Should the New York Jets Utilize Their No Huddle Offense More?
Mark Sanchez was inconsistent for the first 55:00 of Sunday's game against the Lions. The he led a pair of scoring drives, going 8 for 9 as Gang Green put up 10 points to send the game to overtime. Sanchez seemed to find a comfort zone working in no huddle mode.
The way the defense played had something to do with it. The Lions took away the deep ball on these drives, trading yardage for time, which left things more open underneath than they had been. Even so, Sanchez was making smart decisions, was more accurate than he had been, and was putting his guys in position to make plays.
Mark has struggled since the Minnesota game, which was the point Santonio Holmes joined the lineup. David asked us then whether Mark is overthinking because of the number of weapons he has. There has been a marked difference from the first four weeks, when he was looking to Dustin Keller first and to Braylon Edwards if Keller wasn't open. His looks have been more varied since then.
When a team is going fast in the no huddle, quarterbacks need to be much more instinctive. There isn't time to overthink things. I wonder whether the Jets might want to experiment with putting Sanchez into the no huddle more so he makes quicker decision and might be less likely to be overwhelmed by the number of options he has.
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I think the answer to this is up to Mark Sanchez.
Ryan’s got a philosophical issue with this approach because he wants sustained, ball control drives that keep his beloved defense rested. But having the top ranked D at the end of the year is not the rightful objective for this football team. If Sanchez, who is certainly struggling to find a rhythm with this offense, feels like he would be more productive in a two-minute, you gotta try it. We can’t win if we can’t score. And lately, we ain’t scoring, because teams are loading the freakin’ box on us every week now.
This is obviously a risky proposition when you have a QB who’s inaccurate, which I’m sure is also a factor in the coaches’ hesitation to run that type of offense. However, when you’re looking at an 11.5 ppg avg the last 2 weeks against below average defenses, what do you really have to lose?
I almost wish Ryan would ease up on his general philosophy from time to time. (You know, not ALWAYS blitz on 3rd and long.)
Imagine if we had a young Peyton Manning, Dan Marino or Brett Favre and he insisted on his particular philosophy over his own QB’s strengths. I liked Braylon’s quote when he said that Sanchez was at his best when he didn’t have to think. Sometimes you gotta work with what you have rather than trying to make what you have work with what you want.
Totally agree
Sometimes you gotta work with what you have rather than trying to make what you have work with what you want.
by nationalist88 on Nov 9, 2010 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
Decent idea. But Sanchez is still only in his second year in NFL… thats a lot of responsibility to give him.
More room for one of his “oopsies” which could easily result in something like a pick-6.
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It doesn't matter
Rex already said he doesn’t want Sanchez experimenting with it. So if he tries it on his own he’s not going to get Rex’s support
OC
We just need a good OC to call some good games. You see other teams with less talent who have a good OC create some good plays and he read the defenses. It like a chess game at times out there and our OC can’t play chess and is too predictable.
I want to see it...
2 minute offenses work. I especially like it when you don’t save it till the end when you need it and instead shoot into it early for a score and then sustain your drives once you’re up.
And, with as good as we are with short yardage and as good as our D is, I’d really like to see anything past the 35 become 4 down territory. Even if you only end up with a TD on half your attempts you’re still 1 point ahead of 2 FGs.
Using it sporadically during games to force defenses to change their pattern
is what this team could use.With their offensive weapons,the Jets should be lighting up the scoreboard not struggling to score points.
i would do it but a little different then other teams do it
I would run get to the line then run again then pass. Sometimes run, run, run. The idea is to speed up the offense but at the same time slowly move down the field. This would surely tired a defense out, while also giving your defense rest.
Wouldn't mind it if we catch them in a bad match-up.
Then we can force them into keeping that personnel group on the field and just keep exploiting it.
I don’t necessarily like the idea of going 2-minutes more just to find rhythm. Seems like a good way to ensure the exact opposite if youre not successful; and it puts more stress on the defense.
But i would like to see them quicken the pace at times. Seems like they are always trying to “reveal the disguise.” But i would think they would be a lot less apt to play around with their looks if we went with a few quick snaps and caught them with their pants down.
I would really like to see if we could go 3-wide but with Keller in the slot (really, i would like to see Cumberland, but i digress) and Harstock at TE. If we could run the ball effectively out of that formation we could really do some damage. Keller is basically an impossible cover for just about any LB; but he can block efficiently so he still gives us the benefit of a 2 TE, jumbo kinda advantage if they try to put in a safety rather than a LB to cover Keller. Thats the kinda formation that we can really catch a team in a bad personnel group and just no-huddle it until they say mercy and call a time out.

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