1.. The offense didn't look very good today. We are going to have trouble with good defenses. Hill was non-existent. He gets the rookie excuse. We should have thrown the ball a lot more in the first half, especially following that first TD drive when Sanchez was hot. After running the ball way too much he was pretty inaccurate. We'll be fine against mid- bad level defenses. Holmes can't fucking catch. He can stick that #1 WR contract up his stuck-up diva ass. 2. The defense was solid, but Revis was a huge loss. If the offense could have stayed on the field, the score would have been much lower. The D-line is awesome. McIntyre needs to be on the field much much more even when Thomas is back. Wilson has to stay at the nickel where he belongs. Landry needs to think a little more on those sideline hits. Linebackers are ridiculously slow. 3. Rex Ryan is not on LeBeau's level. Not a shot at Ryan, but Harrison and Polamalu were were out for the Steelers and they still semed like the same defense. 4. We are extremely lucky the Patriots lost to the Cardinals. Feel free to add....
Not ready to crown Lebeau for a game plan which basically centered around hitting Sanchez and Greene in the head to thwart whatever momentum the Jets had
Defense was not solid. They couldn't bring Big Ben down and let up way too many 3rd downs because of this. They had trouble tackling near the end of game which I put on fatigue, but before that, after halftime, they were plain missing tackles and getting run over. We had trouble beating the press. Hill is supposed to be that guy (even keller) but Hill is in his second game. Holmes had lots of drops. He drew some important penalites, but lots of drops. Too many. The offense line played well, but the Steelers succeeded crowding the WR's and moving the pocket. Sanchez had trouble placing the ball in tight spots. Sometimes when he did it was dropped or the receiver wasn't turned. Other times he just missed and sailed throws. Partly because he didn't step into his throws. Jets seemed to play conservative on both sides of the ball and the Steelers offense made them pay. Then the Jets couldn't turn it on aggresively on offense to answer. They were simply outplayed and beaten. There isn't a scapegoat here.
Wasn't looking for scapegoats. Just pointed out things that I saw. The defense was solid. They were on the field for about 40 minutes. Not having Revis really screwed us over when Ben was evading tacklers in the backfield.
Yeah we seemed to play conservative, not trusting Cro and Lankster/Wilson to hold up one vs one. But then the Big Ben beat the zones. When we did blitz, Big Ben evaded (more we missed) and beat Cro/Wilson/Lankster easily. Revis not being there hurt. I don't think the defense was solid. They just didn't play well. First half was FG, FG, punt, TD. Second half was worse
Yeah, playing not to lose is a great way to lose on the road in a tough stadium. And yeah, I didn't see any scapegoats. The only person I'd really fault today was Tony Sparano and that's because after some early success the Jets couldn't build to the next level. That's the job of the OC: figure out what is working and what's not working and do a lot more of the good stuff. Sparano, BTW, was a huge key in last week's win and now he's been a big part both ways.
They're not as good as they looked last week. I think they're probably about as good as we thought they were going into that game.
The defense was on the field way too long. A lot of that was on the offense but there was plenty of times it was on the defense way before they got tired.
the defense was not solid........maybe against the run but still that was a no show, especially on 3rd down.
Reminded me a LOT of the Miami game last year. They had like a 10 minute drive that ended in a TD. Steelers had a freaking 9 minute drive for a TD as well.
Was it just me, or do you agree they looked conservative? It felt like they thought Big Ben was going to make a mistake and were waiting on that and it never happened.
