Through different coaches, players, strategies, it seems that the Jets still haven't improved this. Last season the Jets got lucky and manage to get 10 wins. But with this season's schedule, a slow start first half just wont do.
I'm really not expecting a fast start to this season. I think Fitz will be Fitz and there'll be some exciting moments, but we're not going to score a hell of a lot of points. If the Jets manage to win a few games early, it'll probably be wins of the boring persuasion.
I'm not too exorcised by the offense starting slow but when the much vaunted defense takes the first 25 minutes off, I have a problem.
I wouldn't be surprised if we win the two first games starting out ... followed by a 1 and 4 stretch or best case 2 and 3
I am happy with the results of our second pre season game. It brought my expectations for this team back down to earth. And Buffalo stuffed the Giants...
We can't use preseason to determine what this team will be during the regular season. The defense is very vanilla and not scheming for anyone specific. The offense is just trying to get everyone in sync at this point. Special teams player and depth is still being determined. Too early to try and determine what is going to happen.
cant really evaluate much when your best defensive player isn't out there, Jets aren't at full strength
I'm with you there. Then in December with Bradyx2 and Luck, I'll do backflips if we win 2 of those games.
Until Bilal Powell comes in and gives the offense that spark with a few quick big gains. seems like everytime he touches the ball very positive things happen.
We COULD be at full strength (and then some) if Mac kept Snacks (our best lineman) and traded Wilk for another high 2nd round pic
I'm really worried about losing Ivory. He single handily ran us to victory in the fist half of the season. He seemed to live on ESPN highlight reals last year. I know we still have Bilal (and another former great RB) but Ivory was scary good for us last season (first 1/2). Losing Snacks AND Ivory will really hurt our RG on both sides of the ball. Yikes.
We would still lose productivity on the pass-rush end. Snacks wasn't worth the 10M a season. There is a notable difference when Wilk is not in the game, this happened last year too when Wilk missed the first two and Snacks played those games. Sheldon you can't find him anywhere. I think Wilk makes this defensive line go.
I'm not going to miss how he always disappears once he gets injured. The highlight reels are nice but they ain't worth a shit when the guy gets hurt every season. Losing Snacks will hurt a little in a passing league, not as much when almost your entire front 7 thrives against the run. Oh that's right, the Raiders fan a bunch of times against us when Herm Edwards was a second year coach, what am I thinking.
Assuming u are referring to the first half of the SEASON, i expect the worst with respect to the schedule and other issues. The question is does the team recover and finish strong. If u mean the first half of individual GAMES, meh, it could be what appears to be the low key approach of the coach and staff which translates into a deliberate and paced start which the team eventually adjusts to.
We were talking about starting out fast this season. Ivory was our early-season engine last year, so to me that was a concern. We would have started the season 0-8 last year without Ivory.
Snacks was very much worth every penny of $10M/yr. And with Richardson and Williams, we should have kept Snacks and traded Wilk. We could have kept Ivory too and had another 1st or 2nd round pic starting this season. AND money left over.
