{"id":15370,"date":"2012-09-24T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=15370"},"modified":"2012-09-24T19:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T23:06:49","slug":"the-morning-after-drill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2012\/09\/24\/the-morning-after-drill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning After Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Jets are 2-1 with two division victories and they sit on top of the AFC East standings.\u00a0 Why then are so many fans feeling a sense of gloom, typically reserved for fans of losing teams?\u00a0\u00a0 Looking beyond their position in the standings, there just has not been many good things happening on the football field.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, Sunday in Miami, the most consistent performances may have come from punter Robert Malone who pinned Miami inside their own 20 yard line on four occasions and kicker Nick Folk who went 3 for 3 on field goals. \u00a0\u00a0It is perhaps a little too early in the season to panic, but after two poorly played games, it\u2019s probably appropriate to wonder just what the heck is going on with this football team.\u00a0 Coach Rex Ryan claimed it is as talented a team as he has had since he landed in New York.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think anybody is buying that line, but is Ryan getting all he can from the talent on this roster? \u00a0\u00a0It is difficult, in my opinion, to make a great defense for the job Ryan and the entire coaching staff has done to prepare this team each week.\u00a0 The Jets were flagged for nine penalties for a monstrous 108 yards, and penalties have grown progressively worse with each week.\u00a0 The defense failed to stay at home on the backside and repeatedly allowed Miami running backs to cut back and gain positive yards on plays they seemed to have bottled up at the line of scrimmage.\u00a0 The offense, while as a unit made enough big plays to earn a tough win on the road, seems disconnected from one another.\u00a0 \u00a0This is a football team that failed to put many good stretches of football together last year and were not the most active team in obtaining talent in the off season.\u00a0 That has Jet\u2019s fans crying in their coffee this morning.\u00a0 Perhaps this is the kind of play they will have to endure all season.\u00a0 Oh, and did I mention Darrelle Revis may have suffered <\/a>a season ending injury?<\/p>\n

There can be no discussion regarding the dreaded \u201cbust\u201d word that does not include the New York Jets. I won\u2019t put you through the pain, but many of you know the history.\u00a0 Conceivably, that history has experts wondering if rookie Quinton Coples is the next on an excruciatingly long list of Jet\u2019s draft busts.\u00a0 One thing is for sure, if Coples impact doesn’t go beyond 4 tackles in three games and no sacks, those whispers will get louder.\u00a0 There is no getting away from the reality that wasting a sixth overall pick in 2008 on Vernon Gholston and a sixteenth pick in 2012 for essentially the same position will set this franchise back a decade if Coples continues down this road of ineffectiveness.<\/p>\n

Bilal Powell continues to show explosiveness through the hole and clearly the coaches are taking notice. He had some crucial carries in the 4th<\/sup> quarter and overtime ending with 10 carries for 45 yards and a healthy 4.5 per carry average.\u00a0 He should be primed for a more extensive role in the offense as this season progresses.<\/p>\n

After taking a fair amount of criticism for some drops last week, Santonio Holmes came out this week and had a very effective afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 His 9 receptions for 147 yards, several being key first down plays, had by far his best day of this young season.\u00a0 Sanchez struggled otherwise to connect with other wide receivers yet again with Jeremy Kerley catching two passes, notable as one was for a touchdown and the other set-up\u00a0 a 4th<\/sup> quarter field goal.\u00a0 Statistically Mark Sanchez did not have a great day.\u00a0 He was not very accurate and forced the receivers to reach back or up for balls all day.\u00a0 To be fair, there were too few great catches to bail Sanchez out now and then.\u00a0 But Sanchez hung in that pocket, which seemed to be collapsing on him regularly, kept his eyes down field, moved effectively to buy time, and made some great throws.\u00a0 Sanchez is a big reason the Jets walked out of Miami with a win.\u00a0 There are many mistakes being made by a young receiving corps that also plague a slow starting passing game.\u00a0 It is likely as we get deeper into this season this aspect of the offense will develop.<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t get any easier as the San Francisco 49ers visit New York this weekend.\u00a0 Coming off a somewhat surprising loss in Minnesota may have them really fired up.\u00a0 But historically, these east coast 1PM starts have been horrible for the team traveling in from the west.\u00a0 In 2011 west coast<\/a> teams only won .368 of their games when playing in the Eastern Time Zone at 1pm.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s a stretch, but a little positivity may help Jet\u2019s fans enjoy that morning coffee just a bit more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Jets are 2-1 with two division victories and they sit on top of the AFC East standings.\u00a0 Why then are so many fans feeling a sense of gloom, typically reserved for fans of losing teams?\u00a0\u00a0 Looking beyond their position in the standings, there just has not been many good things happening on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":15231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1337,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"category-home-slider","9":"category-camp-reports"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/uspw_6587326-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-3ZU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15370"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15408,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370\/revisions\/15408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}