I gotta admit I was thinking Super Bowl after the first quarter. Lol. I really got carried away. It was a game that we could and maybe should have won, but you are going to lose some, and I can take losing to Green Bay. They're a solid team and we took our shots.
What hurts more about the game than the loss is that play... if stands could be a career defining moment and a huge boost for Geno and the team yet instead we blow it in typical Jet fashion
There were a lot of times where I had to think to myself: Well, shit happens. The Geno pick in my opinion was really not something you can blame on him. The rusher came in low and fast and there's really no chance Geno could have seen him as he wound up for the pass, and the hit totally screwed up the pass. Sudfeld should have made a better effort but in reality the DB was in MUCH better position to make a play on a duck like that. The biggest negative I saw in this game was Mo and Sheldon lose their cool to the point of Mo getting ejected. It's good to see passion in the players, but you absolutely have to keep it together. The game was still within reach, and genuinely winnable when he went out, and it would have helped us out a lot to have Mo chasing around Rodgers. I don't know what Decker's status is, but I really really hope he's not out for a while. I'm sure that's an obvious desire but he is a huge part of what makes our offense run. People can say what they want about Geno's second half performance, but I was still pretty impressed overall. We really needed our running game to be more productive as well. What I would have liked to see is more dink and dunk passes when we were up 21-3, like quick slants and flats passes. Even if they just went for 3-4 yards per attempt, it would have maintained an offensive rhythm. I know it's important to continue to push and attempt bigger plays but I feel that we could have dialed back and run a possession style offense more efficiently. Our secondary did get pretty torched yesterday, but I think that's really because we stopped getting enough pressure on Rodgers. I don't know if it had to do with the line getting too tired, but they were all over him in the first half and he was running circles around them in the second half.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, yes, our secondary needs a lot of work, but it sure is easy for a quality QB to torch them if his O-line has a free pass to hold for the entire game.
I did not mind the call per se. Just the time frame in which it was called. Trying for it then would give them time to match the score. Geno was having a lot of success throwing underneath, and they were in a defense that allowed him to do so.
I hate being the guy who complains about the refs (and I'm usually not). Does anyone else find it a little weird that we sacked Rodgers 2 of the first 3 plays, then stopped getting pressure entirely? That combined with not one holding call against Green Bay the entire game makes me think there was a bit of home cooking involved. I remember on that redzone Rodgers scramble for the 1st, everyone was getting held.
The Jets have no discipline, so the refs go into each game focusing on them. Also the Jets are not a marquee franchise so nobody really cares if bad officiating costs them games.
Didn't miss the point at all. You quoted someone who called it a bad call, you defended it saying it was about execution of the play regardless of the call and made some fantasy story up about what could have happened if they had called the play differently which I called you out on. It doesn't change the fact that, as the other poster pointed out, if you have the ball in scoring range with under 2mins left in the half you run the ball, bleed the clock, chip away yards where you can and if you get a TD great, if you don't you can at least get a FG and have either left the opponent with no time left on the clock and/or they had to use all of their time outs. Either way you are in a much better spot. As noted, it's NFL 101. It was horrible situational play calling.
I know it's terrible to turn the ball over right there. No way should they have turned it over. Sudfield should have done whatever it took to knock that ball down. Instead he ran behind the defender and hugged him to the ground. If that play is a td I don't think anyone is really complaining. Yes I understand eat the clock and even getting a field goal there would have been great. But if that happened I think people would be bashing the play calling for being to conservative. We were in position to score a td not just a fg.
One thing I was really upset about was how awful we were in the run game. I went into this game thinking we were going to run all over them and have another 200+ yard rushing game
Even after this horrible loss i'm pretty optimistic going forward. Geno looks so much better this year then he did last year, he's taken a big step forward. He looks like an NFL QB. I think the offense as a whole looks so much better. The early returns on Decker have been pretty good, hope this hamstring injury doesn't keep him off the field going forward. Our rushing attack had a rough game but I still the trio of guys we have. Our O-Line isnt great but its not bad either, very workable group of guys. Our front seven on D is awesome. Obviously we need some help at the corner spot but most teams have weaknesses in this league.
Did anyone else notice that coples looked like our best dlineman yesterday. There was only one bad play that I noticed from him but he seemed to be on Rodgers all day.
You know Rex is the HEAD COACH, right? Any other coach would have run the clock, kicked the FG and been up 24-9, instead of 21-16 at half. If Rex as head coach does not communicate that to his hand picked OC, it is on Rex. Stupid calls like that and games like yesterday ARE the reason Rex has not been to the playoffs the last 3 years, and when blowing 21-3 leads will probably have the same result THIS year.
Exactly we could've had either an 18 or 22 point lead (depending on if we had scored 2xFGs or a FG and a TD- assuming we score on both of course) but not only that we would've kept the momentum and taken even more time off the clock in the 3rd so the Packers would've got the ball back with ~10 mins left in the 3rd needing 3 TD's and shutting us out for the rest of the game. With the crowd restless and the momentum with us it would've been very difficult for them to come back. That play changed the momentum of the game completely. GB had already swung it a little with their 3 FGs but that play turned it completely.
Rex doesn't approve every offensive play that is called that is made. Marty's job is to put points on the board. How are you going to say every head would have ran the clock out and kicked the field goal? Your 20 yards from putting up 7 points why wouldn't you go for 7 instead of 3. You can settle for 3 but you want the td. I'm fine with the play call. It's sudfields fault for not batting the ball down. The lazy bastard just watched the defender let it land in his hands like it was a fair catch on a punt
Yeah. You would have been pissed if the Jets controlled the ball, regained momentum and had a 28-9 halftime lead, right?
What? I posted that the jets SHOULD have controlled the ball, run down the clock and kicked the FG. Keeping it out of Rogers hands at the end of the half (or for that matter whenever you can) was not a novel idea, but too obvious for Rex and MM to wrap around.
