Well, NONE of us expected the Jets to go 16-0 this season but DAMN! Some expected the Jets to lose 5-6 games, some predicted 8-9 games and we have those in between but I MEAN DAMN, really LIKE DAMN! To lose in your home after two decent wins to a team that had no business beating you is just unacceptable. Few points I noticed as I'm sure everyone else did:
1. The defense got manhandled today, ran all over by the second and third string RBs. We probably would have had a better chance against Murray. Our pass defense was a bit suspect also. Bradford looked rather good this game. Whereas the two teams he played before us who's defense is not suppose to be anywhere as good as us made him look mediocre to garbage pretty much. What happened?
2. Guess we really see how important Decker and Ivory means to this team. Although Marshall is the clear and premiere # 1 WR, Decker takes a lot of pressure off him and provides a HUGE other option for Fitz or any other Jets QB. Ivory is the clear cut
#1 RB and monster carrier for this team. I thought we'd be okay without him this week, BOY WAS I WRONG!!!
3. Although Marshall played a very productive game, he had a horrible game today. Dropped 2-3 passes he should have clearly caught and one of those drops was a TD pass. That lateral fumble was such a dumbass play, it was damn near as idiotic as the BUTT fumble play. He was obviously trying to damn hard in this one, out thought himself and he has to recover from this one.
4. Fitzpatrick, damn Fitzpatrick. He clearly showed his weaknesses some of us have been pointing out since before pre-season started. NO, this game wasn't clearly his lost but he can't carry a team. We all saw that he can't throw the deep ball, for whatever reason. Whether it's because his arm isn't strong enough or he doesn't have that perception of throwing the ball outside shoulder, ahead of the WR for him to run under it or inside of the receiver. Whichever one it is, he clearly under threw Marshall once that I remember and Smith like 3-4 times.
5. Bowles gets an F this game in team preparation. This team should have been ready to beat Phila 30-13 at least but it went so wrong, so fast. They got beat at all phases of the game and only had one sack and one TO. What happened to that vaunted Jets defense? He will get the team right for next week, I have NO DOUBTS ABOUT THAT but he definitely dropped the ball this game.