I am not sure I buy the "Woody building a fraud of a team" thing entirely. The Jets have been decent in Woody's time. I do think they have brought in some guys that looked like made to order Jets that had some Jets fan appeal if you will.
I will never know how they convinced themselves that Mark Sanchez was the guy to lead their offense. But then again, you could make the case that the entire Pats defense is predicated on the degree to which most NFL QB's are really pretty lousy. We are spoiled by the fact that we have gotten to see Tom Brady perform week after week here. There are only about four truly elite QB's playing in the league, a really large second tier of guys that can be relied upon to make enough bad throws and mental errors during a game to do themselves in and the rest are a joke ala' the hapless Sanchez.
The rules changes have created a league laden with opportunity for offenses to succeed through the air. However what that has done is forced us to recognize how small the number of truly elite QB's is in this league.
Yup, guys can pile up yards more easily now but give them enough throws or opportunities to throw and they will either pick the wrong receiver to throw to, will throw it when they should not have thrown it or will just plain throw a lousy ball enough times to keep from scoring enough points to beat you. Up till know what has the Pats Pass Defense done other than lay back there and wait for the QB to burp out the expected error? Clearly, BB was not happy with how much room there was between receivers and defenders and the number of PI calls against his guys, forcing him to do something like Talib. I also think BB realizes that come the real season, BB knows the chances of running into one of the truly good QB's is much greater.
I suspect that BB is the least favorite NFL coach down there at NFL HQ because he simply spits in the eye of the NFL's dream marketing effort. The league wants to pump the idea that we can tune in on Sunday and see these wizards of the gridiron zipping pellets through defenses, hitting their receivers in the numbers up and down the field and into the end zone. In fact the norm is get 30-40 yards worth of a drive and either fizzle, giving up the ball on downs or turning the ball over either fumbling it trying to throw it or throwing to a guy wearing the wrong uniform. Usually they don't even get close enough to the end zone or retain possession such that they can attempt a field goal. Even as porous as the Pats have been if they just did a better job converting the blunders opposing QB's have tossed their way, they would win even more often than they do. Flacco surely made enough errors in the Ravens game for the Pats to have won that game. We just did not make plays on some of the mistakes Flacco left out there on the field. Change that result and the Pats are 8-2 and the Ravens are 7-3. I know that is another woulda' coulda' but didn't. However you would think we would be losing games left and right and probably would have if the league's QB's were better than they are as a group.
I will never know how they convinced themselves that Mark Sanchez was the guy to lead their offense. But then again, you could make the case that the entire Pats defense is predicated on the degree to which most NFL QB's are really pretty lousy. We are spoiled by the fact that we have gotten to see Tom Brady perform week after week here. There are only about four truly elite QB's playing in the league, a really large second tier of guys that can be relied upon to make enough bad throws and mental errors during a game to do themselves in and the rest are a joke ala' the hapless Sanchez.
The rules changes have created a league laden with opportunity for offenses to succeed through the air. However what that has done is forced us to recognize how small the number of truly elite QB's is in this league.
Yup, guys can pile up yards more easily now but give them enough throws or opportunities to throw and they will either pick the wrong receiver to throw to, will throw it when they should not have thrown it or will just plain throw a lousy ball enough times to keep from scoring enough points to beat you. Up till know what has the Pats Pass Defense done other than lay back there and wait for the QB to burp out the expected error? Clearly, BB was not happy with how much room there was between receivers and defenders and the number of PI calls against his guys, forcing him to do something like Talib. I also think BB realizes that come the real season, BB knows the chances of running into one of the truly good QB's is much greater.
I suspect that BB is the least favorite NFL coach down there at NFL HQ because he simply spits in the eye of the NFL's dream marketing effort. The league wants to pump the idea that we can tune in on Sunday and see these wizards of the gridiron zipping pellets through defenses, hitting their receivers in the numbers up and down the field and into the end zone. In fact the norm is get 30-40 yards worth of a drive and either fizzle, giving up the ball on downs or turning the ball over either fumbling it trying to throw it or throwing to a guy wearing the wrong uniform. Usually they don't even get close enough to the end zone or retain possession such that they can attempt a field goal. Even as porous as the Pats have been if they just did a better job converting the blunders opposing QB's have tossed their way, they would win even more often than they do. Flacco surely made enough errors in the Ravens game for the Pats to have won that game. We just did not make plays on some of the mistakes Flacco left out there on the field. Change that result and the Pats are 8-2 and the Ravens are 7-3. I know that is another woulda' coulda' but didn't. However you would think we would be losing games left and right and probably would have if the league's QB's were better than they are as a group.
