Some Jets Team Statistics

Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Bassett

Here’s a quick look at how the Jets offense and defense is stacking up so far.  Of course, consider the fact that the Jets scorched earth policy when they were up 34-0 against the Cardinals yielded some serious yardage, hopefully that abberration will work itself out.  When you look at Football Outsiders (which discounts garbage yards in their stats) the defense doesn’t look so bad.  

All the same, the Jets secondary needs to pick it up as that’s where teams are getting yards in scads while the Jets running game has been anemic so far this season, ironically running well against a good run defense (Miami) and then not performing as well against worse rush defenses (New England and Arizona, notably as the Jets gave up running against SD)

Offense:
YPG:  307.5 (20th)
YPP: 5.3 (12th)
Passing YPG: 221.0 (10th)
Rushing YPG: 86.5 (26th)
1st Downs Per Game: 17.8 (18th)
3rd Down Conversion: 37% (18th)

Defense:
YPG:  340.5 (20th)
YPP: 5.2 (16th)
Passing YPG: 265.0 (31st)
Rushing YPG: 75.5 (5th)
1st Downs Per Game: 22.2 (30th)
3rd Down Conversion: 45% (27th)

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3 Responses to “Some Jets Team Statistics”

  1. subwayfare, on October 9th, 2008 at 4:57 pm Said:

    What’s most telling is the D rank in in 1st downs (30th) and 3rd down conversions (27th) And looking at the FO data it becomes more clear where those 1st downs are coming from. If I read the chart correctly, the Jets are 4th against # 1 receivers, 12th against # 2 receivers but 31st against other than #1’s or #2’s. Revis and Lowery have covered primary receivers well but slot receivers and RBs are having a field day against whomever is responsible for them on any given play. Whether it’s blitzes that don’t succeed or poor recognition from LB’s, Safeties and Nickel Backs, this must be fixed or it’ll be a long season.

  2. TOON2388, on October 9th, 2008 at 5:59 pm Said:

    We also need to gameplan that teams are going to start throwing a lot more on 1st down to negate Jenkins and the run stuffing D’s effectiveness.

    But we have got to a better job on the short passes to RBs, TEs, WR screens and the YAC.

    Maybe show a lot more 5 man rushes passing downs and back out of it to clog the short passing lanes?

  3. Jeff, on October 9th, 2008 at 11:19 pm Said:

    Yea, we are not defending the short passes very well. i wonder how bad the numbers are skewed becasue of the Arizona game. I mean 475yds passing is bad for 2 games much less one!!!. It seems that we do give up alot of underneath yarda, but if doesnt lead to td’s then ir might not be soo bad. But then again we dont want our D on the field too long

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