Out-of-gas Jets could have done better job managing playing time ~ ~ ~

[kelly]

Facing the most pass-heavy offensive attack in the last 10 years, the New York Jets were gassed in the fourth quarter on Sunday. Hey, it happens. But they could’ve mitigated the damage by using more pass rushers.

Four pass rushers played at least 67 percent of the defensive snaps in the 30-23 loss to the New England Patriots: Muhammad Wilkerson (94 percent), Sheldon Richardson (87), Leonard Williams (70) and Calvin Pace (67). Nose tackle Damon Harrison, usually a first- and second-down player, got more work than usual (55).But there was a huge dropoff after that. Leger Douzable played only 10 percent of the snaps and Quinton Coples -- though his role was larger than the last two weeks -- logged 35 percent. Where was rookie pass rusher Lorenzo Mauldin? Why not give Trevor Reilly a little work? It's not a coincidence that all three sacks came in the first half.

Wilkerson didn’t deny that fatigue was a factor late in the game.

“It happens,” he said. “You have to get past it.”

Granted, the Patriots can make it difficult to substitute because of their hurry-up attack, but the Jets could’ve found ways to change personnel. As a result, their pass rush was moving in quicksand as Brady shredded the secondary.Here is a remarkable statistic: The Patriots dropped back to pass on 90.9 percent of their offensive plays, the highest percentage of any team over the last 10 years, according to ESPN Stats & Information. Normally, that’s a recipe for failure, but the Patriots are 4-0 over the last 10 years when throwing at least 80 percent of the time.

The rest of the league is 3-109.

A look at the snap counts from the game :

OFFENSE (Based on 72)

Quarterback: Ryan Fitzpatrick 72.

Running back: Chris Ivory 37, Zac Stacy 35, Tommy Bohanon 23.

Wide receiver: Brandon Marshall 72, Eric Decker, 68, Chris Owusu 32, Jeremy Kerley 29, Devin Smith 17.

Tight end: Kellen Davis 25, Jeff Cumberland 22.

Line: D'Brickashaw Ferguson 72, James Carpenter 72, Nick Mangold 69, Willie Colon 72, Breno Giacomini 72, Dakota Dozier 3.

 

DEFENSE (Based on 67)

Line: Wilkerson 63, Richardson 58, Williams 47, Harrison 37, Douzable 6, Stephen Bowen 6.

Linebacker: David Harris 67, Demario Davis 67, Pace 45, Coples 24, Jamari Lattimore 1.

Secondary: Darrelle Revis 67, Antonio Cromartie 66, Marcus Gilchrist 66, Buster Skrine 42, Calvin Pryor 35, Dion Bailey 28, Marcus Williams 12.

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[CrazyCarl40]

The GM went out and got a ton of depth. It's up to the coach to use it. We'll see how it all plays out over the next part of the season, especially since the Jets have already had the bye week. Need guys fresh for the end of the season. 

[JiFtheOracle]

It was a confusing game plan on D.  That's for sure.  Why did Harrison get some much run when they threw the ball so much?

[JiFtheOracle]

 

Granted, the Patriots can make it difficult to substitute because of their hurry-up attack, but the Jets could’ve found ways to change personnel. As a result, their pass rush was moving in quicksand as Brady shredded the secondary.Here is a remarkable statistic: The Patriots dropped back to pass on 90.9 percent of their offensive plays, the highest percentage of any team over the last 10 years, according to ESPN Stats & Information. Normally, that’s a recipe for failure, but the Patriots are 4-0 over the last 10 years when throwing at least 80 percent of the time.

The rest of the league is 3-109.

A look at the snap counts from the game :

 

This is crazy.  With as much talent as the Jets have in the secondary and on the DL, this is just awful.  You make a team that one dimensional but cant do anything to stop that dimension?  

That just cant happen. 

[dbatesman]

Granted, the Patriots can make it difficult to substitute because of their hurry-up attack, but the Jets could’ve found ways to change personnel.

Such as...?

[Jetster]

Knowing they weren't running, a fresh Reilly or Mauldin just might have made a play, you never know?

Especially when Frankenstein feet ran for that 1st down. Three defensive plays that pissed me off, Brady running for a 1st down, god I hate those, letting Amendola squeeze under for a 1st down when he's short if tackled & the 3rd & 17.

Change just one of them & you might change the outcome. Hopefully Bowles learned a lot for next time but if Lafell could catch that game might have been over a lot earlier. 

[JetBlue]

Pace is a statue at this stage of his career; Coples has been a major disappointment as a pass rusher this season.  I don't know what Bowles is waiting for, we definitely need to see more of Mauldin and Reilly in Pass Rush situations.  

[kelly]

A safe prediction: Todd Bowles won't bury a football this week.

His predecessor, Rex Ryan, did that once after a loss to the New England Patriots. No, really, he did. A staffer dug a hole near one of the New York Jets' practice fields, and Ryan conducted a ball-burying ceremony with the team at the site.

The understated Bowles will adhere to conventional methods as the Jets (4-2) attempt to rebound from a tough loss to the undefeated Patriots when they face the Raiders. On Monday, his message to the team was this: Let it go, don't let it beat you twice."If we linger on this game, we're going to get beat next week," Bowles said. "Oakland played a heck of a ballgame (Sunday). We have to move on. We know what kind of fight we have. We have to make sure we take care of the little things."

The Raiders (3-3) are coming off a 37-29 road win against the San Diego Chargers. They have a young quarterback-receiver tandem in Derek Carr and Amari Cooper, and a defensive stud in Khalil Mack. The game is in Oakland; the Jets will leave Friday after practice to get acclimated to the three-hour time change."The one thing we can't do is let this (loss) resonate," veteran Willie Colon said. "We have to be able to drop it because Oakland is a good team and they're fighting hard, and their trend is going upward.

"Obviously, it was a tough loss, but we have to be able to move on from it," he continued. "If we don't and we go into Oakland with it still in our minds, and we're not physical like we need to be, Oakland will beat us. And we can't have that."

For what it's worth: Since the infamous ball burying in 2010, the Jets are 4-4 the week after losing to New England.

>    http://espn.go.com/blog/newyork-jets/post/_/id/55432/time-for-jets-to-bury-loss-to-patriots-sans-shovels

[kelly]

For the first time in his short head coaching tenure, Todd Bowles is taking heat for in-game decisions. It happens to every coach, experienced and inexperienced.Sunday was the New York Jets' first down-to-the-wire contest, amplifying the importance of clock and game management. There were a handful of crunch-time moves that raised questions in the aftermath of the 30-23 loss to the New England Patriots. There also were a few blown opportunities. It made for an agonizing Monday at One Jets Drive.

"When you're going against a team like that, and you have a chance to put the knife in them, you have to do it," offensive lineman Willie Colon said. "If not, they're going to turn around and do it to you. That's what happened."

Let us dissect  :

1. The third-and-17 debacle: With 10:46 remaining, and the Jets holding a four-point lead, they decided to play a Cover 2 zone behind a four-man rush. Tom Brady had time to throw and rifled a pass over linebacker David Harris and between safeties Dion Bailey and Marcus Gilchrist for 27 yards to Julian Edelman. It was the biggest play in the game. It was a Hall of Fame throw by Brady, but it also was a conservative call by Bowles. The call wasn't the issue, according to Bowles, who said, "We were fine, schematically. We just didn't stop them."Bowles absolved Harris, who accepted blame after the game. Bailey, an injury replacement, also took responsibility. Bowles didn't disagree, saying, "He's right, he could've played it better." A review of the game tape showed that Bailey turned to the outside instead of inside toward the hash, leaving a gap in the middle of the field for Edelman.

What they should've done: They should've put Darrelle Revis on Edelman -- best corner on best wide receiver. It was a money situation that called out for a money player.

2. No defensive timeouts: The most glaring situation occurred with 1:56 left, with the Patriots facing a second-and-3 from the Jets' 15-yard line. Bowles had all three timeouts, but he let Brady run the clock down to 1:18 before snapping it -- bleeding 38 seconds from the clock. Why not use a timeout  ? Bowles played the percentages based on the belief the Patriots were going to pass. Why wouldn't they? They threw on 90 percent of their offensive plays, the highest mark in the NFL over the past 10 years. Bowles' hunch proved correct when the Patriots went to an empty backfield. He figured it would either be an incomplete pass, stopping the clock, or a conversion to make it first down. If there had been a sack, or any stop for that matter, he said he would've called a timeout on third down. And they most definitely went for the sack, sending an all-out blitz.

Bowles said it would've been a "wasted" timeout if the Patriots had converted; it almost sounded like he was conceding a first down. Previously in the game, the Jets stopped them on two of three second-down situations with two/three yards to go. The same thing happened with under 2:50 to play. There, he let the clock run on second-and-2. In that case it worked because Brady threw an incompletion. One minute later, Bowles was counting on the same result.Basically, Bowles felt the Patriots -- ahead by three, already in field goal range -- were a bigger enemy than the clock. So he put it on the defense, and it backfired, as Brady beat the blitz with a 15-yard scoring toss to a wide-open Rob Gronkowski.

"There was a lot of situation football being played at that moment," Revis said. "I don't know if a timeout should've been called or not. That's coach's call."

What they should've done: After the game, Bowles' reasoning was confusing, but he made it clear on Monday: He doesn't believe in using timeouts in second-and-short situations, especially not against a red-hot Brady. If he had used his first timeout at 1:56, and the Patriots converted, he would've been forced into burning his second and third timeouts to prevent the Patriots from milking the entire clock. In retrospect, Bowles' strategy makes more sense than it did in the immediate aftermath.

3. The Hail Mary that wasn't: After recovering an onside kick at the Patriots' 49 with 15 seconds left, Ryan Fitzpatrick threw a 12-yard pass to Eric Decker over the middle. By now, they were out of timeouts, raising the question: Why not go for the sideline to stop the clock? The game tape shows that a deep out to Jeremy Kerley would've been available on the left side. Decker was tackled with eight seconds left, clock running. There was only one second left when Fitzpatrick used the clock play.

"When it’s sitting at 15 seconds, we’re of the opinion that we can do that," Fitzpatrick said. "We can get everybody up and we just felt like getting an extra 10-plus yards was going to help us out a lot in terms of the percentage for the Hail Mary."

What they should've done: It was unconventional, but the strategy worked. There was time for a Hail Mary ... well, until Brandon Marshall was flagged for a false start. The mandatory 10-second runoff meant game over.

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[kelly]

A day after the Jets' 30-23 loss to the Patriots, Todd Bowles explained his decision to preserve all three of the Jets' timeouts on the Patriots' final touchdown drive, and it still doesn't make much sense."They were all positive plays," Bowles said Monday, referring to how the Patriots continued to advance the ball. "Had we stopped them at any [point in] time when we could have used a timeout, we would have used it. It was really hard to do."

Hmm. Bowles' logic here doesn't seem to add up.

The Patriots led, 23-20, when they got the ball back at their own 32 with 5:32 remaining. The Patriots, who ran their running backs just five times all day, quickly completed three straight passes to advance to the Jets' 44, at which point fewer than four minutes remained.

The Jets had all three of their timeouts. Bowles used none of them.

"That's above my pay grade," Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick said. "We're out there to play, and those are all coach's decisions. We're standing behind him 100 percent with that."

On first-and-10 from the 44, Brady completed a quick pass to Julian Edelman for an eight-yard gain. Still, the clock turned."It was second-and-2," Bowles said. "They had just got a first down. You can't call a timeout on a first down, and if we got them at about [second and] four or three or [more], we would have called the timeout. But at second-and-2, had they got the first down, we'd have wasted one then."

Bowles basically said he didn't want to call time as long as the Pats had a short-yardage situation, and that he was waiting for the defense to make a stop before doing so. But Bowles has one of the league's top defenses. He couldn't simply have faith they'd get a stop if he called time?

And isn't the object to, you know, stop the clock, rather than bank on momentum or whatever?

After the Edelman completion, the clock went from 3:34 to 2:52. The Patriots ran running back James White for three yards and a first down at the 33. According to Bowles, he couldn't take a timeout then, because it was first down. So the clock churned to 2:17 before the Pats ran another play.In Week 3 against the Eagles, trailing by 10, Bowles used all three timeouts in succession after the Eagles ran three straight running plays—a loss of one, a gain of six, and a loss of three—before punting it back to the Jets 26 seconds after their possession began. But, to follow Bowles' logic from Sunday, that loss on first down dictated his decision to start burning timeouts.

Back to Sunday. Following the White run, the Patriots nearly bailed Bowles out with two straight incompletions that stopped the clock. But on third-and-10, the Jets blitzed the house, and Amendola caught an 11-yard pass for a first down at the 22 at the two-minute warning.Amendola then caught a 7-yard pass to the 15—making it second-and-3—and still the clock ran, and still the Jets had all of their timeouts. By the time tight end Rob Gronkowski caught a 15-yard touchdown pass on the play after that to make it 30-20, just 1:13 remained—and still the Jets had all three of their timeouts.

The Jets were able to drive 43 yards in 55 seconds to kick a field goal for the final margin because they had those timeouts, but at that point, their chances to win were slim to none.

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[#27TheDominator]

It was a confusing game plan on D.  That's for sure.  Why did Harrison get some much run when they threw the ball so much?

Maybe that is why they threw the ball so much.

Let us dissect  :

1. The third-and-17 debacle: With 10:46 remaining, and the Jets holding a four-point lead, they decided to play a Cover 2 zone behind a four-man rush. Tom Brady had time to throw and rifled a pass over linebacker David Harris and between safeties Dion Bailey and Marcus Gilchrist for 27 yards to Julian Edelman. It was the biggest play in the game. It was a Hall of Fame throw by Brady, but it also was a conservative call by Bowles. The call wasn't the issue, according to Bowles, who said, "We were fine, schematically. We just didn't stop them."Bowles absolved Harris, who accepted blame after the game. Bailey, an injury replacement, also took responsibility. Bowles didn't disagree, saying, "He's right, he could've played it better." A review of the game tape showed that Bailey turned to the outside instead of inside toward the hash, leaving a gap in the middle of the field for Edelman.

What they should've done: They should've put Darrelle Revis on Edelman -- best corner on best wide receiver. It was a money situation that called out for a money player.

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Yes, Brady never throws it to any player other than Edelman.  I am pretty sure that was the only pass over 10 yards the little sh*t caught all day.  He doesn't get deep balls.  They played it okay.  He was bracketed and should have been lit up. If it is really Bailey's fault, you can't be too surprised.  The kid does not have much experience. Not sure why they never used another corner instead of him.  Some of those guys should have a better feel for the D than Bailey.

[JiFtheOracle]

Maybe that is why they threw the ball so much.

Yes, Brady never throws it to any player other than Edelman.  I am pretty sure that was the only pass over 10 yards the little sh*t caught all day.  He doesn't get deep balls.  They played it okay.  He was bracketed and should have been lit up. If it is really Bailey's fault, you can't be too surprised.  The kid does not have much experience. Not sure why they never used another corner instead of him.  Some of those guys should have a better feel for the D than Bailey.

Good point on both accounts.  

I just didnt understand why Bowles didnt bring the heat on that 3rd and 17.  It was very disappointing as it was the most opportune time to do it.  Make Brady throw something fast and short.  Instead, he rushed 4 and dropped EVERYONE into coverage.  Not 1 single receiver was jammed at the LOS on that play.  They all got a free break off the LOS. Just seems like that goes against everything that has been Todd Bowles, at the worst possible time. 

 

[kelly]

GAME REVIEW: Jets Can't Overcome Mistakes

video..

>    http://www.newyorkjets.com/videos/videos/GAME-REVIEW-Jets-Cant-Overcome-Mistakes/ceecb07b-ffcd-4f5a-b94e-261c18017de7

[Jetman55]

Over analysis.  If Ivorys healthy, it's a different game.  Our offense is built around the run and time of possession and our defense is supposed to create turnovers.

we had no running game after the first play and Brady threw it 50 times without a turnover.  

No team is winning in Foxboro without a TO or running game while Brady is there.  The Ravens who regularly handle the pats in New England always bring those 2 things with them, run game and defense.  Our defense was fine till it ran out of gas the last 2 drives, which happens when you have no running game.

 

our D only gave up 16 in the first 3 quarters...would have been nice to have some 4th quarter offense.

with all this talk about depth, we don't have an answer on how to win without Ivory, 0-2 when he isn't healthy or doesn't play...that's the issue.

[Ex-Rex]

The GM went out and got a ton of depth. It's up to the coach to use it. We'll see how it all plays out over the next part of the season, especially since the Jets have already had the bye week. Need guys fresh for the end of the season. 

Substitutions against NE is difficult because of their tendency to play hurry up offense and can catch you making substitutions and get you penalized, so you really have to be ready to play the whole game against them. 

[The Crusher]

Such as...?

Cheating?  That's allowed right?

[Larz]

It was a confusing game plan on D.  That's for sure.  Why did Harrison get some much run when they threw the ball so much?

I wonder if he was in there to discourage the run game from NE. 

 

[kelly]

-- If there's another Geno Smith-type episode on this weekend's trip to the West Coast, it won't be because of any time-zone confusion.The New York Jets, leaving Friday to play the Oakland Raiders on Sunday, will switch to Pacific time when they get to California -- as most travelers do. In other words, their itinerary will be based on local time. For instance: An 8 p.m. team meeting will be 8 p.m. PDT.

It was a different story last October when the Jets traveled to San Diego. Not wanting to disrupt the players' body clocks, former coach Rex Ryan stayed on East Coast time. That created an issue for Smith, who was confused by the three-hour time change and missed a team meeting on the eve of the game. He went to a movie and lost track of time, sparking a huge controversy. He probably relied on his cell phone, which naturally showed local time.

So, yeah, Todd Bowles is taking some heat for his clock management on the field, but at least he knows to set his watch back three hours on the West Coast.One potential problem: On Saturday night, the clocks are turned back one hour. The Jets might have to hire a time consultant to address that issue.

>   http://espn.go.com/blog/newyork-jets/post/_/id/55495/jets-brush-up-on-clock-management-before-heading-to-west-coast

[kelly]

-- New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick's weekly breakdown of plays following a victory, posted on the team's official website, often provides a deeper look at some of the X's and O's nuances that contributed to the result.

One of the points Belichick highlighted from Sunday's 30-23 win over the New York Jets was how the Patriots adjusted to the Jets' pressure, which helped produce tight end Rob Gronkowski's 15-yard touchdown catch and run in the fourth quarter.It started early in the third quarter, when quarterback Tom Brady hit tight end Scott Chandler on a 26-yard pass down the left sideline. The Jets showed a pressure look, with seven players at the line of scrimmage, so Brady called Gronkowski in to pass protect on the right side of the line before the snap.

On the play, the Jets sent all seven rushers and safety Marcus Gilchrist came as a late eighth rusher.So when the Jets showed the same blitz-type look in the fourth quarter, the Patriots locked in on Gilchrist and had a counter-punch ready for him if he blitzed quicker and on time as the eighth man in. Specifically, they would release Gronkowski out of pass protection and throw him the ball.

That's exactly how it unfolded.

"Those kind of in-game adjustments, you have to see, you have to make," Belichick said. "It's one thing on one play but when they adjust to it, you have to be ready to go to something else."Other plays Belichck noted in his breakdown were receiver Danny Amendola's 8-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter on a gem of a throw from Brady, and "chunk plays" in the passing game from Amendola (23 yards), Julian Edelman (27 yards on third-and-17) and Gronkowski (23 yards).

>     http://espn.go.com/blog/new-england-patriots/post/_/id/4786876/bill-belichick-highlights-the-essence-of-in-game-adjustments