Several things that happened in this game concearn me: 1) Mark Sanchez is no Peyton Manning. Did Mark just expect the seas to part and recievers to be open all day? The same defense that Manning just shredded Sanchez could'nt do a thing with after the first qtr. 2) Sparano needs to call a better game. What exactly was the game plan? Force feed Holmes all game. Whatever the game plan was Pitt had an answer. Sparano needs to be more innovative. How about misdirection or trick plays. Maybe a screen pass. Sparano has to have an answer to the defense Pitt was playing. He has to. He did'nt. 3) Where was Stephen Hill? 4) I can't wait to get rid of Holmes - he is a ball dropping machine. 5) Why is the savior Tim Tebow on this team? They finally put him in the 3rd qtr when it was obvious that Sanchez could'nt move the ball and Tebow starts to get rolling and they pull him out. I thought thats why we got Tebow - for situations just like today - when Sanchez can't do a thing. Tebow could of pulled this game out if they gave him a chance. 6) Big Ben. The Jets just can't sack this guy. He is just a bad matchup for the Jets. He kills them. Plenty more went wrong than I can even think of right now but I think our game plan was horrible. I'm not gonna blame the defense. Yes they let up some plays but the offense did'nt help them out one little bit. Our defense was on the field alot. Our offense consistantly put them right back out. This Jet offense has to be able to make plays against a tough defense. Today they were not even close.
I don't get it. You talk about how bad Sanchez is then you complain about Holmes because he is a dropping machine. Does that not play into why Sanchez's numbers were so bad? It's not like he wasn't putting the ball were it needed to be because he was. I can't wait to see the dropped pass numbers on this game. Even the throws that looked like miss fired passes were clearly due to the WR running improper routes on the play. Fuck your Tebow theory all together. He was not brought in to "pull games out". That is the last thing this Jets team should do, ever. How do you not blame the defense? The Defense was just as much to blame, if not more for today's performance. How can anyone just blame one side of the ball? Honestly.. If you didn't catch the full game, let me fill ya in. The Jets were to blame in every phase of the game this week. A complete Bi-Polar flip transpired on that field today. The Offense lost their rhythm and struggled, the defense got torched and couldn't tackle shit, and the special team unit absolutely can't allow turnovers when the game is already getting out of hand as is. You blame the team because it is a team game, no one man was to blame for this loss. It was a combination of bullshit that lead to this embarrassing loss.
It is no secret the Jets are lacking big time talent on the offensive side of the ball. If you are going to expect your defense to win games, you better have a damn good ball control offense to take the load off them. It looks like the anemic Jet offense we saw in the preseason was the real deal.
Lots of issues with that game. Defense and offense were both terrible. We should have done a much better job defensively on 3rd downs. The lack of pass completions was just plain scary. Some stupid penalties, but that happens with an aggresive guy like Landry. Plus the Steelers had lots of penalties as well, so you can't blame the refs...although I'm still trying to figure out how that wasn't considered a strip ball for Bell or at a minimum a tackle for a loss. When I first saw this game in the schedule I wrote it off as a loss, so I can't really be that upset/surprised, especially considering we had some pretty significant injuries. That being said, the Steelers had some pretty significant injuries as well and based on the score at half time it look like we really had a chance. The wheels just seemed to fall off after that. If Cro had properly defended that TD pass against him and Kerley hadn't miffed the punt it's probably a much different game...but shit happens.
Sanchez was killing the Steelers until Timmons went helmet-to-helmet with him. Shortly after the cheap shot from Timmons, the Jets did barely anything but run the bal, then tried throwing and it failed miserably. Sanchez on the drive prior to the Timmons cheap shot, very sharp. 4 of 6 for 80 yards and a TD. Sanchez on the drive after the Timmons cheap shot (the very next drive), 0-5. And he did look groggy after the hit, if anyone wants to take the time to go back and look. The Steelers out-cheaped the Jets.
offense performed as expected. shit load of 3 and outs....except no schotty or hunter to blame. 10 points is pretty good for a sparano team. does anybody expect a win against miami? I don't. I will be happy with any jet win, but lets face it, this is not a top tier team.
Why don't we take a poll and see which unit is more responsible for todays loss - offense or defense? I think the defense played hard not perfect but they were put back on the field too much by an ineffective offense. Also what the fuck - since your gonna curse - do you fuckin think we have Tebow for? I don't like that we have Tebow any more than probably you do. I think it was a waste of a trade. But since we have the guy and it was more than obvious that Sanchez was not moving the fuckin team fuckin leave Tebow in and see if he can lead the Jets to a score. It would of been the correct move whether it worked or not.
Come on - isnt it possible that they were both bad? And the offensive line wasn't great either. I didn't like what I saw from Sanchez or Holmes or the O line. Or the play design. Or the play calling It all stunck!
point is, if you are saying holmes was dropping the ball then that falls on holmes and if he catches the passes then sanchez has a better day.. it's one thing to say they both played poorly, but you cant say sanchez sucked and then say holmes dropped everything, because they are directly related to each others performance. if holmes didnt get open that's one thing, but that's not what happened.
NO!!!!, not when you are saying Sanchez sucked and Holmes droped numerous passes. You can't blame the QB for Holmes' issues today. I agree Sanchez wasn't perfect, but he's taking too much blame for receivers not making plays. Let's face it , the Jets got beat by a beter team today in the second half of the game.
You don't need a poll to see that every phase of our team was playing poorly. Every unit was bad, I don't care how you try to spin it. That's a fact. Sanchez was not perfect, obviously, but he wasn't the weak link for this team either. The point is that the Steelers were clearly the better team this Sunday and the Jets got beat by a good team and by constantly hurting themselves. Again, Sanchez does not deserve the blunt of the blame by any means, it was a team failure for this loss, not an individual failure.
reminded me of the beating he took vs the ravens last year. imo that game chaged his play for the rest of the year. he rushed throws and looked very uncomfortable,or afraid to get hit
