I think that the wild comebacks made us all forgive a lot of his sins last year. I have to agree that outside of 3-4 playoff games, his overall body of work is average at best. I really don't see him as the long term answer at QB and I'd be surprised if the Jets aren't searching for a new one 2-3 years from now or whenever his contract is up.
This is what this team is, they don't like prosperity. I fully expect to bounce back but it's so disappointing basically knowing we blew a shot at a div title and even possibly a bye. I know there's a ton of games left but NE has a cake sched and they swept us so we will basically have to run the table to have a chance and that's not happening.
bingo! put a reasonably good offense to go along with this defense and the jets would already have another title. fact is, the offense has some serious weapons, it's just missing that one major link to get it over the hump, QB! sanchez is a game manager type qb, not a guy that can take the team on his shoulders and lead them to the promised land type QB.
We lost the last 2 title games b/c of the DEFENSE not the QB. People act like we have the '85 bears Defense, our D is good- nothing more.
well as soon as we missed the FG on the opening drive i said uh oh.....i had a flashback of the same ole jets back in the day. they would start out looking like world beaters for a couple drives, a quarter, or even a half and then something would happen - a penalty, missed FG, or whatever and the winds would change. of course there was 53 minutes of football left but u had to admit that not getting points on the opening drive was big.
well if we do have some serious weapons than a game manager should do OK, right. i am beginning to think we have a funky clone of marty ball that is rearing its ugly head a bit too often for me.
The fact is that the Jets have to be at their best in all facets of the game to beat the Pats. The Pats and Belichek Brady especially always get up for the Jets and the Jets have to play near mistake free ball and take advantage of every opportunity to beat the Pats. Obviously, the Jets had a chance to put more points on the board early (Santonio falling, Folks miss, Wilson's INT drop) and when they didn't the Jets lost focus / confidence / hope - whatever you want to call it. Also, it just seems that in certain games the Jets offense and defense don't seem to "mesh". When the defense made a good stance and got off the field on a three and out the offense couldn't generate a nice scoring drive (or they'd fumble the punt). When the offense scored a nice TD the defense wouldn't step up at that moment and shut the Pats down. For lack of a better term the Jets units often don't "feed off of each other's good play". The fact that it happened vs. the Pats on national TV with the AFC east lead on the line just makes it more difficult. It just seems that in these statement games (except for the playoffs) the Jets fold :-(.
They are so overrated in so many spots. Bart Scott stinks. I said it months ago and got jumped. And it's being picked up now. Carton all over it this morning. Sanchez has been horrible. Can't win with QB play like that. And as lousy as Eric Smith was last night, you think Rex can figure out that Eric Smith can't cover any of the NE TE's? That they are just too tall and big for him? And the OL, I mean when one guy who many never heard of has 4.5 sacks in one game, something wrong there, also.
Its called heart and great teams have a lot of it. Pretenders, not so much. Jets fit into the "not so much" category - obviously.
i think the pats TE's are a problem more so because of brady than eric smith. he had decent coverage a few times and the ball was just in the perfect spot. without a consistent rush on brady he is just lethal.
Please,,,no more night games. Oh wait, we have another on Thursday, thank god I don't have the NFL network.
