what are your expectations for the rest of the year? To be honest, I have had a really bad feeling about this team all offseason. While I like some of the players we've picked up, I think that we also took some big risks by letting go of some veteran leaders. I think that we can all agree that the biggest unknown coming into this year was how well Sanchez was going to play. I still have no idea what he's capable of because the coaching staff just refuses to let him get into any kind of rhythm throwing the ball. Aside from the Offense last night, I thought that the overall play of the secondary was pretty alarming. If Flacco can expose our blitz packages, just think what Brady will do. Like I said, I don't have a good feeling about the 2010 Jets and a 6-10 season would not shock me given the stength of our schedule.
We will still make the playoffs; probably at 10-6. Our defense is so far ahead of most of the league that they'll carry us no matter how awful the offense is.
Your offense averaged 5.5 yards per carry. It's not the offense that is broken. Your QB was pathetic. To be successful in the NFL, you have to have good play from the QB position. Mark Sanchez will be what hinders the Jets this season.
You try playing QB when every playcall is 2 yards down the field and getting better results. Schotty is the issue with the offense, he was playing it way too safe with Sanchez. When the Jets won in the playoffs last year, they always took at least one deep shot down the field every quarter. Last night I think Sanchez attempted one pass over 15 yards.
Sanchez actually tried to win last season. Now Rex and Schotty have scared him into checking down almost every play.
My expectations? 9-7 or 8-8. The reason? Schotty. A lot of blame last year goes on Sanchez, but last night falls on Schotty. 1) He should have had Sanchez ready and confident for this game. Sanchez should be able to make smarter decisions when throwing the ball, but instead he dumped it early last night all the time. That is either bad coaching, or Sanchez has serious confident issues. 2) Sanchez was upset at the play calling last night. There was one shot of Sanchez looking at the sideline with a WTF look then finally rolled his eyes once he got the call. We now have a QB who isn't behind the OC, and I can't blame him. I've never been a schotty hater, or supporter, but last night shows me that Schotty needs to go soon. If not, he will ruin Sanchez and will take a few years to get him straightened out.
He threw at least two that I remember but most of the night he was throwing checkdowns. You can fool yourself in to thinking that Schotty is the problem but it's not. Sanchez looked pathetic. Your WR was more effective taking a snap then Sanchez. He reminds me a lot of Trent Edwards. Both are good when there is no pressure, but once teams come after him, he panics. That's not the first time he has shown that trait.
With all the love and attention they national media gave the Jets calling them Super Bowl contenders and most Jets fans talking Super Bowl, merely reaching the playoffs is a failure. It's early but if defenses hound Sanchez this season, the Jets may have a long year.
I think over the last month the national media turned more and more away from the Jets. I don't know about most Jet fans expecting the SB. Hope is one thing, expecting it is another. I do agreee with you on the QB.
It's easy to think the media is biased one way or another when it's your team. Dolphins fans often complain the media gives them no credit but they have evaluated them at what I think is fair. I don't think the media has stopped thinking the Jets are contenders, instead I have heard them talking more about Rex, Hard Knocks and now this chick wanting attention. They Jets are still highly regarded in the national media but last night a weakness was exposed which will get a ton of air time this week.
I'm falling more in the camp that Sanchez was checking down too often and too quick. Some saw him rolling his eyes at schotty, but ignore that Schotty was furious at one point with Sanchez after a check down pass.
The throw to Keller (the one that came back on Braylon's penalty) was a beauty. The Jets receivers also dropped several would be first downs. You can say that Sanchez didn't look downfield enough and that's true. However; I think the Jets' entire Offensive gameplan was crap. Baltimore's one glaring defensive weakness was supposedly their secondary and instead of attacking it, we tried to run over them. There was absolutely zero creativity in the playcalling.
3 i believe. One by Keller on the opening drive. One by Cotch which led to FG #3, and one by Greene on the 2nd and 4, where he had at least 8 yards of running room. That killed sanchez momentum as well. How can you get in a rythm when your receivers can't hang on to the ball and the other offense is getting first downs?
I said this on another thread. USC QBs sometimes look like deer in headlights. What Hard Knocks allowed us to see is a guy with talent who often acts immature (picking on Laury with Brunell; sulking in meetings). He can make throws but needs a Holmgren style OC (Gruden, Morninweg, etc) to make this guy a QB not Schot
To the OP's question: I think 10-6 is still possible, which was my pre-season prediction, since most teams are not as good as the Ravens, to say the least, and the D held them to ten points. Teams that are playoff bound will go into that six losses. I hope the Jets don't lose both games to NE, but they easily could. Vikes are also looking like a loss. The team that we saw last night will hopefully do no worse than split with the Dolphags. At this point I'd be more surprised to see them do better than 10-6 than worse. Even 8-8 is possible.
I think we'll be fine. Baltimore is one of the best teams in the league. We made a half dozen terrible mistakes and only lost by one.
