Pessimism!!!

My take on the loss:

1. Mike Westhoff should be running penalty laps for this game. I know putting it on the ST coordinator is a stretch but here's what happened: his unit gave up 14 points in a 5 point loss. After the FIRST time Ted Ginn ran a kick back for a TD, Westhoff should have been making damn sure that he had a guy waiting back there on KO. We all loved seeing Feely run down the field and make tackles but there is a reason why the Kicker usually hangs back as the last line of defense. If the KR springs a few blocks, you want someone back there to try and at least push him out of bounds. When Feely runs up there to make the tackle himself, he's removing that one bit of protection. Westhoff should have made sure that someone, Hell, ANYONE, was waiting back in case it happened again. That was a coaching mistake. One the Jets cannot afford to make when the starting QB is a rookie.

2. Shonn Greene: Hold onto the ball! Nothing more I can say here. A rookie made a huge mistake, and we gave the Phags another TD.

3. Faneca: His terrible pass protection is costing us games. Unfortunately, we do not have anyone on the bench who can match him as a run blocker and he's currently earning more money than God. I doubt we see his ass benched for anything any time soon.

4. Play calling: First half: If you want your QB to throw the ball, you have to let him throw the ball. One or two passing plays every drive isn't going to get your QB any confidence or allow him to establish a tempo for the game or with his receivers. Last drive: I know I'm contradicting my previous statement, but when you're driving for the lead, with over a minute and two time outs left, and your inside the 20 with Thomas Jones on your roster, you run the ball more than once! especially on 2nd and 6. This is where Jones has done his best work. Schottenheimer consistently ignores this offense's strengths going under what I can only assume to be the logic of "we're really good at this so they'll probably see it coming".

5. Sanchez: While I will never agree that Sanchez should have been benched in the first quarter, he needs to actually show up before the second half when the team is done by 3 scores. He looked jumpy and nervous in the pocket. I'm not sure if this was a symptom of throwing 5 picks against Buffalo, Ryan and Schottenheimer scaling back a bit of his freedom in the offense(they used to let him call audibles until the Saints loss) effecting his confidence, the short-pass-only plays that Schottenheimer was sending in, or a combination of any/all of the three. He's gotta play for 60 mins. Not just 30. It's up to the coaches to prepare him for that, so the blame isn't all on him. (Still, he's a better option than Clemens).

 

Check my posts in the game thread, everything I've said there is exactly what you're saying now. Most of the problems I've listed above can be corrected. In fact, this one will probably correct itself since he is a rookie. My point for this post being that he's not being handled well(probably could have been clearer about that). Schottenheimer, Ryan, both of them, Cavanaugh, all three even, someone on this CS is fucking up.