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There needs to be more accountability.
When Michael Clemons commits a roughing the passer penalty, he needs to come for a few plays, and a coach needs to talk to him.
He committed a roughing passer penalty on the drive the Patriots kicked a field goal to take a 17-16 lead in the fourth quarter.
But he was in the next play.
Accountability is important if you want to build a strong culture . . .
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen this before – a team needing to call a timeout on their first offensive possession because they weren’t lined up right.
And happened to the Jets today.
Aaron Rodgers was trying to move WR Mike Williams from the left to right side, and by the time he got over there, the clock was winding down, so Rodgers called a timeout.
The first drive is supposed to be your most scripted and well-organized possession of the game.
How often do you see the great offensives march right now down the field on that first drive?
It should be your smoothest drive of the game with all week to work on it, and the other team not having time to adjust, like they do after this possession and then at halftime.
To have to call a timeout on your first drive of the game is unconscionable . . .
The Jets offense has gotten worse since the demotion of Nathaniel Hackett.
It doesn’t seem like Rodgers and Todd Downing are on the same page, as evidenced by the Jets burning all three of their first-half timeouts in the first quarter, something else I’ve never seen.
Even if you didn’t like Hackett, is it better to replace him as a play-caller in season, and have he run Hackett’s offense?
This isn’t Downing’s offense that he ran in Tennessee. Of course, there are some similarities, but it’s not the same playbook.
And this leads to another issue with the Jets which might have led to the demotion of Hackett.
Here is something New York Post beatwriter Brian Costello wrote earlier this week:
“The Jets listen to the noise and let it influence them. That leads to bad football decisions. Woody Johnson too often acts like a fan and that has been on display this month. The Jets are always worried about what fans and media are saying instead of having a sound plan and sticking to it.”
The Hackett demotion seemed like a move to appease the fans.
Maybe the fans were right to be down on Hackett to a degree, but how is it better to promote another coach to run Hackett’s playbook, not his playbook?
The best chance to the Jets have of turning around their organization is to hire a GM and head coach, and get out of the way.
No meddling from the owner or anybody on the business side.
The best run organizations, like Kansas City and San Francisco, are run that way.
Maybe try that for the rest of this season.
To bring in independent contractors like Davante Adams and Haason Reddick, in the middle of a losing streak, made little sense.
If you are a contender in baseball, and you add an arm, or if you are the KC Chiefs, and you add WR D’Andre Hoplins, to help push you over the top, that is one thing, but how can you expect to insert two guys, integrate them on the fly during a losing streak, and expect them to help you turn it around, when they aren’t entirely comfortable with your systems or with their teammates?
And for one of them to give a fire-and-brimstone speech to the team, a few days after he arrived, when most of the players barely know him, how does that make sense?
That speech needs to come from an entrenched core player, not a vagabond.
The only hope the Jets have moving forward the rest of this year, and moving forward, is letting the GM and coach do their thing, with no influence from non-football people and money-managers.
If they keep having business people telling their football people what to do, they have no hope. None.
They need to make the make thing the make thing.
With all the meddling going on, you have to wonder if Joe Douglas will even want to return next year.
He looks miserable.
Coming from Baltimore and Philadelphia, where he won three rings (two in Baltimore, one in Philly), Douglas knows what a good football culture looks like, but it’s hard for him to establish that with the current set up.
October 27, 2024
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