Gas2No99 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 OC Morton Not Married to Any Particular System Posted Mar 8, 2017 Ethan GreenbergNewyorkjets.com Contributor Green & White’s New Play Caller Focused on Making an Offense to Best Suit the Team New Jets offensive coordinator John Morton is not committed to running a specific system. Instead, he’ll build a playbook best suited to exploit his players’ strengths.“John has a great offensive mind. He can work with any type of person,” head coach Todd Bowles told reporters in Indianapolis. “He is very good at incorporating the players and understanding what they are good at and what they are not good at. He is a lot like Chan [Gailey] in that way, but he’s younger.“He isn’t a system guy – West Coast or anything else. He can kind of fit guys into what they do best. He’ll have a scheme that he puts in but he can adapt to things really quickly. His understanding of relating to players and getting across to players what he wants is what really put him over the top for me.”ESPN analyst Jon Gruden told Jets Insider Eric Allen that Morton “took advantage of some great people” throughout his coaching career, a list that list includes Gruden (Raiders 1998-1999), Jim Harbaugh (49ers 2011-2014) and most recently, Sean Payton (Saints 2006, 2015-2016). It’ll be interesting to see if Morton’s offense will draw any comparisons to the systems of the people he coached under. (No mention of his ONLY OC job under Pete Carroll). “We will have an offense that works,” Bowles said. “If the West Coast works, we’ll run it. If the long ball works, we’ll do it. If the running game works, we’ll run it. John is very good at adapting to what we have.”Morton will be working with four new coaches on the offensive side of the ball — RBs coach Stump Mitchell, offensive assistant Jason Vrable, offensive assistant/assistane QBs coach Mick Lombardi and QBs coach Jeremy Bates. Bowles told the media he believes Bates is "the guy to do the job," praising his work ethic and football IQ, especially when it comes to mechanics. “He’s an outstanding coach,” Bowles said. “He watches film, even when he was out of football. People have reasons why they get out of football, it doesn’t mean they are not good coaches, they have different reasons, family reasons and other reasons. Jeremy’s time has come to come back in and I think it’s outstanding. We’ve had long conversations and I think he’s the guy to do the job.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity28 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Great news, what system relies on no QB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varjet Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Good news-shows innovation, flexibility and creativity. Bad news-he could be rudderless and clueless. We will soon find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pac Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 25 minutes ago, Integrity28 said: Great news, what system relies on no QB? The one we ran last year with Fitz behind center. It was called the East Coast 3 and Out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gas2No99 Posted March 10, 2017 Author Share Posted March 10, 2017 36 minutes ago, Integrity28 said: Great news, what system relies on no QB? That would be the Wildcat . . . . good times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gas2No99 Posted March 10, 2017 Author Share Posted March 10, 2017 I think the only real sense of the type of offense, or style of play-calling, that Morton may implement that we can analyze would be his 1 year of tape as OC at USC under Carroll's final season with Matt Barkley @ QB and Joe McKninght (RIP) as his RB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe W. Namath Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 So we hired a coordinator who has no plan on what offense he runs? Hahahahahahaha. This cant be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe W. Namath Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 "He watches film, even when he was out of football." Omg. This article is comedy gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gas2No99 Posted March 10, 2017 Author Share Posted March 10, 2017 4 minutes ago, Joe W. Namath said: So we hired a coordinator who has no plan on what offense he runs? Hahahahahahaha. This cant be true. Didn't you read Bowles' comment? "we'll have an offense that works" So whatever works is what he'll run. sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flgreen Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Poor guy has NO idea who his QB is going to be. None. LOL how can he design an offense? Feel bad for the guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe W. Namath Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 John, what offense do you run? I dont have one. But I did watch film while I was unemployed. You're hired! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Blast Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 20 minutes ago, Joe W. Namath said: John, what offense do you run? I dont have one. But I did watch film while I was unemployed. You're hired! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varjet Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 At this time in particular I spend way too much time reading news about the Jets. But I refuse to read anything that Allen or Lange write. It is complete slanted, biased propaganda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetrider Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 How can an OC have a "specific system" when he never OC'd before? Quote “We will have an offense that works,” Bowles said. “If the West Coast works, we’ll run it. If the long ball works, we’ll do it. If the running game works, we’ll run it. John is very good at adapting to what we have.” Which is absolutely nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetster Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 This is actually great news. Football isn't rocket science & some of these OCs are cemented into a particular style of offense. What's wrong with putting together an offensive playbook that plays to the strengths of players? The Pats do this all of the time. They play a certain style when Gronk is healthy, 2 TEs, they go spread when he's hurt, they go power ball with Blount if you can't stop the run. I'm happy to have a guy who worked under Sean Payton, he's a top offensive mind in the NFL. The most exciting part of Hackenberg is that he's supposedly a sponge when it comes to knowing the game & that he can make every throw with a strong arm. Macc drafted him based on that criteria & the most important thing will be putting an Oline together that can protect him while he's learning on the job. 2017 is setting up as the perfect scenario to start Hackenberg. Zero pressure. One play at a time type of training with Morton molding the young man. If he doesn't have IT, we'll probably be in the Darnold, Rosen sweepstakes and follow the path the Bucs did when they had Glennon and drafted Winston. Except Macc will probably be smarter & take less in a trade if another team wants to continue the Hackenberg experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetPotato Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 He needs to be flexible for when he's looking for a new job in a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAR I Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 I just love an offensive coordinator with no point of view. Some of the finest executives I work with come into a financial planning meeting and when asked how they are going to correct a bad sales trend respond "I'm not sure". SAR I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
section314 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Sounds to me Morton is saying that he will adapt an offense to fit the talent and ability of his players. You would think this would actually make all the people who criticize Bowles for being inflexible with his system, putting guys out of position just to run a scheme, happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustiniak Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 10 minutes ago, SAR I said: I just love an offensive coordinator with no point of view. Some of the finest executives I work with come into a financial planning meeting and when asked how they are going to correct a bad sales trend respond "I'm not sure". SAR I this is better than rex telling belichick all week that he's going to run the ball, and then keeps running the ball all game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 12 hours ago, Gas2No99 said: OC Morton Not Married to Any Particular System Posted Mar 8, 2017 Ethan GreenbergNewyorkjets.com Contributor Green & White’s New Play Caller Focused on Making an Offense to Best Suit the Team ESPN analyst Jon Gruden told Jets Insider Eric Allen that Morton “took advantage of some great people” throughout his coaching career, a list that list includes Gruden (Raiders 1998-1999), Jim Harbaugh (49ers 2011-2014) and most recently, Sean Payton (Saints 2006, 2015-2016). It’ll be interesting to see if Morton’s offense will draw any comparisons to the systems of the people he coached under. (No mention of his ONLY OC job under Pete Carroll). As usual Gruden is gushing. Morton was a player under Gruden, not a coach. I think he worked with the Raiders in personnel, but he was actually hired to staff under Callahan when Gruden went off to Tampa. I don't think he was OC under Carroll, I think he was WR coach. He was OC under Kiffin. In addition to Carroll, he left out Marty Schottenhiemer/Cam Cameron for a year in SD, Doug Marrone who was NO's OC in 2006. 12 hours ago, Integrity28 said: Great news, what system relies on no QB? Why do you think we had Gailey? He won with Slash and Mike Tomzak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gas2No99 Posted March 10, 2017 Author Share Posted March 10, 2017 46 minutes ago, #27TheDominator said: As usual Gruden is gushing. Morton was a player under Gruden, not a coach. I think he worked with the Raiders in personnel, but he was actually hired to staff under Callahan when Gruden went off to Tampa. I don't think he was OC under Carroll, I think he was WR coach. He was OC under Kiffin. In addition to Carroll, he left out Marty Schottenhiemer/Cam Cameron for a year in SD, Doug Marrone who was NO's OC in 2006. Why do you think we had Gailey? He won with Slash and Mike Tomzak. NO NO and WRONG. He NEVER played under Gruden and was hired under Callahan as an OA/TE coach. Morton NEVER worked under Marty Schottenheimer or Cam Cameron - it was SAN DIEGO COLLEGE where he coached under Harbaugh's initial HC gig. He was WR coach @USC in '07-08 & OC under Carroll in '09 and Kennedy Polamalu was the OC in '10 under Kiffin. Then he went BACK to work for Harbaugh again until Harbaugh left and didn't take Morton with him. Other than USC, Morton has been nothing but a retread WR coach over the last 15 years. Coaching career (HC unless noted) 2002–2004 Oakland Raiders (OA/TE) 2005 San Diego (WR) 2006 New Orleans Saints (OA) 2007–2008 USC (WR) 2009–2010 USC (OC) 2011–2014 San Francisco 49ers (WR) 2015–2016 New Orleans Saints (WR) 2017–present New York Jets (OC) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerfish Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 I don;t see his 'not married' bit to be a negative at all. Gailey worked wonders with that idea with some bad teams and bad QBs. Bowles and his D is the EXACT opposite of this, as he tries to shoehorn all of his players into his 'brilliant' system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleedin Green Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 46 minutes ago, section314 said: Sounds to me Morton is saying that he will adapt an offense to fit the talent and ability of his players. You would think this would actually make all the people who criticize Bowles for being inflexible with his system, putting guys out of position just to run a scheme, happy. It's the Jets fan mentality for you. Regardless of what is said or done, there's reason to complain about it. In fairness though, the Jets are pretty much to blame for that happening. I'm not even sure about Morton, but it's comical to see the number of times we've seen coaches around here blasted for trying to force players into their system and/or redoing the roster to fit their system, and now it's unfathomable that a coach would dare consider tailoring the scheme to the current players. In all likelihood he's going to suck at his job, because ya know... Jets, but it's a pretty major reach to be citing this as a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JiFtheOracle Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Sounds like he's afraid of commitment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
section314 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 2 minutes ago, Bleedin Green said: It's the Jets fan mentality for you. Regardless of what is said or done, there's reason to complain about it. In fairness though, the Jets are pretty much to blame for that happening. I'm not even sure about Morton, but it's comical to see the number of times we've seen coaches around here blasted for trying to force players into their system and/or redoing the roster to fit their system, and now it's unfathomable that a coach would dare consider tailoring the scheme to the current players. In all likelihood he's going to suck at his job, because ya know... Jets, but it's a pretty major reach to be citing this as a reason. Agree with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 14 minutes ago, Gas2No99 said: NO NO and WRONG. He NEVER played under Gruden and was hired under Callahan as an OA/TE coach. He was WR coach @USC in '07-08 & OC under Carroll in '09 and Kennedy Polamalu was the OC in '10 under Kiffin. Other than USC, Morton has been nothing but a retread WR coach over the last 15 years. Coaching career (HC unless noted) 2002–2004 Oakland Raiders (OA/TE) 2005 San Diego (WR) 2006 New Orleans Saints (OA) 2007–2008 USC (WR) 2009–2010 USC (OC) 2011–2014 San Francisco 49ers (WR) 2015–2016 New Orleans Saints (WR) 2017–present New York Jets (OC) I could get straight story about his time at USC, but your own chart lists him as OC under Kiffin in '10. He played at Green Bay in the 90's when Gruden was the WR coach. You left out the main thing I was wrong about. San Diego was the college. He never worked for Marty, but was hired there by Harbaugh, then went to the Saints for a year and then to USC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warfish Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 13 hours ago, Integrity28 said: Great news, what system relies on no QB? Change "WR" to "TE or OG" for even more running-running fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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