Desperate for what? Desperate to correct an incorrect blowhard toughguy on the internet when he spouts off ignorantly?
Desperate for people to acknowledge that your team actually exists. Why else would you be on here writing 500+ word responses about your team? The thing Jets fans don't seem to get is that the original purpose of this thread is tongue-in-cheek. Also what Jets fans don't seem to get is that when they come here and write said 500+ word responses, they actually come off as the ones who fear the Patriots. For instance, you won't find me with an account on JetsInsider or GangGreen. Why? Because the Jets don't scare me in the least bit.
I'm not in denial about anything. You're just wrong, again. Faneca was let go because he was a liability. If you really want stats, go look up the running plays the Jets ran last year, and get back to me which side of the line they ran behind most of the time.
Perhaps you could furnish me with these stats.
He was a leader, but his performance wasn't worth it, and the Jets have leadership on the OL in an emerging Mangold, Ferguson, and Woody. Add a solid RG in Moore, the Jets have plenty of leadership and a veteran presence to take on a rookie transition.
It looks like Mangold is about to enter a lengthy contract dispute with the Jets, Woody is a fat, overrated tub of goo, and Ferguson was well on his way to being a bust before Faneca came along.
Good, because it looks like you'll need him to replace the Patriot's best OL'n in Mankins.
Actually, that will be Kaczur.
Exactly, the fact that Jones played so poorly in the playoffs last year is why he is now in Kansas City and why LT is on the team.
Jones' best postseason game: 16 rushes, 42 yards
L.T.'s best postseason game: 12 rushes, 24 yards
What am I missing?
Why shouldn't I use AFC Championship to make a point, because the Jets went to the game, the Pats didn't, and it kills you!!!!
Actually, it kills you more that Patriots fans laugh at the fact that Jets fans brag about an AFCCG appearance like they won the Super Bowl. It's one of the many reasons why you're here, ON A RIVAL TEAM'S MESSAGEBOARD, with a chip on your shoulder.
So now you're a doctor? Can he come back? Sure... But the FACT is, nobody knows, and nobody knows if he will ever be the same. He also may start the season on the PUP, and would have been due a big contract next year, nobody knows what Leon will be, so the Jets were proactive in replacing him, and thinking of the future with the other roster decisions they have the next couple of years.
It's pretty WIDELY agreed that a compound fracture is easier to come back from than a torn ligament.
Uh huh, just like Leon Washington did when the Jets drafted him. McKnight was also one of the more heralded high school players in recent history, the talent and potential is there, and he will be our #3 RB, a great pick to replace Washington, who we DON'T know if he will ever be the same. All of this STILL doesn't change the fact Washington was lost last year in week 5 and was a non-factor in the year the Jets had last year, and here you are spinning his loss heading into this year. You aren't very bright.
It's a loss because you don't know what you're replacing him with. Wow, McKnight was one of the best high school players in the country? WHOA, WATCH OUT! Should I sh!t my pants now or wait until later? Newsflash, genius, most of the guys who see time at the NFL level were one of the top high school players in the state or country at one point or another. That does not mean that Joe McKnight is going to immediately come in and give you what Leon Washington gave you. The fact that you keep arguing over the impact a rookie will make even after I and several others have told you that it's a logical fallacy is as humorous as it gets though. The very irony of you calling me, "not very bright".
I'm quite aware of what Schottenheimer was in SD, he's also a highly regarded offensive coach now who will probably be a head coach in this league in the next 5 years. He runs a system much like Cam Cameron did, and he was a coach under his own father, who LT LOVED to play for. We replaced Jones with LT, a younger player with much more ability and add his ability as a receiver, much more dynamic. This cannot be disputed.
Did you just try to make the argument that L.T. is younger than Jones? I guess you aren't aware that Jones is 31 and L.T. is 30. But yeah, other than that, HUGE difference in age. Tomlinson averaged 3.3 YPC and Jones averaged 4.2. Now please, go ahead and back yourself into the corner of telling me how superior the Jets' offensive line was to San Diego's.
LT to Larry Johnson is a horrible comparison, they are both very different backs. You clowns want to point out his ypc last year, but he was hurt the last two years, and the Charger OL is awful, especially in rushing offense.
It doesn't matter how different two RB's are. When the wheels are falling off, they're falling off no matter if you're a power runner or a more elusive runner. In that light, L.T. to L.J. is a very apt comparison.
Sproles ypc last year was only 3.6, I guess he's getting old and lost a step too!!!
Ah, so now you've proven to be a hypocrite too. After telling me you can't compare a power back to an elusive runner, you go ahead and compare said elusive runner to a third down back whose specialty is catching the ball out of the backfield. You really are making quite an ass out of yourself here.
Holmes was a STEAL of a pickup, and any spin you offer to dispute is just sour grapes. You cannot question the ability he has and the dynamic he will add to this Jets team.
I never said Holmes sucked. However, he's one off the field incident away from a long term suspension. Better hope he behaves himself in New York City...
Spare me on your Sanchez rhetoric, it reeks of penis envy.
And you called me an idiot? Wow. So because I noted that Sanchez sucked last year (are you honestly denying that he did?), it's penis envy now? So you've basically just copped out at this point, huh?
The kid has the goods, he struggled and was inconsistent just like all the great QB's did in their first season.
And on top of that, you're going to compare him to Manning and Brady? LMFAO!!
When the lights came on for real in the post season, he emerged as a franchise QB, and this kills you!!!!!!!!!! :singing:
Uh huh. That's why the Jets coaching staff openly admitted that the gameplan was to lean on the running game and keep the ball out of his hands as much as they could? Maybe in your deluded fantasies Sanchez had a lights out performance in the playoffs. In the real world, here were his numbers...
Wild Card: 12-15, 115 yards, 1 TD
Divisional: 12-23, 100 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT
Championship: 17-30, 257 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT
One can hardly call that, "the lights coming on for real". Those are EXTREMELY mediocre stats. On top of that, the only reason he did as good as he did in the first half of the Championship were due to big plays which were either trick plays or caught the Colts by suprise. Why don't you tell me what happened once Greene left the game, the Colts went up multiple scores, and the Jets had to lean on Sanchez? He looked like the same Sanchez from the regular season.
Jenkins isn't a RB or a WR, he got hurt early in the year last year and is fully healthy, unlike Welker, who is a WR and needs his legs. Jenkins is a top 3 NT in this league, spin it all you want, his return is like adding another player this year since he missed most of the season last year, considering the Jets were the #1 defense last year, that's a scary thought, isn't it???
You must be joking. Do you really, honestly believe that a NT in a 3-4, who has to engage two men at the point of attack, doesn't need his legs? PLEASE tell me you didn't just say that.
You have NO clue what shape LT is in. Holmes was a steal PERIOD. Think of it this way, when Holmes comes back, he'll step right in and be a major cog to an already very talented offense, while Welker may not be back until week 7.
Sure I do. All anybody would have to do is watch him. The Jets might just be 1-2 in the divison by the time Holmes comes back, so you had better hope he can step right in. And Welker, well perhaps you haven't heard yet: Welker is already participating in OTA's.
Cromartie is a CB that needs to play in a pressure schemed defensive system, he's not a zone player, the Chargers moved away from the aggressive scheme they played in his first two years when he was a pro bowl player.
Oh please. The Chargers moved away from that scheme after 2006 when Phillips left. They played in it in 2007 when he had his one and only good year. In 2008, he broke his hip and hasn't been the same since. On top of that, he's as dumb as a rock and has been since his FSU days. There's a reason why the Chargers were so eager to part ways with him.
Rex said Cromartie was the most impressive workout he's ever seen as a CB, I think Rex knows a thing or two about defense, I'm just a wee bit more inclined to believe Rex instead of a pimple-nosed punk spouting off who doesn't have a clue!!!!
Rex always says that his team is the best at something. What were you expecting him to say? That Cromartie is going to suck?
