Last week, coach Rex Ryan wasn’t willing to give the Dolphins much credit for beating the Jets on Monday night, blaming the loss instead on the New York defense.
This week, Ryan was more respectful of the efforts of his opponent. Sort of.
“You have to give a lot of credit to Buffalo,” Ryan said after the game. “We knew they would come in, play hard, and give everything they had, and they did. You turn the ball over six times, [and] you’re not going to win many games.”
Though Ryan erred last week by not praising Miami for great coaching, game-planning, and execution, the Bills deserve no accolades for this one. They simply hung around long enough to take advantage of the many errors the home team made.
Quarterback Mark Sanchez, whose SoCal upbringing and collegiate affiliation kept him from playing many games in adverse conditions, got a taste of the cold and the wind of the Meadowlands — and it tasted like chicken. And five interceptions.
Five interceptions.
When drafting Sanchez, did the Jets not consider the possibility that he might struggle in the elements, given that, you know, he never had played in them?
The bigger question is whether other teams have already figured out Sanchez’s tendencies via film study — and whether the Jets have failed to get Sanchez to perform when opposing defenses force him away from his strengths.
So the Jets have melted from 3-0 to 3-3 and a loss to one of the worst teams in the league puts an exclamation point on the slide. They’ll now go back to Oakland to face a rejuvenated Raiders team that beat the Jets in overtime last year by the same score as yesterday’s game.
Then, a Dolphins team that surely will be charged up by the lack of respect that the Jets displayed after last Monday night’s game will come to town with a quarterback who knows a thing or two about playing in the cold and the wind, thanks to growing up in Pennsylvania and playing college football in Michigan.
Meanwhile, the Jets might not have their starting nose tackle, Kris Jenkins, for a while. And that could hurt them more than any number of interceptions that the “Sanchize” manages to throw. (Hey, maybe Browns coach Eric Mangini will trade Shaun Rogers to the Jets for a baseball cap that actually fits Mangini’s head.)
For the Bills, plenty of space should remain on the ever-circling wagons. With so many turnovers from the Jets, this game should never have gone to overtime.
So while coach Dick Jauron might get some props for dropping the no-huddle offense and maybe a quarterback controversy will emerge after Ryan Fitzpatrick stepped in for the injured Trent Edwards and finagled a win, this one wasn’t about the Bills playing well.
It was about the Jets playing poorly.
Chances are this won’t be the last game of the 2009 season that can be summed up that way.
Rex will be selling insurance come January. I’m still amazed that the Ets managed to pull off 3 wins.
Guess that Super Bowl hangover is starting to kick in for the Jesters, eh?
Florio, quit tipping your hat that you’ve never played a sport beyond raquetball in your life. Someone had to pick those errant passes off. Someone had to tackle the Jets players. Someone had to be in correct coverage. The Bills were down two tackles, their starting QB and half their defense.
Say it with me “The Bills beat the Jets”.
Or did the NFL go to a “style points” system I’m not aware of?
Just like every season, Jests fans talking big in September and planning for the NFL Draft in December.
What does that fat slob Ryan have to say now?
Sanchise?? Can’t throw in the wind and cold.
JETS= Just End The Season
Congrats to Buffalo and their All Pro DB’s for their 5 picks! LOL!!!!!!!!
I suspect this will slow down the Sanchez Hall-of-Fame express… but only until he completes his next pass.
Great observations. Bills fans have little to be happy about after this debacle other than the aggressive play of the defense in the second half – after allowing Thomas Jones to run for 180 yards in the first.
Jauron’s clock management at the end of the half shows he hasn’t learned from the Herm and Marty school that FGs > 40 yards on windy days are just slightly better than 50% propositions. Wasting the last minute of regulation to turn a 46 yard FG into a 47 yarder was absurd (one play, a -1 yard gain by F-Jax).
Ryan Fitzpatrick is not the answer either, though to his credit he attempted to get Lee Evans and Terrell Owens the ball…with obvious better results throwing to Evans.
Hey Edwards, How do you like the Jets now ?.
At least the Browns beat the Bills LOL
I watched that game yesterday and Sanchez is BAD. He could have easily have thrown 7 or 8 picks. NYJ’s rack up over 300 yards rushing and still lose because Sanchez’s turnovers. A little cold and he folds. Wait til the real bad weather starts…
Bwahahahahaha!
5 picks??? Sanchize QB???
Hey Florio, since you brought it up- maybe Mangini did have a little foresight is letting the Jets have the chosen one from So Cal… By the way Alex Mack has started and played well all season- a small bright spot in a rebuilding season.
In fact if the Browns went to Buffalo and beat the Bills, and the Jets lose the the Bills at HOME- Does that mean the Browns and Mangini are…. never mind.
P.S. 0-2 since the Edwards trade…
Good thing the Jets gave away all their draft picks for next year!!!
clear as day team breakdown after the fins stomping them + disrespecting the fins so aggressively +
fins bye =
a major stomping coming to a Jets neighborhood near you
Come on Jets fans. What happened to getting rid of the poison Eric Mangini and the troops rallying around their fearless leader Rex Ryan? How’s that working out now?
Not saying Mangini’s on a fast track to Canton, but all of a sudden it looks like a different coach and same end result.
Plenty of football to be played, but the Jets better turn it around….fast.
Jauron lives for another day.
Damn, I can’t believe we let that “loss” get away like that…
Com’on man, Dick, you can do worse than this by trying to think. Lets re-group, get another 9 false starts and get that top three draft choice…
pacstud says:
October 19, 2009 9:19 AM
Florio, quit tipping your hat that you’ve never played a sport beyond raquetball in your life. Someone had to pick those errant passes off. Someone had to tackle the Jets players. Someone had to be in correct coverage. The Bills were down two tackles, their starting QB and half their defense.
Say it with me “The Bills beat the Jets”.
Or did the NFL go to a “style points” system I’m not aware of?
YEAH, STICK IT TO EM BUDDY! F*K THEM JETS….and nothing nice to say about Florio.
Show some love Mikey, even though the Bills are still pitiful…
Its too bad that Ralph Wilson is too cheap to draft a franchise quarterback high in the first round, when he gets his chance next April.
I’m sure the Bills will come away with the best CB on the board.
Well deserved criticism for Fat Rex. He talks so much that when he goes to the beach the first thing that gets sunburned is his tongue!!!! In fact, the last time he laid out on the beach he got harpooned!!
Nice to know stupidity is alive and well.
I’m a Bills fan and this game said more about how over-hyped the Jets were than how sorry the Bills are.
There’s no doubt the Bills are in the bottom third of the league, but they are not the WORST team in the league. I’ll take any shred of positive news this team can get. Unfortunately, they still lack depth, their run defense still blows, they still need a QB, and as a result, Jauron still needs to go.
As far as the Jets, cross-country trips are the great equalizer, just ask the Eagles. Looks like NE is going to run away with the division, again.
This team is going to struggle on defense without Kris Jenkins (similar to the way the Chargers are struggling without Jamal Williams). Can’t stop the run –> can’t blitz the passer –> can’t force the QB into errors –> can’t get “the greatest cornerback in cleats” involved–> can’t defend leads you build –> Sanchize struggles.
Maybe now Jets fans will realise that a hot air balloon will not get you to the superbowl…
The Jets lose to a very talented NO team, then lose to a less talented Miami team. Now they lose to an even less talented Buffalo team. Better fasten down the hatches, the lowly Oakland Raiders are next.
If they lose this game too, I bet everyone will be jumpingoff the Ryan bandwagon.
Sanchize huh? I feel for the kid. I don’t think it will be possible for him to live up to the expectations.
The Jesters seemed to overlook the fact that a kid who grew up and SoCal and played at USC would have an aversion to playing in cold and windy conditions. Remember, it’s not getting any warmer out there, ‘Chize.
i ate a whole bottle of tylenol after watching that cr@p
Maybe now the Jets fans will lay off from crowning their rookie QB the next Joe Namath.
It was all karma, because “Sanchize” read all of your headlines and took all of your praise and adulation and went 0-3.
No one can handle that pressure as a rookie and you should probably wait until the end of the year, and just take things week to week before crowning him the King or the Jester.
Thankfully this happened to prove that 3-0 for one team is not the same as 3-0 for another.
The Jets were not dominant, they were not playing “elite”, they just happened to win 3 games.
Teams like the Vikings and Saints were showing signs of being a major force early on.
Calm down Jets fans, no Subway Super Bowl, unless it involves a $5 foot long.
The NY Jets played well. 300 yards rushing. The Defense held the Bills to 13 regulation points.
Sanchize stunk up the joint all by himself.
Chad Henne has made the Dolphins a contender, why did they keep playing Pennington with this kid on the bench?
All I can say is I don’t care if the Bills won that game what we all saw was the text book case of coaching at it’s worst. Jauron has no clue how to manage a game in windy conditions he plays to kick a 40+ yard FG please. Last week he should have allowed the Browns to score a TD with 2:30 left in the game as opposed to letting the browns run the clok down to 23 sec. He is a Fossil and needs to go away.
Im a Bills fan and I hate the Jets but they’ll do fine. We owed them that from last years give away by J.P. Losman!
“When drafting Sanchez, did the Jets not consider the possibility that he might struggle in the elements, given that, you know, he never had played in them? ”
Cuz, you know, NFL coaches are idiots, never watching college game film, never truly evaluating a player to see if he fits in the NFL, spending millions on a player with no research what-so-ever….
“The bigger question is whether other teams have already figured out Sanchez’s tendencies via film study…”
Of course it could be that Sanchez is a rookie and will struggle at times like any rookie and might sucessfully adjust to the rigors of the NFL season.
Hey, Ryan! last week you did not give Miami credit but blame on your defensive team was suck.
This week you gave Buffalo credit but did not blame your Offensive team that gave up SIX T.O.
What wrong with you? FATSO.
Have your fun now, Bills and Fins fans…
We’ll see where we stand as Sanchez (who should be a senior in college at this point!!) matures…
And oh, what classy remarks by “DaBills”…
Sanchez:
WTF man??? How do you go from looking off defenders and completing 50 yrd bombs to barely pulling off 5 yrd completions in a matter of 3 weeks. Should the Jets pull him now or just wait for him to “Leafenize”??? Many more games like this and Woody can start shoving those PSL squarely where they belong!
Jets DEF:
They still need help stopping the run, and the pass rush is pathetic. In the first 2 or 3 games the QB pressure was good and everyone figured, “hey the sacks will come”. NOPE! It looks like the pressure was shear numbers of bodies to defend and O-coordinators are wise enough to zone block and hot-route the WR’s. With all that talent they are performing like a bunch of bums!!! The funny part is they play just like Ryan wants, “flying around the field”, it’s just that they forgot to remind the players to not “flyby” the guy with the ball. Too many times do they blitz to the wrong side or blow through the hole to just get out played by the tailback. Absolutely UNACCEPTABLE and PATHETIC!
Overall:
They deserved to lose that game. Five turnovers is just abysmal. If Sanchez is uncomfortable in the wind then stop running plays that send receivers 30-40 yrds down field. Bring back the Pennington dink & dunk BS if that’s what it takes. Either that or sit his A$$ down and play Clemens while the guy matures a little more. For the last three weeks you could read, “I have no idea what do”, on Sanchez’s face while on the sideline. If that’s the case then the coordinators should be blamed for not preparing him and/or altering the game plan to bring some relevance back to his abilities. As is though, it’s starting to look like that last year at SoCal would have done him good.
If there is any positive in all of this, it’s that the Jets didn’t get my hopes up for 3/4 of the season like they did last year.
Now at least I can focus my efforts on rooting for the other 30 teams in the NFL except for the Patriots.
This is the reality of playing with a rookie QB. It’s normal for QBs to struggle mightily early in their careers. That’s why everyone absolutely killing JaMarcus Russell has been so premature.
Go back and look at Russell’s first few starts in the league and the numbers are almost identical to Sanchez’s. JaMarcus played well at the end of his first season as the starter last year but then regressed at the beginning of this season. He has since played better but he’s throwing to a pair of rookie receivers (which is basically unprecedented) and the patchwork o-line was like thin-sliced Finlandia vs. the Giants pass rush last week.
Anyway. This is how young QBs often play. Just because Sanchez had a terrible day doesn’t mean he can’t play in cold weather. It doesn’t mean he’s a bust. It means he’s a young QB who is just starting to learn how to play the position at the NFL level. Ryan and Flacco last year were aberrations as was Ben Roethlisberger a few years before that. Most rookie/young QBs take a few seasons to develop.
Everything about the Jets team has changed, however our offense looks the same. The common denominator for our ineffective offense is: Brian Shottenhiemer. Shottenhiemer needs to be fired for his utter miss management of his rookie QB’s capabilities. Expecting him to run plays that are dreamed up around Shottehniemer’s ability to concoct a complex rubix cube scheme that only confuses his offensive resources rather than then confuse the opponent’s defense. FIRE SHOTTENHIEMER – NOW.
I think the reason why Ryan was able to give Bills more credit was that the fact that the Bills did not out right own the Jets like the Dolphins did. Don’t get me wrong. Bills deserves credit. They did make some nice picks but the Jets also shot themselves in the foot. The Jets also must have known about Sanchez’s weakness if they rushed for over 300 yards.
When you look at the Dolphins game it was not as close as the score indicated. I felt Miami did some bad play calling on the defensive side of the ball. There were times where they should have been blitzing and instead they went into a nickel defense. Than the Jets also got some help from the refs. I think Ryan was less willing to give Miami credit because he knew that he also knew he got his butt handed too him and he also knows that he dose not have an answer to Miami’s offense which makes him scared.
Well,well,well
Where are all the Jet fans now? Can it be their busy trying to dislodge their feet from their mouths? Didn’t they crow after beating N. E. and they yakked of “domination”. It appears that the whip is in other hands now, after what, 3 straight losses and the last to the Bills? Go Buffalo I say. Ryan is a loudmouthed and belligerent bully. Defense specialist indeed. Of course Sanchez is a rookie but that’s part of the game at this level. Maybe we should check him for a green card; after yesterdays fiasco he might want to be deported.
oh that was great. i am so happy for the bills & their fans.
miami dominated the jets and ryan doens’t give them their due. then they hand the game to the bills and fat rex praises the bills?
the problem with the jets is rex ryan and his loud-mouthed coaching style. he sold new york (sorry, new jersey) on buying his schtick, and his players (worst of all) bought 100% into it. You have guys like pace and scott talking all this crap about other teams – but they don’t back up their talk.
this is why the patriots will always be a better organization than the jets – play your game on the field, not in the press conferences. as long as they keep talking, i’ll very much enjoy the losses for the stupid jets.
Because of a bye week, I was stuck with this goober on my fantasy team. Needless to say I have dumped him. I will pick someone else that has the potential to be just as bad, but probably won’t be as bad. He got me a whole whopping -6 points.
Rex Ryan has all of the graciousness and class in defeat that his old man did.
Sorry, Bills’ fans this is exactly that rare post where PFT is exactly right. When you lose, stick to cliches post-game. I think Rex thinks he was doing that after the Miami game but it came off insulting, disrespectful, and ignorant of the game that had just occurred.
There’s nothing wrong giving props to the Bills (who aren’t a very good team but who did put in a scrappy performance) but in effect he was solidifying and multiplying the insult to the Fins. And they happen to be coming to town in two weeks. Not smart.
Rex, you may be a defensive coach first, but you are now a head coach. If the defense was embarrassing last week, the offense was embarrassing this week.
Rex needs a PR class or two. And some class. And some coaching skill. (Two weeks in a row now that he has said, “Yeah, I thought about doing what every other coach in the league would have done, but despite the stats and reality and not adjusting in any way, I figured things were just gonna change because I’m Rex Ryan, I fart fairy dust.”)