I only watched a few plays and I called them. Towards the end of the 1st half, Jets had 3rd and short. Run into the line. 4th and short. Run into the line. I was saying to myself on both plays" "Don't run into the line!" NE was probably saying: "they are going to run into the line".
Do the Jets have an overly complicated scheme that the players may have trouble grasping? I'm asking b/c back in the 80s, I met a player from the Jets when Joe Walton (another offensive "genius") was head coach. He said that players substituting in would bring the play into the huddle and the play calls were so complicated, players couldn't remember the whole play call. He was a relatively bright guy too.
The Jets' perpetual offensive woes may be the thing that gives me the most angst with this franchise and that's saying something considering the bad ownership, bad coaching and subpar GM'ing. Can we for once at least have a team that's actually fucking fun to watch offensively? In 2021 when points are falling out of the sky for just about everyone else?! https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nyj/index.htm Our ranks the last six years in points: 30, 24, 23, 31, 32 and 32. Our only top ten seasons since the god damn 1980's were Vinny's borderline MVP year (1998) and Rex's first Ground and Pound year (2008). Almost every other season besides those two and the Fitzmagic year were average to below average and far more of the latter.
Part of their rationale for passing on Marino was supposedly he wasn't intelligent enough to handle the complex Walton system lol
This is why you don't hire an offensive coordinator with no experience along with a head coach with no head coach experience.
I don't think that's true. MANY great offensive coordinators started without any offensive coordinator experience and were great. This all leads back to the loss of Knapp. I believe JD had a plan for Lafleur and that was to have a partner in his ear with tremendous experience guiding him through the process. When Knapp passed away, the entire plan was thrown out and now we are suffering the consequences. Lafleur was thrown into the fire and it's not working
Someone should ask him when it will get going. It certainly doesn't look like something that's in the cards here over the next 10 weeks. 2022? 2023? The year 3,000? Let us know Mike.
