Jets Week 10 Team Grades

Sunday November 11th

Final Score: New York Jets 7 Seattle Seahawks 28

Jets Team Grades

The New York Jets coming of their bye week, and vows that they are still a playoff team saw that dream become a nearly impossible task after another embarrassing loss this time to the Seattle Seahawks

Passing Offense Grade: F

The Jets passing offense once again looked beyond bad, as Mark Sanchez continues to play poorly only going 9 for 22 for a mere 124 yards, and threw an awful redzone interception on a late throw to a previously open Dustin Keller which changed the game for the worst. Tim Tebow did however throw more passes than he had all season up until this point, as Tebow went 3 for 3 on three bubble screens to Jeremy Kerley but only gained eight yards.

Rushing Offense Grade: C-

The Jets rushing offense was ok, but not nearly good enough to make up for the horrendous passing offense, as the Jets rushed for 84 yards on 22 carries for 3.8 yards per carry. Two of the Jets failed runs came on the opening drive in the game where Shonn Greene and Lex Hilliard were both stopped on consecutive attempts on 3rd and 4th and 1 runs despite the Jets being a good team in short yardage efficiency. Shonn Greene was the teams leading rusher with 58 yards on 15 carries, but didn’t have a rush for more than 10 yards.

Passing Defense Grade: D+

The Jets pass defense had a few let downs in pass coverage which lead to some long touchdown passes by Russell Wilson, and a gimmick touchdown pass by Golden Tate. Wilson despite being sacked four times had an impressive game going 12 for 19 with 188 yards, and two touchdowns for a big 131 passer rating. The one positive for the Jets pass defense was the four sacks one of which by Mike Devito led to the fumble which was returned by Wilkerson for the Jets only touchdown.

Rushing Defense Grade: C-

The Jets run defense did a very good job for the first three quarters holding one of the best running backs in the league in Marshawn Lynch to only 64 yards rushing heading into the fourth quarter. In the fourth however was where Lynch did most of his damage weather it is that the Jets got tired or just simply gave up. Lynch was the Seahawks leading rusher, as he ran for 124 yards on 27 carries, and as a team the Seahawks had 174 yards on the ground.

Special Teams Grade: D

For the third straight week the Jets special teams let them down, as this week Jeremy Kerley fumbled a punt return leading to a Seattle touchdown. The Jets just simply can’t afford to make mistakes like this because they don’t have the offense to make up for it. The coverage team did however do well against former Jet Leon Washington keep him from breaking out a big return.

Coaching Grade: F

Another bad loss this one coming off a bye week blame has to go on the coaching staff. The offense has looked horrible making the chatter for Tebow to start over the struggling Sanchez louder and louder, and if Rex Ryan doesn’t do something quick it may cost him his job.