Exactly, I made this exact point. Shorten up the passing game, get Sanchez into rhythm and go from there.
Sure. What do coaches do when their young QB is a little shaky? Give him some short easy passes to get his confidence back. Maybe some rollouts with some quick outlets to the running backs? He's good at that.
Idk if you guys have noticed but the short game has not been working at all. Screens never work, slants are covered and broken up 90 percent of the time, Keller has not been getting the ball, comebacks hardly work, etc. We need to have a deep pass early to open things up. Team have been allowing one on one coverage ala deep ball to Santonio Holmes in the Dolphin game and Braylon Edwards.
I'm ok with go routes and deep posts but whenever Schotty calls for a deep passing play it's an overly contrived long-developing route that results in Sanchez scrambling out of the pocket and trying to make something out of nothing. This offense should have a bread and butter game plan with the talent on this team (passing): slant, quick posts, curl routes, go routes with Braylon and Holmes, play-action bootleg to Keller. Schotty does call these plays but it's always accompanied with motion from Keller and the backs. Just line up under center or in the gun and let Sanchez make high-percentage passes to his #1 or #2 reads. If something works in a game, stick to it. Schotty calls a good play or two but feels the need to fool the defense and ends up sabotaging the offense.
A deep pass early wouldn't hurt I guess but then what are you going to do? At some point you have to figure out some type of short and medium passing offense mixed in with runs. Unless Sanchez is the next Drew Brees or something. Edwards and Moss can do that as well can't they?
Who, Sanchez? You are being tremendously assumptive here. Sanchez is HORRIBLE at short finesse passes because he can't figure out the required "touch" needed for delivery. This is a point I make tirelessly. Sanchez doesn't lead receivers, throws the ball behind receivers, throws the ball unnecessarily hard in really short situations, he makes it very difficult on his receivers to "help him out". He needs to improve on short passes over the middle and also on deep passes outside the lines, in terms of over throwing. His accuracy is terrible mainly because of missing the short passes though.
The offense, being terribly prediactable right now, needs to use this to their advantage. They need to be predictable in the first quarter (provided they can hang in the game)and then the first possession of the 2nd Q, they need to playaction pass deep to Braylon. Also, if they line up in the wild cat, Brad Smith needs to finally throw a pass. Or, LT needs to throw another TD pass, fucking pay them back for the Jerome Bettis TD pass.
Having not seen a "fired up" team in a few weeks, the article on Newsday dot com about how fired up Holmes is for this game was a great read!!!! Can't post links...
GQ is spot on. It just seems that Sanchez has the route in his head correctly yet he doesn't have a good understanding of the actual speed of the game during the play. He then throws the ball with such velocity that he gives ip what truly looks like a sure thing to every set of eyeballs watching the play. It kills me to see it. He rushes the ball in short situations and when he takes less of a drop back.
i agree with what most people are saying. we need a balanced mix of playcalling and I think almost to a run pass run pass selection. it seems were either running up the a gap all day or living in the shotgun. which sucks cause I love passing out of it, but it just hasnt gotten it done lately. I would like to see some no huddle. I like the defense worrying about presnap adjustments with less time to make what could possibly be a good audible to outsmart Sanchez reads. I think it will also get Sanchez thinking less and reacting more. its all good in theory but Sanchez composure is the key to the rest of this season at this point. regardless of offensive philosophy.
I meant Sanchez is good in the roll out. I don't think Sanchez is a good long QB either. More then a few QBs throw hard in the middle if only because there's a lot of traffic there. Don't these guys practice?
The reality is that Sanchez might not be good in the "short game". The point is that if the Jest defense is as good as Wrecksy and TGG says; he doesn't need to put up 35+ points. He also needs zero turnovers. Simpler routes and reads should also help with any touch issues. Also stretching the field is OK if the play is mid field. An INT pins Pittsburgh inside the ten SHOULD be OK.
Yeah, another question I tirelessly ask...why doesn't Sanchez scramble more? He is EXCELLENT in that department. He is very elusive he just needs to remember to slide. And I bet they have a lot of batted down passes. They say they do, but it certainly doesn't seem like it lately.
Yes. He is mobile and many times good plays come out of that. That's why the pass has to be zipped in there, right? You have to assume they have a quarterback coach. I know Jets fans don't want to hear it but both Weis and McDaniels worked a lot with Brady when he needed it and he did early in his career. Sanchez looks like he takes the job seriously. He's not a goof. If he and his receivers can't figure out how to make short to mid-terms passes, the Jets are SOL.
jets need to stop being so predictable on offense to win this game pass it some on first down and if the run game aint working you may just have to let it go for that game also keller needs to be heavily involved in the short passing game and santonio on the slant
I should have been more specific. I meant batted down at the line of scrimmage. Hard thrown passes with a flat trajectory are the ones often batted down. Sanchez nees to learn to finesse his passes sometimes with an arching trajectory.
