{"id":3471,"date":"2009-12-20T20:30:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T00:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2019-11-28T06:34:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T10:34:17","slug":"jets-lose-to-falcons-fall-to-7-and-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2009\/12\/20\/jets-lose-to-falcons-fall-to-7-and-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Lose to Falcons; Fall to 7 and 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looked like it was going to be a defensive masterpiece.\u00a0 In front of a home crowd that had to travel through a December snowstorm, the Jets lost on a late touchdown pass from Carson Palmer to Tony Gonzalez.\u00a0 Prior to that 4th down play with time running down, the Jets defense had held the Falcons to 3 points.<\/p>\n<p>Turnovers and mistakes remain the Jets achilles heel.\u00a0 Mark Sanchez threw 3 interceptions and the Jets missed 3 field goals.\u00a0 Add in some costly penalties and you have the recipe for a losing game plan. Although the Jets are still technically alive in the playoff race, the loss makes things very difficult for the Jets.\u00a0 Rather than dwell on the negative (we have all off season for that) let&#8217;s look at some things that have gone right.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Defense:\u00a0 They gave up a late TD that put the Bengals ahead.\u00a0 But they seemed to be on the field all day and it is very hard to hold a team to only 10 points.\u00a0 That is what they did.\u00a0 Why is the defense something that has gone right this year?\u00a0 Because they are active, fly to the ball and outside of Kerry Rhodes, they seem to love contact.\u00a0 As we look ahead to next year, there is the centerpiece of this team.<\/li>\n<li>Mark Sanchez:\u00a0 Today was the first game in a long time that he seemed to improve upon some things.\u00a0 The turnovers are the reason this team won&#8217;t be in the playoffs.\u00a0 No excuse for that.\u00a0 He is a rookie though and today he did a much better job of spreading the ball around, taking smart chances down the field and even threw the ball away a few times.\u00a0 Progress.<\/li>\n<li>Braylon Edwards:\u00a0 Had a very good game today 5\/105 and 1 TD.\u00a0 The Jets need to use his size and strength in the red zone, today they did that.<\/li>\n<li>Brad Smith:\u00a0 The Jets finally seem to remember how to use him again.\u00a0 Brad Smith isn&#8217;t a traditional receiver.\u00a0 Recently they have been moving him around a lot and letting him run the wildcat.\u00a0 That is how he made his name in the NFL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tough loss Jets fans.\u00a0 The stadium seemed to be half filled today.\u00a0 Good job to all those that were in attendance and supporting this team.\u00a0 Stop by our <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/\">football forum<\/a> and tell us what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looked like it was going to be a defensive masterpiece.\u00a0 In front of a home crowd that had to travel through a December snowstorm, the Jets lost on a late touchdown pass from Carson Palmer to Tony Gonzalez.\u00a0 Prior to that 4th down play with time running down, the Jets defense had held the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-TZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47326,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/47326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}