Week 9 Approval Rating

Sure the team showed resolve and that will be great down the road, but it should never have been needed if you werent so stubborn in allowing schottenheimer to continue to call plays the way he did and blitzing every 3rd and long to the same result, blitz 1 or 2 extra guys, get absolutely no pressure on the QB, then he finds his TE or slot receiver over the middle for 15 yards. Maybe adjust? throw in some zone? stop being so predictable? How bout you get a little more our of your front 3 (4). Major changes need to be implemented or the Jets are going to get absolutely embarrassed at Cleveland.

for the penalties if nothing else. Its sloppy and worse, consistently sloppy play. While some of them have been good penalties (There was a penalty on Slauson that probably saved Sanchez’s ass from a vicious hit during the Ravens game) a lot of them have been stupid false starts/holdings. On top of that, burning two timeouts in the second half because you twice had 12 men on speaks to bad defensive play calling somewhere on the totem pole and that is ultimately on Rex.

In his defense I will say that the overall defensive play calling looked a lot better this game although the slot still remains a problem. On the other hand this only highlights the problems with the offensive play calling. Rex ultimately is responsible for the amount of rope that Schotty has in terms of play calling. At some point he needs to step in and stop him from hanging himself. Given his presser comments re: Schotty, that doesn’t seem likely any time soon which is problematic in and of itself.