This. Damien Harris is just so punishing. He is a pretty great weapon for this team.
I watched all of the Bucs game until it got out of hand and I was thinking maybe late in the first half that Mac had a better game than Tom was having. Tom overthrew a few receivers including one in the end zone when he got really mad and was yelling into his hands. You could say well, the Jets, but you can say the same thing, well, the Bears.
This is such a weird post.
The Jets defense has been put in tough spots all season because of the offense. Until yesterday, the defense had actually played very well. They gave up more points in the first half yesterday than they had in any game this season.
The Jets absolutely are not "really that bad". No NFL team should beat another NFL team like the Pats beat the Jets yesterday. Going into yesterday's game...
The Jets were without their best defensive player. That wasn’t the same defense.
Mosely isn't worth 30 points and 179 yards. I mean, if he is, he's the league's MVP by a mile.
Mosley was out but just got back Marcus Maye. Sure, Mosley is like their defensive QB but missing one (however important) shouldn't let the other team drop a 50-burger.
Obviously not, but he would have made a difference. A couple of key stops could have changed things. Not drastically, but it would have been a different plan. Their defense was poorly prepped and completely gassed by the end of that game. No NFL defense should give up a scoring drive to Brian Hoyer. I don’t think you can watch yesterdays game and say that Jets D was anywhere near what they have been the rest of the season. Derrick Henry would have run for 300 yds against them yesterday.
This is really a take. The Jets gave up 54 points. 31 of those points in the first half when the defense wasn't presumably gassed.
Yes, he had a few weeks of prep. As did the Jets coaches, who also had a bye. So...he should be penalized for doing a good job for some reason?
I’m not complaining about anything. I’m continuing to believe that McDaniels isn’t a very good OC despite the performance yesterday. I’ve been on his case for a few years now. I more wanted to slow down the perception that everything is awesome because we hung 50 on a team that played its worst game of the season. I had a blast watching yesterdays game.
Good luck in your fight against that perception that no one here has espoused.
It really is a shame that James White went down so early in this season. I think he might have had a truly monster year in this offense. He would have been such a huge asset to Mac.
The on play I didn't like was the Blden bacwards pass to Mac. Bolden's throw was off line and I thought that it was close to being a forward pass. Mac caught it and threw incomplete, and no penality was called, so I guess it was still backwards but a penalty there might ahve been a drive killer. In general, they have done a good job working those plays in, though. Just can't throw a forward pass there!
I think as fans we equate play calling with game planning and it’s really not quite the same thing. I think McDaniels is a masterful game planner. I think he gets opposing teams into bad situations. He calls plays early with tweaks later that expose flaws. He puts the offense in a great position to succeed nearly every week.
I suspect that at, any given time, 90% of NFL fans are complaining about their OC. It's the nature of the beast. McDaniels is absolutely an upper echelon OC.
The quickest way to identify football idiots is to find people who criticize an offensive coordinator's playcalling-- particularly after a bad game or two. Most of us can't reliably identify what the defensive coverage is , whether it's an odd or even front, etc. so saying McDaniels, wow, too many screens (and the next week McDaniels, wow, not enough screens) is proof of someone who doesn't know what they 're talking about.
Yes--could this be perhaps because the OL played well last week, and carried that over in practice, so they thought they could game plan differently?
As my grandfather used to say- "My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts."
Aside from being the right analysis, the bolded is either a wonderful typo or a wonderful new word.
I use it all the time in my line of work when the customer wants things to instantly work with no effort from their end. I, at one point back in the early aughts, bought a Harry Potter wand for the client-side PM at an oil refinery who kept asking why customizations that were never asked for weren't implemented.
Mac also had to dodge a defender who was in his lap when the ball arrived from Bolden.
Mockery is a dangerous thing, but it can be the perfect answer.
I had the kind of relationship with her that it was taken in the right way. She kept it at her desk that she brought out upon subsequent visits. We would go professionally bared teeth and claws out.... until the whistle sounded at the plant. Then we'd go to Jalapeno's to get some 2 for 1 margaritas... make fun of her users... and start again the next day.
Not least because Bolden threw it like it was a balloon filled with helium. A defender who was tracking Agholor down the field could've been in Mac's lap by the time the ball arrived.
I do wonder what the fine folks on the Sons of Len Dawson board are saying right now about Eric Bieniemy.
Who's calling you dumb?
He did famously pivot in the Rams SB, they scored 10 points in the last two drives, but it was pretty late by then
The Pats put up 410 yards of offense that game, it really wasn't as bad a performance as the 13-3 score would indicate. They just had terrible field position all day and never made the big play as the drives got going.
Is there a way to find out if Slater even gets snaps as a receiver anymore? I know he plays special teams but can't see if he even gets any offensive snaps?
