kelly Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Jets 'D' Has Built a Fine 3rd Down Wall Opponents Have Failed to Convert on 18 Consecutive Tries, 7 Short of the Franchise Record The Jets defense is on a roll. Or more appropriately, it's perched on a great wall that opposing offenses haven't been able to get past for a game and a half. In fact, the streak of preventing third-down conversions is reaching record-book proportions. Starting with the second half against the Eagles and for the entire London game against the Dolphins, the Jets stopped 18 consecutive third-down plays.The franchise record is 25 in a row, set by the 2009 Jets over a three-game span against Buffalo, Tampa Bay and Atlanta. And the current 0-for-18 is the longest in the NFL since the Broncos went 26 in a row in November 2012. But we can also look at the streak in another light. Third-down streaks are often interrupted by conversions on fourth downs. How does the Jets' current run hold up on third and fourth downs combined ? Even better. Including the Dolphins' 0-for-4 on fourth downs into the streak, the Jets have prevented opponents' last 22 conversion attempts on "crunch downs" or "money downs." And according to our research that is already a franchise record, surpassing 20 in a row late in the 1997 season, Bill Parcells' first at the Jets helm. Great third-down defense didn't just happen, of course. It's one of the cornerstones of the approach laid out by head coach Todd Bowles and coordinator Kacy Rodgers. Newcomer Leonard Williams has noticed."Some of the biggest things Coach Kace has been harping on is third-down efficiency, takeaways and red zone efficiency," Williams said. "Yeah, we're aware of it and we try to do our best to get off the field on third downs. A lot of the good quarterbacks in the league like to prolong their series." The run defense is important on all downs, the better to set up the pass defense to thrive on third downs, and that's what has happened during this streak as 16 of the 18 failed attempts came on pass plays. Sometimes the stop comes at the back end of the pass — Darrelle Revis and Marcus Williams have two crunch-down interceptions each this season.And sometimes the stop is an errant pass produced on the front of the pass. Enter Buster Skrine. "We're really aggressive on defense and the playcalling shows that our coaches really have trust in the front seven and the back end," said Skrine, the slot corner who was all over the field in London, coming up with five pressures of QB Ryan Tannehill off of the endless array of blitzes."When I came here, Todd told me they were going to use me in a lot of different ways — blitzing, man-to-man, pretty much everything," he said of his pass-rush dimension. "I kind of expected it, but I didn't expect to blitz that much last game. I just felt like the quarterback didn't know, the tackles didn't know who was going to blitz." The trick was these kinds of streaks is not to overvalue them. Everyone involved can share in the building of a record-book edifice. But all streaks, and especially third-down streaks, quickly end. Very likely, the Washington Redskins, whose third-down offense is converting at a 44.6% rate, sixth in the NFL, will convert a few times Sunday at MetLife Stadium.The work then is for the long run. The Jets' 32.1% defensive third-down rate is fourth in the league. Allowing less than one conversion every three third downs for a season will help the Green & White reach their goals more surely than an 0-for-18 streak alone will. "Sometimes we might lose sight of the details, but the coaches do a great job of reminding us almost every day," Williams said. "They do a good job of keeping everything fresh in our minds." > http://www.newyorkjets.com/news/article-randylangefb/Jets-D-Has-Built-a-Fine-3rd-Down-Wall/d4b727ae-2d52-407e-86a1-6b6138d08543 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brown Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Thanks for this good article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly Posted October 15, 2015 Author Share Posted October 15, 2015 Jets' defense has been stifling New York has allowed just six touchdowns over its first four games. Many fantasy owners dropped the Jets' D prior to their Week 5 bye, so the time to scoop them up is now. > http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/nyj/newyork-jets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly Posted October 15, 2015 Author Share Posted October 15, 2015 Bowles: Richardson May Start Jets HC: 'We've Got a Long Way to Go' video.. > http://www.newyorkjets.com/videos/videos/Bowles-Richardson-May-Start/32604025-479b-40c9-b37e-12c409813cb3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgb Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 we should let skins score on 1st or 2nd down every drive. we must break this record! #moralvictory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly Posted October 15, 2015 Author Share Posted October 15, 2015 Jets 'D' Excelling in Critical Areas Green & White Riding a Third Down Hot Streak video.. > http://www.newyorkjets.com/videos/videos/Jets-D-Excelling-in-Critical-Areas/4e69fa27-ec53-417d-be74-bf54e8108d28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 Redskins’ highly touted run game runs into a Jets’ brick wall Washington has one of the best and most persistent running games in the NFL. But on Sunday the Jets took a one-dimensional offense, and took away its only dimension, smothering the Redskins in a 34-20 win at MetLife Stadium. Gang Green — which opened up in a 4-3 instead of its typical 3-4 — held Washington to just 34 hard-earned yards on 17 painful carries, their defensive line utterly dominating in the trenches all afternoon.“They run the ball,” defensive end Leger Douzable said. “We knew they were going to come in here and try to establish the run. We said if we can stop them on first and second down, we could really go after them … on third down. “So it’s just the mentality that we took into the game that we have to stop the run.’’ They stopped one of the NFL’s best ground games cold. The Redskins came in leading the league in time of possession and was 12th in rushing yards. But with running back Matt Jones sidelined, the Jets held Alfred Morris and Chris Thompson to just 33 combined yards on 16 carries.“When we went up two scores they kind of abandoned the run,” Douzable said. “Teams, when you can stop them from running the ball early and go up two scores, then the run is really thrown out of the game.“We really emphasized it this week. We knew Morris was going to come in here and try to run hard. I don’t think [Jones] played. [Thompson] was a guy we knew was going to try and get on the edge, and that’s the thing we talked about all week: Defend the edge and not letting him get to the edge because we knew what type of guy he was in the open field.’’ The Jets managed to clog up the field with a few shrewd moves. With Pro Bowler Sheldon Richardson back from his four-game suspension, Todd Bowles deployed Richardson and Damon Harrison in the middle with Leonard Williams and Muhammad Wilkerson outside.“We put an extra defensive lineman in there,” coach Todd Bowles said. “We took off the double-team and those guys played good single one-on-one football.“Most of their run game is based off the double-team, and people getting up to the linebackers on the second level. We thought we could take that away and put another guy down. They couldn’t handle all of them. [It] was just to try and combat them.”It clearly worked. “The running game was tough,” Washington coach Jay Gruden said. “We didn’t get much movement in the running game. That’s putting a lot of pressure on our quarterback. It’s a tough defense to run the ball against with our guys.’’With the defensive line keeping the linebackers clean, David Harris had 11 tackles and Demario Davis seven.“We know the things we want to be able to do, and the first thing we’ve got to do is stop the run,’’ Davis said. “That’s going to set up the other things we do.’’ > http://nypost.com/2015/10/19/redskins-highly-touted-run-game-runs-into-a-jets-brick-wall/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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