Game Observations (OAK)

[joewilly12]

2 hours ago, Scott Dierking said:

I wanted them to score more points and win. And tra da!!

 

So did I when they were losing.thats why I suggested it. 

[Losmeister]

i belive that sam was the architect of the thai cave rescue...

he follows thai soccer

[SAM SAM HE'S OUR MAN]

14 hours ago, KRL said:

The Jets went all "Stone Cold" Steve Austin on OAK

[The Crusher]

13 hours ago, phill1c said:

People want to make it complicated. What the difference is:

• No Kalil
• No Winters

The rest is just camouflage. The new OL have strength AND the center can actually snap and block and not be dominated physically. Now Darnold can mostly relax and know that DL won't be running full speed up the middle from the snap of the ball anymore. He is getting very reasonable amount of time to throw. And that's making the Jets WRs look way better than they have been.

Now, eventually, you'd like to upgrade either guard spot and the LT spot. But at least it looks like an actual NFL offensive line.

I was most impressed with how Darnold threw the ball away when the play wasn't there. But it has to help that he knows he'll probably get another chance, given how well the offense and defense is playing right now.

Hell yeah. Sam tossed a couple out of bounds with no trepidation whatsoever. That may be more important for the offense going forward than the completions he makes. Haha 

[Jet Nut]

12 hours ago, Larz said:

Not sure where to ask this but did we ever get an official explanation on the OPI called on the review ?

pretty sure the Raiders didn’t challenge and no penalty called on the field ?

Guessing they review every scoring play and were doing the usual check.  They extended that to re officiating that play to call OPI?  Horrible over reach of their powers.  Challenge a PI call and they won't police themselves and admit they made a mistake but here they do it because they initiate the review.  

[slats]

12 hours ago, Rangers9 said:

We’re at 4-7 and last year we ended up at 4-12. Of the 4 Ws we beat two good teams and should have won opening day vs the Bills. The past 3 weeks esp today we were the team we thought we could be maybe not SB or playoffs but competitive. The expectation was that Sam would be better and we spent money and added two impact players in Bell and Mosley. And good pieces like Crowder, Montgomery etc. And we drafted supposedly the best player in the 2019 draft (he wasn’t). Look we should beat Cincy next week NP as long as those bad Jets don’t resurface. The second half of the season Jets so far look energized.

Having already lost to one previously winless team this season, I’m hoping that lesson is still fresh enough so as not to take the Bengals for granted. This is the kind of game the SOJs lose. 

[Chrebetfan80]

14 hours ago, KRL said:

WOW!!!  The Jets went all "Stone Cold" Steve Austin on OAK and dished out "a can of
whup ass" as they dominated them in every phase 34-3.  The Jets are now 3-0 in the
second half of the season and have won three in a row for the first time since 2017.
And to add to the "gaudy stats":

- They've scored 34 points in three straight games
- They've scored on their opening drive in five straight games
- They've had back to back blow outs and this one against a playoff challenger

Special Teams 

- Lachlan Edwards had a solid day (47 yard avg).  But most importantly he didn't punt
until the second half when the game was out of reach

- Sam Ficken had 2 FG's and 4 XP's and his miss didn't have any effect on the game.
But the miss allows the front office to sniff around for an upgrade next year because
he's only 9/14 (64%) on FG's this year

- Field changing return by Braxton Berrios (25+ yards) for the first time this year.
Unfortunately Ficken missed the FG at the end of the half

- Shout out to the kick off coverage unit as they never allowed OAK to get any field
position

Defense

- When you force your opponent to bench their starting QB you know you're performing
well.  Unlike the past two games which could be minimized because they faced rookie
QB's, that wasn't the case today.  Carr was only sacked once but was flustered all
day, first by his team's own drops then by the coverage of the Jet secondary

- The #1 run defense had their way with OAK OLine and Jacobs as they were held to
68 yards.  The DLine didn't put up gaudy stats they just plugged every hole.  Credit
to Henry Anderson, Steve McLendon and Kyle Phillips

- The "stat stuffers" on the defensive side were:

  * James Burgess with 9 Tackles, 1 TFL, 1 PD.  He's grown as he's filled in for CJ
    Mosley.  Unfortunately he also fumbled a fumble recovery
  * Jamal Adams with 7 Tackles, . 5 Sack, 3 QB Hits
  * Arthur Maulet with 7 Tackles, 3 TFL.  But he's got to work on his tackling he
    whiffed on a ton of them
  * Bless Austin with 5 Tackles, 1 PD and excellent coverage.  That's his third
    straight good game    
  * Neville Hewitt with 7 Tackles, 1 PD, 1 QB Hit

- Great one handed "pick 6" by Brian Poole whose been an upgrade over Buster Skrine.
With Ryan Griffin getting an extension I wonder if Poole and Jordan Jenkins are next
in line?

Offense

- They ran through OAK defense like a hot knife through butter.  Totally unimpressed
by them on all three levels, how were they 6-4???

- Huge credit to the OLine as they continue to shake off injuries and multiple moving
pieces to provide a solid foundation to the offense.  They only squeezed out 88 yards
on the ground but kept Sam Darnold clean as they allowed only 1 sack.  Shout out to
Kelvin Beachum as he came back into the game after hurting his ankle because Chuma
Edoga went down.  Beachum and Jonotthan Harrison have provided stablity to the OLine
and let's be honest Harrison should've never been benched for Ryan Kalil.  Kalil had
the better resume but chemistry is way more important and Harrison provides that

- Two players whose scheme fit I questioned last week bounced back.  Robby Anderson
had a good day (4 recs / 86 yards / 1 TD) as he caught balls on various routes.  And
LeVeon Bell probably had his best all around game as he was effective running (12
rushes / 49 yards) and he showed off his WR2 skills catching the ball (5 recs / 59
yards). 

- Braxton Berrios not only contributed on specials but he almost had his first TD.
As he went 69 yards on a slant before getting knocked out at the 1 yard line

- Terrific game by Sam Darnold as he continued his excellent play (20/29, 315 yards,
3 TD's).  Is Darnold's conversation with Adam Gase about what plays he wants to run
the turning point? It sure seems that way, as the offense is now more uptempo,
using more misdirection, rollouts and Darnold's mobility skills  

Good job by the coaching staff and team not to fracture after going 1-7.  Now its
time to get greedy and not be satisfied with a three game streak.  Happy Thanksgiving

Some things ill say:

They established themselves on short crossing patterns like I talked about in the gameplan thread.  With suspect LB play passing off coverage would be tricky and it proved to work time and time again.  The play calling was very balanced and the jets did a good job of running right at Crosby.  Crosby is having a great year for a rookie, but he's undersized, kudos to Gase and company for coming up with a plan to run right at him and consistently gain yards.  It was like I said, this team needed to run the football, not breaking runs, but at the very minimum keeping ahead of the D&DST and they did that for the most part.  

Whats going on defensively is fantastic coaching by GW.  He's been bringing so many odd blitzes and disguising coverages so well its been a nightmare for opposing quarterbacks to figure out until its too late.  The coverage has been way better too, but this is a product of the dominant play of the Defensive Line.  Greg is able to drop more defenders into zone coverage (which fits our personnell way better right now) allowing players to react to the ball faster and close. The real test will be when we play a really great running team (ravens) where we will most likely have to committ extra players to the box to stop the run and play man over the top.  Bless and Maulet have looked good so far but against inferior WRs and playing in a more friendly zone coverage. Encouraged by what I see but ill temper my expectations about the Defense for now. 

 

[rangerous]

is this the first game that bell gained over 100 total?  that sidelines catch was amazing.  robbie made some great catches and berrios finally makes some seriously good contributions.  the bottom line is the jets made plays and the raiders didn't.

[rangerous]

33 minutes ago, Jet Nut said:

Guessing they review every scoring play and were doing the usual check.  They extended that to re officiating that play to call OPI?  Horrible over reach of their powers.  Challenge a PI call and they won't police themselves and admit they made a mistake but here they do it because they initiate the review.  

imo there was no opi.  the thing is where does the extension of the review to other parts of the play extend?  should the td reviewer look at the oline play to make sure there wasn't any holding?  if that was the case, the patsies would have half of their td's called back.  luckily it didn't have any outcome on the game.

[ChuckkieB]

This was an impressive win from top to bottom.  Darnold looked great, the play calling was smart, the offense moved the chains all game, the defense was smothering, and Gase and Williams pushed all the right buttons the entire game.  By far the most complete effort of the season.  

I hate to say it, but Gase deserves a lot of credit here.  He has finally gotten the right personnel on the OL and is gameplanning to play on Sam's strengths as a QB, something we've been bitching about all season.  He also deserves credit for keeping the team motivated and focused at 1-7, not an easy task.   That crazy-eyed mothertrucker is slowly winning me over.