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Morgan Moses is a warrior, and is giving it the best he’s got, but he’s 33-year-old and is playing on one leg.
The last couple of weeks it’s been rough.
It might be time to roll with somebody else . . .
Woody’s decision to trade for Davante Adams was clearly a mistake.
There was nothing wrong with the combination of Garrett Wilson and Allen Lazard. I know Lazard is hurt now, but he wasn’t at the time of the trade.
Having two #1 star receivers seems great on paper, but it can hurt the flow of the offense.
QB comes out of the huddle and worrying about appeasing two #1 receivers, and this really can mess up the progressions. It really can. And can mess with a QBs mind. “Which #1 do I placate on this play?”
There were times today Rodgers was forcing it to Adams or Wilson, and should have thrown it to Malachi Corley.
This isn’t fantasy football. The pieces need to fit together.
And on top of forcing passes to his two #1s, it’s been pretty clear over the last month, even though Rodgers and Adams had a great thing going in Green Bay, they were apart for three years, and you can’t just flick a switch, in October, with no camp, and get two guys totally back on the some page.
Woody should not have traded for Adams, especially in season, just like he shouldn’t have demoted Hackett, and had Todd Downing run Hackett’s offense. I’m not saying Hackett is a great coordinator, but is it better to have somebody else to run his offense? And it’s not like Downing was considered an elite play-caller in Tennessee, where Mike Vrabel fired him after the 2022 season after the Titans finished 30th in overall offense.
Bad moves, just like begging Haason Reddick to come back?
What was the point? How is he good for the clubhouse after blowing off his teammates for half the season?
Best approach to ownership is hiring a GM and coach, throw them the car keys, and let them do their thing.
Don’t listen to money managers, lawyers and family members when making football decisions.
Hire good football people and let them do their thing.
This isn’t hard to understand.
Or maybe it is . . .
I’m not here to defend Jeff Ulbrich who has not been successful as Jets interim coach, but this defensive mess is not his fault.
Robert Saleh installed a bad, outdated scheme and stuck with players entering this season who should have been gone.
So the scheme is terrible and the defensive roster is problematic.
The scheme is too static and predictable, and even Pete Carroll who helped invent it didn’t use it his last two years in Seattle.
And Joe Douglas should have pushed back on bringing back some of the defensive players who weren’t good last year.
But Saleh’s love affair with certain people, leading to him looking past the bad film, is still hurting this defense.
Look at the damn film, and move on from certain people, if they aren’t getting the job done.
So my point about Ulbrich is, it’s almost unfair to blame him for this disastrous defense, because it’s hard to change schemes and players in-season, so I blame Saleh more for this defense than Ulbrich.
And this defense is killing the 2024 Jets.
You can attack Aaron Rodgers all you want, but he finished today with a 114.7 QB rating, and while he wasn’t perfect if you gave this guy a good offensive line and defense, you can still win with him.
He can’t put a team on his back like his heyday, but for goodness sake, he helped put up 27 points today, and the defense let perhaps the worst starting QB in the league go on two 70-yard TD drives in the fourth quarter. That is truly pathetic and illustrative of a totally broken defense.
November 17, 2024
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