New York Jets Kickoff Return: Failure is an Option

[IdiotKicker]

http://central.sonsofsamhorn.net/authors/chuck-zodda/jets-kickoff-failure/
 

 
 
Creativity is a great thing for NFL coaches. However, there are three principal reasons why this play failed. First and foremost: poor execution. Nearly everyone failed at the primary responsibility of any NFL player – do your job. Second, the play drastically misallocated blocking resources. There are five players who accomplished absolutely nothing on this play. Lastly, Harvin bringing the ball out of the end zone from nine yards deep was the final nail in the coffin. That makes this play one of the NFL’s biggest disasters this season: the New York Jets Kickoff Failure.

 

 

[Morgan's Magic Snowplow]

Another nice piece. One word of advice for the editors/technical team: There is a disjuncture between the text and how the images are spaced out, such that the description is often referring not to the play image immediately above but two above. This ends up being pretty confusing until the reader figures out what is going on.  For example, you have the following paragraph.  Immediately above is a play still, so the reader naturally looks at that still when reading the paragraph.  But the paragraph refers to action in the previous still.
 

 
As Harvin begins to bring the ball out from nine yards deep in his own end zone, there are still five unblocked Bills heading towards him. The would-be Jets blocker ‒ near the 30-yard line in the previous still ‒ is now at the 20-yard line and appears to have whiffed on his attempt. Harvin may have a potential seam for a return, as one of the Bills defenders was forced out of his lane, creating a crease up the left hash marks ‒ if the two-man wedge is able to provide a key block.

 

[IdiotKicker]

We're working on getting the sequence correct, we had an error on publishing.

 

[Super Nomario]

 
If the Jets were convinced that this play was going to be deceptive there is no need to waste all these players on the opposite side of the field. The Bills should have naturally pursued Harvin. But the Jets, rightly so, did not believe that this play would deceive the Bills. As such, they had to  devote a massive amount of resources to an event that never occurred. Then they attempted to execute a play they did not even believe would work during an actual NFL contest.

Love this section - it really drives home how dumb this was. There's maybe the kernel of a good play here, but the way they drew it up didn't make any sense even before you get to the execution problems.

 

[IdiotKicker]

Love this section - it really drives home how dumb this was. There's maybe the kernel of a good play here, but the way they drew it up didn't make any sense even before you get to the execution problems.

Yeah it really makes zero sense as to why they drew it up like this.

Pictures are corrected for anyone who was lost.

 

[soxfan121]

Another nice piece. One word of advice for the editors/technical team: There is a disjuncture between the text and how the images are spaced out, such that the description is often referring not to the play image immediately above but two above. This ends up being pretty confusing until the reader figures out what is going on.  For example, you have the following paragraph.  Immediately above is a play still, so the reader naturally looks at that still when reading the paragraph.  But the paragraph refers to action in the previous still.
 

 
Word, thanks for the feedback. We will work on this and do better.

 

[lambeau]

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/jets-hire-mcgaughey-special-teams-coordinator-article-1.1604010
 
Daily News: "The Jest had a mediocre special teams season under Kotwika" in 2013. Maybe mediocre is starting to look pretty good.