A Big Fan: Adam Gase to Turn Over Offensive Play-Calling Again to Dowell Loggains
Dowell Loggains will again call the plays for the New York Jets offense this Sunday, this after a very mixed bag of results from last week.
On the Jets opening three drives of last Sunday’s home loss to the Buffalo Bills, the offense drove the ball each time and walked away with 10 points. It was downright prolific for an offense that is near the bottom of the league in nearly every offensive category. Loggains, the Jets offensive coordinator, was calling the plays for the first time all season and the unit seemed to be clicking.
But then in the second half, they netted just four yards. Despite the second half struggles, on Wednesday head coach Adam Gase said that Loggains will again call the plays.
“I know as far as the amount of time that I was able to spend in other areas, but at the same time still be able to help the offensive side of the ball. I do think there’s going to be things that I’ll notice throughout this process,” Gase said on Wednesday in his virtual press conference.
“I just don’t think it’s a one-week thing. I don’t even really think saying, ‘Hey, there was one week, now we’ll change it back to what we were doing.’ I think I’ve got to see this play out a little bit where other things will pop up. There might be some other things that I noticed that maybe I could get fixed that will help us do things better in the long run.”
This Sunday, the Jets face the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs.
It was a different experience for Gase, who has never turned over play-calling duties in a regular season game as a head coach before this Sunday.
Not in his three seasons with the Miami Dolphins. Not here in what is his second season with the Jets.
With the Jets 0-7 and the only winless team in the NFL, Gase was trying to shake things up with Loggains calling the plays. It was a unique perspective for him.
“For three-plus hours I’m used to always doing something, looking at pictures, kind of writing my notes down, thinking through the next series. It’s just a different vantage point because you look through the pictures and you might get a couple suggestions,” Gase said. “And now you’re on the defensive side actually really intensely watching what’s going on, listening to what’s going on, hearing what they’re talking about, thinking through situational things of, ‘Hey, is there anything I can do to help them.’ It’s just a different – you’re doing something different completely than what I’ve done in the past. When you call plays, you’re making a lot of decisions very quickly, in a short period of time. I mean you don’t have a lot of time to think, it’s all reaction and your brain is going nonstop, where when you’re not calling plays and all of a sudden you’re more viewing, you can really be specific about your suggestions.”
