First of all, I am ecstatic about the win. I wish it came in a different way but a win is a win is a win and the Jets are in first place! HELL YEAH! Now, obviously the numbers can't be exact (I wasn't writing them down at the time), but I counted something like 5/9 on this ball, with the secondary only doing something once (Rhodes jumping the route once he saw Revis beat). The Patriots ran the deep out (10-15 yards, then out) all day, and we did nothing to stop them. The incompletions (aside from the one I already mentioned broken up by Rhodes) were (all 3 of them) mis-thrown by Matt Cassel. The other five were caught for first downs. This, by the way, is NOT counting the route run by Moss for the touchdown at the end of the game. He dove to the sideline but it was not a designed deep out. I can get into rants about (the lack of) blitzing, about playing the same damned coverage on every play, the adjustment to not bump Moss on the last play, never putting a spy or a linebacker in zone over the middle to at least remind Cassel that there are defenders, the DLine and linebackers NEVER recognizing the shotgun trap (which was run numerous times and never stopped for less than 4 yards) and actually a couple of other things, but the big one eating at me is the deep out - WHY DID NO ONE PICK UP ON THIS AT ANY POINT DURING THE GAME?
i completely agree man. how come no one picked any of that up?? it's like we have no coaches out there. and the defensive side now has a headset for direct input, so really, there aren't any excuses.... lmaoo....i still can't believe we lined up ahmad carrol on randy moss....
A big part of the 10-15 yard 'out' (more commonly a comeback in reality) working on us is the lack of speed of any of our corners except for Revis... When a CB does not have good speed, he tends to retreat and commit to dropping deep quickly. A fast WR can then run him off and come back towards the QB quickly for an easy gain. There's really nothing we can do about that, other than acquire better personnel.
They ran the comeback a few times as well, but it wasn't nearly as poorly defended as the out. Were they really afraid of being outrun by Benjamin Watson, though?
