And btw, this may be a turnaround game, but it sure didn't look like it on offense. The offense has yet to show up this season.
"nerdmann" wrote:
Being frank, this is a valid point. Although, I think it's more appropriate to say the offense has been struggling the past few weeks (showed up against Buffalo, Chicago, and Minny despite not producing as many points as it could have).
Getting over the high of the win yesterday, it's plainly obvious that when our offense struggles, it struggles very badly. It's not so much our inconsistency like it was last year, it's a total inability to get anything going.
It looks like the Jets D played the pass first, basically dropping 7-8 players in coverage most times and playing Cover 1 underneath with 2 deep safties. It's tough to consistently make completions against a team as talented as the Jets when they are covering people like that.
But here is the thing, McCarthy could have had some success running the ball. Yes, B-Jack was really poor if you take away his longest run at the end of the first half. But notice where B-Jack had success with that run: he got to the outside and had a nice run along the sideline.
I guess I'm beginning to think that if we had any decent speed at RB, we've got the ability to extend runs to the outside. You've got corners playing man with their backs to the LOS, and that should give you some good space to get positive yards if your RBs could beat LBs to the outside. Ours can't.
I'm also beginning to think Ted has let McCarthy down by giving him no RB with respectable speed after Grant. Jackson or Kuhn cannot consistently get outside of the pocket.
Yes our offense is struggling, but I don't think you can blame it all on McCarthy. It's be easier to make defenses more honest if they had to worry about giving up explosive runs. They don't. I'm leaning towards blaming Ted for our shortcomings more than McCarthy (who is not completely blame free in this either).
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