Interestingly, I saw another article that said Brandon Moore was the player who got into it with Holmes, not Wayne Hunter (like early articles said). If so, that is even more significant. Moore had already called out Holmes earlier this year, and is a highly respected OL vet (unlike Hunter who is huge but has no skill).
Jets first move should be to trade Santonio. His skill is not worth his divisiveness to team chemistry.
Second move - fire Schott. I don't lay the blame of this season at his feet, but I've never been a fan. He certainly comes up with some interesting schemes at times and has some clever plays. The problem is most times he's too clever. Instead of simply playing to the strength of the team and exploiting obvious matchups, he tries to pull a Princess-Bride-poison-scene-like play call too often. He ends up way overthinking the play, and the Jets #FAIL as Fredo would say. Jets should have used more hurry-up offense; are the only team that fail to take advantage when a backup CB enters the game; and too often were confused about what play was being called, resulting in wasted TOs.
Next move should be to make sure LT re-signs. Agree 100% with Fredo.
Move 4 is Wayne Hunter is gone.
Move 5 is Jets hire a QB coordinator who can work with Sanchez and force him to stop telegraphing every pass. He is too obvious.
Move 6 should be to get Brad Smith back from the Bills.
Tannenbaum bears much of this blame for reasons already discussed extensively. I also agree that Rex doesn't have the smarts to get us to the promised land, and if we had a chance to get a Cowher or other big-name coach I'd say go for it. Starting fresh would be good for the team. That seems unlikely though. IMO we can work around Rex's weaknesses IF we have solid O- and D coordinators, which I don't think we had. Then Rex can do what he does best - cheerlead a team that is already skilled and supported by good coaches.
Tannenbaum and Woody are clearly committed to Rex, so we're just going to have to grin and bear it for another year. His utter failure to realize that his team hated one another, and more importantly, were selfish enough to quit on each other, has finally taken the "invincible" shine off the apple for Jets fans. But unless he presides over another shit show next year, he's going to be here for a while.
Likewise, it looks like Schotty will be back next year unless the Jets can manage to get him hired elsewhere. I don't disagree with bringing him back, though I certainly hear your criticisms of him, and they have merit.
Wayne Hunter was clearly much better at the end of the season than he was at the beginning (which is not much of a hurdle, I'll grant you). Can he continue improving? Cohesiveness is an OL key--unless there's a clear upgrade out there I don't see the Jets making a move. With Hunter's play, an upgrade may be out there. One to watch.
The only thing I'm puzzled by is bringing Smith back. Last I saw (which was probably 6 weeks ago) he hadn't done much of jack this year, and I'm not clear what he does on offense that Kerley doesn't do (or McKnight on KRs). If the answer is character and leadership, I'd rather get that from a position where we need a player as well (OT/WR/LB etc.).
The question that hasn't been asked is if we go into another season with Shonn Greene as our #1 back. My personal feeling is no. He can't catch, doesn't show great instinct or burst. He's hard to bring down when he gets a full head of steam going, but you better blow out a hole in the line for him to make any yardage. I like him as a second option at HB. I'd like to see us go after a RB early in the draft, I think.
As for FA acquisitions and using up that cap space, I'd like to see us go after an impact LB. I think my preference would be a dominant LB to replace Scott or push Westerman to a backup role.
I think Brad Smith gives them a tremendously flexible player, for ST, QB and WR. IMO Schott never used him properly, in the sense that 99.9% of the time we went into wildcat he was running. Everyone knew that (amazingly he racked up nice running yardage, despite that). They should have mixed it up and had him throw more.
One thing that KILLED me this season was the seeming lack of discipline and prep from the team. Way too many times they were forced to call TOs in scenarios that NEVER should require a TO. I saw that to start a half, after injury or TV timeouts, and during key drives. That falls right to communication between Schott, Sanchez, Rex, etc. This is inexcusable and has to get cleaned up. Also, too many sloppy penalties.
I'm torn on Greene. He clearly is never going to be a top 5 or 10 RB in NFL, and that puts Sanchez at a disadvantage. I do like the bruising he puts on secondary once he gets a head of steam going though. IMO if he stays as #1 RB, Jets need to do more of what they did too late in the season - give him more screen passes and power tosses to the outside. Mix up his inside runs with outside action.
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Mike Pettine blew, good luck with that in Miami.
Interestingly, I saw another article that said Brandon Moore was the player who got into it with Holmes, not Wayne Hunter (like early articles said). If so, that is even more significant. Moore had already called out Holmes earlier this year, and is a highly respected OL vet (unlike Hunter who is huge but has no skill).
Jets first move should be to trade Santonio. His skill is not worth his divisiveness to team chemistry.
Second move - fire Schott. I don't lay the blame of this season at his feet, but I've never been a fan. He certainly comes up with some interesting schemes at times and has some clever plays. The problem is most times he's too clever. Instead of simply playing to the strength of the team and exploiting obvious matchups, he tries to pull a Princess-Bride-poison-scene-like play call too often. He ends up way overthinking the play, and the Jets #FAIL as Fredo would say. Jets should have used more hurry-up offense; are the only team that fail to take advantage when a backup CB enters the game; and too often were confused about what play was being called, resulting in wasted TOs.
Next move should be to make sure LT re-signs. Agree 100% with Fredo.
Move 4 is Wayne Hunter is gone.
Move 5 is Jets hire a QB coordinator who can work with Sanchez and force him to stop telegraphing every pass. He is too obvious.
Move 6 should be to get Brad Smith back from the Bills.
Tannenbaum bears much of this blame for reasons already discussed extensively. I also agree that Rex doesn't have the smarts to get us to the promised land, and if we had a chance to get a Cowher or other big-name coach I'd say go for it. Starting fresh would be good for the team. That seems unlikely though. IMO we can work around Rex's weaknesses IF we have solid O- and D coordinators, which I don't think we had. Then Rex can do what he does best - cheerlead a team that is already skilled and supported by good coaches.
Tannenbaum and Woody are clearly committed to Rex, so we're just going to have to grin and bear it for another year. His utter failure to realize that his team hated one another, and more importantly, were selfish enough to quit on each other, has finally taken the "invincible" shine off the apple for Jets fans. But unless he presides over another shit show next year, he's going to be here for a while.
Likewise, it looks like Schotty will be back next year unless the Jets can manage to get him hired elsewhere. I don't disagree with bringing him back, though I certainly hear your criticisms of him, and they have merit.
Wayne Hunter was clearly much better at the end of the season than he was at the beginning (which is not much of a hurdle, I'll grant you). Can he continue improving? Cohesiveness is an OL key--unless there's a clear upgrade out there I don't see the Jets making a move. With Hunter's play, an upgrade may be out there. One to watch.
The only thing I'm puzzled by is bringing Smith back. Last I saw (which was probably 6 weeks ago) he hadn't done much of jack this year, and I'm not clear what he does on offense that Kerley doesn't do (or McKnight on KRs). If the answer is character and leadership, I'd rather get that from a position where we need a player as well (OT/WR/LB etc.).
The question that hasn't been asked is if we go into another season with Shonn Greene as our #1 back. My personal feeling is no. He can't catch, doesn't show great instinct or burst. He's hard to bring down when he gets a full head of steam going, but you better blow out a hole in the line for him to make any yardage. I like him as a second option at HB. I'd like to see us go after a RB early in the draft, I think.
As for FA acquisitions and using up that cap space, I'd like to see us go after an impact LB. I think my preference would be a dominant LB to replace Scott or push Westerman to a backup role.
I think Brad Smith gives them a tremendously flexible player, for ST, QB and WR. IMO Schott never used him properly, in the sense that 99.9% of the time we went into wildcat he was running. Everyone knew that (amazingly he racked up nice running yardage, despite that). They should have mixed it up and had him throw more.
One thing that KILLED me this season was the seeming lack of discipline and prep from the team. Way too many times they were forced to call TOs in scenarios that NEVER should require a TO. I saw that to start a half, after injury or TV timeouts, and during key drives. That falls right to communication between Schott, Sanchez, Rex, etc. This is inexcusable and has to get cleaned up. Also, too many sloppy penalties.
I'm torn on Greene. He clearly is never going to be a top 5 or 10 RB in NFL, and that puts Sanchez at a disadvantage. I do like the bruising he puts on secondary once he gets a head of steam going though. IMO if he stays as #1 RB, Jets need to do more of what they did too late in the season - give him more screen passes and power tosses to the outside. Mix up his inside runs with outside action.
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