The only thing that pisses me off about Rex

[#27TheDominator]

The debate of the ages.

This is the Jets. I guarantee if we run it 4 straight times, they stop us no every try and then we are bitching about how se tried to run 4 straight times against a historic run defense.

Pussies.

I agree, but I also think we should have run. The one that kills me is the strip sack. People saying that we should have run a draw play. I know that several people that said that would have been calling for Schottenheimer's head if they had run the ball there.

To me the most brilliant play in his bag of tricks is the end around to Cotchery. Only Hartsock is slower than Cotchery among our wideouts. Maybe BS is being cute by half, thinking the defense will overpursue? Who knows. How about Martz killing his team with that reverse on 2nd and 2 in their final drive. Another bozo.

To be fair, he is our punt returner. He's our Desean Jackson or Devin Hester.

The one and only thing that pisses me off about Rex is that his OC dropped the ball in the 2nd half of the AFC Championship game for TWO YEARS IN A ROW and he lets him keep his job. Which means he has Dolan-esque levels of loyalty towards people that work for him and that is a really, REALLY dangerous thing.

The 2nd half? He didn't drop the ball in the second half. He dropped the ball in the first half.

BTW, Dolan is NOT loyal. He is smitten. There is a difference. He was not loyal to Layden. He was not loyal to Larry Brown. He was "loyal" to Isiah to excess, but that was more because he was in love. He's a weird dude.

[serphnx]

I actually wasn't paying much attention to the strip stack. I don't even know what they did on 2nd down. I was laughing at play action pass down 17-0 on 1st down that resulted in a sack. You just knew Schitty figured he had them fooled because he always runs it right up the gut on 1st down, he probably genuinely thought the Steelers would be completely fooled because he tried a play action pass there and he had been "saving" that play just for that situation when he needed it.

Of course the Steelers, rather than pay any attention whatsoever to what he'd done 15 times previously (okay, probably just 4, I don't think we had many 1st down plays up to that point, although if they watched film it's probably closer to 15 the past 2 games) just looked at the down, the score, the situation and figured hey let's just blitz right here and ignore the run and sack Sanchez. In typical Jet fashion, on 3rd down, the line forgot how to block as well and the rest is history.

[GreenBeans]

and now this....

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/26/jets-tipped-their-plays-on-steelers-goal-line-stand/

Jets tipped their plays on Steelers’ goal-line stand

Posted by Michael David Smith on January 26, 2011, 12:16 PM ESTThe Steelers’ goal-line stand against the Jets in the fourth quarter of the AFC Championship Game has been thoroughly discussed, but we should take a moment to mention the great analysis that NFL Network’s Playbook show had of those four plays, when the Jets started with first-and-goal from the 2-yard line and ended up getting stuffed on fourth-and-goal at the 1.

As Playbook demonstrated, the Jets were tipping their plays, especially when right tackle Wayne Hunter lined up in a two-point stance on third-and-goal from the 1-yard line, all but telling Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley that it was a pass, not a run.

“On third-and-1, your right tackle’s in a two-point stance,” Playbook analyst Brian Baldinger said. “Right now, LaMarr Woodley knows you’re not running the ball. You’re not running the ball out of a two-point stance on the goal line. Right there, that’s a dead giveaway. LaMarr Woodley doesn’t charge he just plays the ball and bats it down.”

As our friend Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports has pointed out, the Playbook analysis did a perfect job of illustrating that Woodley looked at Hunter’s stance and immediately knew a pass was coming, and it was easy for Woodley to simply stand there at the line of scrimmage, put his hands up and knock the pass down.

Baldinger also pointed out that on fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line, there was a big hole in the middle of the Steelers’ defense — but only for a split-second, and by the time Jets running back LaDainian Tomlinson got to the line of scrimmage, the hole was closed. Tomlinson, surprisingly, lined up seven yards behind the line of scrimmage on the play. If he had lined up five yards deep in the backfield, he might have gotten to the hole in time.

On a fourth-and-1 earlier in the same drive, the Jets had gone with an I-formation handoff up the gut to Shonn Greene, and Greene responded by plunging forward for two yards and a first down. Greene also picked up a yard on first-and-goal from the 2-yard line. But with three more tries to get one more yard, the Jets never went to Greene again, instead trying to get too cute with their play calling. The Steelers saw that coming all the way.