Jets Snap Losing Streak Against Rams

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Jets vs. Rams Post Game Recap 11/18

The New York Jets were able to bounce back from three straight losses to beat the St Louis Rams on the road, as the Jets looked like a completely different team from last week in the 27-13 win.

Mark Sanchez with his job figured to be in serious jeopardy with his poor play of late and Tim Tebow as his back up was able to come thru with one of his better games of the season to probably hold off the quarterback controversy for a little while at least. Sanchez finished the game against the Rams going 15 for 20 for 178 yards with a touchdown pass, and most importantly no turnovers. Tim Tebow was almost no where to be found in this game only getting a few plays which lead to negative yards, as with the newspaper reports of the team being against Tebow, and a lack of playing time its surely had to be a tough week for Tebow.

If the quarterback controversy is over for now the running back one is heating up between Bilal Powell, and the struggling starter Shonn Greene. Greene didn’t run it that good only getting 64 yards on 18 carries, as Bilal Powell had 42 yards on 11 carries, and scored the first two rushing touchdowns of his career.

The receiving core for the Jets was lead by surprisingly good game from Chaz Schilens. Schilens lead the Jets in catches and yards, as he four catches for 48 yards, and caught his second touchdown pass of the season. For the Jets despite not throwing it that many times nine different receivers had at least one catch.

The Jets defense after a bad first drive played very good against the poor offense of the Rams, and last year’s offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer. The Jets defense was able to force three turnovers, and once again Mo Wilkerson had the biggest play on the defensive side of the ball on a strip sack, as it seems that Wilkerson is coming into his own as a good lineman. The Jets did a good job of stopping the former number one pick Sam Bradford holding him to 170 yards on 23 for 44 passing. They did however struggle against the run, as Steven Jackson 81 yards on 13 carries, and as a team the Rams averaged over five yards per carry.

The special teams for the Jets once again didn’t play good, but at least they didn’t turn it over this week. The bad things on the Jets special teams was a attempted Tebow fake punt which he flipped it to Lex Hilliard for a loss of yards, and a Nick Folk attempted field goal was also blocked. Folk did however hit two 50 plus yard field goals at the end of the first and second quarters.

The Jets won’t have much time to enjoy this win, as they will be playing the Patriots on a short week in the primetime game on Thanksgiving. Some good news for the Jets for the game against the Patriots is that they will be without star tight end Rob Gronkowski who broke his forearm in the Patriots blowout win over the Colts.