fb yea the fb we picked up was from the phins, his name is darian barnes, hes sopposedly a big fella with exelent blocking capablilties, but i must say i was a sowell and askew fan!
TJ is a nice addition but I don?t think he?s the total answer to the running game. The drafting of Brick and Mangold was a great move last year. They will only improve in the coming years. We still need some more help on the OL. I would like to see us pick up some 300+ Guards. The addition of some big road-graders will do wonder for both the passing and running game. :jets:
sowell i can see...but askew? the guy wasnt productive at all. he did some things right, but he did nothing above adequate....richie "i love whores so i got fired" anderson and sowell did solid jobs respectively....but i never understood the thought process when they drafted bj askew....it seemed like the bj stood for something other than his initials.
sowell well i dont know why we didnt pick up sowell off free agency other then his age, but im sure hes still a productive player.
Just expanding a little bit on what I wrote above based on some feedback I got from a friend who is a big Jet's fan but not into the internet: What Chad and Hackett and Herm tried to do endlessly from inside the 15 was to throw the ball into the corner of the endzone with a timing route and touch pass that could only be caught by the receiver. These touch passes worked now and then but not as often as a pass inside the 15 should connect. The net result was we wound up kicking a bunch of field goals inside the 15. The bigger story though was how few opportunities the Jets actually got inside the 20. Since 2003 the Jets have had only 73% of the number of possessions that got into the redzone that the league leader had. The cumulative league leaders in those 4 seasons have gotten inside the 20 239 times to the Jets 174. That's because conservative play calling outside the redzone results in more punts and long FG's also. Once the Jets got into the red zone, which they did significantly less often than the average team, they then kicked a higher percentage of FG's and scored fewer TD's than the average team. I'm skewing things a little bit by comparing the Jets to the leader each season, however I feel that the leader represents where you want to be offensively and so they're an appropriate comparison for the Jet's inability to perform inside the 20. One other thing to illustrate how conservative the Jets have been over the last 4 seasons: the cumulative leader in redzone efficiency in those 4 seasons kicked 52 FG's and scored 171 TD's over the 4 year span. The Jet's kicked 61 FG's and scored 85 TD's. That's how bad they've been, they've scored less than half the number of TD's in the red zone that the top of the league has produced. That has to change before the Jets seriously contend. BTW, the 2005 Jets with Brooks and Vinny at QB produced exactly the same number of redzone possessions as the 2004 team that went to the divisional round of the playoffs. They did produce 6 fewer TD's and kick 3 more FG's than the 2004 team, indicating that Herm was in his deepest conservative shell when Brooks and Vinny had the ball down low. It's a shame because the facts were that they got the Jets to the 20 just as well as Chad did. Herm should have let them rip and taken some chances. 4-12 might have been 7-9 if he did.