The Jets are less than a week away from their prime time showdown with the New England Patriots.\u00a0 Lets take a look at how these two AFC powerhouses rank offensively in the NFL.<\/p>\n
Yards per game <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n NE (13th)-<\/strong> 349 yards per game<\/p>\n NYJ (11th)-<\/strong> 361 yards per game<\/p>\n Points per game<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n NE (1st) –<\/strong>30.4 points per game<\/p>\n NYJ (10th) <\/strong>-24 points per game<\/p>\n Passing yards per gam<\/em>e <\/strong><\/p>\n NE (12th)-<\/strong> 236 yards per game<\/p>\n NYJ (18th)-<\/strong> 213 yards per game<\/p>\n Rushing yards per game<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n NE (16th) –<\/strong> 112.5 yards per game<\/p>\n NYJ (2nd) – <\/strong>148 yards per game<\/p>\n Time of Possession<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n NE (28th) –<\/strong>28:20 minutes per game<\/p>\n NYJ (4th) <\/strong>-32:50 minutes per game<\/p>\n Turnovers<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n NE (2nd)<\/strong> +11<\/p>\n NYJ (7th)<\/strong> +7<\/p>\n Sacks allowed<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n NE (4th)-<\/strong> 15 allowed<\/p>\n NYJ (7th)-<\/strong> 19 allowed<\/p>\n QB hits allowed<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n NE (3rd) –<\/strong> 35 allowed<\/p>\n NYJ (2nd)-<\/strong> 33 allowed<\/p>\n Based primarily on the numbers you can see that both teams do an excellent job of protecting their quarterback and limiting turnovers.\u00a0 The time of possession results come as no surprise as the Patriots tend to rely on the passing game to move the ball, while Gang Green utilizes the ground and pound philosophy.\u00a0 The only surprising statistic that jumped out to me was the New England’s #1 ranking in points scored.\u00a0 The Patriots have lumped up some teams (Dolphins, Lion, Steelers) while Gang Green has played several tight games (the shutout\u00a0 to the Packers sure kills the #s as well).<\/p>\n Wednesday-<\/strong> Break down of the defensive numbers<\/p>\n Side note:<\/strong> I love the fact that the Jets have taken the actions speak louder than words approach this week.\u00a0 This allows the team to remain focused at the task at hand without adding any fuel to the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Jets are less than a week away from their prime time showdown with the New England Patriots.\u00a0 Lets take a look at how these two AFC powerhouses rank offensively in the NFL. Yards per game NE (13th)- 349 yards per game NYJ (11th)- 361 yards per game Points per game NE (1st) –30.4 points […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6457","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-1G9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6457"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6461,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}