New York Jets
The New York Jets started off the season with a perfect 3-0 record and everyone was talking about how the Jets were looking unbeatable. Fast forward a few weeks and the Jets are now sitting with a 4-3 record and are second place in the AFC East behind the New England Patriots. The Jets had such a promising start to the season, but now they are barely in the playoff picture. In order for the Jets to make the playoffs this season they’re going to need to go back to playing simple football.
In the first few weeks of the season the Jets played simple football and it paid off with wins. The Jets outscored their opponents 64-33 in the first three games. A lot of this had to do with the defence playing amazing, but it also had to do with the Jets playing smart on the offence. The past few weeks we have seen the Jets move away from what works and it has cost them some games. Overall this season the defence has played pretty solidly minus one game against Miami, but the offence has been struggling lately.
With Brett Favre gone from the Jets this year they brought in a rookie QB by the name of Mark Sanchez. If you didn’t know who Mark Sanchez was before the season started you definitely know who he is now after the online football betting season now. Sanchez played pretty good football the first few weeks by keeping things simple on the offence. Since then Sanchez has been anything but consistent. He has been turning the ball over a lot more lately and it is costing his team dearly at this point. There has been some speculation about whether or not Sanchez should sit for a bit so the Jets can try and salvage their season. I personally think that Sanchez needs the experience and that the Jets should keep him in for the entire season so that he can be better for next season.
One thing that the Jets were missing most of the early part of this season was a WR. They have since added a number one receiver by the name of Braylon Edwards, but it hasn’t quite worked out yet. Braylon had a huge first game for the Jets on Monday night, but since then he hasn’t done that much really. Thomas Jones and Leon Washington have been making sure the Jets offence keeps the ball as long as possible. Between the two of them they have combined for a total of 931 yards. Jones already has 7 TD’s himself as well, but Washington has yet to get a TD under his belt. The Jets have the #1 rush game in the league thus far and if they want to make a push for the playoffs they will need to continue running the ball down the throat of their opponents.
We already know that the Jets defence has been performing great this year and they shouldn’t really be a question mark heading into the second half of the season. The Jets main concern right now should be whether or not Sanchez is ready for the NFL odds. He has been doing great considering this is his rookie season, but we all know that QB’s in the NFL don’t get that much time to prove themselves.