A Seven Step Program to fix the Jets in 2008

[kleck073]

#1 - Eric Mangini: Relax dude. Lighten up. You are not Bill Belichicken, so stop acting like him. Be yourself - when you are, you are quite funny. Team play generally reflects the coaching - if you are uptight, the team is going to feed off of that and play uptight. Belichicken has no personality, so it isn't acting with him as he truly is an amoral SOB. You aren't and the team knows that.

#2 - Fire Bob Sutton: Look, we all know DROB and Vilma weren't 3-4 players and Bob Sutton isn't a 3-4 coordinator. The Jets must be the only team in recent memory to have a 3-4 D coordinator (Ted Cottrel) run a 4-3 defense with 3-4 players and then turnaround and do the opposite for 2 years with Bob Sutton. Does us all a favor and fire Sutton and call the plays yourself until Rob Ryan gets here next year.

#3 - Fire Brian Schottenheimer: When you don't run the ball against the 32nd ranked run defense, there is a problem. Please do us all a favor and promote Bill Callahan.

#4 - Brett Favre: The first 8 games of the year mean nothing for him or the Jets provided they are 4-4. Without a meaningful pre-season and a big adjustment for Brett, he is going to play like he did yesterday. So do us all a favor and sit down the entire team and tell them to pick up the slack. Take some pressure off of Favre for the first 56 minutes of the game. He will be there the last 4 minutes as he proved against Oakland and KC. Tell everyone to stop standing around and gawking at the HOF and chip in.

#5 - Run the Ball: You want to take pressure off of Brett Favre? Run the ball more. TJ and Leon are actually playing quite well when you give them the ball. Brett's presence on the field actually opens things up. Imagine if the OC had called a 1st down play action pass against the Raiders in OT? With 8 men in the box, do you think it would work?

#6 - Creative Blitzing: It was almost better with the Jets D had to manufacture a pass rush the past 2 years. Imagine what level this D would be playing at if they kept the same level of creativity with much better personnel this year?

#7 - Creative D-Backfield Scheming: Uhmmm, Lowery-Revis-Rhodes-Elam (Smith should be cut) should not give up 280 yards to Tyler Thigpen. Two years ago, with less talent, the Jets secondary gave better and more creative looks. Once again we have more talent now so go use it.

[Sperm Edwards]

A head coach who needs to fire both of his coordinators should be fired himself. Said so with Herm and what goes for one goes for the other.

Schottenheimer stinks, but he's Mangini's hand-picked man. He isn't some rogue who's calling games the opposite of the way Mangini wants to.

While the defense isn't going to make anyone forget about the 2000 Ravens, they have given up 14, 13, and 14 in regulation the last 3 weeks & the 3 in overtime required Janikowski nailing a 57-yarder.

We are generating a lot of sacks on the stat-sheet, but rush 3 men way too much. I'm pretty impressed that Ellis has been able to get to the QB as often as he has on a 3-man line. But it seems like there's all-or-nothing with the pass rush. Either the QB gets sacked or he has all day. Not enough hurries, which lead to picks that sacks don't lead to.

You're also absolving Favre of way too much blame. Schottenheimer didn't script passes to be thrown to the Chiefs when check-downs (Schotty's specialty) are available. That's on Favre.

It's not a matter of running the ball more or passing the ball more. It's about disguising the plays, and we've been lousy at it.

[afosomf]

All you need is 1 step

Can EM...the rest will solve itself

Cowher will not be coach at Car as Fox has turned team around

If Woodrow had any brains he would offer him $6M per year and raise PSL's

just kidding on PSL's

WTF fire me some neg rep

[Jets Voice of Reason]

It seems like each week the offense and defense compete with each other for incompetent playcalling.