Jets Flight Connections 10-22-10

Did Safino consider that Sancez’s YPA may be down because he has completed 23 passes to RBs through 6 games after completing 10 to RBs all last year. That’s 24 of 98 completions, that’s almost 25% of all completions. These passes are going for YPC of of less than 5.3, that’s bound to bring down his YPA. But it directly related to his huge decrease in INTs. While his accuracy does need to improve, especially on the deep passes, I have found analyst and writers are being unusally critical of Sanchez and the Jets.
While I’m at it, I like FO and all the other in depth stats and metrics, enough is enough. Advanced Stats had us ranked 20th in the league by team efficiency, which they say is a good determinate of future success and trends. Really?! Every team we beat accept the God awful Bills was ranked ahead of us with the 2-4 Chargers the best in the league. Like I said I like these in depth stats because the help us understand our teams better, but we seem to be devaluing common sense. Yes,FO was right, the Jets and Revis will not repeat their D dominance but it has hurt the team we are a better team and the pass d will improve as rRevis heals. There is no stat for how a team will respond to the healing of it’s All Pro DB’s hammy. And anybody who thinks the Jets don’t have room for improvement in efficiency with Pace back, Revis getting back to 100% and the rest of the DBs returning to there rightful depths, with SG returning to form and Holmes gelling after missing 4 games just doesn’t know football. Stats are not the whole story. The game is still played by humans not robots.

Kevin Mawae was for a number of years one of my favorites, reminding me the Jets have been blessed with talented centers past and present. He went to the Titans towards the end of his career, and wasn’t re-signed this year. He blames it on his win as union head for his team. But the real factor at play here is the age of 39 and 16 years in the league. His lack of mobility and mounting injuries became factors, and for him to insinuate some kind of conspiracy was at play here is incorrect.

He had some great seasons for the Jets, but like many players, wasn’t really able to come to grips with the reason behind his career ending. The conspiracy is age, and it affects us all, but for the professional athlete, it proves to be often invisible.

Thanks, Kevin, for some outstanding years.