the plan was to throw it all over the place in 2011...to run a more open offense...yes it was...a plan that i said back then was a bad one...that they should stick with the running game pa and defense...schottenheimer made a complete qb misread on that one or whoever was putting the pressure on to be a more mark sanchez will carry us offense...whether it be the gm who was fired the oc who was fired or the hc who should be fired
in 2012 under sparano the plan was a dumpster fire...from the get go...
the jets lost their identity in 2011...
No it was not, the plan was to throw more but not like crazy. We expected Shonn Greene to step up and take the bulk of the carries and have a big year. Unfortunately we struggled to run the football.
week 1: Greene/LT 2.8 YPC, trail by 14 pts early in 4th. mark throws 44 times, NYJ wins
week 2: run well early, get out to big lead, Mark throws 24 times
week 3: tied at half, 18 passes 13 runs. 2nd half go down by 14 mark throws it 26 times, we run it 8 times
need I go on? it was basically, try to run early, fail, fall behind then pass to catch up.
Funny how you try to rewrite history, even your own. Here is a sequence between you and me from Jan 2012, just after the 2011 season:
nyjunc: he has plenty of flaws and needs to vastly improve upon this year.
me: or what? What do you think should happen if he doesn't improve? And by when?
nyjunc: if next year goes like this year I could see us exploring some options, that would be 2 years w/o improving and that would be a red flag. I don't expect that to happen but you never know.
From Nov 2011:
nyjunc: mark is playing poorly right now no doubt about it, he goes through stretches like this. The hope is he would mature and not go throught hese anymore but that hasn't happened.
me: As I warned you last year, if Sanchez doesn't improve, he'll be gone. IMO, he is done on the Jets, this year or next. He is not improving. He can only be hidden for so long. Once the surrounding cast is not as good and more is expected of him, Rex will lose faith.
You admitted that he did not improve in 2011. He was worse in 2012. You stated (mid way through his third year) that "he goes through stretches like this". Well when could those stretches possibly have happened? IN HIS FIRST TWO YEARS.
I'm not sure why you have such an agenda for Sanchez but occasionally you see the light.
Of course he is. Is our running game even average? How about our pass blocking?
what is the point? he's had one bad year in 4 years and that was w/ the biggest mess around a QB I have ever seen. My agenda is I want to win, I have followed this team since I was a little kid in the 80s and the closest we have come to a SB was w/ Mark sanchez at QB so I appreciate that. other QBs may be flashier, put up better fantasy #s but mark made plays to win games(he would also make plays to lose games at times too). The difference in our div rd game at SD in 2009 was at QB, Rivers tried to force things and had a couple of bad TOs, mark did not. I want to win, it's hard to win in this league. Much better QBs w/ more talent around them have played as well as mark in postseason(consistently). I will miss him, I know we would have been much better if he was healthy this year.
yes you have an average run game and pass blocking. if Ryan was playing well you'd be 8-4 or better.
