Jets Game #2 Thoughts

[DanJMartin12]

I think we need to pump the breaks on this game.
What is encouraging is that this team has much more heart than 2 years ago and probably more than last year.
The personnel situation has not effected their ability to rally. However, it cannot be ignored based on this game.
The fact is when you look at the Jets, except for the fact that they were winning games again, they really were not much improved from their last meeting with the Pats. They still look very much like a team that does not know what they want to be offensively. They can't decide if they want to play their game or game plan for the opponent. They came out firing and it was working, but as soon as they sputtered out on the first drive they went back to trying to force the run in bad situations. Sanchez can play, but he is wildly inconsistent. Ninkovich made the plays when they were there, but Sanchez definitely through the second pass right to him. Ninkovich has made 4 interceptions in the past 2 seasons.if I'm not mistaken. 2 against Chad Hennie, who may not start next year, and 2 against Sanchez. And yet in spite of those facts it's still 4 picks more than Mayo. I don't like to detract from a victory that the Pats absolutely needed, but this Jets team is not one to measure the progress of your defense on.

 

[RIpats88]

DanJMartin.....sure there will be better QB's we will face in the playoffs and we shouldnt read too much into one game...but I wouldnt just say "oh we cant use the jets to base our defensive play on"

this is a team we havent beat at home in the Rex Ryan era, a team that went to the AFC championship game the last 2 seasons and knocked us out of the playoffs last year.

most pundits/people on this board were giving us/our defense no chance against the Jets at home with our depleted secondary...and we went on to put on the most dominant defensive effort of the year thus far.

this will NEVER be a great defense...but they are progressing in the right direction to be at least middle of the pack

 

[PatsFan24]

1.) We have spent the last few weeks focusing on personnel mistakes by Belichick. Time to celebrate the home runs! Andre Carter has been a huge pick up for the Pats. He will be the first double digit sack guy since TBC in 2009 and probably the first one who played like a a double digit sack guy since Vrabel (TBC got half his sacks against a bad Bills team). Brian Waters is also one of the best free agent pick ups this season. Mark Anderson has also been a very good pick up.

2.) The Pats need to do the no huddle more. Against a team like the Jets, it really exposes their defense because they rely on substitutions so much based on schemes.

3.) I have been saying for weeks that this defense is improving a lot. People need to stop focusing on the stupid yardage stats and rankings and one or two drives in a game and start looking at the actual play before the game. Other than the Steelers' game, this defense has shown improvement game after game.

4.) On that. Kudos to the Pats' coaching staff for getting a bunch of players who should really have no right on the field to buy into the gameplan and the system and overachieve. It shows that in the NFL you don't need the most talented team to win. It was clear the Jets had the far more talented defense last night (although they are overrated), yet they were the one playing like their secondary was depleted by injuries and three of their top defensive players were out for all or most of the game.

5.) Ninkovitch is a poor man's Bruschi. Ok, a very poor man's Bruschi. But the guy is a heads up player who works hard and overachieves based on his talent. He won't do this every game, but he does come up big from time to time and frequently in big situations. He can disapear for very long stretches so that is why he is a very poor man's Bruchi.

6.) The Jets are looking like frauds. Who have they beaten? A Cowboys team that beat themselves. The Chargers and Bills who are both falling apart? Jacksonville? Miami? At this point, not one of those teams are going to the playoffs. Everyone was on their jock because they crushed the Bills last week, but we saw this weekend that doing that isn't really much of an accomplishment. The Jets will probably win 5-6 of their remaining games (I don't see them having a shot to beat the Giants barring injuries) and possibly make the playoffs because their schedule is easy, but they aren't built to make a run in the playoffs this year. Not with their defense being a shell of its dominant self and Sanchez.

7.) Gronkowski is a special player. He could be a Hall of Famer when it is done. The guy is virtually uncoverable. The fact the Jets put Revis on him on some plays shows how great other teams think he is. I don't know if Revis has ever covered a TE. Not even Gates, Witten, Clark, or Gonzalez.

The Patriots scored more points than the Jets did, so they won the game.

 

[FalconHeavy]

The Patriots scored more points than the Jets did, so they won the game.

as long as they don't slump next week and go back to basics!!?? we are fine

No more bend but don't break stuff !

 

[Rusty Coupe]

The best thing about Sanchez playing for the Jets is that he has a similar game to Tony Romo. He is better than a backup the Jets could get(Kevin Kolb, Rex Grossman etc..) meaning it would be difficult to easily get rid of him.

Yet he is bad enough that the odds are good he will do something stupid to lose the game. He might be the jets QB for a while.