Jets Poor Defense helps Jaguars Demolish them

The worst game the defense has played

Jacksonville, FL- The New York Jets headed to Northeastern Florida to face the red-hot Jacksonville Jaguars, as they are in first place in the AFC South. From the start of the game, the Jaguars took advantage of a poor defense that was a turnstile each time they tried to defend the ball. While there were a few moments when the Jets tried to make it a game, they couldn’t find the answers, suffering their 11th loss of the season by a final score of 48-20.

Three consecutive possessions, Jacksonville Scores

The Jaguars won the toss and elected to take the ball to start the game. From that point on, they just rolled on through and tore the Jets apart. They took advantage of every pass that put them into positive yardage. A Brian Thomas Jr. four-yard pass after going nine plays for 72 yards. Then Trevor Lawrence took one himself for a 15 yard rushing touchdown after stopping the Jets on a fourth-and-three situation.

Then, a Bhayshul Tuten 16 yard pass into the endzone for three consecutive touchdowns in the game. Defensive Coordinator Steve Wilkes has done a poor job preparing his players for teams that are in a playoff position or are among the better teams in the NFL. After getting blown apart by the Miami Dolphins at home in Week 14, it happened again in Jacksonville for Week 15.

Brady Cook’s first NFL Start

While the Jets had problems on the field, there was a bright spot. Brady Cook made his first start as an NFL Quarterback. When he was behind the center, Cook looked solid and made some strong throws. He started in the Jets’ second possession of the first half with a 25 yard pass to Isaiah Williams, then handed Breece Hall 13 yard rush. A couple of dinks and dunks to edge closer to the end zone.

That’s when he lined up Adonai Mitchell for a nine yard touchdown grab inside the end zone for his first passing NFL Touchdown. After Mitchell celebrated the touchdown, he quickly got the ball and ran back to the sidelines to hand it off to Cook for a wonderful gesture to the undrafted rookie from Missouri. Cook made several strong throws, but he did commit three interceptions.

Especially one that showed a Jaguars defender wide open and making an easy catch for a touchback. A Jets player did miss their assignment, but at the same time, Cook should’ve been aware not to throw that ball in that position to give an easy turnover. That was after the Jets’ defense forced a fumble and got their third turnover of the season. Cook completed 22 passes out of 33 attempts for 176 yards and was sacked three times.

Special Teams was thwarted by the Jaguars and the referees

Since his redemption, Isaiah Williams has been lightning in a bottle and creating excitement with punt returns for touchdowns, and kickoff returns that were nearly converted for touchdowns, along with Kene Nwangwu. Every time the Jets received the kickoffs from the Jaguars, they would always be boomed into and past the end zone, preventing them from making something happen.

But the one moment that Isaiah Williams was going to shine, he found a way to get free from a tackle and had his third punt return for a touchdown that could’ve put the Jets behind by one score to make it 21-14, but the flag came out from the referees on the Jets for an illegal block out of bounds. On the replay, the so-called block out of bounds was a phantom penalty that was seen on the replay.

Neither player had both feet inside the giant white out-of-bounds line on the Jets’ sideline. The refs prevented Isaiah Williams from earning his third punt return touchdown, and that was shameful. Williams has had an all-pro season on Special Teams and should make the Pro Bowl this season.

The Jaguars had their way all game

No matter what the Jets tried to do, the Jaguars always found a way to move the ball on offense, while they stopped the Jets on defense. There was no trickery, no adjustments, especially on defense when they couldn’t get a turnover, until it finally happened in the fourth quarter, with a forced fumble. This was a tough one to watch, but the Jets got steamrolled all game long.

“When it comes to this game, very disappointing on a number of different levels. When you give up that many points, that’s tough. It doesn’t allow our quarterback to actually get in the groove. It doesn’t allow our offense to get in the groove, especially getting down 21 early in the game. It doesn’t allow our offense to get in the groove and get going.

And obviously, our offense didn’t play up to par either. So there were issues across the board. I thought a special team showed up. Obviously, we got the one that was called back. And we had a young player who actually was blocking out of bounds. That’s what they were saying, allegedly. We have to look at that and see exactly how that went.

I thought Brady did some good things. But again, he was in a bad situation. We probably had to put the ball up in the air more than we wanted to. And I would say some of those throws, he would say that’s on him. And then also, man, we have to make sure we protect him. And I’m not just talking about protection as far as dropping back, but protection.

As far as making sure we do the things that we have to do to make sure that he can operate the offense in a timely manner. But again, very disappointing, very disappointing. Again, I’m always looking at myself first. But this was tough. This was tough,” said Head Coach Aaron Glenn

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