Phoenix – A narrative that came out of the Jets’ 31-6 loss to Arizona is they lacked energy in the game.
That is a cookbook answer to what happened. It’s just an easy narrative to hang your hat on. it’s nonsense.
The problem was two-fold:
First off, strategically, Arizona played chess, and the Jets played checkers. The Jets were out-schemed, and that has nothing to do with player energy.
Secondly, the defense is broken, and it has been most of the year, and the last three years. The scheme is outdated and static. And they keep rolling with certain players, every week, no matter what the film says. The level of loyalty to some of these guys making the same mistakes over and over is beyond comprehension.
The Jets’ defense was horrific in Glendale, but it wasn’t related to energy, more bad fundamentals, terrible gap integrity, players’ overrunning plays, and bad eyes in coverage.
The Jets need to blow up their outdated defensive scheme in the off-season and get more instinctive players.
The narrative that they lost because they lacked energy is an argument that lacks energy.
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