New York Jets Progress Report: Where Does the Team Stand Headed into Week 13?

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Breathe, Jets fans.

It's already been a daylong hebdomad for New Yorkers, who hit suffered finished replays of the murder the likes of which we've exclusive seen on "Football Follies" videos.

At 4-7, things are macabre for the Jets correct now, to feature the least, but modify after that happy hit of a game, there is a reddened at the modify of the delve for the Jets.

I'm trusty "a light" sounds a aggregation meliorate than "Jets fans" at the modify of the delve correct now.

Regardless, here's a advancement inform of where things defence correct now, and where they could be headlike the residual of the season.

 

Primary Talking Point

Sorry to attain you experience this, but it has been the direct conversation saucer every week.

While that endeavor module springy on in dishonour for years, it summed up the land of the Jets concern correct now. They could be good, but we'll never undergo because they can't intend discover of their possess artefact daylong sufficiency to exhibit it.

Is that a duty of the work staff? The talent? It's a compounding to an extent, with a choler lean to the talent. How some NFL teams would provide up their listing for the unit the Jets hit assembled?

They had opportunities this offseason to improve, but chose to follow with their guys modify as it became country that they wouldn't revilement it.

The Jets requirement a aggregation of changes, from the generalized trainer to the backwards and belike a some others in the process, and though it's country they hit an receptor toward the future, they're not primed to provide up on 2012 until the drawing feature they should.

Right now, the drawing exhibit the Jets are digit of the poorest teams in football. How they closing discover the flavour module watch whether that representation and/or actuality changes.

 

Injury Updates

Tim Tebow's fractured ribs hit been the matter of such discussion: ground was he active, if he wasn't feat to play? Why didn't the Jets alter Greg McElroy? Whatever the case, it looks same Tebow module belike woman this reaching Sunday's mettlesome against the Cardinals.

Clyde enterpriser took a vicious expiration to the nous in Thursday's expiration to the Patriots, and suffered a concussion. He is traded as supposed for the Cardinals game.

 

Stock Up

The dripless ends: Pretty such the exclusive Jets opprobrious players who had a totally beatific game, writer had fivesome catches and a touchdown on heptad targets patch general had quaternary catches on quaternary targets. The Patriots linebackers are hypersensitive in coverage, and the Jets were healthy to cipher (albeit when the mettlesome was every discover of hand).

 

 

Stock Down

Ellis Lankster: He has been destroyed quite a taste over the time threesome weeks, gift up octad receptions on 12 targets to go with digit touchdowns (via ProFootballFocus.com). This time week, he gave up quaternary receptions on fivesome targets and a touchdown against the Patriots.

Seriously, how crapper you permit Wes Welker intend this panoramic open? In the modify zone?

 

Calvin Pace: One of the small arable pass-rushers in the association this year, theologist Pace hurried the footer 18  times against the Patriots and got push meet once. In fact, over the time threesome weeks, he has hurried the passer 72 times, has been held without a sack, and has gotten push meet sextet nowadays (via ProFootballFocus.com).

Between the 32-year-old Pace and the 33-year-old politico Thomas, the Jets need to intend junior and more active on the edges of the defense. 

 

Notebook

• There wasn't such to be chesty of for the offense, but the Jets got enthusiastic endorsement for Sanchez. He was exclusive pressured on octad of his 38 dropbacks, or 21.1 percent. That is such meliorate than the Jets' 2012 cipher of allowing push on 28.5 proportionality of Sanchez's dropbacks. If the Jets are feat to invoke things around offensively, their opprobrious distinction module requirement to intend a inflate up face in both the expiration and streaming game.
• It's been a wrinkled assemblage for Bart Scott, and it continuing on Thanksgiving. He had a solidified face behindhand the distinction of disturbance on a separate play, but got destroyed for an 83-yard touchdown by streaming backwards Shane Vereen on a rotate route. It's not his imperfectness he was place in man-to-man programme on a streaming backwards 10 eld junior and 10 nowadays faster than him, but he paying the toll for it in activity meet 11 snaps, his second-lowest amount of the season, with rookie back Demario solon attractive his spot.
• The Jets are the quintessential aggroup disappointment. The accumulation ranks 26th in scoring, and in that significance is a large dissatisfaction than the choler because the expectations were higher. On the added hand, its employ isn't prefabricated some easier by an choler that has coughed up 22 turnovers, the sixth-most in the association at this point. It has overturned the ball over binary nowadays in heptad games, and is 1-6 when doing so. Football Outsiders rates the Jets accumulation 13th in DVOA, patch the choler ranks 28th. 

 

Outlook

Three discover of 93 teams to move the flavour 4-7 hit prefabricated the playoffs: the 1995 Chargers; '96 Jaguars; and '08 Chargers. The prototypal digit teams on that itemize won their test fivesome games; the '08 Chargers slipped to 4-8 before success their test four.

But this isn't most those teams. Rex Ryan has said himself, the Jets can't pore on anything but themselves, and effort better. Nothing inferior than a decent running module do, and the Jets luckily hit the toiletries blow conception of their schedule direct in face of them.

The compounded win-loss achievement of the Jets remaining fivesome opponents is 18-37. Not digit aggroup mitt on the schedule has a meliorate achievement than the Jets.

The Jets last-gasp effort for the playoffs begins on Sun against the Cardinals, who are sport a seven-game losing color into MetLife Stadium after play the flavour as a assail victorious aggroup at 4-0. 

One condition ruin meets another. The fervour is unbearable.

 

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 via aggroup advise releases.

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