The Failed Off-Season

Edition #485

Good morning!

I still don’t think I’ve calmed down following that travesty of a result on Sunday. I haven’t watched the game back in full, but I’ve watched some offensive drives and I had to laugh at the structure of the offence. It really is a comedy of errors, the blind leading the blind. If I hadn’t seen it in the standings, I would have believed it was a skit designed for Saturday Night Live.

The route concepts looked predictable, when they max protected they ran two routes which were obviously easy to cover. The Patriots linebackers were getting such a good jump on 1st down with the predictability of the run. When Zach did get time he failed to move through his progressions and failed to find his hot read. On numerous occasions, his eyes dropped too quickly and routes came open just after.

Matt Ryan was asked about whether he was interested in coming to NY and he made it pretty clear: "I got no interest in doing that right now." - That’s fair.

Joe Tippmann in his debut received the highest pass-blocking grade of any Jets lineman, PFF had him at 85.6. They also had AVT at 80.8. That combination allowed one pressure all game (not including the penalty). McGovern, Tomlinson and Becton combined to allow 12, with one sack being credited to Mekhi.

The Jets failed to get a sack on the day…but Quinnen Williams led the charge generating 6 pressures. Carl Lawson had 5 pass-rush snaps and generated 0 pressures, Will McDonald had 1 pressure on 4 pass-rush snaps. Bryce Huff generated 3 pressures on 12 snaps.

Here’s another couple of plays that were left on the field. As I mentioned in the comments yesterday, I was perhaps too harsh on Nathaniel Hackett. Having watched the All-22, the play design was much better than I first thought. I still hated the personnel decisions like playing Cobb for 40+ snaps but from a scheme perspective… I owe Hackett an apology. Thanks to Nania for cutting these videos.

Dan Orlovsky picked this up. Zach is going to this check-down immediately. The two deep safeties are responsible for the deep thirds but Zach absolutely has to target Garrett on this throw, that’s a throw that an NFL QB has to make. There is a clear window to get the ball into that zone before the safety gets over.

Randall Cobb on the post route is absolutely wide open. If he hits him in stride this is probably a touchdown, but Zach has absolutely no confidence to make this throw. He takes the easy option instead of the right option. I don’t like having Cobb on the field, but there’s not a lot he can do when he’s wide-open and doesn’t get the ball.

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