Cotchery & Smith Ruled Out For Oakland

by David_Wyatt on Oct 23, 2009 2:35 PM EDT Comment 6 comments

WR Jerricho Cotchery (hamstring) has been ruled out and same thing for WR Brad Smith (quad).

Rex Ryan wants to keep Cotchery at home and have him rehab so he can go next week. DB Lito Sheppard (quad) is also out.

"I was hoping, I know he is getting better and all that," Ryan said on Cotchery. "At the end we are just like, we definitely don’t want this to happen all the time and each week we are wondering is he going to be up. We don’t want to make it worse. If we get a chance to get him 100 percent or near 100 percent that is probably the best option."

This is really bad news for the Jets. We saw last week just how important having that safe net of Jerricho Cotchery is to this team. We will run the ball more, but we will need to pass, obviously there is no doubt about that. Sanchez seemed to lack confidence in going to anyone who wasn't Edwards/Keller or Washington last week.

Edwards will be neutralised by Nnamdi Asomugha, so if Sanchez does this week what he tried to do last week against the Bills, and force the ball to Edwards. It really is not going to end well for the Jets. I'm looking for a rebound week from Keller this week. Last week for me, was his worst game as a Jet. Sure some passes were off the mark, but he dropped a couple and it really didn't look like he was going 100% out there, just flopping his arms in the direction of the ball.

If Keller is the same this week as he was last week, we could well be sitting here on Sunday night, explaining where it all went wrong. There is no doubt that this is a crushing blow, I'm hoping that we can run the ball effectively and get all our wide receivers involved in these short quick routes.

Bottom line, the game on Sunday just got a lot tougher.

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It got tougher

But we’re 7.5 point favorites. YankeesJets is accurate in mention the oddity of being 11-0 1PM Games and 1-10 All Others the last two years and this is a 4pm game. I know we went 0-4 on the West Coast last year.

But the Raiders are really bad. The Jets aren’t. There really isn’t an excuse to lose this one. If the Jets lose to the Bills and Raiders in back to back games, how good are they?

by JetsFan1991 on Oct 23, 2009 3:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Not very is the simplest answer

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by David_Wyatt on Oct 23, 2009 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

but the thing is

we shouldn’t be concentrating on the pass anyway. the raiders run defense is horrible. i believe a big reason why the eagles lost to them was their reluctance to run the ball.
Thomas Jones found his legs again last week and Leon Washington is as explosive as ever. the extent of our passing should be limited to screens and slants, because of Sanchez needing to tone it down a bit after the 5 INTs and get back into a groove. That will build his confidence and help him become what we all know he can be. And with our dynamic backfield, we shouldn’t need to pass, especially against this run defense. and i think Edwards will be a factor in the run game, and we shouldn’t forget about Clowney either. I still think we got this game.

ITS TIME FOR A GREEN OUT!

by greenNwhite4life on Oct 23, 2009 6:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

True

but at the same time, having Cotchery means that they have to respect the pass even if we don’t go to it. Now they can put single coverage all over the field and load the box. I think that’s the point trying to be made here. With Cotchery and Edwards, we have two viable top receivers we ‘could’ go to. If the run isn’t working on Sunday and we have to throw, we have no choice, this is where we really start to feel the loss.

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by David_Wyatt on Oct 23, 2009 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Line up Clowney

and they’ll have to send 2 safeties deep to double cover both him and Edwards, plus draw their 2 CBs deep too. That gets 4 of the 11 D guys downfield. 7 men in the box isn’t any fun, but if you have good blocking, TJ should be able to pick up yards.

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by NC_Scott on Oct 24, 2009 7:14 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs