Oh and fck the Wildcat!

Good point. When I saw the play I thought the toss was unecessary a hand off would have worked fine.

 

The OP is dead wrong on this. I was at the game, back corner of the endzone. Cotch had all day to run if he caught that ball. There wasn't a white jersey for miles around. I was jumping out of my friggin seat till he dropped the ball.

Is that a fumble anyway? We at the game were quite confused.

 

Schotty needs to let Callahan take over the offense. I loathe Schottenheimer.

 

I still can't understand why we couldn't review that play! From the stadium monitor, it appeared that J-Co landed on the ball and was touched by the Denver player. How in the world was that not a dead ball? Could anyone explain it to me?

 

I don't like the wildcat in bad weather unless Brad Smith is just going to keep the ball. It was a dumb call by the coaching staff.

 

A fumble recovery is Not Reviewable. The refs ruled that Cotch never regained control of the fumble and since you cannot review a fumble recovery there was nothing to review. To us, Cotch laying ontop of the ball indicates he had possession and should be down by contact but technically him falling on the ball is a fumble recovery which is not reviewable.

Its BS but so it goes.

 

Thanks for the explanation.

 

If the Jets want to consistently use the wildcat formations they seriously need more depth at back. For example, Ole Miss' Dexter McCluster will be draft eligible either this year or next and he's a workhorse alongside another kid named Cordera Eason for Houston Nutt's "Wild Rebel". If any of you follow the SEC, you know Ole Miss came out of nowhere and finished in second due to this formations success.

If you want to bring it to the pros, you have to get the kids who know how to run it. It's not a forgiving formation to run, and if people here have patience, by the last game of the season if the Jets run it consistently it'll start looking real good. It builds with time.

 

Brad Smith at QB only seems to rack up a lot of yards against bad teams.

 

I don't have a problem with the call. Had it been executed properly, Cotchery had a lot of green in front of him. It was not the design. The blame goes to the guys on the field IMO.

 

Agreed.

Smith running the Wildcat will work if it always isn't an option where he lines up and just takes it for a run. Let him throw it, we all know he was a QB in college. Even if it's a little dump to Leon, who we all know can work with the ball. But like I just said, he was a QB in college, so he can even thrower a little deeper than just a little dump off.

 

If you ask me, it looks like Cothery recovered the football. Given that Cotchery was already on the ground, the moment that a Bronco touches any part of Cotchery he's down. You can clearly see that Cotchery had it cradled; albeit not strongly, but he did have possession and the ball was not moving. Then the Bronco player touched his back (should have been down at that instant) and THEN punched the ball out. The stupid ass ref was watching the whole thing. What the f*** were they looking at?
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Because they ruled he did not have control of the ball. If not in control he is not in possesiion, therefore not down by contact.

 

Not trying to take away from the point of the thread, but if Cotchery held on to the ball, I think he would have been gone for the TD, or at least a really big gain. No Broncos would have been near him.

 

the thing i didnt like about it was that favre had to block the cb in order for the play to work, granted everyone else was fooled but it looked as if the cb was going to come up and make the play anyway... other than that i have no problem with the play or its timing.

 

I'd like to see B. Smith used more in the passing game. I like it when they get him the ball on those screens and crossing patterns.

 

100% agree. We dont need it. Its for improving run blocking and thats not one of our weakness'.