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The first place New York Jets
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I also see what you’re doing, not nice
2023 Week 1 NFL Gamethread
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The first place New York Jets
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I also see what you’re doing, not nice
It does. The competition and overall intrigue of the division and conference will suffer, and it sucks to see anyone, but especially the greats, get injured.
You really think they'll bring in a vet off the street?
Teddy's on Detroit.
Wentz, Foles and McCoy are available.
Matt Ryan could be wooed out of the booth, maybe.
Dallas might trade Cooper Rush if you offer a good enough pick.
I think they need to to back up at a minimum. Boyle sucks, he is a knows the offense guy to help install.
And he looked toasted last year. Maybe you can get a guy like Mariota or Minshew in a trade. The pickings are slim.
Well, the Niners thought about bringing in Philip Rivers last year. Maybe he's tired of hanging out with all his kids.
I dunno guys, Allen doesn’t seem to have the ability to conjure up wins when it’s close and late and every play is magnified. I hope I’m wrong.
Yeah, and? This isn’t a night for math. I poke fun at the Jets as much as the next guy but they fucking *** competed *** after AR went down. They played like their hair was on fire. Good on them.
Saleh gets them to play hard, no doubt. But I don't see them getting to (let alone sustaining) a championship level without Rodgers. It will likely look like last year. Some great, some misadventures. And that's assuming Wilson can stay healthy.
I bet Rodgers thought his public statements immunized him from such characterizations.
Seems like Rodger's other own leg / turf catching that leg caused it more than anything?
View: https://twitter.com/ACLrecoveryCLUB/status/1701444670063247586
View: https://twitter.com/ACLrecoveryCLUB/status/1701444670063247586
KC, Bills, Chargers, and Cinncy are 0-1. All were playoff teams last year.
Nobody drew that up, that's for sure.
Nobody drew that up, that's for sure.
I agree and I get that. That’s for this morning, the analysis in the cold hard light of day. I was saying, let them have their celebration last night- they deserved it.
Blaming an athlete's famous new girlfriend for said player's poor recent performance is sadly a sports fandom staple.
Yeah, the “swelling” thing is just an excuse for when you don‘t have an MRI. And for an Achilles, the MRI is really just confirming what they already know - you can almost always make the call based on physical examination alone
Did not know. That's a major weather shock going from SFV to Buffalo (and vise versa)
I didn't see their game this week, but was Russell Wilson good?
27-34 (79.4%), 177 yds, 5.2 y/a, 2 td, 0 int, 108.0 rating
But they only scored 16 points against an iffy Raider defense. They only had 3 second half possessions. In those 3 possessions:
- 12 plays, 28 yards, 5:24, missed FG
- 12 plays, 46 yards (talk about grinding it out), 6:03, FG
- 3 plays, 7 yards, 1:21, punt
So 27 plays, 81 yards, 3.0 yds/play, one FG, one missed FG, one punt.
Hard to believe a guy who completed basically 80% of his passes, with zero turnovers, could lead such an anemic offense.
27-34 (79.4%), 177 yds, 5.2 y/a, 2 td, 0 int, 108.0 rating
But they only scored 16 points against an iffy Raider defense. They only had 3 second half possessions. In those 3 possessions:
- 12 plays, 28 yards, 5:24, missed FG
- 12 plays, 46 yards (talk about grinding it out), 6:03, FG
- 3 plays, 7 yards, 1:21, punt
So 27 plays, 81 yards, 3.0 yds/play, one FG, one missed FG, one punt.
Hard to believe a guy who completed basically 80% of his passes, with zero turnovers, could lead such an anemic offense.
177 yards on 27 completions is astonishingly bad. I find it very easy to believe they didn't move the ball based on that. The worst QB of 2022 in terms of yards/completion was Kyler Murray with 9.1. Wilson had 6.5 that game.
Yeah some people are shitting on Mac's yards per attempt (5.9), which was solidly better than Wilson's (5.2). Still a relatively nice start for Wilson, considering how he played last year.
Right but I didn't see the game and have no idea if he was under heavy pressure, or if the game plan just called for a ton of short passes, or what. Just going by yards per attempt doesn't really tell the whole story. Which is why I'm asking.
I didn't watch the game either, but I don't think it makes a difference if it was by design or precipitated by bad protection, when your completions, not attempts, your completions go for 6.5 yards a pop, that's a sign you're struggling to move the ball.
Also, this is something I've wanted to bring up since the whole Mac YPA discussion yesterday: no offensive system bakes in a low YPA. You may have lower intended air yards per attempt, lower average depth of target, but generally those plays are designed to put people in space and generate YAC, which elevates YPA. Low YPA is never achieved by design, it's a measure of how efficient your passing game is and no one wants low efficiency as a principle.
He didn't play great, he didn't play bad, it just was. The distinction I'd made between his day and Mac's was that Mac was finding guys in open space, so while he wasn't throwing downfield that much, he was giving guys a chance to make a catch and run. Wilson didn't throw it deep and most of the guys he hit were tackled immediately. In addition, Mac was going against one of the best defenses in football, while Wilson was going against the Raiders.
Here's some context:
Mac Jones Iay/Pa (this is the averaged depth of his targets with or without a completion), 7.1
Russell Wilson: 4.0
Mac: completed air yards per completion (the average yards passed the LOS per completion): 3.6
Wilson: 3.7
YAC
Mac: 185 yards (5.3)
Wilson: 78 (2.9)
Clearly they were struggling to move the ball, but that may not have been Wilson's fault. Maybe he was running for his life all game and it's a miracle he was able to complete nearly 80% of his passes, even if they weren't for many yards. Obviously the offense as a whole totally sucked. I'm asking particularly about Wilson's performance.
I mean, you asked how a guy with 80% completions and no picks could lead an anemic offense, so that to me sounded like a reason right off the bat. That's all. EPA/Play and QBR rated his performance highly, PFF had him middle of the pack.