He’s a rookie coach. He got the assistants that were willing to work with a rookie head coach.
That’s what happens when you don’t have a rolodex of guys you know in the league. You have to rely on others aka wolf to help build your staff. This was the issue of hiring someone like Mayo.
tonight was awful, but we actually had the fewest missed tackles and resulting yards allowed in the league by a good margin through week 2.
The decision to try to make a LT out of Okorafor or Wallace was certainly a questionable one. Perhaps they thought Calvin Anderson would have been useful. Regardless, having Lowe as the only guy with LT play on his resume is an embarrassment. He was one of the worst OL I’ve ever seen last year and has only improved marginally.
What would you have done at left tackle? There were literally no options except trade down at the draft and draft Joe Alt instead of Maye.
They missed a lot of tackles tonight but Rodgers was also really good, their offense did nothing and they had a short week. Problem is they are putting on tape a lot of plays where they just get dominated at the line of scrimmage. Have to be more competitive there. Somehow.
Bentley is a pretty good off ball linebacker - one of the least valuable positions in the NFL. I like him and he’s good at what he does but he’s not Ray Lewis or Dont’a Hightower. The D shouldn’t fall apart without him especially with the number of 2 LB formations the Pats use.
Yeah it was basically a question of I guess Okorafor or hope for Elumenor, and Okorafor could sign earlier so they took a shot on the younger guy who they could lock up rather than rolling the dice. And Eluemenor has been so bad in NY they pushed him inside.
Belichick has the biggest rolodex in the league and his staff last year was shit. Does a bunch of retread coaches make this situation any better? If you don't have talent on the OL or many other places, you're going to suck.
Belichick just didn’t want to pay anyone to be an assistant coach. That’s why he had the smallest staff in the league.
It was always going to be tough sledding this week but the Jets didn't look great in the first two games so I thought they would be more competitive. They basically lost all the high leverage plays tonight, which was a difficult watch and does unfortunately seem like something that will carry over.
I think it's more accurate that he didn't trust anyone to be an assistant coach. Either way, that has nothing to do with why this team sucks right now. They simply don't have talent, but we knew that going in.
Some of the routes on offense have been weird in the certain situations. Like running multiple go routes when you need 5 yards or knowing your OL can't protect. Or, the one where tonight where they had three receivers within 5 yards of one another and I think it was Pop that was like, no, I'm going to get destroyed by four defenders.
As said many times on this board, the lack of talent AND depth on this OL is bordering on being criminal.
You and me both. When they end up with the rights to Arch Manning in 2026 thanks to trading down next year, I want Maye healthy and whole for trade purposes.
For me the question is about the four 2nd round OTs (selected picks 55-63). It’s a multiyear rebuild and if Polk is a key player, waiting until next draft and free agency to get a better Oline is defensible given how bad the WRs are/were.
Yeah Thursday night games (after week 1) almost always produce bizarre results. Just a perfect storm of suck that hopefully won’t be repeated.
Probably true. Also not going to overreact when it was a short week coming off an OT game. The Oline was already depleted and going against a good Jets D. The only optimistic take I can give is that maybe Lowe/Sow can get back in there this week and the line becomes merely really bad instead of a complete disaster.
You do see this a lot on a Thursday night, especially when the game turns ugly early. The emotional edge just becomes nearly impossible to keep up given the players are playing their 2nd game in 5 days.
