Yes Its very promising that Schotty didn't suck this week, last week (during the bye) and vs SD. Not ready to give him credit for Miami
Ken O'Brien? Really..... wow. You clearly turn the game off in the 2nd half. And what does his contract have to do with anything? Top 5 pics cost a lot under the previous CBA. Get over it. Game managers don't have the playoff record he does.
Bro I know the Jets made terrible mistakes in the 1st half. However they were blasting Buffalo, I know it didn't show on the scoreboard. My point is I don't think the Jets had to make significant adjustments. They took it to Buffalo all game. It is crazy to say but this game could have been a 30 point win.
1) Mark. Played well IMO. 2) OL. Slauson was great today. Had a couple big blocks. 3) Young defensive players. Wilson, Wilkerson, and Maybin all making big contributions. 4) LB core. Harris/Scott/Pace were great.
#1. Schotty finally learned how to call the modern offense. Hopefully He'll go back and see how well it worked, and double down.
Promising things from the Bills game: Bart Scott. I've been dismayed by his play this year, not so much that it has been bad, but not at the same high level we saw last year. Yesterday he had great game. Jarring that ball loose when the Bills were deep in Jet territory was really the play that broke the Bills and killed off any real chance of a comeback win. Then he was in on stopping them on fourth and two. Pouha. Without DeVito in there, Pouha was a real force, and I get the impression is becoming one of the real leaders on this team. Excellent game. Kyle Wilson. Great coverage, great concentration, playing consistently well, above average tackler. I think we can lay to rest the doubts people had about him last year, with good reason. He's really stepped it up this year. Smith and Leonhard. Another good game from the starting safeties. Their haters really need to relax. Mangold. He's totally back to top form. And the OL shows it. Great game for him and the rest of the line. Burress. The SD game was not a fluke. He looks better and better. Simms noted he thought it would take Burress well into the second half of the season to become a real contributor. He's now there. Holmes. What a great talent. I thought last year that Edwards was the bigger contributor, but looking back it took Holmes some time to get over missing those first four games. This season he's been doubled and Sanchez has not found him that much. Yesterday we saw some really great play from Tone. Folk. Ray Lucas was all over him for missing a 50 yard FG. I get Ray's point, but what I found promising is Folk went out there after missing that one and nailed another long attempt. He's solid and no head case. I think the Jets can depend on him down the road. Coaches. Beautiful game plan and half time adjustment. Even in the first half they did well with adversity when Keller took himself out, since the game plan was to use him plenty. Ryan has the no win after the bye off his back, and the team is hitting its stride. The CS can't really do much about Sanchez's too common brain farts, but they don't get down too much when they happen, either. Less positive - wtf was Keller thinking? And Mulligan followed that with some real stupidity, too. Baker made some plays, though, and Mulligan is a great run blocker.
so many positives... we dominated them all game... aside from the two knucklehead plays by mark and the few penalties in the first half, everyone did their job. blockers blocked, receivers didnt drop anything that i can remember, RBs hit the holes when they were there. defense did a grab job tackling a powerful and slippery RB, showed great awareness in pass coverage. no one has given Cro any credit i think he had a fantastic game. special teams, simply amazing what westy does with those guys. ive never been a fan of folk but he seems like a different player to me now. hope he keeps this confidence. ill be the first one to admit im a shotty hater, but the guy called an excellent game. amazing how once the o-line starts blocking for the RBs, the whole offense seems to open up. rex and petine drew up a masterpiece. we got more momentum than most teams right now going into the biggest game of the season. lets take it to these pussies.
Again, a half game performance from our Franchise Qb and the team he's "leading". He's good for one bonehead throw per game and now I expect that out of him. I call that "pulling a Sanchez" in his honor. I don't expect him to play perfectly for 60mins or even 50mins. That's asking waay too much. I expect him to stay within the system and be effective instead of throwing the ball willynilly into double coverage in the redzone and get picked. Then again, I'm not making excuses for him nor am I overlooking his slow development as some are wont to do.
There were a hell of a lot of positives in that game. The things that stood out to me were: -Sanchez spreading the ball around to all of his targets and throwing efficiently (70+%) -The Terminator plowing into the EZ on that goal line run -Shonn Greene getting back into form -The entire D was lights out The Jets won the battle on the line of scrimmage all day and basically dominated the game. I don't understand why people still want to nitpick today.
The opening drive. No seriously, the opening drive. Yes the pick was horrendous and I may never know what the fuck Nacho was even thinking, but that drive was DOMINANT. We never start games like that, and I was so impressed with it that I honestly could only get mad at the pick for about 10 seconds. Points or no points, any time you can gas a defense for ten minutes right off the bat and have your O-line just completely bitch slap their front seven it will pay dividends come the second half. They had nothing left at the end of that game.
People want to nitpick because they have fixed positions that they don't want to get off. Sanchez completed 71% of his passes yesterday, finished with a 92.9 rating and lead long drive after long drive. His last 4 games he has not had a rating under 87.1 and he's thrown 7 TD's and 2 Int's but some people think he's the problem so they nitpick.
1. Did anyone else think that Sanchez was throwing the ball extremely well? At times he looked like Brett Favre out there throwing those Bullets. 2. Apparentally Vlad played some RT? Did anyone notice this?
Milo, Glad you brought that up. Sanchez was asked after the game if he was trying throw that pass out of the end zone, and he said no, it just sailed on him. Meaning he was not accurate with his throw. I am not sure what to make of that. On one hand he in effect was saying he wasn't being stupid, that it was in teh execution of his throw, that the problem arose. And players make mistakes, of course. But I wish he didn't have these kinds of issues with accuracy.
Noting that he's averaging about one pick a game is not nitpicking. And a fumble doesn't show in the Qb rating. So? We should ignore those problems? He had time, he had a running game, his receivers are playing well and making great catches. Why shouldn't his stats go up? The point is he's still making too many mistakes.
