I'd Rather Get Beat Up In An Alley

Between the bad play calling (after all these years it’s no longer suspect) and his tendency to be ultra-conservative (read PREDICTABLE), I just can’t figure out why Brian Schottehnheimer is so well thought of.  Honestly, I can’t explain why he even has a job at all other than the man’s last name.  Last Sunday’s gaffe, to me, was inexcusable.  Yes, I know we won the game and I’m psyched that we did.  Up yours Tom Brady.

Let me set the stage, or reset it I guess.  Tie Ball Game.  35 seconds left.  We have 2 timeouts.  The ball is on our own 40 yard line.  A field goal wins it.  Obviously we look to get in Nick Folk’s range right?  The dude’s missed 3 field goals today but he can make up for it by booting this one home.  With a little luck and some good clock management we should be able to give him a shot.  Simple enough right?  I’m sure you all know where this is going but I’m going to rant about it anyway.

We played for overtime.  WTF?  Why? As if we hadn’t already come close enough to losing?  We ran the ball and let the clock wind down.  Stupid.  Why leave the game up to a coin toss?  Especially in a contest where we hadn’t exactly been running up the score?  I see no reason whatsoever for this possum-like strategy.

Before you hit me with your “But we won” comments let me remind you we won following Chansi Stuckey‘s miracle fumble after our offense failed to move the ball.  We did indeed win the coin toss but we did not march down the field triumphantly.  It didn’t go according to any plan whatsoever.  We. Lucked. Out.

Let me ask you this… what do you think Bill Belichick would have done in the same situation?  Rolled over and hoped for the best in overtime?!?!  Hell no!  That diabolical bastard would have tried to win the gosh darn game because that’s what NFL coaches are paid to do.  He would have put up 8 points and stormed back to his secret evil lair.

Schotty is no good.  Play calling aside, his clock management is worse than Herm Edwards’ ever was.  Remember the Minnesota game?  Favre’s interception saved Schotty from the  wrath of many an angry football-smart Jet fan.   A few short weeks later and here we go again.  Inexcusable.  Unexplainable.  Unforgivable.  Unless we win the Super Bowl… then I can forgive him.

Man it’s good to see Jerricho Cotchery playing like a superhuman again.

Could someone please explain to me why on Earth the Jets are so attached to Brian Schottenheimer? The offense stunk it up the final five games and the play calling was atrocious all season long.

I’ll never forget sitting in the freezing rain/hail storm watching the Jets take the field aganst the Denver Broncos. Nastiest conditions I’ve ever sat through, the hot chocolate was luke warm. Everything was frozen and slippery.

What did the Jets do on their first posession? Double reverse pitch to Cotchery who naturally fumbles the ball to the Broncos. That’s a tricky play indoors under the best of conditions but during a Biblical rainstorm it belongs in the playbook to be pulled out another day. I know that. You know that. How come the Offensive coordinator who’s getting paid boatloads of cash doesn’t know that?

That’s just one glaring example in a season where the awful playcalling was one of the few consistencies the Jets had to offer. The front office wasted no time in firing Mangini. The Defensive Coordinator is practically gone already- they’re just waiting to make a decision on the head coach before they fill that slot. So why, I ask again, is Schotty even being interviewed for a head coaching position?

According to Brian Costello in Tuesday’s Post Schottenheimer interviewed and “impressed many in the organization.” For real? Impressed them how? With his last name? Schottenheimer has done nothing to brag about in his tenure with the Jets; never breaking the top ten in offense, never winning a playoff game, and never using the right tool at the right time. The guy out thinks himself, his quarterback, his offensive line, his fan base, the commentators, Joe Namaths’ mom…everybody! and it doesn’t work! The Jets had the AFC’s leading rusher and yet how many times this season did you see a 3rd & 1 result in an incomplete pass? WTF! This guy is a major part of the problem, so why is he even mentioned when looking to the solution?

I’m serious people. I don’t get it. Do you?