You think the offense we saw last year was Shotty's ?? Everything in that offense was tailored to one "special" player - Mr. Brett Favre.
It's funny how you can be in denial when the actual truth of our situation is staring you in the face.
Yes, they tailored the offense to the QB. That was a necessity. But the OC is responsible for designing the gameplans. This OC saw that our running game was working last season and thought he would get cute and abandon the running game at the end of the year. He called terrible situational playcalls last season, just like he did yesterday. There's continuity for you.
Stats are decieving. You see all those rushing yards and assume we could have have just run all day long. Two big runs by Jones skewed those stats and both runs were going with the wind - hmm coincidence , maybe the D had to respect the pass a little more in that direction. Yes, our QB had a bad day - make even two of those picks completions and we're probably talking today about how we eked out a win against the Bills .
those 2 runs constituted about 135 yards of the entire 300+ yards the Jets ran for in total. not much of a "skew" if you ask me.
Again, I'll ask the question. As the OC of the team last year or any year since 2006 - how much of the overall offensive gameplan reflected what Shotty wanted to run and how much was influenced by Mangini and last year by Mangini/Favre. I'll give you a hint - a staple of Shotty's offense is to run lots of motion and misdirection . How much of that did you see last year . Not much - why - because Favre would have had to learn an extensive playbook and calls in about three weeks - which he didn't . This year the offense is on Shotty. I say have patience with a rookie Qb and a banged up WR core .
Maybe a better indicator then is how many 3rd and longs ( ie longer than 5-6 yards) did the Jets face yesterday. The run game was effective but we weren't running up and down the field all day.
Is having 'patience' with your rookie QB making him throw at the defensive secondary 15+ yards with consistency in high wind and cold weather he has never seen? That didn't look like patience to me. It looked like an arrogant OC who was not taking the situation into account. What they needed to do in that weather was keep it to a short game because our defense wasn't allowing the Bills to do squat. As for Schotty's being micro-managed - I wanted to believe that, too, and I wanted to give him this season to prove that he WAS being micromanaged by Mangini. So far, his playcalls have been inconsistent, just like in the past. Right, a 'staple' of his offense is a ton of motion - but NOT misdirection. It's like it's motion for the sake of motion, mainly to see what looks the defense is giving them. There is little misdirection in Schotty's plays, aside from the occasional Brad Smith double reverse. People like to call the Wildcat a gimmick offense. Much of what Schotty does on offense is FULL of gimmicks. And most times, the only players on the field that get confused by it are his own players. He needs to stop getting cute and just put his players in position to succeed. Making a SoCal rookie throw into the wind in freezing temperatures when the other team can't score on you - that's not putting your team in position to succeed. All you hear from Rex is that this team is going to ground and pound and live on defense. Doesn't seem like Schotty got that memo.
The Bills were taking away the short outs and screens , the only routes we had at our disposal were intermediate and deeper patterns. The only issue I have witrh the plays yesterday was forcing too many throws to Edwards. However what I can't tell w/o having the advantage of broken down gamefilm is - who's fault was it to force those passes to Edwards. Did Sanchez not go through all his progressions ,was Edwards the only option on the play due to max protection,. Too hard to say and I was at the game. Bottom line it was a bad game by Sanchez, he turns one or two of those picks into completions and we have a victory. There are always going to questions about playcalling when you lose a game. Personally, I'd rather lose a game by trying to be more agressive on offense , then to try and win a Herm Edwards 6-3 type game anyday of the week.
dude....300+ yards on the ground. We WERE running up and down the field all day....till Schotty decided to get cute with the playcalling.
Take a look at the drive charts and look at all the 3rd and long plays we had . We ran for large chunks of yards but it wasn't consistent. We had runs of 13, 25, 64, 71 , 33 yards which made up 2/3 of the total. Yes, we gained lots of yards but we still had plenty of 3rd and longer than 5 yards situations.
We ran the ball 39 times not including Sanchez runs. I missed a couple on the game chart but it looks like we ran the ball very well but were stuffed about 40% of the time with 2 yards or less. 1-71 1-64 1-33 1-13 2-9 2-8 2-7 2-6 4-5 3-4 2-3 9-2 2-1 1-0 4 for a loss. We ran the ball well but we we did have our run game stuffed 2 yards or less over 40% of the time.
1-71 1-64 1-33 1-13 2-9 2-8 2-7 2-6 4-5 3-4 2-3 9-2 2-1 1-0 4 for a loss. We ran the ball well but we we did have our run game stuffed 2 yards or less over 40% of the time.
It will be far more creative than that. We'll have 35 penalties, or the entire o-line will get injured, or we'll have 689 yards of offense but only score 3 points. You've got to hand it to this team - they keep it interesting.
Thanks Wb , that's the point I've been trying to make. Everyone looks at those big runs and say - oh we could have just run all day on them. It wasn't that easy. I have no problem with throwing the ball - it was just poor execution by our rookie QB.
