Shifting the Blame

It’s definitely something that too many people over look. We are handcuffed from the top down. Woody not wanting to spend that 8 Mil in cap space, Tanny not addressing line depth issues but resigning Wayne Hunter as a starter, the coaches not knowing any other the strengths or weakness of their players, and key starters executing whenever they see fit. Top to bottom mediocrity.

shed the light. Tanny is great but he stunk up the offseason. He allowed Cotchery to leave because Cotchery said so, the o-line depth is crap,and we still dont have a pass rushing threat. Hopefully he realizes that we have no OC, and sancez cant excel with Brian Schottenhiemer gamplanning.

nut honestly Mike T has two problems: Our expectations are ridiculously high and regression was bound to happen eventually, you can’t get cheap big name players every year.

The other problem is Woody Johnson tightening his check book. Every non-signing or FA that walked away was allegedly due to financial reasons according to Rex and Mike. We still have a healthy amount of $$$ on hand that never went to Nnamdi. The bottom line is since before the CBA Woody and several other owners have been scaling back expenses. I can’t count the number of times this offseason where Tanny said something along the lines of “I’d like to but my hands are tied financially”. With plenty of cap space left, who do you think is doing the tying?

Its was just something about him last year that gave me confidence in our offense. Like they would eventually make a big play because he could make some pretty athletic catches. I dont get that same feeling with Plaxico

I have long said that if indeed this season rested on the QB making a leap, not bolstering the OL is criminal. Nothing is perhaps more important than the OL, yet for more than one year Tannenbaum has taken the approach that OL is a position that is “cheap”, something you can just mix and fill. The OL is the soul of the offense. The OL is what makes the run game go (which is key to the play-action) and the OL is what give the QB 3.5 seconds instead of 2.7 seconds (which is an eternity of a difference.

As far as the pass rusher, that is not really so much on Mr. T, I think. It is Rex’s experiment that a team can avoid the big ticket pass rusher (and that chunk out of the cap) by building through blitz scheme and DBs. It is a basic philosophical premise that Rex brought. It is just for that reason that we gave the bank instead to Revis, and paired him with Cro, and drafted Wilson. Now though that the league has adapted to Rex’s exotic blitzes, it seems that the entire cap strategy on defense is in jeopardy. We are now stuck with smaller, slower safeties are are getting exposed in coverage schemes, especially now that we no longer bring the fort.

I mentioned Bryant Mckinnie in a post I did earlier. I think about that guy everytime Sanchez gets pegged in the spine by a defensive end. I think the move for Dwight Lowery might have been for Lowery as well as the Jets. Rex said that he had an opportunity to go somewhere and maybe start, and they wanted to give him the chance. I believe that. Another thing is at the time there was Brodney Poole, Eric Smith, and Jim Leonhard and Lowery is in the last year of his contract. Jets get a draft pick for a guy they probably couldn’t resign next year.

Tanny has not had a great year but i think there are more factors. The first being that Woody Johnson seemed to get a bit cheap. You send an awful message to the players when you treat a leader and lifetime Jet like Ellis the way they did.

As far as needing a pass rusher, one would think the defensive genius who coaches our team wouldve developed one by year three. I also think Tanny had faith in Callahan to develop the guys who would eventually be replacements on the O Line.

If it is true that Rex has a major influence on who comes and goes and who is drafted, I have to say he pales in comparison to Mangini when it comes to evaluating talent. With all this said, Im not ready to dump Tanny, I have not forgotten the Terry Bradway years.

Rex guaranteed that THIS team would win the Superbowl. Not we’ll win it, if Tannebaum would finally get me a OT, OLB and a safety.

There wasn’t a pass rush because most of the game your defense was in an oversized personnel to combat our run game. There were many times where your D-line had the three biggest lineman on your team plus bigger linebackers——I really didn’t notice Maybin being out there a lot. Plus in the final drive, our offense spread you out with a 3WR/2TE empty set look and I really only noticed four rushing the majority of the time, there were a few plays where blitzes were brought including the final play.

But as to your other complaint, I watched the Jets/Ravens game and without your starting C it was absolutely horrific, the Ravens D just lit the middle of that line up and terrorized Sanchez all game. Our pass rush is excellent as well, mostly from the edges depending on what D. Allen has dialed up. But on your last drive, Von Miller absolutely lit up your RT and shoved him to the ground before sacking Sanchez. So I would definitely agree that better O-line depth is a need—-though to be fair to whoever that was Von Miller is an absolute beast!

What do you think of Vlad Ducasse? Is he a full-time starter now, or a spot player? I remember wanted the Broncos to draft him when he came out, how is he doing?