57 seconds, two timeouts and you're at your own 31 yard line. I don't care what happened two years ago. Grow some balls. What it shows is a lack of faith in Mark Sanchez and the offense to execute. Period.
Why call the timeout, let Pitt. set their third down play, then when you get the ball fall on it? Go for it, what the hell do you have to lose. Total team failure.
I was more pissed that we punted down 3 scores with under 4 minutes in the game but then went 4 wide shutgun down 3 scores with only seconds remaining. If you're going to throw in the towel put 15 and the rest of the backups out there and run the ball. I can't stand that.
And people keep bringing up two years ago, two years ago they were trying to throw a long pass on 3rd and 17 from deeper in their own territory than they were yesterday and less time on the clock. THAT play they absolutely should have run the ball. You don't right a wrong with another wrong.
At that time the Jets had the ball three times. They scored a TD and FG and then one three and out. It wasn't like the Jets had failed mulitple times in the first half.
I was more upset with some poor play-calling/decisions during the game then with not going for points at the end of the first half. It was 3rd and 16 around Pitts 35-40 yard-line and Sanchez tries to force one into Holmes for a first down..why not pick up 8 yards and kick a field goal...you need to score every time you are down on Pitts side of the field in order to beat them. They also abandoned the run game too soon, we were moving the ball and we began to get pass happy. They did not mix in the wildcat to keep things off balance.
It seems as though, even since before the rex era, the jets never try to push in the last minutes to atleast try and get 3 before halftime. It has always erked me.
This drove me crazy, especially because we had just taken a timeout a few plays prior to Pittsburgh's score, presumably TO CONSERVE TIME for our final possession of the half. And following a decent return out to the 31/32 yard line, what do we do? We . . . sit on the ball? What?
Could it be that we didn't want to show future opponents how awesome our two minute offense is? After all, that was the excuse for kneeling in the preseason.
Your comparing the Pats setting up a game winning FG to the Jets not trying to get points at the end of the first half…and then calling my post dumb? Here are some valid reasons teams run out the clock in the first half: -They are pinned inside their own 20 -They already have a nice lead - A lack of timeouts combined with noisy crowd -They don’t have faith in their QB Which one of these best fits the Pitt game?
You guys can say what you want but I remember last year in the AFC Championship, Brady had about 45 seconds and a timeout before half and Bill told them to just run out the clock. This team is built to win tight games, we were down 3 points going into half, ALOT different then going into half down 21. Remember the Dolphins game week 17 last year? same shit. I was fine with the kneel down.
We have seen this before also in the 2009 AFC Championship game. When the game was 17-13 we had a minute and like 22 seconds and we just ran out the clock. Ultimately Rex is scared Sanchez will make the big mistake, I think Tebow would have been perfect for those situations because he is one to not make a mistake.
You can get the Jets to go into a shell if you get them down a couple of scores. If they have a bad series or two and things start going the other teams way the Jets do not fight back, they generally go into a shell. I watched the Giants game yesterday too, and for a while there it really looked like the Giants weren't going to win, but then they fought back... they dug themselves in and fought back. They didn't give up, they did the opposite! They started firing balls downfield even though Eli had thrown 3 INT's already, THEY DIDN'T CARE! They took chances, they knew they had to or they wouldn't get back in the game. Where is this fighting spirit on the Jets? If you get them down do they fight back or go into a shell? We saw the answer to that question yesterday.
