Flight Connections 02-21-12

by dvdvil on Feb 21, 2012 1:00 PM EST

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Sporting News ranks Tony Sparano as one of the top new coordinators.

SB Nation picks South Carolina OLB Melvin Ingram for the Jets.

CBS Sports picks Baylor WR Kendall Wright for the Jets.

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Sparano

has no business being ranked ahead of either Haley or Clements and neither does Daboll.

by bklynbrewcrew on Feb 21, 2012 1:44 PM EST reply actions

Not entirely sure how Daboll is ahead of Sparano himself for that matter

The rankings really don’t make any sense at all.

by Exystence on Feb 21, 2012 2:51 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Finally, someone's with me on Kendall Wright

by J-Nasty on Feb 21, 2012 2:52 PM EST reply actions

I dont think we are going to have a season better than the one we just had. We have too many holes and the thing that scares me the most is that New England has 4 picks in the first 2 rounds and a lot of cap room to do damage in free agency. It looks like The Patriots are going to come back stronger. Last season I had to endure being swept by the patriots and getting beat up by the Giants to watch them win the Super Bowl later on. I just hope that if we have a bad season we DONT get rid of Rex Ryan, he is a good coach and needs time to build this team. We need some consintancy

by monaso on Feb 21, 2012 3:05 PM EST reply actions

We may not be able to perfectly fill all of them

but we can, however, fix some of them to the point where others don’t become much of a problem. Also, I don’t think people ever remember that even with all of our problems on defense, we still finished 5th overall on that side of ball. It was incredibly inefficient offense that led to a lot more work for the defense than it needed. And having a new coordinator can only help that.

by darshv3 on Feb 21, 2012 4:22 PM EST up reply actions

I dont believe in stats

WE might have fished 5th overral, but there are a couple of games where our “top defense” let us down. Game where we could not stop the run: the Raiders game, New England in New England, Tebow and the broncos had 95 yard drive or something like that, The Giants game I still see Pool getting ran over by Bradshaw. The secondary is very overrated aside from Revis everybody else is very avarege at best. Cromatie is very inconsistent and commints a lot of penalties and I still can get over that 99 yard td on 3 down that Cromatie and Wilson allow to Cruz. I just dont see it how we could be considerate a top defense. You are right the offense was terrible, but people put too much blame on Sanchez. Im not a football expert but the poor kid really got beat up and I feel that affected his game and to top it off Pexico was nowhere near in speed to Braylon Edwards. Special teams was not the same after losing Brad Smith, he wont a bunch of games almost by himself for us. I just dont see us being a dominat team next season. Im sure Tanabum will find a way to make headlines but thats it

by monaso on Feb 21, 2012 6:09 PM EST up reply actions

I didn't say I blamed Sanchez

the entire offense in general was just a big mess, not just one particular person. And in that giants game, I really do think that the offense really screwed the defense over, they held the giants to four rushing yards in the first half, but then the offense just kept on going 3 and out again and again and again and again and again. No defense can hold down an offense forever when they’re on the field that much. I don’t know to explain those problems stopping the run at the beginning of the season, but that seemed to improve towards the end of the season (cept for the eagles game and the second half of the giants game). I know our defense gave up some inexplicably long drives, but in a lot of those games, just think about how much different it would’ve been if the offense could’ve scored just one more touchdown, just one more. Or maybe the offense could’ve helped the defense by not leading the AFC in turnovers. I’m not saying our defense is perfect by any means, but I think if our offense wasn’t a bottom 5 unit (that’s where they stand IMO) we could’ve won another two or three games.

by darshv3 on Feb 21, 2012 6:57 PM EST up reply actions