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Who left the room? Is that metaphorical?

In the 4th quarter, we forced Geno off the field over and over. Was that due to the secondary, or the D line? Pretty sure he didn't have much time to do much of anything. And, throwing the ball up after 2 seconds, is not "having all sorts of time". That's heaving and praying. But, not really, since Geno had a 80% chance of either getting a big play or a PI. I don't know how you can put any of that on the D line.

Same question: who gave up the 3rd and 17 on the first jets drive of the game? The D line? The LBs? Or the secondary? Last game: how many 3rd and longs were converted becaue we can't cover for 3 seconds?

Reasonable. However, you've contradicted yourself, haven't you? You can't have a "perfect game plan" and "counter the pass rush with quick throws", and, blame the pass rush for being inconsistent, at the same time, can you? Nope. We simply need to realize that in this D scheme, we have to be able to count on EVERY single man who has a coverage responsibility, to cover his man for 3 seconds, and, to win the 50/50 ball battle at least 75% of the time. Think about it: their WR has to catch it, and stay in bounds. Our CB has it easier: he has to break it up, or force the man out. It's not easy to play CB, but, if you actually have the ability, it's easy to win on jump ball that you don't have to catch.

So, you've learned nothing from yesterday? Ok, let me ask you this: did we have a problem with our D line yesterday? Did it look bad? How about our LBs? How'd Kiko play? On the first drive of the game for the Jets, who gave up the 1st down on 3rd and 17? The D line, the Lbs(many of whom were off the field), or the secondary?

How many lame TDs were scored on us due to O line play? How many TDs where the Jets said: "just throw it up before the pass rush gets here, because either we will get the catch(because they can't cover) or, we will get the PI(because they can't cover)". The pass rush was made irrelevant. We can't stop them on 3rd and 17? What does that have to do with a pass rush, when we have dropped 8 men into "coverage"? Nothing. Geno threw prayer after prayer down the field, and lucked his way into 2 awful TDS. If we have merely competent DBs back we win. The Jets had comptent DBs, and that, along with their defensive game plan, is why they won. The pass rush is the ONLY thing that stopped that game from getting out of hand. Consider the last 4 jets drives: the D line stopped them, not the secondary. Lay it down. We are in trouble because we didn't have any CB depth on this team. You think Brooks makes a difference? I don't know. And, not knowing is a problem, especially when, under normal circumstances, Brooks will be on the field for over 50% of the plays.

Well, I should think that yesterday was quite embarrassing for some posters. The notion that drafting CBs is a waste of resources? Easily blown away by one rhetorical question: Never mind Gilmore/Byrd, how many of you wish McKelvin was on the field the whole game yesterday? Yes, the answer is: ALL of you. That's the difference between a first round CB, and everybody else. Yes, that's right: McKelvin, the "bust", the "wasted pick"...yet we lose the game, because he's not there? And, ALL of you wish he was? How does this make any sense at all? Where's the logic here? How does any of this square the with the conventional "wisdom" that not only was taking McKelvin a bad idea, but, that taking ANY DB in the first 2 rounds is a bad idea? Easy: while it may be conventional, it is not wisdom. Not in today's game. Wisdom = experience + knowledge. We had an awful experience yesterday, didn't we? A learning experience perhaps? Consider: One terrible sack given up by Colin Brown( along with 7 others for the whole line, and, how many of those do you put on the O line?) not being elite, but mediocre... vs... 2 easy TDs and all sorts of completions and PI penalties because Justin Rogers and Nickel Robey(and make no mistake, that could have been anybody else on this team, but McKelvin and Gilmore) are mediocre as well? Which has a bigger impact on the game? Answer: We WIN the game if we get better DB play. The Jets won the game with excellent DB play. I don't know how you can come away from yesterday's game, and maintain the opinion that drafting DBs high is always a bad idea. And, don't fret, I've already accounted for Jimmy Leonard's nice play. The answer there is: Ok, so we saved one awful TD(because we were beat there as well). Whom do we see about the other 2?

How dumb are these kids? Tweeting out evidence of themselves in the midst of a committing a crime? If that was my kid, s/he'd be over there the next day cleaning, for a full 8 hour shift, regardless of what everybody else was doing. I'd be there to supervise. Again, the facebook/twitter idiocy is apparently boundless. How arrogant this has all become. I know it's a stretch but, I think the choice to trash the place is based, at least in part, due to what I call "the facebook effect". It's one thing to have a party in an abandoned, burned-out building, Who hasn't done that(besides you suburb kids...for you guys: who hasn't had a party on the backroads or on a hill?) But to take over someone's home, and trash it? Why not just be happy you have a nice place to have the party, with working bathrooms? Why trash it instead? Even if you are deliquent D-bag: You play your cards right, you can party there lots. Why F that up? I really don't understand this at all. It doesn't make sense from any perspective.

In terms of absolute vale for the country as a whole? Doing nothing would have been infinitely better for the economy than Obamacare. Doing nothing was the right thing, in that context. Now, talking specifically in terms of health care reform, and not, "punish the people we don't like" health insurance reform? No, doing nothing was not acceptable. Health care costs were rising exponentially, and the causes had little/nothing to do with private insurance companies. Insurance companies were simply following Medicare's lead, as they ALWAYS do. If you want a culprit(which is actally pointless in this) start with Medicare. In all cases, if Obamacare becomes the very identity of the Democratic party, which, sans Obama, it very likely will be. Without another "historic"(read: let's vote for the black guy so we can tell ourselves how "moral" we are) candidate, the turnout simply won't be there. This is the biggest, most obvious thing that every Democrat seems to want to wish away, or is too dumb/naive/brainwashed to realize: if Obamacare is the candidate in 2014, and 2016, you guys are completely F'ed. And, you've already used up all your wedge issues. Gay Marriage isn't going to bail you out this time. It's not just insurance companies(why the F does no one understand this?). I have direct information from a VP of a pharma company you know: they have increased their prices by 1000%, and are trying to push them even higher. That's because: their prices will soon be locked down for the "duration". I say duration, because she said it. She thinks this law will be done in a few years, so, why not take as much profit as they can, and then blame Democrats for it later? That's exactly their gameplan. So, great, your dopey law now found a way to legistlate Weimar Republic-level inflation in health care. This is cutting cost? Locking in punitive pricing forever? Not to mention givng the pharma guys cause to reap windfall profits, and, giving them a way to blame you for it? Democrats whoring themselves out the pharma companies, in order to get Obamacare passed, costs a hell of lot doesn't it? The worst is, in this case the whore also pays the client. What geniuses. These are just some of the intended consequences I know are coming, or have already happened. Read what I just wrote above, and tell me where Obama himself figures in. He doesn't. Besides, he had nothing to do with most of this. This was the Democratic whores in the US Sente, letting the pharma companies have their way, and get paid for that, in return for keeping their lobbyists at bay. Obama has nothing to do with any of that. The negaitve outcomes have ALREADY come to pass. I swear health care people like yourself live in a bubble. I have clients who have already laid people off. I have clients who have cancelled new hire initiatives, and expansion. I know people who have cut their employees hours to 29 a week. The reason: Obamacare. WTF do you think is happening out here in the real world, outside your bubble? This ain't about things that might "come to pass", these things have already happened. And, if we don't fix SSI/Medicare we will have even bigger problems. Surely you are aware of that? Or, are you truly a bubble boy? Right, so we should implement rationing of health care as a solution. Rationing is rationing. It's not "rational limits". When you give away something for free, and have the people who recieve it have no responsibility for it, they will abuse it. After you realize this, you WILL respond by rationing it. Why wouldn't you? You arlready believe you know better about who should get what? Why wouldn't you see rationing as merely an extension of that? When are you clowns going to realize that not all health care is created equal, no different than not all patients are the same. Therefore, creating centralized plans that are predicated on everybody being the same, their health needs being the same, and their health providers being the same: is sheer idiocy? You aren't "patient centered" with this approach. Not even close.

Scaling the back end won't do much, as I imagine that these brokers and TPAs all have state-specifc requirements, and given the state of things, they haven't accounted for any of them, hence the errors, etc. All scaling would accomplish is more bad faster. IF the raw data being entered is suspect, then it doesn't matter what your back end looks like. ( on purpose. This is a joke, that, while old, is always funny to me) Besides, random errors being thrown at end users? That also reaks of haphazard front/middle tier development, and, poor, if not nonexistant testing. They are just throwing this system up, most likely with some con men consultants who over-promised on the deadline. I've seen this before. It never ends well. The most important thing, ahead of everything, is: end user confidence in the system overall. If they have it, then errors or bugs don't phase them, especially if they are resolved quickly and completely. However, if you lose end user confidence? The whole thing crashes very quickly, and it's nearly impossible to regain it. Again, as I've said all along: IT, and not law, is the where Obamcare will do it's most spectacular failing. IT has always been the weakness, not legal mewling. Just wait until they realize that they have to hire all sorts of outside people to make these systems work, and, one of them turns out to be a thief. As designed, Obamacare has no defense against that. And, given the conditions and dependencies, it never will.

Right, but how do they read the OLB running straight at the WR? Where's the option when you are looking up at the sky, dazed? I dunno. But, rather than playing straight up man against that, and risk being picked/blocked, why not attack it, and blow it up before it even starts? In any event, with the DBs we have, and the ones we are waiting on to return, playing man is the answer to most other things. Sure, we have zone blitzes, but, given our pass rush now? Man is the way to go, even against premier QBs. McKelvin started to look like a #1 pick last game...because he was in man.

Nice work. I was gonna write up blitz #1 myself, just because: somebody needed to acknowledge the awesome there. That was such a cool design. Here's my thing tho....if Pettine can design this, why can't he design an anti-Pats 2TE/1WR bunch formation play? That bunch play kept them from 3 and out multiple times. I believe the thing to do there is have the DE/OLB on the side of the bunch blast the WR right off the snap. It's not like the WR will avoid him, because his job is stay where he is, or cut horizontally. This would blow up the play, as the 2 TEs are there to block, not catch. Also, do what this "not-blitz" did: since you have an extra CB due to the DE covering(no, blasting) the bunch WR, send him to blitz from the other side. He would be free, and the only thing we'd have to worry about? Tom Brady's scramble ability. But really? The free CB could easily run him down. EDIT: Even if this doesn't work(the TEs get loose), wouldn't the psychological effect of hitting their WR with DE intimidate them from running routs over the middle at full speed? Besides, wouldn't you probably break Amendola if you did this more than once?

Yes, that was the point. Get a grip.

The Colts lost to Miami because they have no defense.

True, I got ahead of myself. But, Hoyer doesn't have to look good, he just has to look better than Weedon. If he does, how can they go back to Weedon? Same thing as Majkowski/Farve, except those two were good.

Yes, tire. As in: "I tire of Jets fans not accepting their fate as the losers they are". I tire of their dopey coach, and his endless media whoring. I tire of EPSN, and their contribution to this debauchery. I tire of Cortland NY, and their continued support of a loser team from New Jersey. But most of all, I tire of a bunch of Long Island/New Jersey craptown tools, pretending like they are from "the city".

Richardson jersey owner as well. I think of parents that spent the big $ to get his jersery. Or, I think of the single guy that spent the $ to get his jersey. I feel bad for both of them equally. EDIT: Hoyer is starting over Weedon. So, yeah, 2012 draft is horrible.

They have to go QB, don't they? What about Alabama's QB? I saw some of that game, and, while I know nothing about college football, he looked like a player to me.

Good news for us. We can't afford to take any team lighting(and all the other cliches) But, this is now +1 win for us.

Oh but they do. I've been there.

Wild wishcasting here: imagine if the Buffalo Bills were to win the SB in New Jersey this year? That would be the biggest, most ridiculous, ironic and mind blowing thing that could happen in football this year, short of Tebow leading the Jags to the playoffs. I doubt Jersey would ever recover from that, and it would give us lifetime ownership of them. I have a, new, dream.

Well of course some assumptions are made. Would Stevie had suddenly tripped on air, preventing him from continuing on his course? Of course. Any number of things could have happened. I'm talking what was most likely to have happened. Barring something bizzarre? Yeah, no ifs, he would caught it. But, I didn't ONLY say that he would have caugh it. I specifically said "At the very least, he would have been in position to prevent the INT". If you look at the ball, realtive to where Stevie was headed, I doubt he would even have had to jump to get it, certainly not enough to cause him to break stride, and that is why I say he would have been able to beat the safeties, as, they are standing, and he is running. Spiking the ball is not speculation. They play began with 21 secs on the clock, and took 4 seconds. IF Stevie gets tackled, it takes 10 seconds(probably less) to run up and spike it. Remember that running up to the line and snapping quickily is what we do on EVERY play. In fact, on average, we only take 15-18 seconds off the play clock before snapping the ball. All we had to do here is spike it. That leaves 7 seconds. Plenty of time for 2 plays to the EZ from 5-10 yards out, assuming that is where Stevie was tackled. No you may not remind me of the Pittsburgh game. You know why? Because of the Panthers game. The Panthers game is the game of record, when it comes to talking about Stevie catching last second TDs. It will be the game of record, until he's in that situation again.

Sure, but, I'd much rather hear what Todd "EJ has slow eyes" and "Wasted Pick" McShay has to say about it. See, the "wasted pick" thing is what gets me. You don't say that if you have done your own work on EJ. You say only say that if you've been getting your info from the teams, and the teams have disinformed you.

Since when is a whole lot of yapping coming from Jersey D-bags news? If anything in this world is sustainable, it is yapping from Jersey. You know what would be news? Harnessing that yapping into energy.

Yes. Rape the Jets! And, the EJ trade was a raping of the Rams. I think we all agree that it was beyond cool. The Rams fans may disagree however.