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During the Jets four-game losing streak, Quincy Williams has no passes defensed.
When you are a linebacker who runs under 4.6, and you drop into coverage a lot, perhaps the team needs a little more in coverage from the player.
Williams is a terrific player in the box, and a big-time hitter with top shelf-toughness, but when asked to go backward and drop, he still needs some work . . .
Does anybody know why the Jets decided to start Tim Boyle ahead of Trevor Siemian? No question about that yet in the tough media market.
Maybe there is a perfectly logical rationale, but don’t you want to hear it?
Siemian has 30 career NFL starters, and Boyle has three. Siemian was the better college player at Northwestern than Boyle at UConn and Eastern Kentucky . . .
Who are the next scapegoats, because the first line-up change because cutting Michael Carter, benching Allen Lazard and C.J. Uzomah didn’t move the needle at all . ..
If you want to talk about lineup changes, the Jets’ run defense is an unmitigated disaster, so maybe do something on that front.
Looking back at the Miami-Jets game, the run defense was worse than I thought it was.
When I bring up the Jets run defense woes, several people brought up the loss of massive nose tackle Al Woods as a big reason. He blew out an achilles in late October.
Maybe a little, but he was playing on a limited basis, and the Jets run defense was pedestrian with him, with games like Dallas, New England and Kansas City being good examples. The Chiefes went over 200 with Woods in the lineup. Not blaming Woods for that, just pointing out, the Jets’ ran defense has been problem all year.
I don’t want to name names, but they did an awful job setting the edge against Miami, and too often undersized defensive linemen are getting engulfed by bigger offensive linemen, opening up big holes.
It’s time to give either call up bigger defensive tackles, Perrion Winfrey, Marquiss Spencer or Jalyn Holmes from the practice squad.
You’ve got ot try something different, and stop with the blind faith in certain guys.
The film don’t lie . . .
Why didn’t the Jets use 6-4, 220-pound receiver Irvin Charles on the Hail Mary against Miami
Not only could he have given them a bigger chance to catch it based on his size, strength and length, but he’s perhaps their best special team’s cover guy, so he could have helped to make the tackle after the pick.
Bad decision . . .
Teams are always tweeting about high player grades from the analytics site, Pro Football Focus, but the strange part about that, is their own coaches probably don’t value the PFF grades. Teams coaches have their own grading system, and they actually know the playbook and assignments, and PFF often doesn’t.
About a month ago, Jets DC Jeff Ulbrich was asked about some metric that a writer saw on the analytics site – NextGen Stats, and asked him about it:
“Next Gen or any of these companies that are now evaluating the NFL statistically like that, they don’t necessarily know what we’re calling all the time, so I don’t put a ton into that,” Ulbrich said.
November 28, 2023
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