This stat gets skewed a lot. Of course when you're ahead late you run more, and you pass when you're behind. The other factor is you have to keep the ball to run a lot of plays, so sometimes you have to complete a pass on 3rd and 9 to get yourself more plays with which to run the ball. But people cite stats as cut and dried, like "when the Jets run 25x or more they win", which is backwards logic.
Absolutely. I posted in another Schotty thread a while ago about his inability to understand time and place. Interesting stat about Sanchez - When the game is tied, he's at his worst. Now I can imagine that's his usual 1st quarter slow start, but it just seems odd that its not when he's down by 10+ pts, and throwing the ball has to be done to get back into the game. When its theoretically 0-0, he has a 27 passer rating, no TDs and 5 INTs. It just has Schotty's prints all over it because he never establishes a tone in the beginning of a game or picks the right places to call a Cutesy play Its when the Jets are down by a score that Sanchez is at his best, and we've all seen how Cutesy begins to call a correct game that allows his rookie QB and offensive weapons to thrive in the system.
Yeah, it was very interesting that Miami just threw the ball 52 times in beating NE. So much for the over used stat that throwing too much means you lose.
it is very odd how schotty starts to call a good game once the team is behind the 8 ball. i forget what game it was but i think it was jacksonville the first half the offense was lost and sanchez looked really bad. i get a text from my dad that sanchez needs to sit for a few games. i tell him they need to stop running the spread and let sanchez throw from the I and other under center formations. of course in the second half they start running a balanced offense with sanchez throwing from formations that don't give away that the play is going to be a pass. how we the fans can see what is good for the team and what needs to stop happening while our offensive coordinator who gets payed out the ass to do just that can't is truly amazing to me.
Per Cimini: "At last, a Mark Sanchez sighting. The injured QB is on the stationary bike, pedaling away. He's not dressed for practice, so it appears he will be a bystander. This doesn't bode well for his chances of starting Sunday." I hope they are just resting him for Sunday and this doesn't mean something worse. Not even dressed, not a good sign-
