in play-action, and rolling out of the pocket. Two things we strayed from this year because of the OLs struggles. I cringe during third and long situations.
lmao.. how about you actually watch the games then. 90% of the blame goes on our last in the league ranked offense. You're quick to dismiss statistics yet from your analysis you obviously dont watch the games... so how the hell do you judge?
Guys like Manning and especially Brady make their livings on "kitchen sink" pressure mentality because they make you pay dearly. Give Brady time and you die. Take it away and you have a chance. Every team that had a good legit pass rush this year made Brady's job that much harder. Look at the Giants.
I am hoping for the same and yes, the OL has to be healthy and a little depth wouldn't be a bad thing either (AHEM!). And I don't think you could have asked for more with what we had. And our running game was adequate, I think, to make for a balanced attack. And our WRs and other pass-catching talent this year should have been more than enough to move the chains. So what went wrong? Why so many 3 and outs? What else is in this offensive equation that might be a weak link? Hmmm.....
too many 3rd and longs, when the OL isn't opening holes or protecting the QB it's hard to have success on O.
This is the crux of the ongoing Sanchez debate and it won't be resolved until we get more consistency out of the O-line. The argument will remain as kind of a, "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" until we get him better protection. Then and only then will we know for sure if we drafted The Guy or not. Is Sanchez the problem or is the O-line the problem? Is it both? I don't know for sure and none of us do, but if you put a gun to my head right now and made me choose, I have to go with pointing my finger at Sanchez. His mechanics are okay but he still stares at his targets and worse, seems predetermined to go where he wants to go. He rarely reads the defense well enough to take what unfolds before him. He waits that split second too long (and the O-line doesn't give it to him), so he finds himself in trouble more than not. That's when the INTs take place if he tries to force it, or worse, he gets out of the pocket and handles the ball with great disregard. I don't think he's strong enough to hold onto the ball while promiscuously running around with it and his height is an issue with me also as far as getting it over the heads of taller linemen. And I am not in the camp that says that Schotty is to blame. Sanchez had enough opportunities to move the chains regardless of play-calling. I know he tries very hard and his work ethic is unquestionable. I just don't know if we saw enough of him from only one season of college ball (and surrounded with significant talent) before drafting him. This is my fear. So yeah, the debate will rage on I'm sure. But many a Jets fan is going to be watching him with great apprehension this year, even if we get the O-line back to standard. If he has protection this year and uses that extra second successfully, the fans will leave him alone. If he gets the protection and keeps on doing what he is doing, he might as well pack his bags and go back to Californication.
It's hard to win in this league especially w/ poor QB play, to be able to get to the doorstep of the SB twice w/ sanchez tells us a lot. I am very confident he's our QB long term, he disappointed this year as did the rest of the team and he has a ton of room for improvement but I am very happy w/ our starting QB.
Good post. To add on though, if I was made to choose I would say both Sanchez and the O line were to fault. The O line let up too much quick pressure, but when they did give Sanchez time, Sanchez were hurry his throw and decisions. I never played QB so I don't know if its easy to bounce back after getting a hit a lot, but a lot of QB's stand in a pocket a make throws (Big Ben, Vick, Rivers, Cutler). All those QB's get hit routinely but stand up straight and make a solid throw. Sanchez seemed to dump it off before the pressure was fully there. I also agree, make or break year for Sanchez. The O line has its problems and so does Sanchez. If they both improve, we could see a drastically different and much better offense. I think it is also good to get a fresh set of eyes on Sanchez (Sparano). Sparano also had to coach against Sanchez so that could help in improving Sanchez since he can coach him against what other teams would specifically do to limit him.
They had two chances this season to stop the giants with the game on the line and failed. No top third defense would do that. Swiss cheese.
Ummmmmm, my previous post was a joke. I happen to agree with you. Defense needed to make stops, and they didn't.
Oh yes, I totally agree. An extra second or two and less hits and Sanchez becomes a different QB again. I believe his accuracy is greatly affected by his anticipation of the hits. This in turn frustrates the shit out of the receivers and even the check-down accuracy at close range is garbage (thrown to the ankles or behind them). But I am still going to predict that even with the best O-line we can muster, I don't think this guy has "it." This is my biggest fear. He rarely seems to play "naturally" and just let it happen, keeping his options open and then going with the best one at the last second. It's as if he's more of a technician, wanting to do it correctly according to the playbook and not taking what the defense give him as things develop. And he really, really needs to work more on ball security. As the season collapsed at the end, it was as if he had reverted back to his rookie season or worse. I know he was trying to get it done, but some of the ball strips adn just the way he was handling the ball like a loaf of bread were downright disturbing. He can't blame that on the O-line or Schotty or anyone else, that was all Sanchez. But yeah, maybe we have a shot if the O-line is 100%. If his confidence level improves, he might become a different QB, but what we were looking at at the end of the season was downright dreadful.
In fairness to the Pats though, JPP and Osi were beasts, and all the Giants DBs fed off of that and played the best ball of their lives. Brady was frustrated as hell.
