Jets game winning TD... What happened

by jonramz on Dec 1, 2011 3:46 PM EST

Ughhh... they played so hard, and especially well on offense keeping extra blockers in to negate the Jets pressure packages, while also SJ was able to find a map of Revis Island and escape. But yet again the defense let the team down. This has to be the slowest front 7 in all of football.

What happened on the last Jets TD, why did they score?

Short answer? A DB lost his man

Long answer? Let's take a look...

The Bills are up 24-21, the Jets are driving and it is 2nd and 8 at the Buffalo 16. 1:33 left on the clock

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The Jets have 3 WR in the game, Keller at TE and a RB in the backfield. Bills have 3 DL, 2LB (Kelsay and Barnett) and 6 DB's

I don't really care about that much about the routes the Jets run here, I want to look at the Bills defense. Bills have 7 guys in the box on a 2nd and 8 with under 2 minutes left. I don't think they are worried about the run here, so it must be a blitz.

Moats (RE) and Dareus (NT) slant left, while Byrd blitzes around the right (offense's left). Carrington (LE) shoots the RT/RG gap. Barnett ends up blitzing on the play attacking the same LT/LG gap that Moats went through after he goes... I am not sure however if he actually doesn't have the RB in coverage b/c he does not start his rush until the RB picks up Byrd. Scott has the TE in man coverage. The DB in the blue circle has the deep middle. Looks like cover 1 man to me. The real question I have with this is what is Chris Kelsay (circled in yellow) doing? I'm guessing he is supposed to be robbing in the middle of the field, but he literally is useless on this play as he never really gets back into coverage. If he is supposed to have outside contain (a possibility, b/c Carrington attacks inside off the snap) he just totally neglects his assignment.

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Here is the 2nd picture, a couple seconds into the play. The light blue circle is where the ball was when it was snapped. As you can see, Carrington has been collapsed. Dareus has gotten no push up the middle. Barnett and Byrd however are able to at least scare Sanchez. But Kelsay is doing God knows what, he is way too close to the LOS to take any kind of crossing route away, and he is in no position to get after the QB or keep any kind of containment on the left side. I literally have no idea what he is doing on this play other than doing nothing. Sanchez gets outside the pocket easily... who had contain? Carrington got blown up, but he did slant inside at the snap, and Kelsay ran towards the middle of the field... either way, no contain allows Sanchez to get outside the pocket and buy time when the Bills had pretty decent coverage.

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I've numbered the Jets' eligible receivers so they are easier to see. What ends up happening is the Holmes (#5) gets behind the DB and fakes going across the field, loses his man and goes back to the boundary. Sanchez with nobody in front of him, makes a good throw and that is how it happened.

Again the Bills defense looks slow, sluggish and unimaginative. We do not have pass rushers that can win 1 on 1 battles, therefore we must scheme up pressure. Something Edwards has shown he has been unable to do. They did have a pretty decent gameplan of taking away the slants and ins that the Jets like to throw... but if you can't get to the QB even Mark Sanchez can beat you (sometimes).

It's too bad because I thought the offense had a terrific game plan and played pretty well, all things considered.

Comments and thoughts welcomed.

-Jon

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rec’d man nice job.
clever blitz with barnett and byrd ending up at the same spot, negating each other. in the mean time theres 3 jet blockers that could lay down and take a nap and sanchez would still easily roll to his right and put our DBs in a bad spot. yikes

by boomsauce on Dec 1, 2011 5:05 PM EST reply actions

I love these kind of posts! Thanks.

What happened?

A rookie got toasted one-on-one for a TD. He should not have been put in that position.
And again, as you stated, crappy/zero pass rush AND no containment.

We pull this crap this weekend and CJ$40Mil will go for 300 yards.

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by SERGEANT MAJOR THOR on Dec 1, 2011 6:19 PM EST reply actions

Containment bothered me less than the overload blitz, that resulted in no one backside pursuing the QB (or at least, they were all tripping over each other to the extent everyone was useless). If Byrd is bearing down on him this play could end with a strip sack or a hurried throw. Instead he had all day to roll out and see an open receiver because the pressure was terribly executed.

I have low expectations. But high hopes.

by greysquirrel on Dec 2, 2011 11:09 AM EST up reply actions

I will say that at least Barnett’s rush got Sanchez to move his feet… but that 2nd picture sure is damning evidence of our defense

by jonramz on Dec 1, 2011 6:25 PM EST reply actions

Love reading these. Question though. How do you fix the pass rush? Another d lineman or LB?

by billsstein on Dec 1, 2011 6:29 PM EST reply actions

and by another I mean new

by billsstein on Dec 1, 2011 6:30 PM EST up reply actions

I mean I think it is a combination of more athletes and a better DC.

Look at Maybin, the guy does 1 thing pretty well, and that is run around the outside. Other than that he is pretty terrible as a pass rusher, but that’s how the Jets use him. Let me reiterate b/c I don’t want this to turn into a Maybin discussion.. he SUCKS other than doing that 1 move

I personally don’t think we have a player on the roster that can consistently win a matchup as an edge rusher. I actually think we have 3 good interior pass rushers (Edwards, Dareus and Kyle Williams) But even if all we have is a fast guy run around the outside… at least it would push the QB up in the pocket towards our interior rush.

A good DC can turn guys that have been unproductive into effective pass rushers with the correct scheme… our pass rush scheme sucks. We have 16 sacks as a team (according to foxsports.com)… take out the Washington game and we have 7 sacks in 10 games, terrible

by jonramz on Dec 1, 2011 8:58 PM EST up reply actions

Ouch

So we can’t evaluate talent even if it hit us in the head, to add to that our DC hasn’t got a clue, yeah we gotta ways to go!

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by buffalobacker on Dec 2, 2011 1:52 AM EST up reply actions

rec’d, love these

by beninbrooklyn on Dec 1, 2011 8:45 PM EST reply actions

Rec’d. Holy heck, that second picture is confounding, befuddling, and scary.

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by thefourwinds on Dec 1, 2011 9:08 PM EST reply actions

look at pic 1....

there are about a hundred problems with it… first and foremost, all except Byrd, crash inside, allowing the bottleneck we see in pic 2….

A decent defensive coordinator will fix that next year…

Optimistic??? Of course I am!! I'm a Bills fan, and as of right now, we are undefeated on the regular season!!!
Things are truly looking up!!!

by Cinga on Dec 1, 2011 9:17 PM EST reply actions

No doubt.

Edwards needs to learn how to spread an o-line by bringing outside pressure from both sides so there is gaps in the interior of the o-line to penetrate. If Kelsay went into the backfield, this play could have been a stop.

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by The Buffalo Kid on Dec 2, 2011 5:12 AM EST up reply actions

thats things though

edwards will never learn that. he has had almost 2 full years now to progress the defense and the only improvement is rush defense UP THE MIDDLE…the edge rush defense is the same.

in fact we have to average 2.20 sacks in the remaining games to match last years abysmal sack production level.

by Air Compressor on Dec 2, 2011 12:35 PM EST up reply actions

Yep

Fire coach for FO inability to get him pass rushers. Wait Maybin in NY producing? What about losing KW and the revered Merriman, doesn’t that help his case? Just tell DC to strap on a helmet and do it himself I quess. Talk about fikle and sna, nevermind.

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by buffalobacker on Dec 3, 2011 12:15 AM EST up reply actions