While Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner did a solid job shadowing Pittsburgh receiver DK Metcalf in the team’s loss to Pittsburgh on Sunday, the bottom line is their pass defense gave up four touchdown passes to Aaron Rodgers.
When an opposing QB goes 22-30 for 244 yards, with four touchdowns, no picks, and a 136.7 QB rating, some would argue that is not a very good outing by a team’s secondary.
Obviously, while not every completion came against defensive backs, many did, and the leader of the Jets’ secondary, Gardner, knows the unit needs to play a lot better than they did on Sunday.
When Gardner was asked after the game about Rodgers throwing four touchdowns, he was actually a little surprised at first.
“You say he had four throwing touchdowns?” Gardner asked the reporter. “Yeah, that’s unacceptable.”
He knows the unit he leads has a lot of work to do following Rodgers’ dominant performance against them.
“You know us on the back end, we don’t want that to happen, we just can’t let it happen,” Gardner said.
Gardner added, “We just gotta get better, and I feel like we are accountable. Once we watch the tape, it will be a good conversation, go back and forth, and we’re going to clean it up.”
They’d better with Buffalo and QB Josh Allen coming to town.
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