Over from Gang Green Nation To Answer Any Questions

I still have a lot of confidence in Rex, he has been as advertised, taken us to the best defence in the league, and not been quiet doing it. I don’t mind the message, and it seemed to work, any win is a good one over the Patriots and it’s a minor victory for the season, they had a hold of us at home so to break that is at least something. Rex is not the guy holding this team back, he is still learning, and he has made some clock management mistakes this season, but overall he is doing what I thought he would do. I had us 8-8 before the season started, and it seems we may be on course for that or something similar.

Fans are starting to become a little divided on him, he really isn’t learning from his mistakes and that is worrying. He has all the talent in the world, but he still forces balls into double coverage, he still slides head first, and he still refuses to check down when nothing is open down field. He seems fine since coming back from injury, however he is being forced to wear two braces, one on each knee, so that is obviously limiting his movement to a certain extent.

Our biggest weakness I think is most definitely the QB position, especially in the red zone, we really do stall once we get their, and when you are struggling to make plays through the air, it takes away what you can do on the ground. Although the offensive line and Thomas Jones have done such a great job this year, we need a better mix, the passing game is one of the worst in the NFL right now.

lol na Favre is well on his way to his usual late season breakdown.

Honestly, I have yet to see it so I really don’t know, Reggie Wayne could become invisible on Sunday, Revis is really that good. Easiest way to beat him is just don’t throw at him so he can’t make any plays on the ball. He will follow Wayne around all night, so I would pretty much eliminate him from your game plan.

The Offensive line is actually a great unit, a lot of the sacks can be attributed to the QB holding the ball too long and I think 4 of them were on Clemens in his game and a bit as the QB, and he really has no pocket awareness at all. Colts defence up front is obviously a great unit and it will be a real test, but I have faith in our guys, and feel confident that if Mark gets hit or sacked a lot, it;s probably going to be on him and not the o-line

He is better than advertised, has been for some time, he follows the number one guy around for the majority of the game, if we switch to zone, that is where you will pick up yards with Wayne, and with a QB like Manning, you will pick up on that pretty much all night. Mainly though he will be stuck on Wayne.

Before yesterday’s game it was the best in the league, and we really didn’t give up much yesterday either. Revis is a stud, and Sheppard is really starting to show his worth, we have a good nickel back in Lowery, and Rhodes/Leonhard are pretty decent (Rhodes when he wants to be). This will obviously be our biggest test, but leading in pass defence after week 14 and probably week 15 as well (not checked the stats today with teams still to play) we are obviously doing something right.

That’s probably going to fall on Rhodes who covered Gonzalez pretty well yesterday and Winslow the week before. He might get some success and he is the receiver I’m most worried about. Leonhard has been solid without being spectacular, Rhodes has been benched thanks to being ‘soft’ and has gained his spot back (although IMO he didn’t deserve it). Our linebackers are solid, Harris is a great ILB who is extremely underrated, Scott is all over the field most games. OLB wise Pace can be hot and cold but has the potential to have a massive game any time he steps out. Thomas is just a disappointment in general.

Watch out for Gholston though, he’ll get ya ;-) (If he is active lol)

Explosive, fast enough, hits the hole hard, receiving he has looked ok but not been targeted much, but he certainly has a case of fumbilitus, think he has lost 4 on the season, and he just doesn;t protect the football, which is very strange because he protected the ball very well in college. Future is extremely bright, but until he learns to hang onto the football, and with Jones cruising. He may get 10 carries in the game, around their.

playing Thursday could have been a attempt to keep the Jags out of the playoffs (so the Colts wouldn’t have to face them) or because they thought it was too early to rest starters since they won’t play their first playoff game for another 4 weeks.

we probably wont know till it happens.

As well as, why was Sanchez able to start out so well before he fell off?

You know I personally think that Jones doesn’t get enough credit by Jets fans and definitely not enough credit by the national media. I really think it’s because he is not really a highlight reel player, he won’t do any little moves and break off 80 yard runs, he grinds you down, he takes 5 yards here, 4 yards there and then a 12 yarder, and just goes from their. Also on a team of big talkers like Scott/Rhodes/Jenkins, he really doesn’t say too much, he has a great work out routine that he sticks to which is really paying off since turning 30, he’s a humble guy who really doesn’t like to talk about himself. The Media like ESPN love a trash talker or selfish showboat, and Jones just isn’t interested in anything like that. The important thing to him is to let his game do his talking.

I see a trend in this question lol

Roidney Harrison, Vince Wilfork.

Rodney Harrison, would throw him off and chuck some boulders down after him.

Rec’d

Your right about that, and so I think we will go with the best available player. Every Jets fan has a different opinion here, some want to go to the defensive line for depth, some want to bring in another cornerback, people who are annoyed with Kerry Rhodes antics want to go with a safety and trade Rhodes. Personally I just think we need to take the best available, I wrote last week that Golden Tate would be one of the preferred choices for me, but someone like Arthur Jones out of Syracuse would be fine with me as well. I think we do need to get some depth on the offensive and defensive line, but in the first round I think it is best player available.

Well we have the best pass defence in the league, and Manning throws his picks, so try and turn those into scores. We have the best cover corner in the league hands down, and a 2x pro bowler on the other side as well. We bring a lot of pressure, we might not get the sacks but we get the pressure on early and force early throws. Manning is the greatest QB in the game so will it work on him? I have no idea.

by not allowing you to score :). also by running the ball we have been very effective with our running in the fourth quarter and at taking big chunks of clock of with our running game.

I have no idea Karim, we have had the lead in the 4th in 5 of our 7 losses, and given it up, and you guys are notorious for coming back in the 4th. I guess the best plan would be to run,run,run and take as much time off the clock as possible. I think by the 4th quarter many teams realise that it is pointless throwing at Revis, you would be surprised how many teams come in and immediately target him, like they are trying to prove something, only problem is, he doesn’t get beat and offences get off to slow starts against us.

I’m sure that we will throw some new things in their, I think everyone is going to respect Manning’s ability, at the same time we have a good cover secondary, and while we will throw different looks at him, the idea is going to be the same as it always has been. Get Revis on the main threat, bring the pressure, force an early throw and hope the secondary get their hands in and break up the pass. I don’t expect we will see many sacks of Manning, you guys have only given up 10 right? and we don’t get that many sacks, but like week 2 against the patriots, we got 0 sacks, but got 22 QB hits. So the whole point of the defence is to bring the pressure and force the early throw.

What’s a two minute offense?? ;-) It’s not terrible, but it completely depends on Sanchez, putting him in a clear passing situation is not going to end well for us until he realises that he can’t throw into double coverage in the NFL and get away with it

I think Thomas Jones might have a good day, and maybe Kerry Rhodes, he is going to have a big challenge with Clark, but challenges seem to bring the best out in him. I’m hoping that Brick has a good game, but against Freeney that’s not guaranteed. However we all think thatBrick has come on so much, so this is a great test for him and we can really see how far he has come.

I’m really not sure if he will be more cautious or not, he seems to continue to make the same mistakes which is what is so frustrating to fans. After he threw 5 INT against Buffalo he came back the week after and attempted just 16 passes, completing 9 for 143 yards, a TD and 0 INT, he was able to do that because we dominated Oakland on the ground that day. After 3 INT against New Orleans, he came back and threw for 172 yards, 1 TD and 0 INT in Miami. So he seems to respond quite well, but it completely depends on the game situation, you need to stop the run and force us into obvious passing situations, doing that will create turnovers for your defence.