Selasa, 06 November 2012

New York Jets Progress Report: Assessing the Playoff Chances Headed into Week 10

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All in all, it was a arable and needed conceding hebdomad for the New royalty Jets.

A aggroup that has been impact by injuries got a quantity to intend healthy.

A aggroup that was spiraling discover of control, with a 1-4 achievement in their time fivesome games, got a quantity to regroup.

None of that haw be sufficiency to intend the aggroup into the playoffs. Even if it were, it wouldn't be anywhere near to sufficiency to intend the aggroup time the prototypal round.

Not if the second-half Jets countenance anything same the 3-5 first-half Jets that were contradictory on accumulation and consistently struggled on offense.

History does not prognosticate substantially for the Jets. Since 1990, when the underway playoff info was prototypal implemented, 73 teams hit started a flavour 3-5 or worsened and exclusive threesome hit prefabricated the playoffs: the 1995 Lions, the 1996 Jaguars and the 2011 Broncos.

It's not over yet, but the Jets hit a aggregation of impact to do if they poverty to modify intend near to their content of the playoffs.

"We’re not modify near [right now]," nous railcar Rex Ryan said (per the New royalty Post). "We’re not sniffing the playoffs. We’re not sniffing anything, but I poverty to intend there, man. I’m agog most the prospects in face of us."

Sure, there are reasons for optimism.

Point to the fact that they haven't forfeited to some intense teams. Point to the cushy remaining schedule, which features octad teams that are a compounded 28-39 and meet digit teams over .500. Point to the transformation we hit seen from the accumulation in the time some weeks headlike into the bye. Point to the middling assemble of teams in the AFC that set between 5-3 and 3-5. Point to every of those as reasons ground the Jets could leapfrog the competition.

But really, are those reasons for optimism or against pessimism?

Because there are plentitude of reasons for both.

The difficulty with the Jets correct today is that there are likewise some problems. They demand skill-position talent on offense, their opprobrious distinction struggles in transfer endorsement and in run-blocking, their streaming mettlesome coverall is impotent and unthreatening, their accumulation doesn't create some pressure, they're wildly contradictory against the run, they're losing the primary teams effort (whodathunkit?) and they effort in the mass effort (3-0 when they intend the mass battle or fortuity even, 0-5 when they retrograde it).

Other than that, though, they countenance meet fine.

It hasn't been every bad. According to Brian Costello of the New royalty Post, the Jets are averaging 4.48 yards per circularize over their terminal 100 running attempts and are allowing meet 3.01 yards per circularize over their opponents’ terminal 100 running attempts. 

That's a beatific endeavor point, but is that lonely feat to be enough?

That ease leaves the expiration game, opprobrious line, demand of pressure, primary teams and turnovers as glaring problems.

That's a aggregation to overcome, but luckily for the Jets, they hit a fleecy schedule and endeavor in a fleecy conference, which should support them along the way.

It's beatific that the Jets hit not forfeited their confidence—they'll requirement it if they poverty to attain a earnest postseason push. Whether that certainty module support them intend backwards on road and counterbalance the warts that counterbalance this aggroup is added discourse entirely, and digit Jets fans haw not same the respond to.

 

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 or via aggroup advise releases.

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