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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 18, 2012 4:43:19 GMT
The end of the Jets game was fantastic.
Driving to win the game and Sanchez lofts one up to anyone who wants it and is intercepted. The Titans run the ball three times and then punt out of their endzone and, under pressure, the kicker shanks the ball out of bounds for a 19 yard punt, giving the Jets 1st & 10 at the Titan 25.
Cut to pictures of Ryan fist pumping and shouting on the sideline.
Very next play and the ball is snapped low while Sanchez wasn't looking. He drops the ball and it's kicked by the halfback and recovered by the Titans.
Cut to Ryan not shouting or fist pumping on the sideline.
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Post by elth on Dec 18, 2012 8:10:48 GMT
You just can't beat the Jets for schadenfreude based entertainment.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 18, 2012 12:51:27 GMT
I'm not even sure it was schadenfreude... it was just a really great terrible game.
It was like watching an entertainingly terrible movie.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 18, 2012 13:04:14 GMT
Favourite moments from the weekend :
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Post by Moo on Dec 18, 2012 13:47:00 GMT
The sheer presence of Brady forced the returner to the sideline. Legend.
In related news, I've listened to an interview with Billy (as I do every week), he wasn't a happy bunny.
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Post by elth on Dec 18, 2012 16:12:46 GMT
I actually feel a bit sorry for Sanchez. I feel sorry for any quarterback that has to spend as much time wondering where the ball will end up as it's snapped to them as they do worrying about where it will end up after they throw it.
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Post by hornet on Dec 19, 2012 13:34:06 GMT
Of all the things you can point at as being dodgy about the Jets offence, I'm not sure the shotgun snap is especially high on the list.
Feel sorry for Sanchez because he's had two incompetent offensive coordinators who have both felt the need to break up his rhythm with the offence by bringing in gimmicky option QBs for 10 snaps a game. Feel sorry for him that in the absence of the team's three best receivers there's not a single above-average NFL player at any of the "skill" positions. Feel sorry for him because he's in a bearpit of a media market. Feel sorry for him because his team manufactured an entirely unnecessary QB controversy in the offseason by bringing in one of the few players in the NFL less accurate than he is. Even feel sorry because we'll probably never know if he could have been any good at all if he wasn't stuck on a team who are determined to play a style of offence that's 30 years out of date.
I just want to remind everyone that I fucking called it. And it's only going to get worse when the team goes into Salarycapaggeddon this off-season.
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Post by Moo on Dec 19, 2012 14:37:41 GMT
If the Jets cut Sanchez in the off season, the cap hit is around $16M? THat's fucking huge. Try trading him for Chad Henne, Hornet.
You're welcome
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 19, 2012 15:20:20 GMT
They can't trade him either. If the NFL dude on ESPN was right yesterday they pay him $8.75m to keep him, $12.5m this year and $4m next year if they make him a June 1 waiver and $17.5m to cut him outright.
Also if they cut him and he signs with someone else, then they have no offset in the deal, so they wouldn't get any money back.
Meanwhile, they're paying Tebow and giving Denver money for Tebow's offset.
I actually don't think we'll see much more from Sanchez, even with a different environment. He's never completed more than 57% of his passes in a season and his yards per attempt has been nailed to about 6.5 every year.
He's just a middling dude who was drafted way too high - a rich man's Chad Henne.
I think he'll still be in the league, five years from now, but if the Jets decide to just eat the cap hit from cutting him, I'm not sure he'll start again, outside of injury relief.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 20, 2012 17:23:14 GMT
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Post by Moo on Dec 20, 2012 21:58:51 GMT
YGOS?
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 24, 2012 5:12:09 GMT
Proof that not all NFL players are rendered incapable by concussion... here's Randall Cobb moving the ball from the Green Bay 4 to the Green Bay 40. By stepping out of bounds before he fields the ball Tennessee's kick off counts as out of bounds.
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Post by elth on Dec 24, 2012 7:37:21 GMT
36 yard return with one step.
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Post by DC on Dec 24, 2012 11:09:17 GMT
I remember Adrian Peterson getting caught on something like that, due to some kind of difference in the rule between college and the Pro's. Can't remember the specifics of it, but it was silly and gave the opposition the ball on the 3 yard line or something.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 31, 2012 17:00:45 GMT
Everyone is fired today.
HC Lovie of the Bears is fired. HC Romeo Crennel of the Chiefs is fired. HC Chan Gailey of the Bills is fired. HC Andy Reid of Philadelphia is fired. HC Rex Ryan of the Jets is not fired, but GM Mike Tannenbaum is fired. GM Gene Smith of the Jaguars is also fired.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 31, 2012 17:45:44 GMT
Add in HC Pat Schmurr and GM Tom Heckert of the Browns.
I thought they did ok this year, with some very mundane talent. Heckert's biggest crime was being outbid by Washington and missing out on RGIII.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Dec 31, 2012 18:55:19 GMT
Wisenhunt and Graves are next over the side from the Cardinals.
Jets should keep Ryan and hire Norv to run the offence.
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Post by elth on Jan 1, 2013 1:32:31 GMT
Wisenhunt's one of those guys that clearly shouldn't be held to blame for the appalling state of the roster he works with, but at the same time is so woefully out of his depth in the NFL that firing him is still the right choice.
Same with Caldwell in Indianapolis last year - yeah, your roster sucks, but you can't coach anyway.
Also, if someone would like to take Bruce Arians off our hands before he gets back to being offensive coordinator, that would be just swell.
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Post by DC on Jan 1, 2013 2:06:27 GMT
Gruden seems certain to make some sot of comeback then, and I thought it was interesting that there was talk of Mariucci re-appearing in the league.
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Post by hornet on Jan 2, 2013 10:51:34 GMT
HC Rex Ryan of the Jets is not fired, but GM Mike Tannenbaum is fired. FWIW, I think that's the right call. Ryan might be overrated and a bit of a blowhard (in fact, I'm pretty sure he's both of those things) but he's an above average NFL head coach. On the other hand their cap situation is, to put it technically, unforgivably fucked. Over the last few years they've consistantly overpaid for declining veteran talent, they've failed to address glaring personnel issues (the holes on the offensive line, the increasing immobility of the linebacker corps) and then there's the quarterback situation of which we shall speak no further. The faliures this season were horribly predictable, and things will almost certainly get worse before they get better. But to get better at all you need a new guy in the front office who's got no emotional stake in justifying or doubling down on past fuckups. And for all Rex Ryan's well-known faults he seems to be a coach that players want to play for, which gives you a decent chance of avoiding a Buffalo Bills-style decade-long mediocrity death-spiral. Feel the enthusiasm.
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Post by Moo on Jan 2, 2013 11:01:20 GMT
Pretty much the sensible opinion in the room right there. Any chance that will be followed up though? After all, it's the New York Jets.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Jan 2, 2013 19:38:01 GMT
A nearby Dicks Sporting Goods (yes, it's called that), store has an excellent display :
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Jan 5, 2013 17:32:34 GMT
So Rex Ryan went on vacation to the Bahamas and the paparazi got a picture of him and it turns out he has a tattoo of his wife, wearing a Mark Sanchez jersey... What... the... I don't even...
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Post by Moo on Jan 5, 2013 19:50:45 GMT
Is she Tebowing?
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Post by DC on Jan 5, 2013 23:47:47 GMT
Maybe he has really nice feet.
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