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2/8/19Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY SportsGood morning, Gang Green Gang! I hope
everyone’s having a fantastic start to their morning. Outside of a horrible mock
draft from Todd McShay there really isn’t much news in Jet-land. So instead of
spieling about some rhetoric, here’s a monologue from a satirical film that I
believe holds merit today.“There was a time in America when contests of athletic
prowess were a metaphor for the nobility of man. Historic moments forged by the
love of the game celebrated the human potential to achieve excellence. But as
time passed, and the country neared the millennium, something went awry. The
ideal of sportsmanship began to take a back seat to excessive celebration. The
athletes caring less about executing the play than planning the vulgar
grandstanding that inevitably followed even the most pedestrian of
accomplishments. The games themselves became subordinate to the quest for money.
Stadiums and arenas became nothing more than giant billboards to promote
commercial products. Players sold their services to the highest bidder, much
like the hired guns of the Old West. Soon it was commonplace for entire teams to
change cities in search of greater profits. The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los
Angeles, where there are no lakes. The Oilers moved to Tennessee, where there is
no oil. The Jazz moved to Salt Lake City, where they don’t allow music. The
Oakland Raiders moved to L.A. and then back to Oakland. No one in Los Angeles
seemed to notice. The search for greener pastures went on unabated. Continued
expansion diluted the talent pool, forcing owners to recruit heavily from
prisons, mental institutions, and Texas. Fist-fighting and brawling permeated
every sport, overshadowing any evidence of competition. As the problems mounted,
the fans became less and less interested. To reverse the trend, major sports
started interleague play. When that novelty wore off, they tried intersports
play.But no matter how far the major sports went, it wasn’t enough to bring the
fans back. The spirit of athletic competition, indeed, was not dead. Its seed
merely lay dormant in the dreams of the young.” - David ZuckerAnd with
that
Youth Joe Klecko Jerseys , here’s your links for the Jets to start you off this Friday.Matt Stypulkoski - NFL free agents 2019: What is Jets' salary cap
situation after cutting Spencer Long, keeping Leonard Williams? Who else can
they release to create more space?Randy Lange - Jets Sign Free Agent Guard
Jordan MorganTyler Greenawalt - Jets Free Agent Profile: What to do with return
man Andre Roberts?Tyler Calvaruso - Jets Free Agent Profile: What to do with CB
Morris Claiborne?Matt Stypulkoski - NFL mock draft 2019: ESPN’s Todd McShay has
Jets taking this surprise interior defensive lineman in latest projectionSNY -
Todd McShay's mock draft 2.0 has Jets improving defensive lineRalph Vacchiano -
Giants, Jets should put egos aside and trade draft picks with each otherMike
Kaye - NFL Combine 2019: Who's invited to the annual scouting event?Darryl
Slater - NFL Combine 2019: Top wide receivers for Jets to scout entering NFL
DraftJustin Fried - New York Jets: Grading the 2018 rookie class after one
seasonJacob Feldman - Sam Darnold: NY Jets QB on Adam Gase, podcast, social
mediaSNY - Jets safety Jamal Adams appears on Pro Football Focus' Top 101
listRandy Lange - Leon Washington Likes Jets' Direction on the Road AheadSpencer
Aber - Ex-Jets guard Matt Slauson retires months after scary spine injuryJim
Gehman - Where Are They Now: Jeff LagemanMark W. Sanchez - Christian Hackenberg
hypes his return: I’m brand-newHere are your missed connections from
yesterday.Here’s the thread about nothing, let the force awaken.I hope everyone
has a safe and wonderful rest of their day! Most people would agree that the
Jets’ pass rush was not very good last year. Personnel-wise, while a few people
had better than expected production, expectations were never high for this group
and head coach Todd Bowles had to rely on blitzing a lot to generate
pressure.Nevertheless, the Jets managed to rack up 39 sacks on the season, so we
rewatched all of them to see if there were any interesting patterns.What are the
39 sacks?39 sacks actually puts the Jets pretty much in the middle of the pack
compared with the rest of the NFL. However, as noted, they blitzed more than
most teams, which was perhaps a major factor in that. With a few weeks left to
go in the season, numbers from ESPN indicated they had the seventh-highest blitz
rate in the league, sending five or more on 30 percent of passing downs.There
were also a lot of teams closely bunched together too. Only seven teams had
fewer than 37 sacks, so just a few less would have had the Jets down near the
bottom of the league. Notably, the only one of those seven teams with a winning
record was New England.On the other hand, the Jets had six sacks negated by
defensive penalties. Had all six counted, that would have given them 45 sacks on
the year and elevated them into eighth place in the NFL.While 39 is a decent
total
Joe Klecko Jerseys Stitched , it’s actually three times as many as the Raiders managed. Incredibly, they ended the year with just 13 sacks, while every other
NFL team had at least 30. 11 individual players matched or beat that total,
although a certain Khalil Mack fell just short with 12.5.”Decent total” or not,
we can learn from the make-up of these sacks. Maybe a high percentage of these
were coverage sacks rather than being down to good pass rushing abilities being
displayed by the defensive front. Let’s investigate further...In search of a
two-second sackAttempting to time how long it takes to record a sack is
notoriously difficult. All we can do is clearly set out our methodology and
stick to it to remain consistent.If Tom Brady isn’t pressured until four seconds
after the snap but immediately turtles up and eats the football, that doesn’t
represent a better pass rushing job than Cam Newton being immediately pressured
within two seconds, but then having a five-star wrestling match with the pass
rusher who takes several seconds to bring him down or Russell Wilson being
pressured immediately but eluding a few tackle attempts before finally being
chased down.Ideally, you don’t want to measure how long it takes to complete the
sack, you want to measure how long it takes to generate the pressure that leads
to the sack - even if the player who makes the sack is a different guy.Since
this is such an inexact science, we’re only going to attempt to measure to
within the nearest one second, which leads to the immediate observation that
most sacks take between 2.5 and 3.5 seconds.Anything longer than this, we’ll
call a four-second sack. These will all be coverage sacks, although it’s still
absolutely possible to have a coverage sack that’s closer to three seconds.
Perhaps surprisingly, the Jets only had five four-second sacks, although there
were three others that we’d still classify as a coverage sack.Anything less than
2.5 seconds, we’ll call a two-second sack. Remember, that doesn’t mean the
quarterback was sacked within two seconds (although in some cases he was). It
just means that the pressure got to him after two seconds and ultimately led to
a sack.The Jets had 14 such sacks, which is basically a low enough number that
we can list them out individually:Week 2 (Miami) - Jordan Jenkins is unblocked
off the edge as the quarterback rolls out;Week 3 (Cleveland) - Avery Williamson
is unblocked on a blitz;Week 5 (Denver) - Jenkins and Leonard Williams share a
sack as both get to the quarterback quickly with Jenkins going outside and
Williams up the middle;Week 8 (Chicago) - Brandon Copeland gets the sack
cleaning up after clean pressure around the edge by Tarell Basham;Week 9 (Miami)
- Williamson beats the running back and gets to the quarterback directly on an
A-gap blitz;Week 9 (Miami) - Jenkins beats the back-up right tackle cleanly
around the edge for a sack;Week 9 (Miami) - Jeremiah Attaochu beats the same guy
around the edge for a sack;Week 10 (Buffalo) - Jenkins and Jamal Adams share a
sack as Jenkins stunts and Adams blitzes;Week 13 (Tennessee) - Frankie Luvu
stunts outside and gets to the quarterback unblocked;Week 13 (Tennessee) -
Jenkins beats his man cleanly around the edge;Week 15 (Houston) - Adams comes in
unblocked on a blitz;Week 16 (Green Bay) - Henry Anderson cleanly beats the
guard with an outside move;Week 16 (Green Bay) - Luvu cleans up after a Neville
Hewitt blitz creates immediate pressure; andWeek 16 (Green Bay) - This time
Hewitt’s blitz gets home and he makes the sack himself.Here’s an example (number
3 from the above list).You can see that it’s Williams who easily beats the right
guard at the point of attack and essentially flushes the quarterback into
Jenkins.The pair share the sack:The nature of the sackMany people have
justifiably been down on Jenkins in spite of his career-high seven sacks.He
didn’t create a lot of pressure this year and was inconsistent against the
run.However, moreso than any other player
Youth Curtis Martin Jerseys , Jenkins was able to create sacks with clean pressure off the edge. He recorded a sack or a half-sack on six different plays where he beat
his man around the edge.Here’s an example of him doing exactly that:By contrast,
Anderson - who tied with Jenkins for the team lead with seven sacks of his own -
did most of his damage cleaning up after pressure was created by someone else.
As noted in the list above, he had one sack where he beat his man cleanly.
Otherwise, the rest of his total all came on clean-ups.As for Williams, he ended
the year with five sacks officially, but three of those came from winning his
match-up cleanly - two on the interior and one off the edge. One of the other
sacks came via a stunt.Copeland, who also had five sacks, was the only other
player to record multiple sacks by beating his blocker directly, as he did the
damage on two bull rushes. Copeland also had the most sacks negated by penalties
(two, just ahead of Anderson with 1.5).One other interesting sack-based
statistic: The Jets didn’t register a fourth quarter sack until just before the
two-minute warning in the eighth game of the year. No doubt that factored
heavily into the team’s struggles in terms of finishing games.Racking up the
assistsWith so many (13 altogether) of the sacks coming from cleaning up, it’s
interesting to note which players created the pressure that led to someone else
recording a sack.It turns out that Williams was the leader with three, while
Anderson and Jenkins had two each.ConclusionsAt the moment, while this study has
produced some interesting data, it’s sorely lacking context.While to some degree
it tells us who did what and which players did more of certain things than
others, it doesn’t create a full picture of how the compilation and make-up of
these numbers stacks up against other teams.This article began with a statement
that “most people would agree that the Jets’ pass rush was not very good last
year”. That goes hand-in-hand with the fact that most people would agree that
the Jets’ pass protection wasn’t very good either.Therefore, we need to see how
similar in nature the sacks the Jets’ offense gave up tended to be. If we’re
correct that the pass rush and the offensive line are both bad, then we’d expect
fewer coverage sacks and more sacks where someone was beaten cleanly. This can
be best achieved by reviewing each sack that was surrendered last year.So,
that’s what we’ll be doing next week...
