The running game is so crucial to the Jets’ offense unfortunately, without Hall, this is one grade that will be tough to top.īlame Wilson, blame Offensive Coordinator Mike LaFleur, blame the ghost of Don Maynard-this position group should be better. The same goes for newly-acquired James Robinson, for whom an exceptional gain is 8-10 yards. Michael Carter is just not in that class-his special skill is getting extra yards when you think he’s been corralled. The season-ending injury to rookie Breece Hall was such a shame as he was just starting to fulfill his destiny as a game-changing back who can take any touch to the house. It’s what should be expected out of a No. At some point, the Jets are going to need Wilson to find the next level. Wilson still stinks under pressure (11-for-52, the lowest completion percentage of any QB with at least 100 dropbacks, per ) and he’s been the rare quarterback who gets significantly worse the longer he holds the ball. When they didn’t against New England in Week 8, it got ugly. It has worked incredibly well when the Jets have run the ball successfully. This grade, though, is mostly about Wilson, who is 5-1 as a starter acting more like a game manager, throwing for over the low bar of 200 yards during just three of those outings. Flacco also struggled in two noncompetitive losses and is now QB3 behind Mike White.
Even the sole home game in that stretch versus Chicago probably won’t be a cakewalk given what quarterback Justin Fields has been doing lately.Īs such, the Jets are going to need each position group to improve upon their first-half grades:īackup Joe Flacco won a game for the ages in engineering a miracle comeback victory from two touchdowns down in the last two minutes in Week 2 at Cleveland while starter Zach Wilson was on the mend from a knee injury. Road games at Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Denver and Green Bay weren’t so frightful, but that Week 17 trip to Seattle? Despite quarterback Russell Wilson’s departure, that’s not going to be as winnable a game as we all thought when it was scheduled.Īnd that’s after the Jets open the second half with three difficult road games in the four weeks after the bye-at New England, Minnesota, and Buffalo. Even more ironic is that the season’s first half was thought to be most brutal while the conventional wisdom considered the Jets’ opponents after the bye to be less challenging.Īs is often the case, everyone (including me) was wrong. Certainly not Las Vegas, which placed the Jets’ over/under win total line at 5.5 wins and then made New York underdogs in all nine contests. 5 seed, which, if the season ended today, would put them in the playoffs for the first time in 12 years. At 6-3, Gang Green is sitting in the conference’s No. The Jets are flying high into their bye week following Sunday’s 20-17 upset of AFC East leading Buffalo.
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