The top five gamechanging/indescribably frustrating plays:

Greene has never been that HB. Not in college, not last season. The fact that he was in there for that play was asinine. Everyone knows his (receiving)hands are the worst part of his game. The fact that he was in for that play and(apparently) the #2 option on that play is sickening.

 

yes. that's why I didn't get the play call. Nacho checking down probably? Anyway, dude needs to catch the ball. It's a 1st down regardless if he does and we're in business.

 

#1- Ticky tack. The kicker could have been called for diving. Shit happens

#2- If they called it on Revis it would have been awful. They called it on a rookie with deer in headlight eyes syndrome, which I imagine refs can see down on the field...

#3- The guys calling the game said Sanchez needed to be aware of that...

#4- Horrible. He fumbled twice without ever getting hit by the opposing team... He needs to put up Tiki Barber numbers to be half forgiven for being a fumbler...

#5- Keller may have been dazed from being laid out a minute before by Lewis and it looked like his momentum carried him out. The mistake was not running the rout a little deeper.

#6- Cotchery has great hands. He wasn't exactly in what one would call a rhythm. If the whole game depends on one 3rd & 5 which is your second or third try all night, then good luck. Jets wanted to establish the running game? They need to establish a passing game too. Look what happened to the Giant receivers yesterday. Balls went straight off their hands and got intercepted 3 times. No problem. One catch, one miss does not make a disaster. Nor does one game, luckily for the Jets, cause the coaches stunk it up tonight...

 

I'll throw in a couple plays that were actually great plays by the Jets but for reason they were unable to finish them.

1) Leonhard's punt return. Amazing return, he's beaten several guys already and he just has the punter to beat and room to head to the sideline. And he runs straight into and gets tackled by the punter.

2) Brad Smith's big run. He has the entire field in front of him and for some reason decides to crash into a lineman and fall down.

3) Cromartie's INT. Flacco brings him down/forces him out of bounds from behind while he had blockers in front of him. This one may be nitpicking because he ran a hell of a long way and was probably out of gas.

Of course if the offense wasn't so inept none of this would've made a difference. Still, I think all 3 plays had legtimate shots to be TDs and it was kind of frustrating how they ended.

 

That's by no means a guarantee.

The point being, if Greene was in for the previous play and Tomlinson in for that one, the offense would have made sense.

I get that Ryan/Schottenheimer/Lynn is pissed off beyond belief by fumbles but they all knew what they were getting in Shonn Greene. For better or for worse(probably worse) those plays are part of his game. Why they picked the back with the WORST HANDS IN THE BACKFIELD is beyond my comprehension on this one. Make all the jokes you want but this was nothing short of a fucking horrible play call.

 

Watch your replays and you'll see that the pass to Keller was behind him. It put him off stride and balance....that's why he went almost straight out of bounds.

MY biggie was kicking the third FG when you should have tried for a TD or at least a 1st down. You can't win when you give them back the ball...10 to 9 didn't make it.

FIRE SHOTTY
Get our QB coach to teach Mr Inaccurate to go 7 steps back in one motion, not five, lose sight of anyone downfield and after 3 more back have to check down because you don't know where the WR have gone.

 

no, no...I agree 100 percent. I've said from the beginning I didn't like the play call, I just figured it was probably another Sanchez checkdown. He looked in 2 places downfield before he threw it.
Edit: Greene's a big boy, though, he needs to make the catch. It was right to him.

 

The fact that he did that consistently throughout the game compared to his attitude vs. last seasons seems to tell me that someone has been hammering the phrase "checkdown" into his head ad infinitum.

You don't go from last season's attitude of "throw it down the field no matter what" to "check down after two reads EVERY TIME" w/o someone telling you the same thing for weeks after weeks.

 

My problem with that, and I think your theory does have some creedence to it, I think it's Rex more than Schotty. I could be wrong, but it could go back to that idea with the colors toward the end of last season. I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that was Rex' idea.

 

The color code was credited as Rex's decision but the play-calling has been solely Schottenheimer's domain since Rex took over, with week 4 of this year's preseason being the lone exception. Ultimately, it's Schottenheimer's decision as to which plays get called. Rex takes the blame(rightfully so) but it's not his decision.