The thing is until Hunter is gone we will not know if Sanchez is developing or not. What a shame that it is coming to this. He cannot be left there any longer. This may be a very short season.
WFH has to go and the Jets need to stop playing this vanilla shit. Will they wait till the Bills game?
Good article. Not surprised since it came from Adam Schein since he's one of the analysts on SNY during Jets coverage. Schein may come off as an a** but I think he wants the team to do well.
It's not just Hunter. The Jets have less talent on offense than they've had since Curtis went off the rails in 2005 and Chad got hurt. Both effects caused at least in part by an offensive line that could no longer hold up its end of the deal. You could get an average RT in here next week and the problem would just become the WR's or RB's or TE's (remember how often you wanted to strangle Mulligan last year? Well it's not clear that Cumberland is any better) or even the QB's in the absence of improvement elsewhere. The offensive talent just sucks right now. Like last place blows chunks. You don't fix that by replacing one guy on the line. That one guy didn't even play the first game, where the Jets offense sucked also.
I don't agree with u. Wayne Hunter is such a problem, he was letting the defender fly by him on about 90% of the snaps. U can put Tom Brady/Peyton Manning with larry Fitzgerald and Calvin Johnson out there with WFH and the offense will struggle. Problem is, WFH seems to have regressed further after being the worst RT in football last year. At this point, I wouldn't even keep Jim as a backup. One push and he was losing his balance. That is how Giants defeated Pats twice in SB. Pressured Brady consistently and that's it.
"As I've been saying since the Jets traded for Tebow, the plan is for him to run the ball six to 20 times a game." 20 freaking times?! Does this guy realize that teams only get like 65 offensive snaps in a game?
The problem isn't Hunter, it's all blocking and it's penalties. The Jets need to develop a big play offense because they literally cannot dink and dunk down the field without a drive killing penalty. They can't deliver big plays because they only way to block it up long enough for a deep play to develop is to leave half the potential receivers in to block. It's a no-win scenario right now.
Hunter being inept causes issues all over the line -- guys know they have a weak spot on the end. They get jumpy, the lose focus, they don't trust everyone and the line needs to have trust across the front. Hunter was pushed around and missed blocks while he was on the field. You think Mario Williams isn't licking his chops to line up against hunter for 4 quarters in week 1?? Sure they can bring in a TE to chip or help but do you really want to sacrifice a potential target for a blocker all game?
Hunter is brutal, he's not the only flaw but he's one of the most glaring. I don't care who is under centre, with Hunter on the field no QB is going to have a whole lot of success.
I agree with you, But Hunter is standing in the way of evaluating alot of that talent. Right now he is the low hanging fruit. At this point we are at risk of Sanchez to being shell shocked and not developing further. Sort of like David Carr in Houston. The guy was reduced to a career back-up because they did not fix that O-line. We also are not learning if any of these young guys can help us on O because the QB cannot get started. Hunter has to go.
Because if he fails again to address this and the offense is actually worse than the 2011 version, Tannenbaum should start getting heat from more than us fans. Then again, Woody isn't the most "hands on" owner in the league so perhaps you're right and Tannenbaum gets a pass from the boss once again for failing to address the obvious issue.
Like you I tend to agree with Brad, and this time disagree somewhat with Adam Schein - there are a lot of problems on the O. But also like you I agree that Hunter is a problem that makes it harder to assess talent elsewhere, and replacing him should have been the first order of business this off season, not something that is still festering here with less than tree weeks to opening day. I blame Tanny, and to clarify having a roster with VD and Hunter on it is disgraceful. I would also like the Schotty Haters to let me know when they first see tangible evidence (not bs and hype) that Schotty's departure is paying dividends. So far all I can see is an offense that can't score. And oh yeah, that interception Sanchez threw? It was all on him. The more things change...
I'm sorry, but if the entire success of a team hinges not on a RB or QB, but a RIGHT TACKLE, I'm pretty sure your team has much bigger problems going for it. I honestly can't believe people think that Hunter alone makes or breaks this entire team. It's just unfathomable to me. If we had a real QB like Peyton Manning here instead of Mark Sanchez, Hunter's problems would be minimized or at the very least controlled to a reasonable level.
If that were the case, Peyton Manning would be paralyzed from the neck down due to the ineptitude of EZPass Hunter. I wonder if Peyton looked at the film of Sanchez getting his ass pounded and said: "No Fkn Way am I gonna put myself thru that. Denver here I come.."
You mean the Eric Winston that got a 4 year 22 million dollar deal which had a 6 million dollar year 1 cap hit? That Eric Winston? Because there was no way in hell the Jets could afford to pay him that kind of money. If you remember the Jets had very limited cap maneuverability this offseason. Hell the biggest 1st year deal the Jets gave was to Landry for 4 million. We just couldn't afford to pay out that kind of money this year. In addition Winston spent his whole career in a zone-blocking scheme, and didn't want to switch to a man scheme. So he wasn't nearly the option for the jets you seem to think he was. Oh and how do you know Tanny didn't contact his agent? just because we didnt sign the guy, doesn't mean we didnt at least try to contact him.
false, per usual the jets had way less talent on O going into 2009 than they do now, and its not even close
