It's a fair point, but it's up to Gailey to come up with a blocking scheme that includes more than 5 guys at any given point. Gailey will put him in empty backfield formations all game, it's what he does as an OC. Let's just hope Petty is smart enough to throw the ball away or start trusting his reads and getting the ball out quicker.
I understand what Don is saying, although he always has a really dumb way of saying things - Anderson being benched would take away the security blanket and make Petty stop focusing on him and consider the better receivers on the field. Not sure I agree with the effectiveness of it, though.
We don't deserve to play on Sundays. I hear next year all our games will be played on Tuesdays at 4pm
How would that make him better? He has the most familiarity with and confidence in Anderson. Benching Anderson makes zero sense. Does Petty need to throw to Enunwa, Peake and Marshall more? Undoubtedly. Hopefully, they have worked on that in practice this week.
They just need to call pass plays were Anderson is the 2nd / 3rd / 4th option, forcing Petty through his reads just to find him!
Cold rain in the forecast says ground assault by both teams. Looking at most 21-17 Jets. At worst: 24-17 Phish.
Remember that Dolphins game in 2004 when Curtis Martin AND Lamont Jordan both ran for over 100 yards each and the Jets blew out the Dolphins? I think it was Monday Night Football. Wouldn't mind a repeat of that with Forte and Powell instead.
Remember it well. That 04 team was underrated. They shit the bed down the stretch, but rebounded for an impressive win in San Diego against a 12-4 team and then Doug Brien happened. We should have been in New England for the AFC title game where we played very well in a losing effort earlier in the season. We probably would have lost, but we had a very good defense and you just never know.
100% agreed. I felt that too when Doug Brien blew it. It was upsetting enough to miss the kicks and lose the game, but even worse knowing New England was headed back to the Super Bowl. I felt the Steelers had 0 chance to win, where as the Jets definitely had a chance.
Doug Brien sucked against the Chargers too, he missed a chip shot field goal and almost an extra point back when they were gimmies. Keating just sucked worse. But that game never should have even gotten to that point. If we had lost that game, the roughing the passer call on Barton would have been right in line with Gastineaus. I remember jumping up when Bree's threw that prayer into the end zone...then the ref threw the flag... 04 was a fun year. I think we won a few with Quincy Carter. That was the year Chads shoulder problems started.
So this assessment from Matt Forte in the Post: "“You can never control the flow of the game and how it goes, especially how it starts off." Really? Then why do other teams control the flow against the Jets? Maybe it has to do with coaching. If you have repeated games where you have a recurring problem, a good coach will be able to see the pattern and address it, but apparently this ability escapes Bowles. Sure, occasionally a team will come out and seize control right away, but when it happens every game this isn't "coincidence: or "bad luck", it's poor coaching. Bowles has to go, even if they somehow win out, He just hasn't shown any ability to make adjustments, before, during or in between games.
NFL Radio experts already seeing an "easy" Phin win tonight given rookie start for Shell and other Jet injuries Comparing Petty to RG III and his struggles coming out of Baylor college system vs transition to NFL Fingers crossed Petty proves them wrong
Yes, it's easy for the "experts" to predict failure, and they might be right, but first, I hope Petty proves them wrong, and second, even if he doesn't I hope they stick with him. By that, I don't necessarily mean they should allow him to throw 6 interceptions, but if they do have to yank him, that they'll put him back in and keep trying until he proves he can't do it. And on that last point, frankly, given the poor OL play I don't know how to accurately assess him.
