{"id":28066,"date":"2015-03-23T12:08:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T16:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=28066"},"modified":"2022-04-01T03:01:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:01:56","slug":"gailey-quickly-becoming-key-to-2015-for-jets-new-york-jets-ryan-fitzpatrick-todd-bowles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2015\/03\/23\/gailey-quickly-becoming-key-to-2015-for-jets-new-york-jets-ryan-fitzpatrick-todd-bowles\/","title":{"rendered":"Gailey Quickly Becoming key to 2015 for Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Glenn Naughton <\/a><\/p>\n

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Shortly after New York Jets Owner Woody Johnson\u00a0selected Todd Bowles <\/a>\u00a0to take over\u00a0his team’s head coaching\u00a0position at the painful conclusion of a miserable 4-12 season, word of\u00a0the rookie head coach’s\u00a0top choice to run his offense was learned almost immediately.<\/p>\n

Former Dallas Cowboys and Buffalo Bills head coach Chan Gailey was\u00a0the target, and following a week of media speculation regarding\u00a0his intentions, Gailey was officially brought on board<\/a> to help turn around an offense that has struggled to put points on the board for the better part of three decades.<\/p>\n

While Gailey has\u00a0fielded just three top-10\u00a0offenses in his last ten seasons as a head coach\u00a0and coordinator, his most impressive\u00a0attribute is his ability to\u00a0\u00a0consistently \u00a0get the most out of what he has to work with<\/a>.\u00a0 Looking for the last three Jets teams\u00a0to finish with a\u00a0top-ten scoring offense?\u00a0 That search\u00a0will send you back 27 years.\u00a0 The Jets ranked 6th, 5th and 9th in 1988, 1998 and 2008 respectively.\u00a0 Should that trend continue, 2018 should give Jets fans something to really look forward to.<\/p>\n

Gailey joins a Jets team that is primed to field its most well-rounded offense in over a decade with the NFL draft still on the horizon.\u00a0\u00a0What\u00a0type of offense he chooses to implement remains to be seen, but many believe it will be a wide open spread attack.\u00a0 This of course is based on Gailey having run it in the past, and the fact that Geno Smith was a second-round pick as a result of the success he had in a spread offense at West Virginia.\u00a0 Gailey’s reputation is one of a coordinator who builds his scheme around the talent he has to work with, not the other way around.\u00a0 One of his\u00a0past pupils, former\u00a0Miami Dolphins and Jets quarterback Jay Fiedler echoed that sentiment in an interview with JetNation.com<\/a> not long after Gailey’s hiring.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cChan was a great teacher of the game and he did a great job of simplifying things for everyone\u201d said Fiedler.\u00a0 \u201cHe allowed guys to just go out and play and molded his offense around what they did well.\u00a0 Chan was always\u00a0very receptive and showed a lot of creativity.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t try to get everyone to play to\u00a0 his system, it was the opposite.\u00a0 He wanted to know what guys were good at and felt comfortable with and he\u2019d mold the offense around that and listened to their suggestions\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While any conversations that took place between Gailey and the Jets are unknown,\u00a0they\u00a0managed to convince him to join a team with several issues on offense.\u00a0A young struggling quarterback, an offensive line that struggled with consistency, lack of an established number one wide receiver and no veteran quarterback to fall back on should Geno Smith falter.<\/p>\n

With those being some of the biggest obstacles facing gang green as they headed toward 2015, first-year general manager Mike Maccagnan has done an outstanding job of addressing the\u00a0problems that plagued the Jets with multiple moves that are sure to make Gailey’s life easier.<\/p>\n

A blockbuster trade with the Chicago Bears in exchange for five time pro-bowl receiver Brandon Marshall<\/a>\u00a0was the first piece of the puzzle.\u00a0 New York hasn’t had a 1,000 yard receiver since Jerricho Cotchery posted 1,130 yards\u00a0in 2007.\u00a0 Marshall on the other hand, has had just one season in which he didn’t put up 1,000 yards since becoming a starter in 2007.\u00a0 That was\u00a0last season when the 6′ 4” Central Florida product battled ankle injures for much of the\u00a0year and suffered broken ribs in week fourteen.\u00a0\u00a0Even\u00a0still, he managed to post an impressive 721 yards\u00a0to go along with\u00a08 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Even if Marshall has lost a step as some suggest, he still\u00a0remains a vital asset in the red zone for Gailey.\u00a0 Of\u00a0his 65 career touchdowns, 48 have come from inside the 20 (73%), with five of his eight TD’s in 2014 falling under that category.\u00a0 His presence should play a big role in elevating an offense that ranked dead last in the NFL last season, scoring a touchdown just 36% of the time when inside the opponent’s 20.<\/p>\n

In terms of a quarterback, nobody expected the Jets to enter 2015 without adding at least one veteran\u00a0to the roster, but who was that going to be?\u00a0 As it turns out, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Gailey’s former starter in Buffalo became available via trade\u00a0when the Houston Texans signed free agent Brian Hoyer so the Jets sent a conditional 2016\u00a0pick to the Texans to obtain his services.<\/p>\n

While Fitzpatrick is far from an elite quarterback who can carry a team on his own, his track record, especially under Gailey suggests he’ll be a significant upgrade over what the Jets have had under center over the past ten years.\u00a0 Well, 2008 notwithstanding when the Brett Favre had a layover at the meadowlands en route to his chosen destination of Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Minus Favre’s 2008 campaign, Jets quarterbacks have collectively thrown 143 touchdowns and 157 interceptions over the past decade.\u00a0 Making matters (much) worse, is that during that same\u00a0period, Jets\u00a0QB’s also lost a staggering 74 fumbles, bringing their total number of turnovers to 231, an average of 26 per season.\u00a0In addition to a lack of ball security, Jets\u00a0signal callers\u00a0have completed 58% of their pass or\u00a0greater just twice when Chad Pennington posted a 64.5% in 2006, and his 68.8% percentage in 2007 over the span of 8 starts helped offset Kellen Clemens’ mark of 52% for a collective total of 60.5%.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0when paired with Gailey for three seasons in Buffalo, Fitzpatrick\u00a0registered 71\u00a0touchdowns\u00a0and\u00a055 interceptions\u00a0with a 60% completion percentage.\u00a0 In his two seasons without Gailey in Tennessee and Houston, he tossed 31\u00a0touchdowns\u00a0and 20 interceptions while connecting on 63% of his pass attempts in 23 games.<\/p>\n

The additions of Marshall and Fitzpatrick offer much-needed stability and competition, but it’s the guys up front doing the dirty work who have garnered the most attention from Maccagnan as of late<\/a>.\u00a0 Gailey and offensive line coach Steve Marshall will have\u00a0plenty of options after the re-signing Willie Colon and importing free agents James Carpenter from Seattle and G\/T James Brewer from the Giants. \u00a0The Jets are currently carrying 13 offensive linemen but\u00a0who stays and who goes remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Jets fans should know better than to take anything for granted, but expectations are high on defense as Bowles and defensive coordinator Kacy Rodgers will have plenty of ammunition to run what’s expected to be a blitz-heavy scheme.<\/p>\n

So \u00a0it\u00a0looks as if Chan Gailey, a man who started coaching offense in the NFL just under thirty seasons ago with the Denver Broncos,\u00a0is next in line to do what so many others have failed to do\u00a0in the past.\u00a0 To take the New York Jets offense and turn them in to a unit that other teams don’t look forward to playing.\u00a0 Should the defense become the dominant unit that so many are expecting, it will be Gailey’s work on offense that will determine whether or not\u00a02015\u00a0\u00a0is a story of a great Jets turnaround, or the same old story of unsightly Jets turnovers.<\/p>\n

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