Jets Passing Offense Film Review – Week 16 (Patriots)

[JetNation]

The Jets lost in embarrassing fashion to the Cheaters, as the team fell apart in many ways.  The defense was deplorable,  and the offense was horrible.  We will be looking at Bryce Petty’s plays, and then highlight a few young players in the game.  Since there is dearth of interest in Fitzpatrick, and he most likely won’t be back next year, there is no point in breaking down film.

Petty:

1) 

3rd & 8

This is an almost impossible play for any QB.  The defense is in a two deep safety look, with press man coverage across the board.  At pre-snap, Petty sees press coverage on Marshall to the left of the formation, with safety help over the top.  He correctly surmises that, the best place to find an open receiver is to the right side of the formation, so his first progression read is to the right side.  Unfortunately, there just isn’t an open receiver in the area.  The Cheaters have this play covered extremely well, at which point Petty tries to run with the ball, but runs into his own tackle, and gets sacked.  This looks like a coverage sack, there just isn’t an open option in the time frame for him to pull the trigger.

2)

1st & 10

Identical situations, although there is a chance for a risky throw here.  The defense again shows two deep safety with press coverage, but switch to zone coverage on this one.  Marshall is again double teamed here with the CB playing underneath routes, with safety help over the top.  Petty, again, looks to the right of the formation to see an open receiver, although the Cheaters are baiting Petty for a throw to the Enunwa.  The defender on Enunwa has outside coverage, and falls off, allowing Enunwa to be open, but there is middle linebacker coming in from the middle to intercept a pass.  Petty’s best option is to target Brandon Bostick behind Enunwa, but it’s too late, as the rush is near him.  He tries to squeeze between defenders in moving up in the pocket and gets tripped.  The secondary read (Bostick) only develops after he gets behind Enunwa (most likely read is Enunwa then Bostick) but there isn’t enough time to complete this read.  The worst culprit on this play is Brandon Shell, who decides to completely abandon the defensive end lined up right across from him, instead choosing to double team a defensive tackle.  The decision is made even worse by the fact that the defense is showing blitz from that same side, meaning he allows two free runners at the QB so he can double the defensive tackle.  Either Shell just can’t grasp the blocking scheme, is utterly ill prepared, or Petty failed to set protection.  As we broke down last week’s film, Shell made similar plays as well.  The only thing that saves Petty from a Cameron Wake type take down is Bilal Powell trying to swipe the legs of the defender, which causes him to jump up, and prevent him from destroying Petty as he runs to the side.  The Jets paid a heavy price for Brandon Shell, but he has not looked good at all lately in terms of protection, as he seems to have a penchant for allowing free runners.  It could also be a function of an inexperienced offensive line that just doesn’t communicate well, which is a black mark for coaching.

3)

2nd & 11

The Cheaters are showing single high safety, but the second safety backs up at the last moment, with press zone coverage.  Petty’s first read is Brandon Marshall on this play, but he doesn’t pull the trigger.  Marshall is briefly open on this play, as his defender is playing the underneath route, so there is an opening for a deep pass.  However, Petty looks towards Marshall and decides to take the safer pass to Powell, and fails.  It’s just a terrible throw by Petty, most likely caused by the rain, but he can’t have excuses for plays like this.

4) 

3rd & 11

Right read, bad throw.  The defense is in a two deep safety look, and Petty tries to make a back shoulder pass to Anderson and makes another bad throw in the rain.  As the second example shows, the ball slipped out of his hand and essentially floated towards Anderson.  Maybe Petty should invest in some gloves.  This is another bad throw, as he has to learn to make throws in the rain, especially playing in an open air stadium.  It’s a great play by Malcolm Butler to come up with the interception, but all of the fault for this throw goes to Petty.

5)

3rd & 4

Another bad play by Petty.  The defense is in a single high safety look, with press man coverage on this play.  The pre-snap read is good by Petty because he realizes the defender on Enunwa is the furthest away from any receiver and he just needs short yardage, thus he’s the most likely to be open.  Enunwa is open on this play, while Petty is staring right at him, but doesn’t make the throw.  Petty even takes a page out of the Fitzpatrick play book, by running towards a defender while trying to make a throw.  It’s a horrible play all around by Petty.

Supporting Cast:

1)

2nd & 8

Austin Seferain-Jenkins. Please ignore the rest of the play, this one focuses just on Austin Seferian-Jenkins.  The TE is lined up in the slot facing a linebacker, who is shading him to the inside.  This indicates that the defense is willing to let Jenkins run outside, and defend the slant route to the middle of the field.  However, Jenkins shows his ability to get open on this play by the move he makes near the defender.  Watch the slight stutter step when approaching the defender, as he needs the linebacker to think he’s going on an out route.  Jenkins first moves inside, then outside, which causes the defender to turn towards the outside, as Jenkins runs by him up the field.  The part that makes the play is the hips of the linebacker, because if the defender turns to the inside as he runs up field (as he’s not worried about the out route) this is most likely an interception.  However, Jenkins makes the play by the slight move, which causes the hips to change directions, allowing him to be open on this play.

2)

3rd & 6

Austin Seferian-Jenkins. On this play, Jenkins is lined up against a safety, and watch how he attacks the safety down the seam.  Jenkins runs right at the safety, causing indecision on the part of the defender as he backs up.  He even gives him a hint of a curl route near the first down marker, which causes the safety to flinch forward as Jenkins gains inside leverage on this play.  He does everything well on this play, but just doesn’t catch the pass.  This is a pass that has to be caught, and shows the ups and downs with this young TE.

3)

3rd & 10

Charone Peake.  When we did the scouting report on Charone Peake, we concluded that he’s a more refined (slightly less athletic) version of Stephen Hill, and he does a good job of reminding fans of the former Jet on this play.  Peake is lined up in the slot on this play, and he uses his speed to run across the middle and create separation.  Peake is open for this pass, and Fitzpatrick throws a good pass, but it is flat out dropped by the receiver.  Peake shows great athletic ability, because if he catches this ball, he’s one missed tackle away from a touchdown, but he also shows the issues that plagued him in college with drops.

4) 

3rd & 6

Robby Anderson.  The speedy receiver is lined up on the outside in press coverage, and gets by his defender with a slight move at the line of scrimmage.  The defender is shading him to the outside, and Anderson does a slight move at the line of scrimmage to freeze the defender before running down the field.  This is a very slight move, and it doesn’t gain that much of an advantage but it does help him gain a yard of separation.  Keep this move in mind, because it’s going to come up again later in the game.  Getting off the line in press coverage, especially if you are slightly built like Anderson requires a bit of skill, and he shows some skills to gain an advantage over the defender.

5)

1st & 10

Robby Anderson and Devin Smith.  There are two players to note here, with the first one being Devin Smith.  He is lined up to the right of the formation, facing zone coverage and quickly finds a seam in the coverage.  The plays shows some respect to his speed, because once the initial defender hands him off, it’s the safety’s responsibility to handle Smith, but the safety stays back.  While Smith hasn’t been great for the Jets, defenders have to respect his speed in this case.  If this was a TE running the same route, the safety would engage him much quicker.  Smith also does a good job of “sitting in” the zone to provide a good target for the QB.  The other aspect of this play is Robby Anderson on the outside to the left of the formation.  Anderson is facing zone coverage, but he gets around his defender to the outside, which allows him room down the sideline.  The defender is trying to funnel him to the inside but Anderson makes a good move to the outside, getting around his defender.  In this zone coverage, the outside defenders want to take receivers on inside routes (as with Devin Smith) so they are running towards the safeties, but Anderson works around it.

6) 

4th & 3

Charone Peake.  The rookie WR is lined up in the slot to the left of the formation, and his defender is coming on a blitz with this play.  Peake is the hot read on this play, and he catches the ball and shows off his ability by running after the catch.  This one is to actually show good situational awareness by Peake, because notice how soon he turns around for the pass from Fitzpatrick.  Peake realizes he is the hot read and open, so he wants to be ready for a pass if Fitzpatrick needs to unload the pass quickly, and he keeps his eyes towards the QB as he is running up the field.  This is very good awareness from the rookie as we have seen far too often receivers running designed routes lacking awareness about them being the hot read (Kellen Davis for example) in the past.

7) 

4th & 6

Devin Smith.  Remember the move by Anderson at the line?  Well this is the opposite, and what happens when the receiver doesn’t try to make a move.  Devin Smith is lined up to the outside, left of the formation facing press man coverage with the safety on the other side of the field.  For all it’s worth, this is a one on one match up for Smith and the defender, but the young receiver utterly fails to get open on this play.  Smith makes no moves whatsoever, instead relying on a shoulder dip to try and create separation, which doesn’t work.  Smith missed most of the year to an injury, and it may have hindered his development, but he has to do a better job of releasing off the line.  The dipped shoulder move won’t work nearly as often in the NFL as it did in college, and he could learn a few things from Robby Anderson.  Smith has good potential, but he seems to lack some basic moves when facing press coverage.

Conclusion:

An utterly horrible game for the Jets.  Bryce Petty didn’t play well at all, and then got injured trying to make a tackle.  The Jets do have a good receiver core in place, which should bode well for the QB next year.  Brandon Marshall, Eric Decker, Quincy Enunwa, Robby Anderson, Charone Peake, Devin Smith, and Jalin Marshall all showed potential through out the year.  It’ll be interesting to see if the Jets move on from Marshall because they have very good depth behind him (albeit inexperienced) and could allocate resources to other areas of the team.  Austin Seferian-Jenkins also shows promise, showing a decent ability to get open.

Forum Questions:

A) Would you play Hackenberg in the final game (Bowles already has Fitzpatrick starting) but what is your take?

B) How would you fix the offensive line?

Side note:  While breaking down this film, I ventured to look at some of the defensive looks, and it’s shocking to see how bad this defense plays.  Brady could have thrown for about 200 more yards because the defense can’t stop the pass at all.  I’m wondering if people are interested in some defensive breakdowns in the off-season.  I want to wait until the off-season to find out the coaching situation, because if the coaching staff is fired, then there isn’t a point in breaking down considerable film.  However, if the coaching staff is retained, how many people would like some breakdowns on defense?  

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[j4jets]

So....we sucked?

[Maxman]

Yes yes yes to defensive breakdowns. That would be great.

Thanks!

[CanadienJetsFan]

Great work again,  thanks. Too bad for Petty, he just seemed overwhelmed. 

Breaking down defensive schemes would be nice, provided that Bowles is still the head coach! 

[SOJ]

23 minutes ago, Maxman said:

Yes yes yes to defensive breakdowns. That would be great.

Thanks!

yep very interested, I like to know how the blocking schemes affect our DL and LB and how that affects the secondary.  Thanks

[SOJ]

I do have a question.  In your analysis which I have enjoy BTW, you mention how Petty mades good reads most of the time but doesn't execute?  Is that because 1) he doesn't trust what he sees (which I think is the case) or 2) the CS has done a piss poor job preparing him period and 3) OL not protecting him enough. 

[win4ever]

16 hours ago, j4jets said:

So....we sucked?

Pretty much. 

9 hours ago, Maxman said:

Yes yes yes to defensive breakdowns. That would be great.

Thanks!

Thanks, yeah might as well do some over the off-season because it looks like Bowles is back.  Although, it's going to be depressing most likely from what I briefly saw.   

The team had some success playing press man, but it just lacks fundamentals badly, which reflects on the coach.  It's not even as if QBs are just making impossible throws, just easy throws on almost every passing down.  The Cheaters pretty much put on a clinic on beating this defense because it was so predictable.  I think they could have scored 60 if the weather was better. 

8 hours ago, CanadienJetsFan said:

Great work again,  thanks. Too bad for Petty, he just seemed overwhelmed. 

Breaking down defensive schemes would be nice, provided that Bowles is still the head coach! 

When I first watched the game, this was a really bad one for Petty.  But in review, he really didn't have much help.  He made some horrible throws, but those sacks were pretty much unpreventable.  

I read a tweet by Cimini saying Shell hasn't caused pressure according to PFF.  But I would like to hear their reasoning on a couple of plays.  One of the sacks, Shell literally got out of the way for the defender to have a free run, so he could double someone, and they helped in the sack.  Why is that not considered allowing pressure?  Because he didn't block him, thus it's not his man?  The guy lined up right next to him, and ran towards the QB, who got sacked partially by him, but it's not pressure?  I know you read these regularly, so am I missing something?

I'm going to attach the sack from the other angle, but can someone tell me what I'm missing.  The guy is lined up right to Shell's outside shoulder and he pretty much runs out of the way.  

 

8 hours ago, SOJ said:

yep very interested, I like to know how the blocking schemes affect our DL and LB and how that affects the secondary.  Thanks

Thanks.  I think I agree more with Richardson than Revis or others.  The defensive back play is atrocious.  I didn't look at too much defense, mainly the Cheaters game because there wasn't much of Petty's game to look at.  I say each week about how there are right pre-snap reads, and how guys should be open, well the Cheaters exploited it about 90% of the time, and they had multiple guys open on numerous plays.  This team is better at press man coverage than zone because they don't have the recovery or recognition speed for zone coverage.  Zone coverage is requires very good coaching fundamentals because each player has to know the extent of their zone, and know when to peel off or keep pursuing.  We don't.  

There is a play where Rontez Miles is lined up on Julian Edleman.  The Jets are playing zone, with an empty back field for the Pats.  Miles main job in this is to protect over the top, but the Jets have two linebackers just looking at Brady in the backfield like he's Michael Vick and a threat to burn them. Edleman runs an out route, at which point, Miles turns around and runs after the deep route, leaving Edleman to turn up field and be wide open.  Both line backers stayed in the middle, instead of running towards their guy.  I still have no idea what they could possibly be looking for on that play.  

8 hours ago, SOJ said:

I do have a question.  In your analysis which I have enjoy BTW, you mention how Petty mades good reads most of the time but doesn't execute?  Is that because 1) he doesn't trust what he sees (which I think is the case) or 2) the CS has done a piss poor job preparing him period and 3) OL not protecting him enough. 

Thanks.  I'm gonna take the road most taken, and say it's a combination of all three.   

1) Petty is used to simple reads, his whole system in college is based on it.  The Gailey system in terms of pre-snap reads is just slightly more complicated, but has similar philosophies.   You try to find the best one on one match up, and take advantage.  Which is why you will often see them take deep shots down the sideline with single high safety in the middle, because the safety is too far, and you are trusting your guy to beat the defender deep.  However, NFL defensive players are just better physically, and they have been baiting him in the last two games to affect his pre-snap read.  On a few occasions, the Dolphins gave Petty one look, knowing what his thought process would be in reading it at the line, and then went into a play that went completely against the read, believing that they will get to the QB before Petty can go through the progressions.  I think it has given Petty happy feet in the pocket.  Both sacks against the Pats, he made 1-2 reads, and then looked to bail out of the pocket instead of standing there.  I think he's apprehensive about taking the first shot because he got burned a couple of times.  

2) The coaching staff is atrocious.  Gailey seems to call a decent game plan, but the QBs just aren't developing.  I highlighted Smith in the last one, because Anderson came out with his stutter move from college, yet Smith has done the same exact shoulder dip, which doesn't seem to work quite as effectively.  They really need to hire a better QB coach (I think he was the WR coach somewhere else) and WR coaches, along with the offensive line.  

3) The O-line is horrible because it's a surprise if they just block the same amount of defenders.  What's sad is that, they give up pressure when it's 3-4 rushers, which make it impossible for the QB to be consistent because there are too many guys in the passing lanes, so it takes time for guys to get open.  We see it often with Brady, where he just stands back there patting the ball because we only rushed three, and then finds some guy cutting across the field for 25 yards.  Now part of it is that it's a makeshift line, but they don't communicate well.  I would invest every resource we have in upgrading the line this year because it's a major problem.