A Giant Killing

What I saw Sunday vs. the Giants was embarrassing on all sides of the ball. This team comes into the game 1-3 with a MUST win vs. their cross town rivals. What I have concluded is this: We are NOT a good team.

Chad Pennington threw the ball a little further than 4 yards but he's done. The next time he is behind center should be if Kellen Clemens gets hurt or if there is a blow out. Chad should now be our #2 QB as he doesn't have nearly enough arm strength to be the #1 guy anymore. It's sad as I like Chad but 3 more weak interceptions and balls floating to receivers. He probably should have been picked off 5 times. It's really time for the Clemens era to begin.

Chad's lack of arm strength is hurting the entire offense. The opposition knows we can't throw deep so the field shrinks, thus, hurting our running game. It would be nice if our OL can make some holes for the running game but when the entire defense knows we are going to run or either throw a short pass, there is not much room to move. I did like the way that the OL protected Chad (allowing only 1 sack all day) as he was not running for his life so that was one of the few positives. And Chad's numbers could have been worse if it weren't for 2 brilliant catches by Coles. Thomas Jones had a big game rushing for a big 36 yards for the day. But, there is literally no where for this guy to run.

As for defense, it wasn't good either. I've said the 3-4 isn't working and the proof is in the numbers. We can't stop the run. There is too much room off the line and before we touch the guy with the ball, they are already 5 yards up field. It's a joke when our ex-7th round draft pick looks like one of the top running backs in the game yesterday for the Giants. I think the Giants ran for 156 yards for us and they probably should have run for more but decided to throw the ball once and a while which we can't stop either since we have ZERO pass rush. We got our 3rd sack of the season through 5 games. So, at this rate, we'll be lucky to have 10 sacks all season. That's pretty pathetic when you ask me considering Osi (not even attempting to spell his last name) had 6 sacks for the Giants last week alone.

And penalties killed us as well as mistackles. On one drive, Dyson had a terrible penalty and then mistackled Plaxico who went for a touch down.

It was nice to see Eli Manning have a great 1st half throwing for 22 yards, an interception to Kerry Rhodes, giving him a QB rating of 0.0 but we didn't do much against him in the 2nd half.

Our play calling was not great but I did love the direct snap to Leon Washington to get a first down. But, when you take away the Rhodes TD on defense and the 98 yard Leon Washington KO return, and then the Vilma interception which set up a field goal, there really wasn't much offense. It also hurt that Nugent missed another field goal. But, despite the lack of offense, we still had a 10 point half-time lead.

Yup...we are 1-4 and Mangini continues to say that Pennington is his starter. What is our coach's problem? They drafted a QB last year who has a nice arm who Ron Jorwarski (can't spell) says was the best QB in that draft and we won't put the guy in. We were 1-4 in 2002 and made the playoffs but that won't be happening again. Since 1990, only 5 teams of 85 teams have recovered from 1-4 to make the playoffs and this Jets team will NOT be the 6th team to do so. Let's use the rest of the season to see what Kellen Clemens can do so next year, we'll have a solid QB to help us take that next step as we have taken a HUGE step backwards this year.

So, Mr. Mangini, right now, you are doing an AWFUL job as coach. Change the defense scheme to a 4-3 that fits the personnel. You already blew the Kendall situation which would have greatly helped our dreadful running game. And, enough with Pennington. Who gives a crap about a QB controversy. Put in the kid to see what he got. I give you an 'F' this year for FAILURE ! It's time to build our offense for next year and that change starts with the quarterback.