I know its an over load of threads but I didn't want this fact to get buried in another thread... Anyhow we had a good season and no reason to hang our heads if we all remember back from preseason we weren't even suppose to win 3 games by these so called analyst. But anyway my main point is Rex said last week he wouldn't give up on us and come up lame. Well I think he came up lame right before the half when Peyton ran the length of the field and scored. Then we get the ball back with about I think 1:09 seconds and we don't even make an effort to get down the field to even get an attempt for a field goal. If Peyton was in the reverse roll he would of at least made an effort to drive down and get into field goal range thats when I knew we would be playing pussy(excuse the lack of better word) football after that for the rest of the game.
I don't know how you can criticize the decision to get conservative right before the half. No way they're going to ask Sanchez to drive them down the field in just over a minute. There was just no need to take that risk when you can just kill the clock and take a 4 point lead into the locker room. Everyone would have been screaming at their TV if the Jets had gone 3 and out and given the ball back to Manning or if Sanchez threw a pick 6.
(1) Manning discovered that our #4 and #5 CBs are not very good on that drive. (2) When can you remember our offense successfully running a 2 minute drill? It's something for Sanchez to work on in the offseason. I was surprised they even ran it twice and didn't kneel.
I agree and have made the same point in other threads. To just not even try to score was definitely the wrong idea at that point. You have to combat the TD by Manning and have to try and score some points. Even a FG would have been a huge boost. I have no problem with the run on first down, but I can't believe that TJ didn't get out of bounds on the first play. He had ample opportunity there. Scores before halftime are huge and the Jets didn't even try to take advantage of the siutation. I could see if it looked like Sanchez was struggling, but that was obviously not the case. Bad coaching decision on Rex's part there. I hope if the same situation arrises in the future he adapts.
I was a bit perplexed by that myself...I know 11 points isn't going to cut it. If we could go down and even get three, that might have slowed down their momentum a bit. They didn't need to try anything crazy, just put some effort into the plays.....
Well, you're not going to be successful if you don't try. They had second and 2-3 yards with plenty of time and at least one timeout. Your telling me that they can't have Sanchez roll out and tell him to only throw it if the receiver is open?
The fact that the Jets were getting the ball back after the half probably factored into the decision as well. If the Jets put together a nice scoring drive after the half, it could have turned the tide of the whole game.
Yeah but giving the Colts the Momentum swing at that point in the game was crucial.... Yes we were getting the ball back but a field goal would of put us up by 7 points then we get the ball back and just say bare minimum we get 3 more points then its 2 possession game and who knows how much time we would of run off the clock
I was more afraid of Manning getting the ball back myself... The damage was done. Time to get in the locker room and try to settle down the seondary...
it was like during the last couple of games it was like we played excellent football in the second half and being that we were doing so good in the first half i kind of thought we would tank out. So put as many points on the board as possible
I agree. I had no issue with running out the clock to end the 1st. All we needed was for Peyton to get the ball and score. Another Colts score would have been worse at that point.
The formula was there and it's what got us here. Take a lead going into the second half or keep within a score. Keep stopping them and run run run- It jut turned out that we could do neither. I almost wish Schotty went to a passing attack right out of the gate in the second half, Mark was spot on.
A quick strike or long bomb down the field would of definitely put the pressure back on the colts... The funny thing is we had Manning right where we wanted him with that look on his face like i cant believe this shit. thats when you know your in his head
I wish Schottenheimer had been a bit more aggressive with his play calling after Greene went down. Jones has been a shadow of himself and Sanchez was throwing the ball well especially converting on a couple of third and longs. Maybe the result would have been the same with Sanchez throwing some more but, at least we would have gone down swinging, our run game was grounded.
I say the same thing so what if Sanchez Had 4 or 5 picks at least we took a crack at it... Look at how the Saints Vikings game went.. yeah brett and the vikings had 5 turnovers but the score was close and plenty of opportunity
Exactly. Ask Baltimore how the "lets go score real quick" mentality worked out for them at the end of the half last week. Colts went right down the field again and scored with 10 seconds to go, turning a 10-3 game where anything can happen into a demoralizing 17-3 hole. Rex made the right choice to end the half.
The only thing I can really question Ryan on is playing Lowery over Sheppard. Especially against a bigger and physical receiver. I think from the post-game press conference, Ryan said they felt more comfortable with Lowery then Lito, which I found odd specially since Lito wasn't playing hurt (I believe). If he felt comfortable with Lowery over Lito, fine. But Coleman over Lito? I just don't get it.
