Jets defense has given up 21 passing touchdowns while only intercepting 7 passes. The strange stat is that opposing teams are only completing 50% of their passes.
Its not really that bizzare I mean when you blitz as much as we do teams are going to have lower completion percentages, and since we have less guys dropped back into coverage less ints. But holy shit, we have the fewest INTs in the nfl, now that is pretty crazy
The real question is how does the YPA stat stack up. The other thing is the Jets for whatever reason are 32nd in the league for interceptions. Yikes, that is not good.
It's also worth noting despite that blowout loss to NE that the Jets are still not too shabby on total points given up. In that connection the 21 passing TD's is perhaps not too great, but that goes along with only 9 rushing TD's.
Our guys never seem to be in position to make picks. I don't know if that's the way they're coached or what. Lack of pass rush doesn't help either. Same with lack of tipped balls. Overall...I blame Cromartie!
I agree we've never needed a pass rusher more than we do now. Imagine how this D would be with a true rusher?
it's also that teams just aren't throwing at Revis, and a lot of teams haven't been challenging Cromartie either; obviously there are exceptions to both. When teams are throwing on LBs, Safeties, and nickel CBs, you're not going to get as many picks
Penalties: Jets have committed 97 for 875 Yards Opposition has committed 65 for 633 Yards Jets are +5 in turnovers.
Personally..I think the lack of interceptions and giving up passing TDs has a lot to do with our personnel packages. I just think we sub way too much and don't give our rushers up front a chance to learn throughout the game how to best attack an O Lineman.
I think the problem is that we don't have any pass rushers that can beat someone with a move as opposed to just out numbering a defense with a 7 vs 6 blitz. Teams have figured out that A) Unless we rush 6 or 7 we have no shot at pressuring the QB B) If you max protect those crazy blitzes are completely shut down C) If the Jets rush 3 or 4 they are never touching the QB and the QB can take a nap D) if our defense sits back in a zone we don't have the speed at linebacker to cover the middle of the field. The bottom line is that the defense isn't very good because they can't pressure the QB with 4 or 5 rushers. Jenkins would have made the pass rush so much better.
I think it's a combination of a few things. Number one being no one throws at revis this year. Last year they threw to him all year and he constantly made them pay with pass break ups and int's. I didn't look this up but I believe he had 6 last year. Then theres the fact that teams are picking up our blitzes better and also have gotten the ball out quickly often making shorter safer throws. Another thing is that we had sheppard and strickland as our two and three last year(at least when healthy). Sure cromartie is an upgrade over sheppard but sheppard was solid and strickland is a much better corner than anyone we throw out there as a third this yr. We also had to deal with the revis hamstring and more recently the leonhard injury. That all adds up to 21 td's and seven int's.
You would rather have Sheppard and Strickland? Sheppard is one of the word cover corners I've ever seen and Strickland can't stay on the field. The cornerbacks are better this year and Pool is a better tackler then Rhodes but probably a drop off in coverage. The difference between this last year and last year is the pass rush. No pass rush equals no secondary that can survive.
Despite all this, somehow we're ranked 9th against the pass. Not bad statistically ... and yet while I watch the games it seems like our pass defense totally sucks this year. I can't ever remember a defense that gave up more 1st downs on 3rd and 10 or longer, and got so few interceptions. Despite what the numbers might say, this pass defense has been a major disappointment at best, and at times ... totally embarrassing.
I think Strickland was very underrated for us last yr. Was letting him go the right move sure because as we both mentioned he had problems staying on the field. It's tough to play with only two guys who can cover in this league and we see that week in and week out with teams exploiting Coleman, Wilson earlier in the year and lowery. Sheppard was solid for us last year but faded at the end and ended up in the dog house. I think that and Strickland being injured in the Indy game was really what allowed manning to light up our d.
Good point. Jenkins was a bigger loss to our pass d than our run defense. He would g Push the pocket on pass plays and like you said draw the double teams. Really opens things up.
