Who’s Hot, Who’s Not, Week 2
Posted by aldogg on September 15, 2008
Another week, another win. The team looked great yesterday. Here are the people who looked good, and the people who need some reps last week.
Who’s Hot
Lamont Jordan-Could be this year’s version of Corey Dillon from two years ago, an older vet who can’t carry the load, but will grind clock. 11 carries and 62 yards, all in the second half and all after Maroney missed time with an injury.
Stephen Gostkowski-Usually 4/4 on field goal attempts is reason enough for a mention here, but the five touchbacks yesterday pinning the Jets at their 20 and taking Leon Washington out of the return game might be the more impressive feat. He made the defense’s job yesterday a lot easier by not having the defense have a short field to defend.
Richard Seymour-Welcome back Big Sey! Seymour is one of the best defensive lineman in the game, but hasn’t been healthy for a few years, now at 100%, he looks like he is returning to dominating form. Had a huge sack and 3 tackles all going against Jets off season pick up Alan Faneca.
Adalius Thomas-Made the play of the chasing and sacking Brett Favre while Leon Washington was trying to block him costing the Jets almost 20 yards and letting the Pats ice the game.
Who’s Not
Chris Hanson-From hot to not hot for Hanson. This week he was needed to pin the Jets deeper inside their territory after the Pats would stall, instead he had a couple of touchbacks.
Red Zone offense-1/5 in converting red zone chances for touchdowns. This could be Josh McDaniels not wanting to pass the ball with Cassel in, playing conservative instead of aggressive, but the play calling was very predictable and hopefully they have more faith in Cassel in the red zone next week vs Miami. Usually we see packages with Mike Vrabel in at tight end and direct snaps to the running back, or even the famous Statue of Liberty play vs Jacksonsville in the playoffs last year. The Pats will need touchdowns, not field goals, so the Pats will need to work on that.
