JSn
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Warning, this post is probably kinda boring if you're into the more sensational topics. Just thought I'd share my findings from a skim of the box score from Thursdays heart-attack game.
Offense:
One thing that has gone slightly unnoticed in the Jets game is the first come-back.
End of 2nd - TD
Only score of the third - TD
Opening the 3rd FG
That's 17 unanswered points, folks.
Another interesting figure about TD drives:
TD#1 - 10 plays, 68 yards in 1:29
TD#2 - 7 plays, 78 yards in 2:25
TD#3 - 8 plays, 62 yards in 1:03 (no timeouts)
Who got the points? Gaffney (TD, 2pt Conv), Moss, Watson
Who were the receivers in the final drive?
1) Watson for 9 yards
2) Watson for 11 yards
3) Welker for 17 yards
4) Welker for 14 yards
5) Moss for 16 yards
Still mad at Watson?
Well they obviously stopped us from running the ball, right? Wrong.
We went aerial because we were behind.
We had 3 more rushing first downs than the Jets.
We had only 15 fewer yards rushing than the Jets.
We had 14 fewer rushing plays than the Jets.
We had a higher red zone efficiency, as well.
So the mistakes hurt us, but they didn't kill us. Watson and Koppen aren't headed for the doghouse, they'll be making corrections.
Why did we lose?
Defense? I'll say no. Flog me if you will.
Our defense faltered stopping them on third down giving them 56% efficiency (9-16) versus our 28% efficiency (4-14).
Aside of that, our defense had better numbers all around allowing lower gains on almost all other offensive statistics!
Average gain per pass: Jets - 6.5, Pats 7.1
Average gain per rush: Jets - 3.6, Pats 5.0
My feeling is that the botched Kick coverage, much more than our defense, cost us this game. We know we have good special teams, they just haven't been real special the last couple of weeks. Correct that and spend next week working through the fundamentals with the D and we have a very real chance of matching our toughest competitors.
I expect that we will be chasing the red-zone harder now than we did in any game prior to Thursday night and the plan has to be to get ahead early and the slow the game down. Not rocket surgery, but we have to tools guys.
We stop that kick return and we probably win that game. But because we played from behind we got an eye-full of Cassel and that will only make things better from here on in. Not one team ahead of us can write him off.
A picture to make the post more interesting:
This is Brett watching us tie it up with one second left. Warms my heart.
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Offense:
One thing that has gone slightly unnoticed in the Jets game is the first come-back.
End of 2nd - TD
Only score of the third - TD
Opening the 3rd FG
That's 17 unanswered points, folks.
Another interesting figure about TD drives:
TD#1 - 10 plays, 68 yards in 1:29
TD#2 - 7 plays, 78 yards in 2:25
TD#3 - 8 plays, 62 yards in 1:03 (no timeouts)
Who got the points? Gaffney (TD, 2pt Conv), Moss, Watson
Who were the receivers in the final drive?
1) Watson for 9 yards
2) Watson for 11 yards
3) Welker for 17 yards
4) Welker for 14 yards
5) Moss for 16 yards
Still mad at Watson?
Well they obviously stopped us from running the ball, right? Wrong.
We went aerial because we were behind.
We had 3 more rushing first downs than the Jets.
We had only 15 fewer yards rushing than the Jets.
We had 14 fewer rushing plays than the Jets.
We had a higher red zone efficiency, as well.
So the mistakes hurt us, but they didn't kill us. Watson and Koppen aren't headed for the doghouse, they'll be making corrections.
Why did we lose?
Defense? I'll say no. Flog me if you will.
Our defense faltered stopping them on third down giving them 56% efficiency (9-16) versus our 28% efficiency (4-14).
Aside of that, our defense had better numbers all around allowing lower gains on almost all other offensive statistics!
Average gain per pass: Jets - 6.5, Pats 7.1
Average gain per rush: Jets - 3.6, Pats 5.0
My feeling is that the botched Kick coverage, much more than our defense, cost us this game. We know we have good special teams, they just haven't been real special the last couple of weeks. Correct that and spend next week working through the fundamentals with the D and we have a very real chance of matching our toughest competitors.
I expect that we will be chasing the red-zone harder now than we did in any game prior to Thursday night and the plan has to be to get ahead early and the slow the game down. Not rocket surgery, but we have to tools guys.
We stop that kick return and we probably win that game. But because we played from behind we got an eye-full of Cassel and that will only make things better from here on in. Not one team ahead of us can write him off.
A picture to make the post more interesting:
This is Brett watching us tie it up with one second left. Warms my heart.
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