There's no way to justify it. I just took a look at what we did to start the 3rd Quarter down 24-3 to Pitt ... run, run, run, pass, TD Pass. Against the Giants down 10-7 ... pass, pass, pass, punt. Down 20-14 at midfield ... pass, pass, sack, punt. Indefensible.
I sure as hell do. We need someone from the outside. Our offensive coaching staff just gets out-coached game after game and its just terrible to watch. Aside from Callahan, and maybe Anthony Lynn, I dont think theyve produced anything special in the last 6 years.
The week after the Eagles pass rush basically annihilated the Jets Brian Schottenheimer decided to throw the ball 60+ times against a team with the same caliber pass rush. The only thing he could have been thinking is "I hope Sanchez throws 5 picks, then this season is all his fault and I get another chance." Alternately he might just be really stupid. Either way he's not going to get another job in the NFL any time soon unless his dad comes back to coach.
Peyton has dropped back 59 times in a game in 2010 (most in his HOF career). His 11th (or 12th) year in the league coming off an MVP season. Also where Arian Foster had 240+ yards and put the Colts in a situation where they had to pass. Mark Sanchez surpassed this in his 3rd season, where at half, it was a one possession game. He surpassed Manning's mark by 9 pass attempts. Sickening numbers.
There's just no defending it. You never throw the ball that much unless you are down big or your entire offense is focused around throwing the ball, neither of which was the case. The only things likely to happen on that number of throws were more turnovers than the team could manage or Sanchez getting hurt. I would put the game plan that the Jets apparently had up there as one of the ten worst of all time in the NFL. It had like a 5% chance to look good and a 75% chance to look just like it did, the other 20% would have been epic disaster.
This also doesn't factor in passes nullified by penalty, like the deep 4th down pass that drew a PI flag.
I disagree This would've been brought out, or Tomlinson would have gotten carries if it was just a question of Greene being injured
Greene has been injured for the entire season, and he always will be. It is his running style. But he isn't the only back on the team.
Even that doesn't make sense. Then you run the ball with LT 20 times to keep things on an even keel. The Giants had a top 10 pass rush. the Jets had a bottom 5 pass protect. Throwing the ball 60+ times in that situation is guaranteed pain and misery. Doing it in a must-win game is borderline retarded. If the Jets actually had no runningbacks capable of carrying the ball 20+ times going into this game that's just an extraordinary indictment of Tannenbaum's off-season which looks pretty bad no matter how you look at it but looks ridiculously bad if you consider that the offensive line had no depth and the runningbacks apparently didn't either. Did Tannenbaum think the ball was miraculously going to float across the goal line for him in December and January this year?
Not only that but the giants are bottom of the league at stopping the run and Shonn was running pretty well that game anyway at 4.3 YPC and we all know he gets better with more carries. When was the last time any of the top 3 QB's even threw 50+ times, to allow our 3rd year QB with really no College experience to throw that many times is just absurd on every level especially with Plaxico on the roster.
we only ran 57 plays in the title game so it would have been hard to throw it 59 times. we had 33 passes but had the ball only 25 mins b/c the D couldn't get off the field. against the Giants we ran 89 plays and had the ball for 36 minutes. if we had the ball another 11 mins and had 32 more plays we would have passed much more in the title game. Luckily vs. the Giants their O was almost as bad as ours so we kept getting the ball back.
