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This play-call was a mistake, and I’m sure if Bill Parcells, one of Aaron Glenn’s mentors, was watching the game in Jupiter, he was yelling at the screen.
Late first half, Jets down 24-7, they have a third-and-13 on the Miami Dolphins’ 19-yard line. A field goal makes is a two-score game, 24-10, and they get the ball to start the second half.
Brady Cook throws a pass to the left side of the end zone, and it’s picked by East Orange’s Rasul Douglas.
What are you doing here Gang Green?
You are in field goal range, you are playing an undrafted rookie free agent QB, and it’s 3rd-and-13, and you have him throw to an undersized receiver on the side of the end zone?
That is not great game management or play-calling?
I’m telling you, Parcells might have thrown a brick at the screen if he were watching in Florida.
You can blame the OC, but if that was the play-call, this is a situation where maybe the head coach has to get on the headset and say, “Run the damn ball.”
The red zone is hard for veteran QBs to throw, can you imagine the difficulty for a rookie UDFA in his first action? . . .
At some point, as a coach and GM, you have to say, “This player keeps making the same mistake over and over again, week after week, we might need to play somebody else.”
Certain players on the Jets’ defense just keep making the same mistakes week after week.
Well, actually, with some of these players, not all these plays should be called “mistakes.” Some of it is not being able to handle certain assignments physically or mentally.
I would love to be a fly on the wall at some of these D-Line or linebacker film study meetings after games.
Jets D-Line coach Eric Washington and linebacker coach Aaron Curry have to be frustrated beyond belief at some of their players making the same mistakes over and over.
Linebackers running to get blocked, or running around blocks opening big holes, defensive ends not setting the edge properly, defensive tackles being pushed back on skates opening big running lanes.
There is only so much Washington and Curry can do.
At some point, the head coach or GM needs to step in and make changes, and stop forcing these position coaches to play guys who can’t do the job.
Granted, there are only so many options this time of year, but there seems to be blind faith in certain players that defies logic.
Sometimes you can’t will players to be better than they are based on your belief in them.
This team needs to be make major, major changes when it comes to defensive personnel next off-season, especially in the front seven.
It’s not due to a lack of effort; there are just too many players out there who shouldn’t be starters.
And to use a Rex Ryan expression, there needs to be “blunt force trauma” in the Jets’ player personnel meetings.
Granted it’s hard to make a lot of changes now, but man, after the season, they better have some “blunt force trauma” meetings and make some big plans on how to fix this defense, and that includes not overpaying in-house free agents, like they did last year with a linebacker and a cornerback (who they were able to get a king’s ransom for in a trade to their credit).
There are some guys coming up for new deals. Honestly, who deserves big money on this current defense?
It is what it is.
Look at the film . . .
With the team is struggling and it is a tough economy, Jets attendance in recent games has not been great, especially the last couple of games against Atlanta and Miami.
No matter how many times PA announcer yells to the crowd – “Let’s go Jets Nation – make some noise!” it doesn’t seem to be working.
NFL teams never announce the actual attendance anymore. They go with paid attendance and that number for the Miami game was 68,625, which isn’t bad, but keep in mind, the stadium holds 82,000. The paid attendance for the Atlanta game was 70,012.
But how many people were actually in the stadium? I haven’t heard anything about the Miami game yet, but the number I heard from the Atlanta game was somewhere around 37,000.
Jets owner Woody Johnson (pictured above) can’t be thrilled with the home attendance recently.
So the Jets really have not had much of a home-field advantage in recent home games.
Early in the season, it was better.
Perhaps adding a QB high in the draft next year will help bring back some buzz.
While never should make personnel decisions to sell tickets, this is one of those situations where it’s a need, and it will sell tickets, so the two concepts could come together organically . . .
You have to give Jets rookie cornerback Azareye’h Thomas a lot of credit for his toughness. He was injured in the second quarter and was down on the field for a while, getting attended to by trainers and doctors.
It looked bad. Players from both teams were praying for him on the field.
He eventually walked off under his own power.
And he actually returned to action in the second half.
It turned out to be a shoulder injury, not a neck or head.
And he told JC after the game, that as long as he has “range of motion” in his shoulder he was going to play.
In other words, he can deal with some pain as long as the shoulder is working correctly.
This guy looks like a really good draft pick for Gang Green.
December 8, 2025
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