Bowles wants Jets to go back to ‘algebra’ on offense

The playoff chances for the Jets are far from over, with six games left in the regular season, they truly control their fate.

In an attempt to shake things up and start anew, Ryan Fitzpatrick made his own personal sacrifice this week.

“It seemed like it was time”, a smiling Fitzpatrick said Wednesday. “But when you don’t have early success, the situation dictates that you can’t run it as much as you’d like, and it pushes you away from it a little bit”. The New York Jets didn’t take the easy way out of their problems by making Ryan Fitzpatrick the donkey on whom the tail would be pinned.

But the Jets’ offense has been inconsistent for several weeks, and Fitzpatrick’s play has been a large part of that.

“I’ve seen it both ways”, Bowles said.

“It’s one of those things that is frustrating because I think that we have a lot of the right people in here”, the quarterback said.

It was a lighthearted moment in a string of frustrating days for the Jets, who are on the brink of a free-fall.

But now that the 5-5 Jets have lost four of their past five games, what initially appeared to be one of the team’s strengths might be their biggest weakness. But at 5-5, they’re under no illusions about their predicament.

No, they need to make a change before it’s too late.. But coach Todd Bowles has a solution for his struggling team – mathematics. “We have worked well as a unit at times and we haven’t at others, so we just have to continue to practice and try to continue to keep the confidence level high and go make some plays and all that stuff”. “I think we’re getting back to basics”.

What does that mean exactly?

“We’re ready to play without him”.

“We try to run it every week”, Gailey said. But that came at a price, especially on offense. The Jets earned their second straight win over the Dolphins on October 4, when running back Chris Ivory rushed for 166 yards and a touchdown in a 27-14 win in London.

Said Bowles: “It gets to a point where it’s too creative and you’ve got to… get back to basics and get your feet back under you”.

Fitzpatrick is trying to turn things around this week, so he did what any normal guy would do: He trimmed his giant beard.

“Algebra was running the ball, throwing it when we can, play action and doing the things that we needed to do and playing the right type of football and playing complimentary football”, he said.

Math wasn’t the only analogy used to describe the Jets’ wayward offense. WR Brandon Marshall (toe) was a full participant after being limited Wednesday.

“But you don’t give up on a quarterback just like that, because overall what he’s done this year, he still proved he can do that going forward”.