Okay.. Why not give the CS a mulligan on '21 then. All sins forgiven even the 4th and 2 QB sneak and all the 3rd and really longs they gave up due to horrid play calling on D. Start over in '22 but no mulligans, no excuses.
Cmon... This team has had more excuses than wins all year long. Lets give the CS and FO a ONE TIME ONLY pass on '21.
Don't get it twisted. LeFleur's move to the booth changed the production on the field however, he still has "predictable" tendencies that annoy the shit out of me. Always the gut-runs on 1st down in the Red Zone? Rarely attacking the edges with MC and Berrios on 2nd and short yardage. Always has his guys running routes that are SHORT of the 1st down marker on 3rd and mediums. 7 step drops for Zach when the entire stadium knows the blitz is coming.. Yeah I said it. LeFleur has improved, but lets not anoint him the second coming of Bill Walsh just yet. He's better now than the beginning of the season and as a result, Zach is better, the OL is better, the production is better. Early on, MLF deserved all the heat he got. Now? Lets see how he finishes the season against a pretty good Buffalo D. As I always say... Its not how or where you start, but how you finish that matters.. Show Me Mode!!
Let us not forget consistency for Zach. that will help him tremendously. I have seen a few posts about Sam doing well end of his rookie year then sucking, what we forget is that a new coaching staff was brought ins and Sam had to start over.
This is a Berrios tweet but I feel like it applies to LaFleur because before Elijah Moore went down, he was on these lists as the "how is that guy ranked with these guys?" player. Then the player who replaced Moore ends up on the list. That's a good system from a coach that plays to his team's strengths.
MLF gets to earn his stripes on Sunday.. Lets see how he finishes his first command as OC this year. Hopefully by not fucking up the last series of the season..
This goes both ways though. Of course people can change opinions and of course if the early production had continued calls for him to be fired would be justified. But if you think there's any chance you are going to change your opinion perhaps holding off on the firing calls until you have more than a few weeks of play to go on would be justified too.
Those were emotional calls for firing. Not really meant. Very few actually wanted him fired we/they just wanted him to do better. I am loving the hope CMAN is showing I just hope the Jets warrant the positivity.
This is exactly it. I don’t think many wanted him fired after a month of football, but the sentiment was that if it continued to look incompetent, he should be canned.
I think Mike LaFleur will be a Head Coach like his brother Matt one day. Hope he can stick around with the Jets for as long as possible, but I think it is clear that his future is bright in the NFL.
That's one way to look at it. The other is that LaFleur was blind to what Braxton could have been doing for the first eleven weeks if given the chance. The truth probably lies somewhere in between.
LaFleur's play design and play calling seem to have gotten better as his skill players have gone down. I don't think that's a coincidence.
I agree...Kudos to the OL for their play in the running game & passing game. I think this has a lot to do with ZW progress. Giving ZW time is a big key to his progressing in the past few weeks. The whole team seems to be coming together at the same time...feeding off each other.
The offense is 25th in points scored, 2nd most turnovers, and they just lost a game because the offensive coordinator botched a key 4th down call with the game on the line and yet you come here and the offensive coordinator is getting a TGG statue
Berrios was playing behind three better WRs. I think Berrios is the better PLAYER than Crowder in terms of all around skillset but he was rightfully behind Crowder on the depth chart. Once MLF started using Moore as an all-around gadget he started to take off and then Berrios stepped right into that role and picked up kinda where Moore left off. That's the system. Kind of makes me wonder of Berrios and Moore are redundant though. I'd still absolutely 100% bring Berrios back to start in the slot regardless.
You know that saying "seeing the forest through the trees"? You're somehow the opposite. You can only see the forest, no trees. Jeeze, you'd think the Steelers and Dolphins and Ravens were good teams if you paid attention to what the pundits say right?
I mean, that’s not exactly murderers row of offenses though, dude. The Saints are starting Taysom Hill and other such crappy quarterbacks, the Steelers have struggled to score all year and Lamar has been out for the past 3-4 weeks. Everyone on here trashes Tua every chance they get, and they nearly just got blanked by the Titans. 3/5 of those teams are bottom 10 in yards per game and the Browns are barely outside of that. 4/5 score less than 3 touchdowns a game. LaFleur and the offense has been much better than it started but I get why people are still apprehensive.
Well the Jets are fuckin 4-12. But that's a nice little statistic we can hang our hats on forever. We will cherish it
