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Oline is as Big of an Issue as Zach (maybe)


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In my opinion Keith Carter is the problem with the oline. His unit is underachieving badly and totally unprepared. We haven't had a good offensive line coach since Steve Marshall was here in the Bowles era. Pollock sucked as well. Most talented unit? No way but hardly the least talented. Why aren't we playing Max Mitchell at RT? Where's Carter Warren been? Dudes talented and much needed now that Brown is down. Oline should look as follows: Becton/Tomlinson/Tippman/AVT/Mitchell.

Yes, Mcgovern is absent because he has been the biggest liability in the run game for about 3 years. He should be a backup G at this point. We need a rotation of Max, Carter W., and Turner at RT and its a no brainer. AVT is a probowl G, don't mess him up at T where he is less valuable. Mitchell played well as a rookie last season there's no reason he shouldn't be even better in his sophomore year.

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this was a combination of things that all built off of each other.

Not in order, but all major contributors

Coaching staff called extremely conservative game plan, Patriots expected it, Patriots defended the run and short passing game, jets made zero adjustments

ZW is not good, and when you put him in bad situations hes worse

Oline is not very good

 

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I think the issues with the Jets OL go beyond Carter. It's their philosophy of how to handle OL in the offseason that seems to be a problem. When you have guys that are constantly on pitch counts or rotating in different spots or not participating in training camp/preseason at all, how can you have a cohesive group? I get it- they want to avoid injuries especially after what happened last year, but maybe they're taking too cautious of an approach?

Becton, AVT, and Tomlinson probably participated in 50% of training camp at most. McGovern, Tippmann, Schweitzer, and Colon constantly rotated. Brown logged 0% of the snaps. When you run a ZBS that is predicated on chemistry and timing, how can these guys line up and be on the same page when they've barely played together? Some coaches are better at getting it out of them regardless, but I still think a lot of it has to do with how the Jets as an organization prepare their lineman... same was the case last year and it took 4-5 weeks before they could knock the rust off and get into a rhythm. 

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It's crazy to me how many people seem to not know how football works, or don't understand what they're watching.  Defense stacks the box against us because they know our QB is incapable of beating them:  "what chance does Zach have?  Our run blocking is terrible!".  Zach gets sacked after holding the ball for 5 seconds and panic runs into a defender:  "look at this!!! No protection!!"

 

I've almost smashed my head against a wall several times reading comments here and on youtube/twitter/whatever.  

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1 hour ago, mudcat22 said:

We couldn't run the ball last week.  OL has to take blame.

Blame the OL? New England was stacking the box, knowing ZW wasn't going to challenge them on first down. Blame Hackett, that dude is turning out to be a bigger turd than LeFleur, as incredibly difficult as that is to believe. Pass protection held up fine. 

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I am not a fan of Keith Carter, but I don't think the line is the issue.  I guess we will find out soon enough.  It will be interesting if a crappy, but borderline competent QB, like Siemian, can complete some passes and open up the run game.  If teams were cheating up like this on me I would be changing plays at the line until you thought I was Daryle Lamonica.

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