http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/jets/post/_/id/8959/tebow-over-sanchez-gimme-a-break Give me a break.
"Yes, Your Honour, I was driving twice the speed limit on the wrong side of the road and three times the alcohol limit when I ploughed into the people at the crossing, but I did brake REALLY hard as soon as I saw them."
Eric Smith is always a high-effort player. I won't deny that. But he is the weak link on defense and shouldn't be an NFL starter. But he does have a role on the team.
Not sure if anyone saw Casserly on NFL Today, but he made a strong point that the refs did not call holding on that play (Cro was held) and the TD should have come back.
Which may be so, but it is a point that deflects attention from the point that that TD should have been nothing more than a garbage time consolation score, and I'd rather we didn't lose focus on the absolutely disgraceful performance by the offence in failing to put that game away long before Tebow had a hundred yards on the board.
Dick Cimini is a troll with a ESPN job. End of story. I swear he reads this board and thinks 'what will piss jets fans off?' and writes accordingly.
Bingo. For all the shit he gets, he's a very good special teams player, and even a capable if not exceptional third safety. The fact that the clowns in our front office thought he and Hunter could start, while they were busy sniffing their own assholes and pursuing big names is frustrating/alarming. I like Tanny, but someone that really knows how to sit down and evaluate talent really needs to have a bigger voice.
Well said. Smith's motor makes him a great ST player and a decent role player on defense. That's the extent of his talent.
The fact that we're seeing better results from the OLB position being platooned by Maybin, Westerman and McIntyre than we are from Eric Smith says a lot about him as a starter. This, this, a thousand times this. We didn't get mad at the defense for allowing Buffalo to march down the field at the end of the game. If the offense had shown up in Denver it would have been the same way.
Get criticized for not being effective against the run. He's Eric Smith with slightly better coverage skills. Neither Smith nor Pool are effective starters. Pool had a few shots last season to win a starting job, instead he and Smith traded off being disappointments next to Jim Leonhard. We don't have a complete safety on the roster, but Leonhard is just enogh of a player to deserve to be the one who remains a starter for next season. After next year, or during next season, he should be out of the starting rotation if not off of the roster completely.
Even when Cimini tries to defend a Jet he sounds like a clown. Eric Smith deserves whatever criticism comes his way because he made a total bonehead play. Tebow's last drive really high lighted the Jets weaknesses @ safety. Leonard failing to get the safety would've been OK if he could've just managed to just keep the gain short. Eric Smith then shits the bed when holding the edge. Maybe the play call is also deserving some blame because holding the edge in a critical situation is something Eric Smith shouldn't be expected to do.
It makes you wonder about the future with Tannenbaum in charge. Was he the GM, when the Jets drafted Nugent in the second record? Or Gholston?
Nugent was a Herm-Bradway pick in 05. The Ghost was a Mangini-Tannenbaum pick in 08. Did you become a Jet fan recently?
I don't have anything against Eric Smith as a player. I have something against Eric Smith as a starter.
