JAGUARS 31 - JETS 12
The Jets looked every bit the part of a
rebuilding, undisciplined football team against a Super Bowl contender in the
Jacksonville Jaguars, Sunday as the Jags pounded the Jets 31-12 to send Gang
Green to 1-3.
The game was a complete miss-match as the Jaguars toyed with the
Jets from pillar to post. In fact, the
game felt over as soon as Jacksonville opened the scoring with a Josh Lambo
field goal that completed a long opening drive that ate up eight and a half
minutes.
There were no adjustments by the Jets coaching staff, no fight by
the players, and no chance. After a week where Todd Bowles got racked over the
coals by fans for not preparing his football team for the Baker Mayfield factor
last week in Cleveland, his defense couldn’t slow down Blake Bortles on Sunday.
Bortles had one of the best games of his career, completing 29-of-38
for a career high 388 yards passing and two touchdowns. At one point Bortles
was 16-of-17 going into halftime, with his only incompletion coming on a throw
away.
Overall, Jacksonville rolled up 503 yards on the Jets, and held the
football for nearly 40 minutes. To add insult to injury, Jaguars head coach
Doug Marrone decided to stick it to the Jets when he scored a last second
touchdown with the game well in hand.
As Leonard Williams said during his post game comments, “If teams
are disrespecting us, it must say something about us.”
It certainly did on Sunday.
Anyone hoping for Jets offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates to be more
creative against the Jaguars, could forget as soon as the Jets first possession
of the game.
Offensively, the Jets never got anything going.
Of their first seven possessions the Jets gave up a safety, punted
four times and were turned over on downs twice. By the time New York finally
scored, the game was pretty much well in hand at 18-3 with less than five
minutes to go in the third quarter.
Sam Darnold struggled, but a lot of that had to do with the poor
execution of the offense as a whole.
Darnold spent more time running away from Calais Campbell and Malik
Jackson, as the Jaguars dominated the Jets offensive line. New York couldn’t
establish a running game, and Darnold’s wide receivers again failed him with
key drops in big moments.
Overall, Darnold was 17-of-34 for 167 yards and a touchdown. The
only positive was that he didn’t throw a pick, but there were two instances
where Jalen Ramsey nearly had a couple of picks.
With each three-and-out, and each incompletion, one could see the
growing concern and confusion growing on Darnold’s face. It’s up to the Jets
coaching staff to help slow things down for him. Since the opener in Detroit,
Darnold has completed only 53 percent of his passes, thrown two touchdowns and
four interceptions. He needs help, but it just isn’t there right now.
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