The reasons for not trading Darrelle Revis are obvious. When healthy, this guy is not only the Jets’ best player, but probably the best defensive back in the entire NFL and maybe even the best overall defensive player in the NFL. Including this year, when he played just 1 ½ games thanks to injury, Revis [...]
Several teams had worse years than the Jets, but I don’t think anyone had a weirder year. Turned into a circus in the offseason by the media, the Jets lived up to the hype. Neither Mark Sanchez nor Tim Tebow led a touchdown drive all pre-season, but after a blowout win over the Bills week [...]
New York Jets (6-9) at Buffalo Bills (5-10) Aside from this being a divisional matchup, this is a completely meaningless game for these two teams. Both are out of the playoffs by a long shot and both could easily have new Head Coaches and starting quarterbacks next season. I don’t like to make big plays [...]
Last week: 19 (-2) Record: 6-9 Net points per drive: -0.09 (19th) DVOA: -15.9% (25th) Weighted DVOA: -15.6% (25th) Studs MLB David Harris: 7 solo tackles, 4 assists, 4 stops, allowed 1 catch for 5 yards on 2 attempts MLB Bart Scott: 2 solo tackles, 2 assists, 2 stops, 1 sack and 1 quarterback hurry [...]
San Diego Chargers (5-9) at New York Jets (6-8) Ugh. How am I supposed to pick between these two teams? The Chargers have been incredibly inconsistent and the Jets are a mediocre at best team who has just been eliminated from the playoff race making a controversial move to start a former 7th round pick [...]
Last week: 22 (+3) Record: 6-8 Net points per drive: -0.38 (25th) DVOA: -12.1% (24th) Weighted DVOA: -15.4% (25th) With the exception of last week’s Monday Night debacle and a game against the Dolphins (who they split the season series with), the Jets have beaten every mediocre or worse football team they’ve played this season. [...]
New York Jets (6-7) at Tennessee Titans (4-9) The Titans are 4-9, which isn’t very good at all, but if you can believe it, they’re even worse than their record. Of their 9 losses, 5 have come by 21 or more and only one of their 4 wins have come by more than a field [...]
Last week: 23 (+1) Record: 6-7 Net points per drive: -0.38 (23rd) DVOA: -8.9% (24th) Weighted DVOA: -10.8% (25th) The Jets are miraculously just one game out of the playoffs right now with 3 winnable games to go. I just don’t think they are a good enough football team to win all 3 and give [...]
New York Jets (5-7) at Jacksonville Jaguars (2-10) I would say this would be the shorst game of the season, but the Jets and Cardinals from last week currently hold that title. Raiders/Chiefs next week might give them a run for their money, but this is going to be a terrible game. More importantly, how [...]
Last week: 27 (+4) Record: 5-7 Net points per drive: -0.48 (27th) DVOA: -10.6% (25th) Weighted DVOA: -11.3% (26th) Studs RB Shonn Greene: Rushed for 104 yards (57 yards after contact) on 24 attempts, 1 broken tackle RT Austin Howard: Did not allow a pressure on 35 pass block snaps, run blocked for 13 yards [...]
Arizona Cardinals (4-7) at New York Jets (4-7) I’ve started using net points per drive to compute real line. It makes sense. Net points per drive measures how much you outscore opponents by on a given drive and if you take the difference between the two team’s net points per drive and you multiply that [...]
Last week: 26 (-1) Record: 4-7 Net points per drive: -0.54 (27th) DVOA: -14.0% (26th) Weighted DVOA: -13.1% (26th) Tier 7: Terrible Studs LT D’Brickashaw Ferguson: Allowed 1 quarterback hit on 40 pass block snaps, run blocked for 27 yards on 3 attempts RG Brandon Moore: Allowed 1 quarterback hurry on 32 pass block snaps, [...]
Last week: 27 (+1) Record: 4-6 The Jets were bound to bounce back last week. Teams that lose back-to-back games by 21 or more go 36-16 ATS in their next game. However, it still isn’t a promising sign going forward. For every one good Mark Sanchez performance, he has 3 bad ones. Don’t believe me? [...]
New England Patriots (7-3) at New York Jets (4-6) The Patriots suffered a serious injury last week, losing Rob Gronkowski for at least 4 weeks with a broken arm. Gronkowski is an incredible football player and one of the top offensive players in the NFL and his absence obviously hurts. However, no one does the [...]
New York Jets (3-6) at St. Louis Rams (3-5) Someone check me for a concussion because I really like the Jets this week. The Jets are one of two teams I have not picked to cover once this year, along with the Bengals. Yes, their fans hate me. It may seem weird that this is [...]
Last week: 27 (-2) Record: 3-6 I’ve been wondering for a few weeks, at least, why Rex Ryan hadn’t benched Mark Sanchez for Tim Tebow. It didn’t make any sense to me why (assuming he had brought Tebow in to be an alternative to Mark Sanchez) he hadn’t swapped out Sanchez, who is completing 52% [...]
New York Jets (3-5) at Seattle Seahawks (5-4) I’m so glad there isn’t a heavy public lean on Seattle this week. As some of you may know, the public killed the odds makers in unprecedented fashion last week, going 12-2 and winning every heavy lean. The odds makers aren’t going broke or anything. They killed [...]
Last week: 24 (+0) Record: 3-5 On bye.
Last week: 24 (-1) Record: 3-5 I have no idea why they haven’t benched Mark Sanchez for Tim Tebow yet. Mark Sanchez is completing 53% of his passes. Only Brandon Weeden has a worse adjusted QB rating. The team is 3-5. They brought Tebow in to be an alternative for Sanchez if he struggled right? [...]
Miami Dolphins (3-3) at New York Jets (3-4) The Jets beat the Dolphins in Miami earlier this year, therefore they should beat them in New York right? Well, that seems to be what the public thinks as the Jets are a heavily public lean, but I disagree for several reasons. The first one is that [...]
Last week: 23 (+2) Record: 3-4 I’m impressed with the way the Jets have bounced back from losing Darrelle Revis and then getting shut out at home by the 49ers. Since then, they’ve covered in 3 straight games, hanging with the Texans, blowing out the Colts, and hanging with the Patriots in New England. Antonio [...]
New York Jets (3-3) at New England Patriots (3-3) You gotta love the public overreaction with the Patriots. Last week, they were one of the best teams in the league. Now you get guys like Tony Dungy saying they’re “not very good” and an “average team” just because they lost by 1 point to a [...]
Last week: 28 (+3) Record: 3-3 The Jets’ win last week was impressive, which is why I’m moving them up, but it’s important to look at how they won. They won by running the ball and playing great defense. The defense I expect will continue to be at least decent. Darrelle Revis is gone, but [...]
Indianapolis Colts (2-2) at New York Jets (2-3) Last week, I was very hesitant to make a big play on the Texans, even though I felt they were the significant superior team, because the Jets had so many things working in their favor. They were coming off an embarrassing home shutout and had to spend [...]
Last week: 28 (+0) Record: 2-3 The Jets “moral victory” over the Texans will keep Mark Sanchez as the starting quarterback at least another week, but that’s probably not the right decision. Sanchez’s 48% completion percentage is the worst through 5 games since JaMarcus Russell’s final year as a starter in 2009. The Jets threw [...]