Maybe it will benefit Schotty to have a defensive minded coach helping him. Picture this: Schotty is installing the week's gameplan and telling Sanchez what he wants him to do and suddenly Rex turns around and says "are you fucking kidding me? That will never work, they'll just blitz the safety and roll the coverage" and other stuff. I think the problem really is that Schotty thinks he's a genius and can out-think his opponents, but in reality, he out-thinks himself in the process.
QB's who have looked about as bad as a QB can look at times under Schotty's system/tutelage: Drew Brees, Chad Pennington, Kellen Clemens, Brett Favre, Mark Sanchez. That's all of them, BTW, all of the QB's he has coached at the NFL level. Drew Brees got benched in his second season with Schotty as QB coach and his team gave up on him and drafted a replacement. Kellen Clemens had one shot under the system and looked bad. Chad Pennington got run out of town by the system. That's a pretty bad track record. Why does everybody think Schotty is good with QB's?
This is exactly what Rex can bring to the table. He has seen every offense and knows how to defend them. I don't think Schotty knows a damn thing about defense and this is part of why his scheme sucks. Rex can tell him exactly how it will be defended in different defensive packages. I don't know if it helps Schitty or do I care, but I guarantee it will help Sanchez. When they call a play and Rex explains to Sanchez all week in practice on what the defense wants to do based on formations then he will know where everyone will be right after the snap. Why do you think Brady is so good? Belichek can explain these things to him. Can he design an offense, I don't know but I do know that him and Rex can stop an offense. I bet Manning knows more about how the defenses plan to attack him than half the DC in the league. That is the key to success.
Sanchez is not ready to start in the NFL. Schotty was supposed to make Sanchez better, Schotty has failed to do that. Time for Rex to take over.
They've called a number of screens this season, 4 were called in the Buffalo game alone. The offense just seems unprepared to execute them, and that falls partially on the players and partially on the coaching staff.
Thank god, shotty is such an a-hole. His handling of Sanchez has been horific. Sanchez should be a game manager. Shotty calls plays like he is Farve in his prime. We need to pound the ball and play field postion. Our defense is good enough to hold most times. Let Sanchez throw more when we get past the 50.
Are you honestly taking this all at face value? Read the presser a few times. There is undertone just pouring out between those lines. This is the beginning of the end for Shotty. It isn't Sanchez Ryan is babysitting......
Absolutely. And if you recall, Favre pretty much said as much early on last year when he kept harping on not needing 3/4 of the crap in that playbook.
Interesting piece... maybe Rex is learning a little more about what it takes to be a HC by admitting he's neglecting part of the team coaching wise. He has to delegate many duties across the units, but you can't just trust that things are going as you expect them unless you get involved. Especially when you keep on losing and doing a lot of the same things badly over and over.
If it means the eventual end of Shotty then good, but does anyone really think that the offense will improve because Rex Ryan is involved?
