patsfaninpittsburgh
Banned
- Joined
- Feb 6, 2008
- Messages
- 3,054
- Reaction score
- 0
The Pats defense those years was 1 and 2 in points allowed. The Jets are 1 this year (even after losing Jenkins for the season), and allowed 2 fewer points than the 2003 Pats. That makes the Jets comparable to the great Pats defenses. Certainly better than 2001. The defense does not compare to say the 2000 Ravens, thus the Jets' problem is the offense has been so bad that the defense cannot make the Jets a good team.
The only playoff team the Jets come close to in points scored is Cincy, which has neither an offense nor a defense of late and likely will be exiting immediately. If I can acknowledge your defense ranks at the top of the playoff teams, you can acknowledge that your offense ranks at the bottom. As for your "what ifs" in taking the division, if Brady had been himself the Jets would have lost the first game and certainly the division, and that scenario reflects a single game of the season, not a general performance improvement that would pretty much make any team in the NFL a playoff team by hypothetical. Woulda, coulda, shoulda is the chant of those not at the top of the game. And Manning smacked 200 yards on your vaunted pass defense in just over 2 quarters, so let's not kid ourselves as to the outcome. A loss and the Jets are done, so that was a major Christmas present.
A totally padded stat.
In 2009, the Jets defense gave up FIVE critical late scoring drives that cost the New York Jets a victory.
Miami/Buffalo/Miami (again)/Jax/Atlanta.
Five games lost because a can't get it done defense lost the game.
Hell, our defense only "lost" four games this year.
I guess they were better than the 03/04 teams.