Comments on: Rex Ryan discusses clock strategy that could have delivered defeat

By: Priest

Priest — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:25:31 +0000

D wins games hit the nail on the head.

By: Priest

Priest — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:21:48 +0000

It’s worse than that. Instead of letting the clock wind down under the 2:40 mark (40 seconds in a play clock), they hiked the ball 5-10 seconds before they had to and ran a trap play that lasted 2 seconds. Play clock started again at around the 2:42 mark. IDIOTIC, and most people don’t even realize it. The Vikings had ZERO timeouts. I was shouting at the TV, and I’m a Bears fan.
Every coach needs a little ten year old that plays a bunch of Madden to help him with clock management.

By: overkil2

overkil2 — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:30:06 +0000

Anyone else think Schottenheimer should be replaced as OC?

By: VikesBlowHorn

VikesBlowHorn — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:23:24 +0000

He’s lucky the Vikings are terrible.

By: Newyorkjets2010

Newyorkjets2010 — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:18:41 +0000

It doesn’t matter we won, and for the guy claiming Rex thinks he is Marino. Stop being so mad that the Dolphins haven’t had a qb since him… Miami fans are the dumbest, uninformed fan in the U.S.

By: JETSJETSJETS-J-E-T-S

JETSJETSJETS-J-E-T-S — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:14:21 +0000

How about when Lowery intercepted the pass and opted to score instead of downing the ball and ensuring the win?!?

By: Bwa Ha Ha

Bwa Ha Ha — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:39:17 +0000

If you have ever suffered through an Andy Reid two minute drill, you would know that this is small potatoes

By: AlphaBean

AlphaBean — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:47:43 +0000

# rk says: October 12, 2010 10:22 PM
The Jets haters are having a harder and harder time finding stuff to bash the Jets on. Wah Wah.
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I’m a Vikings fan, and I love the Jets. I recognize that this week, the Jets were our daddy. I will say that if Favre wasn’t playing like a 41 year old, we could have easily won that game 10x over, but I feel comfort in the knowledge that we almost have a team that can hang with the Jets.
While I love the Jets, most of the time their fans are insufferable. I know, being a Vikings fan usually means a combination of “Minnesota Nice” passive-aggressiveness with a Philadelphia-like ignorance… but we’re not all like that. Your team seems more legit than it has… um… since Vinny Testaverde? So here’s hoping the Vikings find a way to con their way into the playoffs and get a rematch with the Jets, or the Steelers, or the Ravens, or the Colts…
Stupid AFC with your overload of talent.

By: sand0

sand0 — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:01:30 +0000

Ryan’s explanation is more perplexing to me that the play call. You complete a pass you might be able to run out the clock. A run likely isn’t going to work with the Vikes stellar run D sitting on that play.
He is saying that Sanchez should have taken 4 additional seconds to throw a pass? 4 additional seconds is an eternity to hold onto the football and probably would have ended in a sack.
Two ways to call it. Run play is conservative. Even if it doens’t work it kills clock. Pass play is aggressive. You have better chance at game ending first downs but also a chance of incomplete.
You can’t just say that you want to run a pass play in which Sanchez takes 6 or 7 seconds to throw the ball. It is uncommon for a QB to have that long. The ball could travel that long on a deep pass but it really didn’t look like they had a deep option on the play.

By: TheSleepness

TheSleepness — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:45:52 +0000

*Gasp* Snow in a football game..what will the slouches who fell off tiger woods bangwagon do now?!

By: steamrod

steamrod — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:33:43 +0000

The strategy is/was fine. The execution was the problem.

By: ericfaymusic

ericfaymusic — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:11:39 +0000

what’s a “clock shower” and how do you use one?

By: NoKoolaidCowboy

NoKoolaidCowboy — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:06:47 +0000

Hard to believe but the Jets are getting it done.

By: Green Arrow

Green Arrow — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:38:42 +0000

The Jets Offensive Coordinator _Brian Schottenheimer is to blame. He has been there since 2006 and they have not had one 300yd passing game. He called the passing plays, moron. It’s called running out the clock for a reason! Rex didn’t hire the guy and I don’t think he wants him there. Let’s hope they promote Callahan. Brian is horrible and should be fired!!!!!

By: carp killah

carp killah — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:33:46 +0000

The bigger flounder was at the end of the first half. 4 freaking field goals. They are a running team, they should have pounded the rock 3 times instead of throwing in a torrential downpour with a very average at best quarterback.

By: Maximus

Maximus — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:18:10 +0000

Hardly the biggest clock management blunder around.
A bigger concern imo is the stupidity of coaches who go for 2 point conversions when they absolutely do not need to do it.
You should only ever go for 2 if you are absolutely forced to do it, as in you have no chance unless you get two points now. Playing the what if game with the score rarely works out.
In this game, it put the Vikings in a no possibility to win situation since they ended up down by nine when (you claim) the Jets made “one of the biggest blunders you’ve seen”.
The Vikes were already dead. Hardly mattered.
Thx Chilly for your stupidity.

By: theJets2010

theJets2010 — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:08:57 +0000

bleedgreen says: and if my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle. jets win.
and you couldnt be more right. haha good analogy

By: tatum32

tatum32 — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:57:26 +0000

Uh, reality would rather talk about the “Favre interception strategy” that ended the game.

By: Gotcha

Gotcha — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:52:53 +0000

McCarthy, Childress and Reid are still the worst late game time managers in the league.
Rex is going to have to compile more of a resume to compete with The Untimely Trio.

By: ispysomething7

ispysomething7 — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:48:32 +0000

@BDiddy…..
No……Dick Juran is on a class of his own. Circa 2007, Monday night, Bills vs. Cowboys……………….

By: Old_Style

Old_Style — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:34:04 +0000

Is there really a “baconater?”

By: lars thorwald

lars thorwald — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:16:09 +0000

The clock management was poor. But Rex got a little lucky, when (stop me if you’ve heard this before) Favre threw a bad pick at the worst possible time to kill his team’s chance of winning.
Who could have seen that coming?

By: D wins games

D wins games — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:10:37 +0000

Nice of Rexy to throw Sanchise under the bus, but the real error was on the play before when Vikes used last TO at 2:47. Pitch the ball to LT, have him go outside then reverse field and take up 7 seconds or more. Clock goes to 2:00. 2 dive plays and a punt and the Vikings get the ball back with 25 seconds left and no TOs. Not….that….complicated

By: bleedsgreen

bleedsgreen — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:07:25 +0000

Franchise says: October 12, 2010 10:15 PM
Before the INT, if Favre hits a wide open Harvin,
and if my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle. jets win.
GO GANG GREEN

By: Gautam

Gautam — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:50:45 +0000

“I’m normally the most conservative guy”… Hey Rex, it would help if you were that way on the defense also sometimes lol
wassup with blitz after blitz so late in the game

By: Sanchize

Sanchize — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:48:39 +0000

Anyone remember two years ago, the bills had the jets down and four second left to go til the 2 minute warning, they decide to pass and we get a strip sack td to win? i was nervous something like that would happen

By: Randomjim

Randomjim — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:36:23 +0000

JimmySmith says:
October 12, 2010 10:11 PM
You forgot the most important factor, the Jets were playing the Vikings and Rex knew that BrINT was going to throw another game ending INT so there was no danger after all.
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Jimmy on a Jets post flinging crap @ the Vikings. How surprising! I thought he’d still be looking @ Favre’s wankee on deadspin (he already admitted to looking at it).

By: Mooney24

Mooney24 — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:35:03 +0000

RK:
Yes, you’re right. Harvin tossed Revis to the ground and wasn’t flagged (though Revis pivoted awkwardly and helped himself fall). But let’s cool it on the “Jets haters” stuff. I read this everywhere. On here. On friends FB & Twitter feeds. Everywhere.
Anyone who makes even the most passive criticism of the Jets is called a Jets ‘hater’. I’m starting to get sick of it.
Otherwise, I can’t fathom why Revis was on the field Sunday. Now he’s in incredible pain? And doubtful for next week? Park his behind on the bench through the bye week and make him run a 4.2 40 backwards before you let him play CB for the Jets.

By: BDiddy

BDiddy — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:33:34 +0000

When it comes to horrendous clock management, Andy Reid is in a league of his own.

By: bspurloc

bspurloc — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:30:00 +0000

JETS WON………….
wah……………………….
first place