The Cal State play has got to go...1st of all its a 1 in a million play; second, everyone has seen it and you will not surprise anyone with it; third, you've got all your most valuable skill players out there including Pennington and somebody's going to use the opportunity to kill him. Given the same set of crappy circumstances (ball inside the 5, less than a minute to play, 1 or 0 timeouts), the best move is to bring in Ramsey and let him heave a high jump ball to a spot within FG range get as many leapers there as you can. Not a high percentage play, but higher (and safer) than the lateral play.
Hmm... I disagree. I think you should never need to run this play, but it's the best option. In addition, did anyone notice that Coles essentially had daylight to the end zone on the left side of the field? He could've run it into the end zone, since the Colts player standing in front of him stopped playing for a few seconds.
Actually, I liked it much better than the "Hail Mary" or as some arm critics of Chad Pennington might call it, "The Quail Mary". We have a guy on the team who can teach the fineries of rugby. I think we go with this and try to become better at it.
I don't mind running that play, but not with Pennington on the field. The Jets are nutso to ever run that play with Pennington out there. Why don't they run it with Ramsey; if he gets hurt, it's not the end of the world. And, his presence provides the option of throwing a hail mary, while Pennington's doesn't.
When you need a desperation play where you're deep in your territory, the lateral is all you've got. If you're between the opponents 40 and midfield, then you hailmary.
If Manning was our QB and had to throw 60 yards I'd understand. The play we called was the right one.
yeah hopefully first thing this morning mangini and shott are devising a new miracle play.....anywayyyyyyy
I'm surprised they haven't used Graham in a desperation play yet...maybe it is for want of an opportunity. He is not the fastest player over the ground, but he has superb hands and if an Aussie Rules style catch were allowed, and if he could get into position quickly enough, he might win the Jets a game or two down the line somewhere.
We almost had it at the end. You can't tell me the hail mary would have worked any better. Plus there we were 70 yards from the end zone. It would have needed to be a hail mary plus a 25 yard run
Maybe next time they should all huddle around the ball, hide it under someone's jersey, and then the group splits up, running downfield
Think about it. The chances of a hail mary or the multiple lateral play working is about the same. They're very low percentages but are about the same.
The play was risky, that I agree on, considering guys like Coles, Chad, Mangold, Smith, Washington, etc were on the field getting the ball tossed to them and whatnot. But it's the only option at that time, and it actually could have worked.
The play was fine, more exciting than a hail mary pass. I'm sure Champ will be on here to tell us we sound like paid Jets executives trying to cover up the fact that Pennington can't throw the ball 70 yards. I really expected him to drive 98 yards with less than 50 seconds left and no timeouts(maybe 1, can't remember).
I saw that too, but I think had they reviewed it it would've shown Brad Smith's knee down when he fumbled it to Coles.
Ramsey can throw it through the goalposts on one knee from there. Lateral play from there is by FAR the best option. Remember that a hail mary, you have like 5 guys jumping in the air into like a pile. No play is perfectly safe.
Lateralling the ball did quite well, especially the defense the Colts were playing. I stayed to watch and as soon as the pass went across the middle everyone was like "Oh what the f**k", then after like the 2nd lateral everyone held there breath.
