NFL WEEK 1

[DirtyDez]

This commentator on ESPN needs to stop sucking Rivers dick. The guy was god awful in the 1st half and just missed a wide open player in the back of the end-zone that would have tied the game.

He's the only reason SD was even in the game. 300 yrs, 2 td's 0 int's in the rain with multiple recievers dropping passes. Dude is unreal.

[Wizards2Lottery]

Dude is also a giant ASS. I don't know how his teammates can stand him.

[sunshinekids99]

The Pats look like they're on a mission to take back the division.

When exactly did the Pats lose it?

[Icness]

The Pats look like they're on a mission to take back the division.

When exactly did the Pats lose it?

What, didn't you hear the Jets are the defending Masters of the Universe

[Bleeding Blue]

Well Icness you were wrong about Bob Sanders. You said you would be suprised if he played another snap, he played almost an entire quarter!

[BIGGIEsmalls 23]

Well Icness you were wrong about Bob Sanders. You said you would be suprised if he played another snap, he played almost an entire quarter!

He's another Mike Brown. When Mike Brown was with us in Chicago, I couldn't help but recognize the similiarities he had with Bob Sanders.

Both played the same position
Both were extremely talented Safeties
Both were identical size-wise
Both played in the cover-2 Defense
Both were the heart & Soul of their teams
Both dramatically changed the play of the their team's intensity on Defense

But Both were hurt year in and year out.

[Icness]

Well Icness you were wrong about Bob Sanders. You said you would be suprised if he played another snap, he played almost an entire quarter!

I like biggie's Mike Brown analogy. Undersized head-hunters like that tend to have very short careers. Makes me worry about Eric Berry

[LAKESHOW]

Mark Sanchez is terrible! 60 passing yards!

wow, this is truly a HATERade drinkin fans perspective of football. please speak forth, with knowledge in hand. without knowledge, hold back the speech.

SANCHISE has been pounded upon and told for a whole year, avoid mistakes. go short. ball control. pound the ball. run the rock with the running game. and SANCHISE HAS DELIVERED. he had no mistakes and went with the short (EXTREMELY SHORT) passing gameplan that they fed him. he had ZERO interceptions. ZERO fumbles. no mistakes. so he is terrible now? believe this, when he was at USC, we opened it up and THROTTLED the ball downfield, now REX, a Defensive guy as head coach mind you, put the clamps on the kid with his defensive minded offensive playcalling, and this is the result!

i bet you anything that we'll soon get the papers stating that rex wants to open up the offense more . . . WELL REX, YOU GET WHAT YOU GET! you transformed and built the kid into this slowdown boston celtic type quarterback, when you shouldve kept it open with a cohesive LAKER offensive type of gameplan. the kid is not playing with openness and freedom, but hes playing not to make mistakes and checking down down down and down.

THATS COACHING!

[Wizards2Lottery]

Or maybe the kid just sucks and they don't want him throwing a lot to avoid the mistakes he will make.

[Icness]

I hate to feed the beast, but there's a whole lot of truth in what our friend Lakeshow is saying there. Tough to train a guy to be one thing and then be disappointed when he's not something else.

I think most people are not giving enough credit to the Ravens either, but also that a lot of people have mistakenly fallen in love with Braylon Edwards, Jerricho Cotchery, and Dustin Keller. That's not a receiving corps noted for consistency. Plus the OL had a bad day and they had no idea how much they're going to miss Thomas Jones. Did the Sanchize play well? Absolutely not, but don't hang it all on him, he got ZERO help from his mates. I think it's a sign of his character and leadership that he hasn't said anything about that. Guess what--the Patriots are going to stack 9 in the box and take their chances with Braylon Edwards both being able to get open and actually catching the ball in single coverage too. If he can, and if the OL protects better against an inferior pass rush, the Jets have a good chance to hang. If not, they're going to look awful on offense. Again and again.

[Wizards2Lottery]

Why would they invest so much in the skill positions only to force Sanchez to become captain checkdown? While Cotchery, Edwards, Holmes and Keller isn't exactly the 2008 Patriots, they aren't that bad either that a QB looks absolutely putrid if he has to make a pass 5 yards beyond the LOS.

[aggo]

SANCHISE has been pounded upon and told for a whole year, avoid mistakes. go short. ball control. pound the ball. run the rock with the running game. and SANCHISE HAS DELIVERED. he had no mistakes and went with the short (EXTREMELY SHORT) passing gameplan that they fed him. he had ZERO interceptions. ZERO fumbles. no mistakes. so he is terrible now? believe this, when he was at USC, we opened it up and THROTTLED the ball downfield, now REX, a Defensive guy as head coach mind you, put the clamps on the kid with his defensive minded offensive playcalling, and this is the result!

I kind of agreed with this.

Consider that last year they made an absolute mockery of Sanchez's ability to run the offense that they gave him colored bands and handed him colored plays in the huddle. This was in response to his repeated poor performances (you know, those games where he threw left and had 4-6 interceptions). Much less bringing in a baseball man to show him how to "slide".

So this year, and supposedly, a better and improved quarterback is under center having spent the offseason getting his knee right and building rapport with his receivers. Ironically it appears that the gameplan instead now is:

"drop back, look at the field, if you see the #1 option covered, just check it down"

This seems like a massive step backwards in terms of giving the "Sanchize" more responsibility.

Although you cannot blame much on Sanchez on Monday night, we shouldn't ignore the fact that the Jets ultimately decided to not let Sanchez lose the game.

[LAKESHOW]

While Cotchery, Edwards, Holmes and Keller

well if you watched gamefilm, cotchery, dropped passes. edwards, hes a dropped pass waitin to happen. holmes is out 4 games. which sets up the check down to the poor tight end who EVERYONE ELSE KNOWS IN THE STADIUM . . . is gettin the ball. thats not creativity, thats settin up the TE for the killshot. watch the saints offensive system for example, the ball is spread and the defense has no idea where the ball is goin. everyone and their mama knows what the jets are, thats pound the rock, ball control, no turnovers and throw the short pass. there is no creativity to have a defense guessing. did he have any turnovers? that is a win in the defensive minded rex playbook. because the DEFENSE is the star of the team.

thats not winning football. defense wins championships, but offense wins games. you gotta score in this league. ask the 2 high scoring offenses last year like the colts and saints, both in the superbowl. the jets are not set up for the shoot out, but for a close to the vest, tight, pull the game out at the end type of team.

look at last year, sanchise played just about flawless football in the playoffs. what happened? a team with a "scoring" mentality won the game. and they wouldve faced off with a similar offensive minded team in the superbowl. and that was the best you could ask for in a "jets" scheme of offense. they barely won those games. but it wont be able to make it to the big dance. very very seldom does that happen, the ravens for example.

[Teen Girl Squad]

The Jets are too worried about winning the Super Bowl and not enough about improving their team. If you watched Sanchez last year, he was rather good outside a horrible stretch of about 4-5 games where they opened up the playbook too fast. 6/20 interceptions came in one game. Sanchez last year almost never checked down and had one of the highest yards/pass in the NFL and now after one game he's captain checkdown? Their approach is flawed. They think their defense/running game is good enough as long as Sanchez doesn't screw it up. They should approach it in the opposite manner. As long as Sanchez doesn't explode like he did against the Bills last season, they have the defense to make up for any mistakes he's made. He'll take his lumps but will improve as the season progresses.

The offensive gameplan was atrocious against the Ravens btw. They have a patchwork secondary and the best front 7 in football. So what's the game plan? Run heavy and short passes. Yeah lets play into the opponent's strength and ignore their main weakness. Brilliant.