Rex needs to fix the back end real quick. Open the screen door: Opponents have discovered the Achilles' heel of the Jets' defense -- short, quick passes, neutralizing their pass rush. The Steelers staged a clinic on screen passes, throwing no fewer than 10, mostly bubble screens to wide receivers. The Jets should've expected this, as the Steelers used 10 screens in their previous game against the Minnesota Vikings. Rex Ryan and Dennis Thurman have to figure out a way to stop the trend, because the defense is getting sliced and diced. In the past three games, Jake Locker, Matt Ryan and Roethlisberger have completed 77 of 99 attempts for 732 yards, six touchdowns and no interceptions. That's a 117.7 passer rating. For a defense, that stinks.
While the DL has plenty of talent, and Davis has added speed to the LB's, the fact is the LB's still have difficulties with certain passing attacks. They are playing better than the O, but not all that much better. Having said that, they have faced some very good Qb's so far, so the stats on the passing game are probably worse than what will be the season average. Brady of course but Ryan, Rothliesberger are very good to near top shelf, while even Locker is an improving Qb. Freeman pulled down the average, and Manuel had a rookie's off day, but on the whole, the opponents' Qb's have been definitely better than average.
In 6 games the Jets have faced a surefire hall of famer, a great candidate and a guy who is probably 50/50 to make the hall in Brady, Roethlisberger and Ryan. They're about to face surefire hall of famers in two of the next three games. That the defense looks a little bit ragged with two new safeties and the CB position in some flux is not all that surprising. The blitzing is a reaction to who the Jets are playing. You can't let the great QB's sit in the pocket for 5 seconds or they're going to beat you every time. The problem is that the Jets #1 CB is having an off-year, after having a career year last season. The young guys are getting acclimated and at least one of them has been hurt for most of the season. The safeties aren't pass defenders. Dawan Landry is getting killed by the fans for the problems in coverage up the seams but he's not that kind of safety. He's a stick'em in the box kinda guy and the Jets run defense has been pretty good with him out there. Nobody that the Jets have at safety is even an average free safety. They still have three guys on the field most downs at LB who cannot cover well in Coples, Harris and Pace. That's the hang up. Cro getting burned and taking too many penalties is a big issue mainly because the TE's and slot receivers are chewing the Jets up right now. Three weeks ago the TE's weren't a big issue. Now they're the #1 hole in the Jet's defense. Again.
The D hasn't been perfect but what do you expect every week? In all of the losses the offense let the team down.
I will give you the NE and Pitt game, but the whole team lost the Tenn. game. WR's with the dropsies lost the NE game, and piss poor planning conservative BS coaching lost the game yesterday.
For a team that is used to seeing QBs complete less than 60% of their passes every game, this is not good. Life after Revis isn't exactly pretty on the back end.
Have some DL drop back in coverage. If he is beating you up and down the field with quick slants over the middle, trick him once and drop a d linemen. Tip Drill!
i doubt rex will continue to let his guys make his d's look bad like that much longer, i trust hes workin something out
Between 2009 - 2012, NFL teams have had between 47 and 109 pass deflections in a year. The Jets are currently ranked #32 with 9 pass deflections, on pace for 24. The Jets are also currently ranked #32 with 1 interception, on pace for 3. I'm starting to think that our secondary is a lot worse than we thought, and our D is only good because our run D is #1 and the D-line has played lights out
Please step back and think about it. We gave up 19 points, 3 in garbage time. The D is not exactly getting owned. We have a rook QB who throws INT's. That in a nutshell is the problem. I'm not down on Geno, I'm just saying that it's time for a reality check if you think the D 's "Achilles heel" is fatal. It isn't.
We simply don't have an adequate 2ndary that can cover.....The front 7 is doing thier job but our def backfield is weak & inexperienced.
