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The Raiders . . .
. . . are really bad in the secondary, and Sam Darnold and Adam Gase did a great job of taking advantage of it.
The recently traded first-round corner Gareon Conley to Houston, and Lamarcus Joyner, a combination safety/nickel back was out today with an injury. He was a high-priced free agent signing. Both starting safeties are on injured reserve – both first round players – Jonathan Abram and Karl Joseph.
“We have a lot of new faces back there,” said Oakland Raiders coach Jon Gruden.
That is an understatement, and the Jets did an outstanding job of taking advantage of the Raiders’ mess on the back end with Sam Darnold going 20-29 for 315 yards, three touchdowns (two passing and one throwing) and a 127.8 QB rating.
That’s what you gotta do in the NFL to be successful – you must take advantage of the other team’s weakness(es), and the Jets did a great job of that today.
“We’re not the 85 Bears,” Gruden said after the game about his defense . . .
The Jets are now 3-0 since Jon Harrison’s took over at center for Ryan Kalil.
Joe Douglas hugged Harrison after the game in the locker room.
Maybe the rookie GM now realizes that signing Ryan Kalil was a frivolous move, and Harrison is more than capable of doing the job . . .
They way Neville Hewitt and James Burgess have looked as an inside linebacker tandem, do they really need to rush back C.J. Mosley with a balky groin?
These guys are legit starting inside linebackers.
Burgess led the Jets in tackles with nine, and had a fumble recovery. Hewitt was tied for second with seven tackles and tipped a pass that was returned for a TD by cornerback Brian Poole.
Lesson here – it’s not necessary to spend a king’s ransom on inside linebackers. Mr. Coffee might have gone a bit overboard. Mosley signed a five-year, $85 million contract with $51 million guaranteed. Wow. Talk about largesse . . .
Why was Kelvin Beachum, who had to leave today’s game with another ankle or foot injury, playing in the fourth quarter of blowout?
That is shortsighted. Put in Connor McDermott! Beachum, who came into the game with a high-ankle sprain, left the stadium in a walking boot, and he was playing in the fourth quarter of a 34-3 game? What’s up with that? . . .
Derek Carr makes $25 million-a-year. I was against giving him that money before he got the deal, and continue to be now.
You can’t give that kind of money to a dink-and-dunk QB, and you saw his dink-and-dunk modus operandi on full display today. He loves throwing underneath and taking what the defense will give you.
His completion percentage is an amazing 72.3 percent this season, but you saw today how overrated that number is. So much of that is underneath stuff defenses are more than happy to give you.
In my opinion, you don’t give the big bucks to quarterbacks who like to take that approach . . .
So many impressive things about the Jets’ blowout, but the fact that they had 1/2 sack from their front seven today was a little underwhelming, considering the Raiders were far behind more a big chunk of the game. When an offense is catch-up mode, you should be tee-off on them, and amass more than 1/2 sack.
That 1/2 sack from the front seven was by Brandon Copeland on a play he was unblocked, and he shared the sack with Jamal Adams.
The Jets have got to get this fixed in the off-season.
They desperately need an game-wrecking edge-rusher, even in a blowout win, that was apparent . . .
November 24, 2019
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