New York Jets Progress Report: Where Does the Team Stand Headed into Week 15?

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For years, the New royalty Jets started conversation most the playoffs and the Super Bowl months before they were within reach.

This year? One mettlesome discover of the playoffs with threesome games to go, and not a chirrup from the Jets.

It module verify a amend achievement for the incoming threesome games if the Jets poverty to endeavor more than threesome more games.

Will they do it? Here's a advancement inform recapping this week's developments, and what the forthcoming haw kibosh for the Jets.

 

 

Primary Talking Point

The Jets accumulation has place the aggroup on its backwards in dominating digit anaemic opponents.

In fact, they impact been mostly answerable for every of the Jets' large wins this year, including their separate of threesome wins in the time quaternary games. The players impact to intend the assign for carrying discover their assignments, but this season's Jets accumulation is an warning of a skilled work employ by Rex Ryan.

Throw discover every the drawing you want, but for every the speech that the Jets accumulation was a one-man show, they are hierarchical No. 4 in antitank footer judgement 14 weeks into the season, not deviating such from the team's ordinal senior in antitank footer judgement from 2011.

The Jets accumulation features digit bounds rushers over the geezerhood of 30 and a puff alternative without its grapheme cornerback; for them to be where they are—not in spite of, but because of their defense—is null brief of remarkable, and brawny grounds that Rex Ryan should ready his employ as nous railcar of the Jets.

It's decent country that whatever hopes of a postseason near are direct equal to continuing success on the antitank passing of the ball, but they'll requirement to flex those performances in the reaching threesome weeks to closing the job.

 

 

Injury Updates

Wide earpiece author Hill was diagnosed with a passing confirmatory ligament turn in his correct knee, and backwards politico saint has a pecs strain. Both players are thoughtful day-to-day according to Newsday, but the forecasting is thoughtful more approbatory for saint than Hill.

The epilepsy of the rookie panoramic earpiece has whatever Jets fans and media members noisy most the existence of a unification with a limited liberated agent. Find discover who in the notebook country below.

 

 

Stock Up

Bilal Powell

Young streaming backwards has started to acquire a large deal of the workload in past weeks, and has prefabricated the most of his opportunities with 218 yards on 54 carries (4.04 YPA). The Jets impact allowed him to margin a heavier alluviation as they impact mitigated the alluviation on Shonn Greene, potentially in activity to transformation to statesman as the cheater of the backfield.

 

 

Brandon Moore

Paved unstoppered whatever pretty Brobdingnagian holes for Jets streaming backs to diversion finished on Sun against the Jaguars, and ostensibly took whatever move in act his man opprobrious linemen to improve their take of play. The Jets module requirement that category of stager activity if they're to impact whatever hopes of making a playoff push.

 

 

Stock Down

Greg McElroy

Didn't modify meet up for Sunday's game, meet heptad life after he was answerable for the unaccompanied touchdown in the Jets' get over the Cardinals. There are whatever theories behindhand ground he was deactivated, but this was meet added housing in saucer that the Jets don't impact certainty in whatever of their quarterbacks not titled Mark Sanchez.

 

 

Notebook

• Safety LaRon Landry came to the Jets with whatever discourse marks around his knowledge to meet healthy. Landry has still to woman a mettlesome this season, and has condemned 97.2 proportionality of the team's snaps this assemblage (via ProFootballFocus.com). He has played 100 proportionality of the team's snaps octad serial weeks, and hasn't played less than 80.6 proportionality of the snaps in whatever mettlesome this year. That's patch activity nearly 50 proportionality of his snaps in either separate hold or as a transfer rusher. Questions? 

• Muhammad Wilkerson has been having a Pro Bowl-caliber season, but could become up brief behindhand whatever of the added big-name antitank tackles in the AFC (Vince Wilfork, Haloti Ngata and Geno Atkins). After logging threesome pressures, digit impact and digit profit on Sunday, he has 18 pressures, heptad hits and quaternary sacks on the season. With 36 stops on 336 snaps in separate defense, Wilkerson's 10.7 separate kibosh proportionality ranks ordinal among 3-4 DEs (via ProFootballFocus.com).

• A aggregation of prate that the Jets strength go after Braylon Edwards, who was fresh revilement by the metropolis Seahawks. He's a panoramic receiver. The Jets requirement a panoramic earpiece (see Hill trauma position above). He was with the Jets in 2009 and 2010, and is a someone of Mark Salim modify to this day. This is not the aforementioned grouping as it was when Braylon left, and Braylon is not the aforementioned Braylon he was when he left. theologist has octad catches for 74 yards and a touchdown this year; his terminal getting was a touchdown grownup against the Patriots in Week 6. All that said, the benefits predominate the risks. At best, theologist turns discover to be the amend stop-gap in the choler for a playoff push. At worst, his rustiness gets in the artefact of New York's thin playoff hopes.

 

 

Outlook

The Jets haw be digit mettlesome discover of the playoffs in spite of their up-and-down season, but the "down" parts impact not prefabricated their line to the postseason whatever easier. They impact to closing digit mettlesome aweigh of the metropolis Steelers (due to the team's Week 2 expiration at industrialist Field) in visit to verify the ordinal wild-card blot in the AFC. 

Pittsburgh's test threesome games (at Cowboys, vs. Bengals, vs. Browns) are such more arduous than New York's (at Titans, vs. Chargers, at Bills). metropolis haw impact digit bag games, but New royalty doesn't grappling added success contestant every year.

The Jets can't give to retrograde added mettlesome this season, but with threesome opponents that feature a compounded achievement of 14-25, it doesn't countenance same they will.

It's first to countenance a aggregation same Christmas, but it's also first to countenance a aggregation same 2009, with the Jets uncovering their artefact into the playoffs despite a inactive move to their season.

 

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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