Callahan may at least scrap some of the gimmicks that schotty is in love with. However he won't make anyone play better than they are already playing. The OC has to be someone Rex wanted like Hue Jackson. Hue would have this offense in great shape, just look at Oakland. That's who Rex needs - an OC who is mean and wants to kick people's asses like his defense does. Schotty is not like that. Schotty doesn't want to kick your ass, he wants to confuse you and make you fall down. That doesn't happen in the NFL.
This will play out to the end of the year and then Schotty and Cavanaugh will go imo. I can see Brunell becoming QB coach, he has the intelligence and the experience, he seems like a coach in waiting to me.
yeah, oak looked great at home yesterday. he was Oak's OC in '10, how did that work out? he was the OC in Atl in '07- how did that work out? the OC in Wash in '03- how did that work out? The other guy is always the answer until you have that other guy and you are trying to run him out of town too.
it worked out pretty well in 10. raiders were 2nd in rushing yards, 6th in points and 10th in total yards ( a few yards behind the packers and patriots). the fact they went 8-8 had to do with the defense and the level of skill at the QB position, not the offense as a whole. and lol @ using 07 in Atlanta as a reference. Joey harrington, Chris Redman and Byron Leftwich were the starting QBs that year. the snake aka Bobby Petrino was the head coach. no one could have helped that team succeed
give it up, junc. You lost the Schotty argument years ago. He's had his chance. Hell, he's had numerous chances. We're wasting the Jets offensive talent under Schotty's watch. It's time for him to go elsewhere.
He's more of a QB in waiting if they don't get Mangold back soon. When I saw Vlad Ducasse doing the flabby ass jog onto the field last night I thought it would be the end of Sanchez.
I wish it was a lack of faith. That would at least suggest Schittyheimer was holding back. The truth of the matter is that Schittyheimer had no answers. What we saw yesterday was him trying to answer.
Not at all. After the Pats and Chargers we get a cream puff schedule. 2 vs. Miami, @WAS, 2 vs. Buffalo (who will come back to earth), Philly (who aren't a good team right now), Denver, KC, and the Ginas.
I equate this comment to when NBA fans complaining about their team not having a quality big man. A pass rushing OLB is one of the hardest positions to fill. There are a lot of 3-4 teams out there is search of the same thing. For every Ware and Orakpo, we have 3-4 Gholstons, Maybins, Lawsons...etc. That said I can't say Tanny has made much of an effort.
Callahan is no offensive genius like Schittyheimer but his resume as an offensive coach is not too shabby. ◊ Served as the head coach for the Oakland Raiders for two seasons (2002-03), logging a 15-17 regular season record and a 2-1 postseason mark. ◊ In his first season as a head coach on any level, led the Raiders to an 11-5 record, an AFC West title and a berth in Super Bowl XXXVII. The trip to the Super Bowl made Callahan only the fourth first-year head coach to lead a team to the Super Bowl in NFL history. ◊ Oakland led the NFL in passing and set new team records for total offensive yards (6,237), first downs (366), first downs passing (226), passes attempted (619), passes completed (418), passing yards (4,689) and highest completion percentage (67.5). His offense also ranked second in the NFL in points scored with 450 points (28.1 per game). As a result of his accomplishments, he was named Coach of the Year by the Columbus (OH) Touchdown Club and Rookie Coach of the Year by Football Digest. ◊ In a three-season span, all with Callahan as either the offensive coordinator or head coach, the Raiders went from leading the NFL in rushing, with 154.4 yards per game in 2000 to leading the league in passing, averaging 293.1 yards per game. ◊ He directed an offense in 2000 that set a Raider single-season record in fewest sacks allowed with 28, only to set a new record the next season, allowing just 27 sacks. ◊ In 1999, Oakland ranked third in the NFL in rushing yards and fifth in total offense. From 1999 through 2002, Oakland Raiders’ offensive players earned 12 Pro Bowl appearances.◊ Before joining the Raiders, Callahan coached the offensive line for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1995-97. His unit helped the Eagles rank second in the NFC in passing, fifth in rushing and third in total offense in 1997. In 1996, the Eagles led the conference in passing, ranked second in rushing and led the NFC in total offense. In 1995, the Eagles placed fourth in the league in rushing. ◊ Prior to joining the NFL, Callahan served as the offensive line coach at the University of Wisconsin where Badger offensive linemen earned nine first-team All-Big Ten honors ◊ During his time at Wisconsin, the Badgers won the Big Ten title and played in the 1994 Rose Bowl. ◊ As the offensive coordinator at Southern Illinois in 1989, his offense set 18 school records. ◊ Spent two seasons, 1987-88, as offensive line coach at Northern Arizona. ◊ Held various offensive positions for Mike White at the University of Illinois in seven seasons (1980-86), where he was first exposed to the West Coast offensive system first developed by Bill Walsh, whom White coached for at San Francisco before coming to Illinois.
that's not a creampuff schedule. it is based on last year, but washington is much improved and teams like phillly and the giants can still cause problems. the bills will come back to earth yes, but they're better than they were last year. i think you're basing your opinion strictly on last year. in fact, playing the chargers at home isn't even as tough a game as some of the others. The chargers have actually been very mediocre and are missing a lot of weapons. They BARELY beat KC @ home. They didn't exactly slaughter the dolphins. They had to rally to beat Minnesota barely (another home game). the combined record of teams they've beaten this year is 1-11. and the margin of victory has been an average of 7 points against these teams. no antonio gates, and probably no malcolm floyd on top of having to make an east coast trip.
For every good draft pick that Tanny has made, he's made at least 2 boneheaded picks. And recently, he hasn't done much right. Wilkerson looks like a solid pick so far, but in my opinion he whiffed on Ducasse, Gholston, K. Ellis, and Wilson in the last few years. Ducasse is especially enraging, because you should be able to get a near-starting caliber o lineman in the second round of most drafts. We take a project from UMASS? Why?
Kyle Wilson is playing well this season, and Kenrick Ellis is a rookie. I don't know why you included those 2 in your list of failures.
My biggest complaint is not the misses but the total lack of picks. You are going to miss on players; that can be countered with more picks. I think hitting on Revis, Harris and Keller made the FO overconfident that they can build the team with only 3-4 picks a year.
They beat up some bad teams in a weak division and the addition of a competent QB and the emergence of a great, young RB surely helped. the 2 playoff teams they played(besides the awful Chiefs) they scored 22 pts against Pitt & Indy. Including the Chiefs they averaged 15.5 PPG. It doesn't excite me to score some pts against bad teams. I'm using '07 Atl b/c that was one of his 3 stints as an OC, we shouldn't count that? No I haven't, you will see when he's gone the next guy will be the next whipping boy. The average fan always whines about their OC when the team isn't playing well. That was more Gruden's O in oak though.
No one wants to see the jets win more than I do(I think we all want to see them win equally). if I thought firing the OC would solve all our problems I'd sign up in a heartbeat. I just don't think our problems are from the OC.
Ellis was a small school NT. He will get his chance, there are tons of NT's around the league, that were red shirted and turned out to be studs. Including him on any bust list is beyond moronic.
This offense is predictable. Take the Saints, (Yes I know Sanchez is not Brees). Brees just about every snap has a player wide open or at least somewhat open. Besides our OL issues the routes our receivers run are obvious. Holmes and Plaxico are clearly upset, and I can't blame them at all. We have yet to really use Plax for what he is. Eli thrived on just basically throwing jump balls to Plax, where is that now? The longest pass play for Holmes so far this year is 28 yards, that's just pathetic. He said it last week, we need to create plays to utilize his big play capability. With Holmes, Plax, Keller, and Mason we should be to design routes that even on busted plays at least one will be open. I know it's easy to blame the OC but it really is his fault.
I love how everyone is in love with Callahan. The same Callahan that got shitcanned by Old Man Al after Rich Gannon said his offensive gameplanning/playcalling sucked. After that, he failed at Nebraska. But sure, let's replace Schotty with him. Because he couldn't possibly be worse, right?
