The NY Jets defense made Russel Wilson look good, especially given the fact the guy is walking wounded. The next time someone tells me Todd Bowles is a defensive genius I’ll give them a Bronx cheer, the Jets don’t have a top 5 defense and his defensive schemes aren’t working. With the D line the jets have, who can get pressure on the QB without blitizing, his schemes puzzle me, especially have Revis play off the ball (he is a press corner, not a zone guy or cover2). Given how shaky their safeties are in pass coverage (anyone see where Pryor got burned, tripped over his own two feet, and Wilson threw a practice touchdown pass), and how suspect the secondary should be, blitzing makes no sense.
Not to mention I am down on Bowles because he is another of the long line of defense oriented coaches who believe you can win in this league with a mediocre QB, you can’t, not over the long run. Having a great defense takes pressure off the QB, but I doubt Denver or Minnesota will make it to the superbowl this year. Denver won the superbowl with Manning who wasn’t playing very well, but Manning also was Peyton Manning and didn’t make mistakes mediocre QB’s (Fitzpatrick, anyone?). Among other thing, mediocre QB’s leave the defense on the field too much, and they get burned out. I agreed with a caller on the radio after the game, he said this is the same old Jets, new regime, new GM, new coaches, and in the end, same old Jets. People point to last year, but last year the Jets had one of the easier schedules in the league, and in the end didn’t get to the playoffs because Fitzpatrick and the team sucked against Buffalo, this year they face one of the toughest and it is evident this is a second class team at best, even with some of the talent they have.
The ultimate nail biter, @novadad99, I caught the last couple of minutes of it and that ending was one for the ages. I watched the first half of the Louisville-Clemson game, figured Louisville, especially its QB, were pulling a NY Jets moment, figured Clemson was gonna bury them, then found out that Louisville sort of woke up (or Clemson went to sleep, the Clemson QB must have been studying the same book as the Louisville QA, “How to play QB the Harvard Way” by Ryan Fitzpatrick…). At least neither was a blowout, you get tired of those fast, and a lot of college games are.
@NoVADad99 We were out to dinner . They had multiple games on . We could barely eat our dinner. The Tennessee Georgia game was crazy. Then we came home to watch the Clemson Kentucky game. What a crazy night for football .
Watched the Jets Steelers game. Just amazing, the Jets can’t seem to stay out of their own way…And there seemed to be a bunch of bumble bees buzzing around on the field, oh wait…
And look at those Lions, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat ! Sorry Eagles, it’s tough to go undefeated in football.
Jets looked like the Jets, poorly coached, lousy playing. I have lost most of my respect for Todd Bowles, this kind of playing is partially personnel, but part of it is the play calling. It was obvious on the offense they went conservative, to keep Fitz from throwing picks, and the defense basically fell apart in the second half (they were helped by Todd Hailey, one of the more boring offensive coordinators in the league). I am seriously getting tired of defensive coaches as head coaches who believe defense is everything, besides the fact that the Jets defense is mediocre right now, you can’t win with a mediocre QB, I am getting tired of these kind of coaches with the Jets. The Jets are pretty much finished, they are 1-4 and have Arizona next week (which they could win), and the Ravens, then face NE with Brady. My guess is the Jets may end up with 4-6 wins this year, and we’ll then hear the drumbeat of “we are in rebuilding mode”. Being the Jets, they likely will recruit at Rutgers, who despite all the claim the program is ‘competitive’, just got beat down 71-0 by Michigan.
My Chargers seem to invent new and vastly interesting ways to lose a lead in the 4th quarter. When was the last time a professional punt kicker and ball holder fumbled the ball all over the field??
Probably happens a lot but I personally have never seen it.
When I was younger I was passionate about the Padres and Chargers. Actually went to a lot of the games.
I admit that I have not read up on all the details but my gut feel is that I don’t think we need another fancy convention center and stadium downtown associated with a lot of taxes… whether the citizens are paying for it or tourists. . I just don’t understand why we cannot renovate the existing Qualcomm stadium. I understand that the main issue is that the NFL considers our stadium sub par and so we will not be hosting the Super Bowl again. Which is a shame because we’ve got great climate and a great city to host things like the Super Bowl.
“Yesterday, fine-dining steak chain Ruth’s Chris posted a promotion on Facebook stating that for the rest of the season, fans in Ann Arbor will get a percentage discount off their bill equal to the Michigan margin of victory (up to 50 percent) of the prior game. It’s an innocent promotion to drive some traffic to a dining establishment that prices out a fair amount of people.”
A good thing they added the cap because I’m sure somebody would have lost their job with everyone coming in for 78% off…
@chuckledoodle: lol. That was some beat down, even Harbaugh was embarassed by it. While I feel bad for the Rutgers coach, he got in on a bad situation, I also enjoyed it a bit because before the season started, our beloved governor when asked about whether it was worth having a division 1 football program at Rutgers, boasted about how they were playing at an elite level and brought recognition to the school and the state and was worth the money spent expanding the stadium, etc…I wonder how much recognition it brought to the 200 potential recruits sitting in the stands, if you saw a potential school get beat like that, would you go there?
@coralbrook:
A lot of that has to do with building luxury boxes and the like, it is why the Meadowlands stadium the Jets and Giants share was so expensive (around 2 billion with everything). The NFL is also encouraging ‘stadium sharing’, I think there is only 1 stadium used for football and baseball these days (Oakland coliseum, soon to be vacant for football), so they would likely be against refurbishing Qualcom rather than building someplace else and having two teams share it, like the new stadium in LA for the Rams.
The new Minnesota stadium is a thing of beauty. They deserve it after the year of the HHH Dome. We were there for a company function for a basketball game (yes, basketball) and I spent the evening trying to figure out how much the law suit would cost if an employee fell from the top level. It was awful.
I feel bad for you folks who have to foot the bill of building a stadium for teams owned by billionaires. Here in NE, Bob Kraft was NOT going to get a stadium built for him, so he built Gillette on his own. The Patriot Place shopping and entertainment complex that surrounds it will allow him to pay for it.
