really kept us in the game ,wasnt much for the secondary to do :lol: but great all round coverage they deserve a mention among all this shouting about geno
If you would have said we would be 1-1 with a rookie QB leading a drive to win TB in the first game and a 3 point loss to NE the second, I think most of this board would have taken it. What has made that possible and raised expectations has been the spectacular play of the defense. If the offense improves and can score 14-21 points a game, the Jets could be a .500 team easily, especially with an easier schedule towards the end.
Yeah they got burnt bad on the opening drive, then only allowed 3 off the fumble. THe played great and people need to credit them some. It wasn't all Brady not having his WRs. Before the game all the analysts say it doesn't matter who you put out there, Brady will make the great. After the game, the WRs slowed Brady down. Let's be honest the WRs definitely helped us out against BRady, but the defense held their own and got stops that were stops regardless of WR catching/dropping the ball. They didn't get to Brady a lot but they got stops on 3rd down which is key and didn't let any extended drives.
I thought the defense was terrible. It was just that the Pats Offense was even worse. We had so many missed coverages and wide open receivers. We had to worry about one player all night in Edeleman and could not do that very well. While our run defense played well our pass defense was awful. NE had wide open receivers all night long. If NE had a couple more healthy receivers this could have been a very ugly game for our defense.
Too bad Wilkerson and Richardson got injured. Defense somehow got off field on 3rd down. But there was little pressure on Brady. WRs were streaking wide open down the field. The entire world knew Brady was going to Edelman on that last 3rd down and the D still did nothing to stop it.
Secondary looked like garbage. We got torched repeatedly--we were just lucky Pats (with the exception of Edelman) couldn't catch a cold.
You know, I think if we would've kept Milliner on the bench all game, we may just have one. That fluke blown coverage TD would have been a moot point. IMO. I've never seen a corner line up on the complete wrong side of the field like that before. Unreal.
The D was impressive as far as getting off the field on 3rd downs but they also gave up some huge plays that shifted the momentum of the game. The one thing that everyone knows must happen to beat the Pats - pressure Brady - just didn't happen - he had all day back there as usual and would have picked the Jets apart had it not been for his greenhorn receivers dropping even more passes than our guys did. No INTs, no forced fumbles, one sack... they didn't give up points but they also didn't come up with any big plays while NE's D came up with 4 TOs. You don't win many games in that scenario.
They look good, but I think tonight's mess is more about how bad the pats are right now. There not elite anymore. They so bad they got lucky tonight to get a win against a team with a rookie qb, receiver dropping balls. D is ok, pats are not what they were in the past. Don't read to much into tonight's game.
I have a question that maybe someone with a better eye and some time to analyse the games more indepth could give an answer to regarding the D. What sort of man/zone ratio are we running over the last two games compared to previous years?
Our defense looks exactly the way I, and most fans expected it to look. Killer D-line, average at best LB corps, horrible safeties, and poor CB play. Our front seven is solid, our backfield is garbage, not much of a surprise here. The only time the DB's actually made a play and didn't get bailed out by a drop from the Pats receivers or an unusual bad pass from Brady (he had 1 or 2 today) was when Walls covered that deep ball in the 4th quarter. Other than that one play, the DB's didn't do crap and have only the fortune of playing against a receiving corps equally as shitty as ours to thank.
I really expected better play out of Cromartie, honestly. I wish we could have kept the other Landry, he was good, but I guess we couldn't have him in a rebuilding year and with Holmes and Sanchez taking up lots of cap space. We need better CB play for sure. I think the defense did a great job, but on the other hand, the Patriots have terrible WRs other than Amendola, and they were dropping a lot of passes, and also apparently were not running their routes properly. The Jets' defense did a great job overall, don't get me wrong, but this was a greatly diminished Patriots offense. The defense was excellent against the run, and that is hugely important. If Wilkerson ends up missing some games, that's going to hurt us big time though. Hopefully Coples will be back for Week 3.
