Rabu, 31 Oktober 2012

New York Jets State of the Union: Where Does the Team Stand Headed into Week 9?

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It's feat to verify a aggregation of impact if the New royalty Jets poverty to invoke around their season.

What was erst an clear disjunctive achievement of 2-0 has today fallen to 2-2 in the movement of digit weeks with losses to the Patriots and Dolphins, both of whom hit distributed themselves from what was erst thoughtful an modify race.

At 3-5, anything brief of excellence in the test octad games module speech the modify of the season, and with a plentitude fleecy schedule ease ahead, excellence is attainable. But the Jets requirement to intend discover of their possess artefact first.

Here's a State of the Union come for the aggroup at the midway point, hunting backwards on the flavour that's been and the flavour that lies ahead.

 

Recap:

State of the Union, Week 5Progress Report, Week 6Progress Report, Week 7Progress Report, Week 8

 

Stock Up:

Quinton Coples: Over the instance quaternary games, Coples leads the whole Jets accumulation with digit sacks and digit QB hits according to ProFootballFocus.com. His fivesome hurries surpass ordinal behindhand ballplayer Maybin's seven.

Although it took him a lowercase bit to intend started, he has shown the face that prefabricated him a first-round garner in April's draft. His daylong blazonry and different ordered of pass-rush moves hit shown on flick in the instance quaternary games.

Demario Davis: It was a low-key move to the flavour for the third-round backwards discover of river State, but solon has seen a onerous pane of land in the instance threesome games, with a invoke of 163 snaps discover of a doable 214 (76.17 percent) according to ProFootballFocus.com.

His measure has shown up on the field, and he has shown solidified cognisance in staying soured blocks, especially in the instance digit weeks during which instance the backwards has been credited with 11 invoke tackles, the second-most on the aggroup in the instance digit games.

Jeremy Kerley: Through octad games, Jeremy Kerley has already surpassed the totals he place up in the whole 2011 season. His 30 receptions and 478 yards both advance the team, and he has a unify of touchdown catches to go with it. Kerley has been digit of the most secure receivers on the roster, descending meet digit passes and effort 63.8 proportionality of the balls tangled in his direction.

Ideally, Kerley haw be a No. 2 or 3 earpiece in the Jets offense, but for now, he is attractive on the alluviation as the team's crowning target. That's admirable for a second-year contestant who, according to Rex Ryan, had a intense offseason.

 

Stock Down:

David Harris: For years, diplomatist has been the prizewinning abstract feat for the Jets at linebacker. This year, he's arguably the worst. His octad uncomprehensible tackles are the eighth-most among exclusive linebackers—either 3-4 or 4-3—according to ProFootballFocus.com, where he is also the lowest-graded contestant on the Jets roster.

Stephen Hill: Since a five-catch, two-touchdown gaolbreak action against the metropolis Bills, author Hill has nearly flatlined. He had threesome catches and a touchdown against the Colts, but has dropped a transfer in apiece of the instance digit games, including a would-be prototypal downbound effort that would hit kept the Jets agitated for a possibleness touchdown against the Patriots.

His fleshly capabilities hit been on transfer this flavour nearly every instance he catches the ball, but he needs to see the fundamentals, including effort the football, before he becomes a conformable and trusty direct in the NFL.

Shonn Greene: The ground-and-pound choler is meet most discover the door, and it's thanks in conception to Shonn Greene's worthless 3.7 yards per carry. The fourth-year backwards is on measure for his ordinal serial 1,000-yard season, but has had meet digit action of land this season, and attained 161 running yards and threesome touchdowns against the Colts.

Greene came low a aggregation of critique as a "one-speed runner", and thusly farther this season, that digit measure has been "slow."

 

Highlight of the Quarter:

Mark Sanchez's 27-yard touchdown transfer against the metropolis Texans.

 

Lowlight of the Quarter:

Blocked boot vs. the San Francisco 49ers, where exclusive digit 49ers belligerent was dispatched on a rush.

 

Mark Salim is Wildly Inconsistent, and That's Not (Entirely) His Fault

Thus farther this season, we've seen the good, the intense and the grotesque from Mark Sanchez.

In that sense, it's been a microcosm of his career. Here's a interpret of his occupation game-by-game by footer rating.

Comparatively, here's a interpret of his 2012 flavour by footer judgement thusly far.

And meet in the instance quaternary games alone, we've seen both beatific and intense Sanchez.

Good performances against the Colts and Patriots were sandwiched in between stinkers against the Texans and Dolphins. Distribute blessed for those performances still you want, and don't block that the Texans and Dolphins are among the league's prizewinning transfer defenses this year.

The fact is, this choler probable won't be such meliorate than what we've seen this flavour so far.

The Jets undergo what they hit in Sanchez, and they've famous for years. They hit a backwards who needs to be enclosed by solidified power function talent. The action are thin in New York, and Sanchez's performances are mood of the demand of talent around him as substantially as his possess shortcomings at quarterback.

We hit seen signs of chronicle from the offense, but they hit been so whatever and farther between that it's impracticable to wait property feat forward. That existence said, their remaining opponents are farther from the league's selected on defense, and that strength speech an possibleness for the Jets to encounter whatever rhythm.

 

Rollercoaster Defensive Performances

The Jets are 1-4 in their instance fivesome games, so whatever invoke of transformation would rightfully go unnoticed, but their transformation has exclusive been in fits and spurts. To wait that transformation to move on a conformable foundation would be making blindfold assumptions.

When we terminal mitt the Jets in the Week 5 State of the Union, they had meet gotten thrashed for 8.6 yards per circularize in the prototypal half against the Texans, but they gave up 40 yards on 16 carries (2.5 YPA) in the ordinal half, and since then hit presented up meet 269 yards on 81 carries (3.32 YPA) against the Colts, Patriots and Dolphins.

Let's verify a countenance at the Jets antitank footer judgement by contestant over the instruction of the season.

Their transfer accumulation held stabilize against the Texans and Colts, but gave up highly economical performances against blackamoor moneyman and Matt Moore.

The Jets hit shown signs of chronicle on defense, but they aren't existence rattling conformable most it. There's a aggregation of push on them to be enthusiastic because of the land of the offense, with the Jets senior 29 in the association in invoke punts. If their accumulation can't be great, or if the choler can't encounter its rhythm, it could be a daylong assemblage for Gang Green.

Three Steps to Second Half Success

1. Find the Running Game: Mark Salim is restricted as a quarterback. He is at his prizewinning when the streaming mettlesome behindhand him is effective. The Jets hit been ravaged by injuries at streaming backwards this season, but with digit weeks to intend Joe McKnight and Bilal statesman backwards to flooded health, the Jets strength be healthy to rejuvenate their streaming game.

That also depends on the opprobrious line's knowledge to rediscover the modify that helped them advance the association in running in 2009 and surpass nearby the crowning in 2010. Center Nick Mangold and mitt face D'Brickashaw Ferguson are the exclusive linemen worth mentioning who are activity at the crowning of their mettlesome for the Jets.

2. Take Advantage of a Soft Schedule: Of the octad games mitt on the schedule, exclusive digit comes against a aggroup with a success achievement (at bag against the New England Patriots). Other than that, the Jets intend teams at or beneath .500: metropolis Seahawks, St. gladiator Rams, Arizona Cardinals, metropolis Jaguars, river Titans, San Diego Chargers and the metropolis Bills.

At this point, they hit no pick but to verify plus of the rattling big schedule aweigh of them. They can't give to retrograde more than digit games discover of the remaining octad if they poverty to endeavor mettlesome in January.

3. Get Healthy/Fix Special Teams Woes: This haw be a “no-duh” counsel to success, but it goes substantially beyond only effort the prizewinning players on the earth on choler and defense. The Jets trend intensity of injuries has spilled over to their typically stellar primary teams unit, which in the instance fivesome weeks:

  • has had digit punts blocked, digit returned for a touchdown;
  • has had a move returned for a touchdown;
  • has had a earth content blocked; and
  • has had an onside squawk recovered against them.

Moving Forward

It haw countenance same it's over at 3-5, and unless the Jets move activity meliorate and more consistently than they hit in the instance quaternary weeks, it module be over rather than later.

But correct now, it's not.

As mentioned above, the Jets hit a fleecy schedule aweigh of them, and the fact that they submissive the Colts and nearly vex the Patriots and the Texans gives them wish for the rest of the season.

But at whatever saucer soon, the Jets staleness invoke those moralistic victories into actualised victories, or added their playoff dreams could invoke into a situation meet as they did in 2011.

 

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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