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Baltimore – Joe Douglas has a lot of work to do . . .
Who was Darnold throwing to at end of the half on the interception by Chuck Clark? Seriously. Who?
In the press box, the PA announcer announced it was intended for Daniel Brown.
But was it? Brown was running a route into the end zone, and this was thrown to the five.
I asked somebody from the Ravens stats crew why they said it was intended for Brown.
“It’s a judgement call,” the person said.
Not sure who it was intended for, but any way you slice it, it was a bad decision and bad throw, and the Jets were in field goal range, and at the very least, left three points on the field.
Gase said after the game that Brown didn’t run the wrong route, so people blaming him for this play, are probably misguided . . .
Another case of the Jets leaving points on the field was in the second quarter, when the Jets went for it on fourth-and-one on the five, and ran a bootleg right and Darnold threw to Robby Anderson who was covered and it was broken up.
This clearly wasn’t a great play call. Why? Because the Jets run bootleg rights all the time. It helps cut down on the reads for a young quarterback. It cuts the field in half for him. The Ravens were all over this tendency and nobody was open . . .
The Jets’ edge rush continues to be almost non-existent. Even with the Ravens starting a backup left tackle with Ronnie Stanley hurt, the Jets got no edge rush, even against backup James Hurst, who dominated Jordan Jenkins.
This is a big problem.
As is the lack of speed, quickness and twitch in the Jets’ front seven which made in near impossible for them to deal with Lamar Jackson tonight.
The Jets’ front seven is pretty darn slow right now.
As I said before, Douglas has a lot of work to do next off-season . . .
Darryl Roberts and Nate Hairston had some kind of mix-up on Hollywood Brown’s TD late third. Both players have tendency to be see-and-go reactors who at times don’t have the most sophisticated eyes in coverage. How can a weapon like Brown go uncovered like that . . .
One of the problems with Sam Darnold, aside from not throwing with enough anticipation which, is so important in the NFL, is he’s wildly inconsistent. You will have a good play, a bad play, a good play, two bad plays and so forth. It’s very hard to sustain long NFL drives this way. That might seem like a pretty obvious point, but it’s something clearly at play right now. It’s hard to sustain drives with so many passes hitting the ground. The elite quarterbacks in the league, Brady (in past years), Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers – these guys are generally around 65 percent on their completion percentage. Darnold’s career completion percentage is around 59 percent, and the last three weeks, his completion percentage has been poor.
So while this might seem like a very simplistic point, I’m going to make it anyway. Darnold has to become a much more consistent player.
So three things the Jets’ promising young signal-caller needs to improve moving forward – throwing with more anticipation, being more consistency and showing an ability to beat good teams, not just average and bad ones.
Has he beaten a truly good team yet in his career? . . .
It looked like Jets assistant Blake Williams suffered a knee injury on that play RG III was tackled on the Jets’ sideline late.
Dr. Ken Montgomery was attending to him on the bench, but then he insisted on going back to the sideline to coach, and he had a significant limp.
The Jets now have injury issues on their coaching staff.
December 12, 2019
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