bigdavis

@WOW!!

You don't understand sarcasm, do you?

(or maybe you just don't read to the bottom of a comment)

Jets 31, Panthers 6.There are a few things a lot of you don't realize -- things that haven't even been mentioned on the Huddle:

Our OL has a lot of problems, and a HC that won't put the promising rookies on the field.

Erving and Elf shouldn't be out there.

CMC is injury-prone, and most likely won't make it into the 2nd half.

Horn is a raw rookie, and will be flagged for DH 4 times.

Our DTs can't stop the run.

(Nah.  We roll, 41-13.  Sacks, picks, TD passes, the whole 10 yds.)  Good times.

54 minutes ago, Craig Cartner said:

Are those the Jets, or Afghan soldiers?

1 hour ago, joemac said:

So come Sunday is Sam stays clean and the o line they put out there looks decent will everybody around here calm down about the damn line for at least a few days? 

Don't be silly.  Of course they won't.  Trolls gonna troll.

2 hours ago, Zod said:

Eat a dick

 

Touch of class.  That's setting the tone for the rest of us.

Let the pissing contest begin...

43 minutes ago, CRA said:

He also did the flip side for us 

https://jetsxfactor.com/2021/09/04/carolina-panthers-mismatches-ny-jets/

1. DJ/Robby vs Jets DBs

2. CMC vs Jets LBs

3. Moton in the run game

4.  Brown inside

5.  Burns off the edge 

but I would assume people would feel he is 100% right about all these though 

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Glad you mentioned that.  He did a fine job of evening out the mismatches both teams might have, and backed his opinions up with metrics that show deep analysis on his part, not just the usual.  I enjoyed his takes.  Many here jumped to the early conclusion that he was just a Jets' homer, writing a puff piece.  Not so.

He wasn't predicting a winner; I am.  Big offensive performance for us, vs their overmatched corners and LBs -- Panthers 41, Jets 10.

 IMO, this whole "happy feet" syndrome has been way overblown.

It stems mostly from Steve Smith's on-air comments, early in the last broadcast.  Maybe Smith should stick to critiquing WRs, CBs, and route running, about which he's an expert.  He's never been a QB, never thrown a pass, to my knowledge, and has never stood in any pocket, under a rush.

Try to recall the footwork of Peyton Manning.  I think that would be described as "happy feet," when in reality, it's far better than standing flat-footed.  Manning chose that method to be better prepared to launch in any direction.  I'd describe it, not as "happy feet,' but as versatile and athletic footwork.

28 minutes ago, weyco2000 said:

 

 

I like the way you talk.

23 minutes ago, CPcavedweller said:

Want to know who? Our red headed step child from the Saints, that's who.

In literally a single minute of a preseason game his offense allowed Sam to look better than I ever saw him look in New York for a string of plays in crunch time. Sam got to play within the offense and execute the play call; in New York he was constantly forced to improvise and that was his highlight reel.

Even if it was one half in a preseason game, Sam Darnold looks like a first round pick AND he is less than two years older than Justin Fields (whom everyone hob knobs). Based on timing, you would think that he was four years older than Trevor Lawrence but guess what, he's only two years and four months older than Lawrence.

This is a massive advantage for us should it work out as if Darnold were a first round pick just last season.

I haven't been this excited about a Panthers team since probably 2013.

I think you meant knob hobs...but, Yeah.  Me, too.

There will be much excitement here on the 12th, after we gob-smack the Jets.

2 minutes ago, ClawOn said:

Slight derail but we talk a lot about how good Marshall looks,  but not enough about how much better he looks than Chase. 54 picks later and there is a quite reasonable chance we got the better receiver from the same school. 

Kudos for that to our GM and scouts.

17 minutes ago, CPcavedweller said:

Is the audible surprising? Who did Marshall play for at LSU for a year? 

Also, Darnolds throws in this game looked better than any single game I saw with the Jets. Even these preseason play calls make Adam Gase look like he should be the QB Coach for the UNC Tar Heels or something. Seriously, Sam didn't have to improvise to be good on Friday. It always seemed that his highlights in NY were improvisation. 

I mentioned the audible because a lot of the hot takes around here seem to imply (or just flat out say) that Darnold's problems stem from slow processing of information. 

I see differently.  I have just made a bet on his exceeding 23 1/2 TDs for the season, at 115-100.

Baldy has always been a respected film analyst, and he doesn't gush over everybody he studies.  Darnold's velocity and location on those 3 throws couldn't have been any better. and apparently, the second, to Marshall, was an audible.

Efficiency in scoring TDs in the final 1-2 minutes of a half is how games are won.  We certainly didn't see that last year.

Some of you are a really tough audience.  These are some of your comments:

"he still sees ghosts and panics at the first hint of pressure"

"seemed a bit panicked at times"

"he has nerves and happy feet to work through"

"still showed panic when pressured"

"he is not the answer"

Well folks, the man just completed 76% of his passes, for 162 yds and 2 TDs, in 30 minutes of play.  That doesn't sound like fart on a hot griddle to me.  Maybe Smitty's reliance on "happy feet" has some of you seeing ghosts.  You'd have been all over the Fields thing again if Sam had had a bad night, and you still can't give him credit for a good performance.  He's the Rodney Dangerfield of QBs.

19 hours ago, CRA said:

wonder if there is a stat that shows avg starting field position after kickoffs?  Would be interesting to see that.  Outcome of TBs vs those tempting fate 

That would be an interesting stat.  Shorter kickoffs do allow for runbacks, but they also many times cause holding or block in the back penalties, which set the receiving team back behind their 25.  Or muffs or forced fumbles.

3 hours ago, Khyber53 said:

Sure. I just want us to not look in pre-season a lot like we did last season. There are extenuating circumstances, sure, but they look a lot like they did before.

That was the point I was making -- play vanilla, to make it seem we're the same pushover on defense, and dink/dunk on offense, as we were last year.

Then Game 1:  whammo!

Therefore, don't be distressed (or "agitated") no matter what happens tonight.

2 minutes ago, CRA said:

Good advice.  But I likely will opt to go with either….

or

 

Haha!  Good one.  (I can only lead you to the water...)

5 hours ago, Harbingers said:

I don’t follow football that closely.

Then what the hell are you posting scores of negative opinions for?

Maybe if you followed it more closely, (or just shut up about it), you;d get more respect.

19 minutes ago, Castavar said:

I really don't get this fanbase.

This isn't actually a Fan Base.

The most noise, and the greatest repetition of nonsense, comes from trolls who like to see their names in print, and who have little life outside their basements.

15 pages of back and forth on whether these armchair GMs pass favorable judgment is an hilarious exercise in tongue wagging.

I don't know enough about cap management to venture an opinion, which would question the man who's paid to do the job.  Therefore, I simply applaud the way the team is being built, and look forward to a successful season, with an average of 30+ points being scored by this behemoth of an offense.

1 hour ago, Smithers said:

This just about guarantees 5 Panthers touchdowns and 5 missed extra points 

The easiest path to 30 points.

No biggie that a vanilla play in the pre-season didn't work.  It was an experiment to judge OL blocking.  They found out who couldn't cut it.  These 3 games are more a process of elimination, rather than an effort to win meaningless games.  As @Zodsaid, this one play might decide who plays where on the OL.  If so, even better than had we scored.

We went out and got 2 very tall play-making receivers, whose specialties are EZ catches.  In regular game situations, look for play-action, then a pass to one of those boys, in the back of the EZ.  6 points.  Fine with me if we convince the league that we've learned nothing, and will continue to run it up the middle.

59 minutes ago, hepcat said:

This board has gotten much worse mainly because the tinderbox has spilled over into the main forums a lot of times. Plus I think people are generally getting dumber.

The Huddle is a microcosm of how social media has led the dumbing down of society.

"With all due respect..." is not a common phrase, anymore.

14 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

What opinion did he offer that I missed other than I should change my opinion?

Some might think your complaining about complainers is equally lazy and unproductive.  (I certainly wouldn't think that, but others might.)

37 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I'm just getting tired of the brigade of posters who spend most of their time complaining that there are opinions that differ from their own. Not voicing their opposing opinions. Simply getting triggered and lashing out at the existence of differing opinions. It's just lazy and unproductive.

Do you realize you just wrote a perfect summation of your own post?

2 hours ago, CRA said:

I just need to quit listening to Rhule speak to reporters.  For whatever reason, those keep turning me off of late.  Well, for awhile now.    

Now, see right there you gave away your bias.

That's a pretty superficial (not to say debatable) reason to criticize your HC.

I suppose you were, after all, the Mod that was called out a few threads ago, for being so negative.

Why can't you wait until some actual games are played, to see if you can work up a reasonable critique of play-calling, or clock management, or something that really matters?

And for every "green" HC that came from college, and failed, I can name you two NFL HCs that stayed employed as such for years beyond their Use By date, and never accomplished anything.

They weren't "green," bless their hearts; they were just...grey.