I'm trying to find the quote but my google kung-fu is failing me. When Parcells was coaching the Jets, he made a comment that offenses score over 50% of the time when there's a defensive penalty. I'm not talking about some big 15-yard personal foul, just any kind of defensive penalty. Would love to know if that stat is still true but I'm unable to find a site keeping track of such a statistic. 12 men on the field & pre-snap penalties show lack of discipline and becoming way too common.
So you blame it on the 3rd string TE (who the coaches have in the game)? I blame it on the coaches for relying on the third string TE on FIRST DOWN when they could have milked the clock and entered half ahead 24-9. I understand...never Rex and MM fault...now it's all Sudfeld's fault.
There's a flaw here in the math. You'd have to assume (without looking it up) that we had the ball about half of those games, that makes it 43/82= closer to 50%. Not very good. Also, if we won 20 of those games, we lost 23... again, not a great stat. There are other things to consider. If we had the lead and lost it in the last minute, would be worse than giving up a score if down by 30 at the time or up by 20. We'd need a lot more information to take anything away from those stats.
Right The point is that its wrong for Costello to write a critical article of this nature without doing the necessary research
It turned the game because it wasn't executed correctly. What if we ran the ball and fumbled it? I don't play the play call I blame the players
Hopefully Sudfeld was watching the DEN/SEA game and taking notes. Ricardo Lockette smartly took an offensive PI rather than allowing Aqib Talib the would be pick 6. If the coaches are to blame, it's because they have not instilled the same level of football IQ in their players.
exactly, that play call did not turn around or cost us the game. what cost us the game was not being able to stop green bay from going 97 YARDS in under 2 minutes for a touchdown. it wasnt a high risk play, and even with the worst case outcome, we had them backed up on the 3 yard line with little time left. we lost because our back 7 is terrible. we lost because we had so many non-football breakdowns (i.e. delay of game on a punt attempt, wasted timeouts). We lost because we couldnt sustain a running game. up 21-3 throwing a pick that pins your opponent on their own 3 yard line is hardly a death blow
It was not 21-3 when the pick was thrown-- it was 21-9. After the pick, Rogers went right down the field and then it was 21-16 going into half. That play and the following Packer drive re-energized the Pack, demoralized the jets and THAT was why they lost the game. 24-9 is a lot different going into half than 21-16. If you want to insist it was good strategy not to milk the clock, but rather to throw on FIRST down under 2 minutes to your 3rd string TE too dumb to break up the play, then Rex probably has a job for you!
the key sentence there was "rogers went right down the field". it was a 97 yard drive in under 2 minutes that turned momentum, not the interception. if the defense doesnt allow a 97 yard drive its 21-9 going in to halftime. the jets were hardly demoralized by the pick. the 97 yard drive is what killed us. and if it WAS the pick that demoralized them, then they had no chance anyway. if a turnover on the opponents 3 yardline in a game you lead by double digits demoralizes you, then you are the most mentally weak team in football
Under Rex I think the jets are mentally weak--he constantly brags up every player on his team--the team needs a a coach not a cheerleader
