I totally agree with you on the 4th and 1 situations--he punts every time--You should only do that if you have shut-down defense--the jets have an "open door " defense led by $60M Dwayne (king's ransom) Robertson and another $50M to Bryan (invisible) Thomas.
The part I find most amazing is that they shelled out all of that jack to Thomas instead of locking up Rhodes or Cotchery long-term.
Cotchery is locked up longterm. They signed him in February. Rhodes should have been locked up too before they gave that much money to an aging runningback.