How does Bowles keep changing OC's without realizing his DC is probably one of the worst in the NFL? I was fine with Morton. I thought he did a good job. Have to remember he had no O-line, no #1 RB, no #1 WR and McCown at QB. Add in all those factors and Morton was actually great. Can't help Petty and Hack are seemingly not good enough. Oh well.
rodgers is his buddy and they go way back. sadly he'll never can rodgers. as long as bowles is here, rodgers will be as well
When you run 22x and average 1.9 ypc, that’s a pretty clear indicator to abandon the run. You don’t need to run it 30x to figure that out. This isn’t rocket science...
I thought Morton did a decent job, but for the life of me, I still don't get how OCs can call empty backfield plays on 3rd and 2 or less. Unless there is scope for a RB or WR to be motioned into the backfield or swing around for the sweep. The threat of the run is so potent in those situations. Both Gailey and Morton have been guilty of this,
Actually the offense's 28th rank isn't as bad as its seems at first glance. First off, the teams near the bottom are so bunched up that there is little difference between the 28th ranked team and the 24th ranked team. Also, all the games that Petty played in skew the numbers extremely badly. Take out those four games (admittedly Petty didn't play the entire Bronco game) and the Jets averaged just over 329 yards per game. That puts them right in the midddle of the pack (just behind no. 15 Seattle). Likewise, if you remove the last 4 games, the Jets points per game (~22.2) is actually in the upper half of the league. Taking into account that the defense / special teams did not contribute any TD's, scoring that many points without any star players isn't that bad. This isn't to say that the Jets offense was good. However, I would bet that most would agree that up until McCown went down, the offense played better than expected - especially with the lack of resources put into the offense. Of course, you can disagree with sticking with McCown for so long. However, it can definitely be argued that with him at QB the Jets offense (at least through the first 12 games) was decent.
Last year we had a creative, innovative, pretty explosive offense. Bowles thought it was too pass happy so he fired Morton and took more command of the offense. This is the hidden move that gets him fired. Morton was a 21st century play caller that was pass first with tons of effective spread concepts. Didn’t mesh with Bowles’ 1980 mindset, which has no place in today’s game. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Somewhere on a couch in a well laid out man cave, Morton is laughing his ass off watching this team stumble and bumble its way to another blue chip draft pick.
Just keep making the OC the fall guy when theyre given garbage resources compared to the D who’s coordinator is completely clueless yet completely immune to accountability or termination!
