1. Your starting punter comes to your facility on Saturday with
a swollen calf or shin and your team
contacts a former punter turned radio talk show host and signs him. He goes out
on your team’s biggest game of the year and punts 4 times for a 30-yard net average.
- First play of the game goes for minus 4 yards and your best running back tweaks his hamstring or he wasn’t loose or whatever.
- Second play of the game your quarterback tries to run with the ball and it gets stripped and Pats recover (Brady’s strip bounced right in his hands later in the game).
- Your best receiver drops a sure 12-yard touchdown. The Jets could've taken an eight-point lead with 12:50 remaining in the game.
Welcome to the world of the New York Jets. This
was a winnable game. The Jets were out coached and outplayed at quarterback.
Even though the Jets took a lead into the 4th quarter, the Patriots
made all the necessary adjustments to win this game. After Brady gets sacked a
few times early on, even with a depleted offensive line, Brady lit it up
passing on almost every play. He went 34-54 for 355 yards and this with some of his
receivers dropping the ball all game. Where was our pass rush? I didn’t here
Leonard Williams name mentioned the whole game. Wilkerson was active at the
beginning of the game but very quiet in the second half. Sheldon Richardson
played just okay and Damon Harrison the same.
There were numerous key plays. The dropped TD
pass by Marshall was huge. And having Ivory nicked up so early in the game
really hurt. But the one play that will keep Todd Bowles up at night (besides
Marshall’s drop) is the 3rd and 17 pass completion to Julian Edelman. Why we did not blitz one or even two players on that play is
ridiculous. When you have a team in the hole and have the talent on defense the
Jets have, you want to force the QB to hurry his throw. The 17 yards is a long
way to go but it is incredible how short the Jets make it seem. That play
really stung.
What in the world is going on with Fitzpatrick and
Devin Smith? As far as I’m concerned it doesn’t make sense anymore this year to
have Smith on the field at a crucial time with Fitz at QB. We are better off
with Jeremy Kerley in there.
The
pass coverage in the middle of the field was awful. I’m not sure what went on
there but Brady was playing “pitch and catch” with every receiver (except
LaFell) in the middle of the field especially when Gronk started to get hot.
Folk
made a great F/G at the end of the game and the onside kick worked! Besides
those two plays, we must have the worst special teams in the league.
Why in the world is Kerley calling for a “Fair Catch” inside the ten-yard line?
He has got to move away from the ball to decoy the other team and let it go
into the end zone.
Todd Bowles made a real bone headed time
management play letting the clock run for about 25 seconds right before the 2
minute warning. Those seconds plus the time out he had to use for the Mangold
injury would have been great to have back. We actually would have had a
fighter’s chance to tie up the game after the onside kick.
This was a tough one.
Green Tidbits:
Seeing
Chris Ivory on the sidelines gave me visions of John Abraham puking on the
sidelines and not playing in the biggest game of his Jet career.
Something
is odd about the Quigley story but let’s hold judgement. Infections are
becoming an issue in NFL locker rooms.
Cumberland
must be more aggressive on catching the football on passes to him. He should
have had a touchdown.
Didn’t
we know Pats would double team Marshall? We had to.
Rob
Ninkovich just tipped another Fitzpatrick pass.
Can you
believe the Jets passed on the Pats Chandler Jones for Quinton Coples? Jones
only has 5 ½ sacks, 3rd in the league.
“Hi
Steve (Weatherford) this is Marty from Rockland County. What do you think the
Jets should do about their punting situation? “
At the
end of first half, the Jets looked like they were playing not to lose. Should
have been more aggressive. I thought this was a changed culture.
If that
was Edelman instead of Kerley on that hit out of bounds, it would have been a
penalty.
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