Great year to date but it's a bye week and good time for some analysis of what may affect us through the rest of the year. The defense is only going to get stronger. The run defense has been spectacular. The secondary is going to be scary and as it gets stronger, pressures and sacks are going to skyrocket. Avoid injuries and this defense will be the best in the NFL. Offensive line is getting better every week. Slauson is beginning to hold his own on the best line in the NFL. LT has been more than anyone expected and Shonn Greene is beginning to show the form we hoped for. Holmes, Edwards, Cotchery and Keller match up with any tandem in the league. Leaves us with Sanchez who has shown great strides in leadership and decision making but is still the question mark (no pun intended) on the team. Last year, Sanchez's completion percentage was 54% which was 36th in the league. This year it is 55% which is 31st in the league. His pocket presence and roll-out abilities have improved greatly but he still does not consistently set his feet and has regressed in the last two games as related to his tendency to stare down receivers after improvement earlier in the year. I believe Sanchez will continue to improve. His completion rate at USC was 65.8 which would make him a top ten QB. The point is that we still live or die on the 2010 version of Sanchez. The question is will the 2010 version be enough to get us all the way to the superbowl?
This isn't the NCAA. It's normal for 2nd year QB completion percentage to actually go down. So long as he continues to protect the ball I think he'll be just fine to make a superbowl run, especially if our defense improves to the level it should be.
You're missing two things. One, he throws down the field more, though it's not showing up in his YPC. However.... His QB rating is 23 points higher than it was last year. The completion percentage is never going to be great, because Schotty likes to go down the field, and the fact that we run so well allows for it.... We get 6 or 7 on 1st down, Schotty's view is 2nd down is a free down, so lets go for it. If you want a higher completion %, you need to change OC's not QB's.
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Sanchez had 8 dropped passes against Vikes. The drops were related to the weather, not accuracy. If we add those 8 dropped passes, his completion % jumps to 59.9. That's just one game out of 6. As for his version, the 2009 version had 23 ints in 19 games and was 30 minutes away from super bowl appearance. The 2010 has 2 in 6 and has the best record in the NFL. I would like to believe Sanchez has made HUGE strides towards improving his game regardless of talent level around him. His pocket awareness has nothing to do with the talent around and neither does his accuracy throwing towards the left side of the field. Him locking down on receivers is also not talent related, and has distributed the ball very evenly. It is clear Sanchez and done a lot of hard work in the off season, and that is paying off now.
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I think our D is going nicely and the offense is well balanced. My concern has been some of the play calling...for example, it was too conservative against the Ravens, we over blitzed on 3rd and long too often against the Vikings (especially when they're clearly looking at Moss in single-coverage), the clock management was also poor, playing an unfit Revis, etc... But at the start of the season I thought we could well be 3-3 at this stage and after the Ravens game felt it could be 2-4. So I'm delighted with 5-1 - it should be a great foundation for the season.
Sanchez had 4 dropped passes in the Vikes game. Every QB has dropped passes so when judging him relative to other QBs that is only a factor if he has poor receivers. When you look at key receivers over the past two years, his completion % does not deviate dramatically among them. No question we have seen improvement. No question we will see more. However, this is a top 5 NFL offense except for the QB. This is not a slam on Sanchez, this is year two. Will he progress enough this year or will his supporting cast be enough to make up for his learning curve. That is the question that determines the rest of this year.
He had 8. I counted them all. He had three on the last drive alone including the 2nd down pass to Santonio just before the 2 minute warning, and the 3rd down pass to Edwards where Edwards misjudged and came back couple extra steps to catch the ball. Those would be catches under normal circumstances. Weather was extreme and Im surprised how good he played in the heavy rain. You can hardly grip the ball, and he looked like he was in control in those 3-4 minute drive. I know every QB has drops, but thats why I only mentioned drops from one game.
God, I love it. He plays great, is tops in QB ratings, 0 picks. Has a rough game in crap weather, followed up by a short week with travel playing at a funky altitude and he still leads us to victory. I'm not concerned about Sanchez at all, the only concern I have is how great of season he actually can have. I want to see some record breaking sophomore shit!
Ways the Jets can improve October, 20, 2010 Oct 202:50PM ETEmail Print Comments By Rich CiminiBack when he was coaching the New York Jets, Bill Parcells used to say, "If you're not getting better, you're getting worse." (I can't swear to this, but I think he may have uttered that expression when he benched Neil O'Donnell in 1997 even though the team was 6-3.) The point is, the current Jets, despite a league-best 5-1 record, have areas in which they need to improve. Most teams use the bye week to get back to basics, concentrating on deficiencies, but Rex Ryan gave the team a six-day vacation. To each his own. Here are some areas that need to be addressed: • The passing game. Mark Sanchez has dramatically reduced his interception total, but his accuracy still isn't where it needs to be. His completion rate is 55.4%, up from last season's 53.8%, but it should be at least 60%, especially when you consider he's throwing more often to his check-down receivers. Sanchez' average-per-attempt is an anemic 6.2 (down from 6.7), which ranks 29th in the league. Things should improve as WR Santonio Holmes continues to settle in, but it makes you scratch your head as to why the passing game isn't more productive, considering Sanchez' overall improvement and the talent level. • Pass defense. Some major slippage here. The Jets were No. 1 last season in pass defense, but they're currently in the No. 22 spot (229 yards per game). They already have allowed 10 touchdown passes, two more than last season. Can Darrelle Revis' hamstring injury be blamed for that much of a drop? I don't think so. The defense isn't generating enough pressure on quarterbacks, as the blitz package doesn't seem as effective as last season. Instability in the secondary also has hurt. There was a change in free safeties (Eric Smith to Brodney Pool), and they've been mixing and matching in the nickel and dime. Rookie CB Kyle Wilson is off to a slow start, and that isn't helping. • Third-down defense. Ryan predicts they will lead the league in this category, but they've got a ways to go. Their conversion rate is 42%, which ranks 25th in the league. What's up with that? A year ago, the Jets were deadly on third down, holding opponents to 31.5%. What makes this season's decline so pronounced is that they've actually been doing a good job on first and second down, putting opponents in many third-and-long situations. Ordinarily, that's money time for Ryan's defense, but the lack of consistent pressure and breakdowns in the secondary have conspired to hurt them in those situations. • Red-zone offense. The Jets have scored nine touchdowns on 19 trips inside the 20, a 47% success rate (19th in the league). It has worked out nicely for Nick Folk, who is kicking a ton of field goals and leads all kickers in scoring, but the offense needs to become more efficient. Again, the lack of production is puzzling because the talent is there. Ill-timed penalties have hurt in the red zone. • Two-minute defense. In five of six games, the Jets have allowed a score in the final two minutes of the first half -- three touchdowns and two field goals, to be exact. Attributing to problem to communication problems in the secondary, the defensive backs started wearing play-sheet wristbands in Week 3. It has helped ... a little.