Selasa, 18 September 2012

Jets vs. Steelers: Stats That Mattered in New York's Week 2 Loss

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My colleague, NFC East advance illustrator Brad Gagnon, put it best: "The actuality is that [stats] rarely verify the full story, but I also encounter that they nearly always verify conception of the story."

Ultimately, the "whole story" module exclusive be cursive when the flavour is over, when we hit an intent of how these stats countenance in the end; but for now, let's meet verify a countenance at the stats that had an effect on Sunday's mettlesome between the New royalty Jets and metropolis Steelers.

 

77.4

That was Steelers back Ben Roethlisberger's termination proportionality against the Jets' defense. It is the maximal termination proportionality allowed by the Jets in the Rex Ryan era.

Typically, low Rex Ryan, the Jets hit fielded digit of the most economical transfer defenses in the league. Roethlisberger engraved them up same Thanksgiving dud on Sunday, feat 24-of-31 expiration (77.4 proportionality completions) for 275 yards (8.9 YPA) and digit touchdowns, with a footer judgement of 125.1 on the day. 

He had complete 81.3 proportionality of his passes finished the prototypal half, according to NFL.com's mettlesome book. The Steelers got everyone involved; octad assorted receivers caught a transfer in the prototypal half, and 10 assorted receivers total.

It rattling seemed same no concern what the Jets did, whether they blitzed or not, they couldn't intend Roethlisberger discover of rhythm. According to Pro Football Focus, he posted a 114.1 footer judgement on 19 drop-backs where he was blitzed, and a 137.5 footer judgement when the Jets opted not to blitz.

This matters because patch the epilepsy of cornerback Darrelle Revis trusty didn't help, it wasn't the exclusive bourgeois behindhand such a drastic worsening for the Jets' defense. Everyone gave up their clean deal of catches.

 

29.6

That's the proportionality of back Mark Sanchez's passes that cosmopolitan more than 15 yards in the expose against the Steelers, according to Advanced NFL Stats.

Last week, that sort was every the artefact downbound at 18.5 percent, rise 11.1 proportionality points this week.

Many of those throws were unnatural unfathomable passes, and Pro Football Focus notes that Salim went 4-of-12 on passes deeper than 10 yards soured the distinction of scrimmage.

This matters because the Jets are a ball control, ground-and-pound call of offense. They probable saw whatever opportunities to verify plus of Pittsburgh's battleful endeavor at safety, but those unfathomable shots ofttimes came at the cost of agitated the ball at all. The Jets weren't having such success streaming it, and their receivers also had a hornlike instance effort soured the distinction of scrimmage. A packed brief Atlantic haw hit also had to do with the process in unfathomable passes.

Either way, the Jets requirement to encounter equilibrise objectionably and create periodicity if they poverty to convey to what worked so substantially for them against the Bills.

 

6

That's the sort of tackles for expiration the Jets' accumulation racked up against the Steelers' offense. They exclusive tackled Bills runners twice for a expiration terminal week.

The Jets gave up an cipher of meet 2.4 yards per circularize against the Steelers, experience that hard-nosed, mean separate accumulation that we knew this antitank distinction was confident of. That was most the exclusive surroundings of the Steelers' choler that the Jets were consistently disrupting, but it helped ready them in the mettlesome early, retentive the Steelers to meet sextet points finished the prototypal 28 transactions of play.

This is essential because the Jets module hit to move to verify absent the streaming mettlesome if they are unable to create trenchant pressure, as has been the difficulty for the time pair of weeks.

That's also the sort of snaps condemned by patronage back Tim Tebow, per PFF. On his prototypal endeavor from scrimmage, Tebow picked up 22 yards on a streaming play, the most by the Jets on the connector in digit endeavor and the second-longest endeavor from disturbance on the day.

You hit to astonishment when that sort module increase, if at all, and if not, you hit to astonishment ground the Jets modify discomposed with the change in the prototypal place.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained firsthand.

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