The Jets were entering the game 3-1 against the Dolphins who were in a "must-win" situation and wearing their UGLY orange shirts. They had a quarterback playing that was even more unexperienced in the NFL than Sanchez. They have a pot head as a running back. We were pissed coming off a loss last week. But, it's Monday Night and as Jets fans know, MNF hasn't always been kind to the Jets less a few specific games.
I'm not sure where to even begin. The offense looked much better as we now have another target in Braylon Edwards to throw too. He looked great hauling in 5 catches with one going for a TD and it looked like he should have had a 2nd for a touchdown as well. Our running game was okay but we just don't get enough yards on 1st down. Sanchez looked much better and more comfortable with his new wide receiver. It was great to see a tall receiver jump up and haul in some catches that would be to high for our other receivers. Sanchez also threw a nice bomb to David Clowney for a huge gain. However, two of the drives were extended that probably shouldn't have been. One was our punter not sure if he should kick it and was able to run for a first down to keep a drive alive instead of punting. Another situation was a direct snap to Brad Smith how somehow was able to change directions and dart forward for a first down to keep another drive alive. If you take away those two strange plays, we'd have less points on the board.
The story of the game was our defense, or lack thereof. How many long drives did the Dolphins have? I think they started the game with a 8 minute drive to go ahead 7 - 0. They had another 8 minute drive later in the game and ended the game with a 5 plus minute drive. We couldn't stop the wildcat. We couldn't stop regular formation. We couldn't get pressure on an unexperienced quarterback. We couldn't stop Ronnie and Ricky (sounds like 2/3rds of Bel Biv Devoe). And, the passing game just ate us apart.
We were coached poorly down the stretch not using any time outs to have time on the clock if Miami scored. The sad part is that we were up and let them drive to score the winning touchdown with 6 seconds left. You gotta call Time Outs and even if they score, you have more than 6 seconds left. What is worse is that they started that last drive on their own 30 yard line and went 70 yards. How can you let that team have a drive like that? Were they not prepared? Hell, we had Calvin Pace back so we should have been even stronger on defense that we were the first four weeks when our defense was unstoppable. We gave up 413 yards and gave up 3rd down conversions 9 of 14 times. That's pathetic.
Not sure what else to say. We got our asses kicked by an inferior team. They better turn it around against the Bills or their 3-0 start would have been erased.
Just disgusting !
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