WhitewalkerInPhilly

All we've been hearing about being a "player's coach" is how it excuses bringing in "troublesome players" and causes discipline problems. But this article brings up something else: While the press was hounding Rex about making IK a Captain, and talking about him with a Clemson helmet on, and his twitter fuel that was less time talking about his players. They were so anxious to see him, the press lined up out of the locker room while players got ready. Meanwhile, after the win, players called it "a gift for Rex" This week anyway, it worked.

Fitz was at at his Fitziest. He actually delivered some beautifully thrown balls, and could throw deep in a way I can't remember him doing in Buffalo. But man, that last interception...it was like so many of us predicted.

Cable primetime games should be locally broadcast on a slight delay.

Alternately, he is 15-7 the week after a win in his first two years as head coach of a team. Let's not cherry pick statistics.

I'm ok with wind. I'll take Tyrod's arm over Fitz's in blustery conditions.

I am laughing at the description of the Jets defense: "Sure Cromartie has been a non-factor, and likely won't play, and their safeties are all out and injured, but Revis is going to shut down all 1-5 receiving targets on his own."

Really, this is what I want to see more of now that Harvin is gone. Both Clay and Karlos can handle fullback duty in a pinch for power running, Shady has shown to be effective on short passes and screens so you can certainly run 3x1 trip sets to force defenses to show how they are covering Sammy.

Do we want to include O-line and D-line in there? Those are my main concerns.

I watched the Eagles play them early this season. The Eagles continue to struggle mightily with consistency on offense but, the Jets were bad, really bad, on defense that day. The first half was a slaughterfest, and the Eagles could have put up more points in the second half had it not been for a number of drops and Bradford getting twitchy.

His last long term contract was $12 million over 3 years, and that was 4 years ago. He's still playing at a high level. I'd be ok with a similar length and either slightly less money with a signing bonus, maybe $3.75M a year. It can't be worse than Harvin's deal.

Colin Cowherd wishes that he could be on the air to be blown off my Harbaugh again. If I wanted to know what Cowherd thinks I'd...I never want to know what Colin Cowherd thinks.

Again...wow. I'm going to expect this to get drowned out pretty fast but I'll say this: Stevie was the best and most exciting offensive player for us for a while there. You don't put up numbers like that in consecutive seasons by sucking, and I'd argue that he'd be a better #2 now than Woods. He was never physically the best, never the tallest, never the quickest, never the strongest, never the best route runner, but he ground it out every game and knows how to play corners.

I agree that my biggest fear is tearing us so art underneath on screen passes. Fitz was always good at that. The good news is that I mostly trust Darby and Gilmore on Decker and Marshall, maybe with a safety shadowing Darby. I'd imagine trying to play a lot of nickel. Ivory is banged up and without Mangold they're not getting the push up the middle. I'm hoping Kyle can somehow make it back.

I'm not saying this isn't true, but how do you know? Local sports chatter, articles?

I agree that the Bulls haven't beat any quality teams yet either. That's why I consider this game so important: two middle of the road teams who are fighting for second in the division where middle of the road can get you to the playoffs. To me, the question is whether A) With Mangold likely out, can the D-line get the push to shut down the Jets run game and force Fitz to make the kind of throws we cringed at and B) can the Bills receivers do anything with Revis on Sammy and Clay likely double covered.

Yeah, Crimini has been trolling Rex pretty hard ever since he took the job with the Bills.

It's tough because I see both sides on this. On one hand pedigree does matter and creates expectations. Mariota, Winston and Johnny Football would kill for a stat line like Taylor's. That said, I'm willing to wait for a larger sample size, precisely because of the backslide we've seen out of the young guns. RGIII, the second overall pick, was benched for Cousins. Kaepernick was benched for Blaine Gabbert. Cam has had a statistically unimpressive season. Wilson and Luck are having down years without O-line protection. These were the young guns who were supposed to take the league by storm. I want to see until the end of the year. After that, make the call.

So far, no. But I don't think it's a bad idea to do what the Eagles have done with taking a second round pick to be the backup in case of injury. Kolb and Foles were both picked up this way as backups to mobile QBs and both made for ok stopgap starters before getting flipped on trades.

They were awful in the first half against the Eagles too. I'll say what I've been saying all year: the Jets are a middle of the road team who have beaten up on bad opponents and mediocre opponents at good times. Every time they've encountered a half decent team they've lost or won a sqeaker. I'm not saying this is a gimme. Our defense has not been playing great, and we're going to have to find ways to move the ball against a great front 7 and Revis. But other than that, their secondary is still weak. We, more than anyone, know the weaknesses of the Fitz-Chan style: jam players at the line. Darby and Gilmore should win their matchups against Marshall and Decker 1 on 1, so stack the box, swarm within 15 yards and try to make Fitz throw deep to beat you.

Yes, yes. So Taylor had ridiculous yards per attempt passing today. Yes, the entire philosophy of the offense was always designed and based off of a strong run game. Yes, he only missed one pass. But i, with my super fan vision see every pass he should have made if only I was QB. What a bum. [/sarcasm] Seriously though, while good offensive game planning shouldn't over rely on his arm Taylor has been excellent statistically.

Well, at least one penalty bounced our way.

I don't know of Taylor is a top 6 QB. But in small sample size, I started to go around the league and tried to think of starters I'd take over him right now, based on how they've played this year, and likely will in the next few years factoring who i expect to retire and I got... Brady Dalton Big Ben Luck Romo Wilson Cam is having the kind of season we wanted: numbers worse in almost every way from Kaepernick, bolstered with a stingy D and a strong run game. ATM, what needs to get fixed is the D, and the run game.

I guess he couldn't get out of the *sings* DANGER ZONE!

I think it's a good idea. Shady has the vision and speed to break the big one, but if our offensive line doesn't get the push he won't drag defenders for extra yards. The best he's done is on swings, screens and short passes this season.