From the beginning of coaching camp, the Jets have emphasised the necessity to cease the run.
Returning gamers talked about having to enhance within the space, after taking a step again final season.
Regardless of permitting a ton of factors in a Week 1 loss to the Steelers, the Jets had been robust towards the run.
Sunday afternoon was very completely different.
The Jets had been hammered on the bottom by the Payments in a 30-10 beatdown at MetLife Stadium, permitting 224 speeding yards and 5.2 yards per carry.
They couldn’t decelerate Josh Allen or James Prepare dinner.
So even on a day when Allen didn’t do a lot via the air, finishing 14-of-25 passes for 148 yards, it didn’t matter.
The Payments’ 224 speeding yards had been essentially the most allowed by the Jets since they gave up 260 yards on the bottom to the Colts on Nov. 5, 2021.
“I’d say there wasn’t a problem. There was a battle,” linebacker Jamien Sherwood mentioned. “Once more, self-inflicted wounds. We’ve to remain in our gaps. We have to get downhill quicker. We have to use our hand strategies. We’ve to depend on all of our preparation. We’ve to see formations. We’ve to regulate on the sidelines.”
The low level of the day for the protection got here within the second quarter, when Prepare dinner went 44 yards for a rating, breaking a number of tackles alongside the way in which.
He made Quincy Williams miss on the level of assault, after which was off to the races.
It made it 20-3 in favor of the Payments, and the Jets didn’t threaten them once more.
“I feel it was extra over-pursuit,” coach Aaron Glenn mentioned. “However once more, I don’t wish to actually stamp that till I prepare to look at it. However, missed tackles did occur on that play.”
General, it has been a poor begin for the protection.
The Jets have allowed 64 factors via two weeks, and really bought worse from the primary to second recreation.
“It’s not OK,” security Andre Cisco mentioned. “[A] arduous look within the mirror, I feel, is one of the best ways to go about it.”
