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Wow. Teams are going to study what Denver is doing on defense, because it is giving the Chiefs offense fits.

Yeah i’m very confused why that wasn’t a TD.

Mahomes with his 2nd turnover in the first half.

Is it aging poorly? Part of the reason we are currently in a playoff spot is because NYJ had their bye week already (we are 1/2 game up). We also have the worst division record and worst conference record of any team currently slotted in a playoff spot. We are 1 loss away from potentially dropping to 10th in the conference, with a gauntlet of games coming up. Im sweating. .

Yeah, today was rough. First time this season.

And that right there is why you ALWAYS kick-off in OT when you’re facing a bad offense. If you receive, and then you have to punt, all it takes is 1 penalty for the opponents bad offense to be in field goal range. Whereas if you kick-off, you make the bad offense drive 75 yards to win. More likely than not, the bad offense will make a mistake at least once in that drive and you get the ball punted to you, only needing a FG to win. McDermott and Daboll make the same mistake.

It’s not sudden death unless the first team scores a TD. When you’re facing a bad offense, ALWAYS kick off in OT. Always, always, always. If you’re facing a great offense, then you receive.

And that right there is why kick-off in OT. McDermott hasn’t learned that lesson either. Jefs are going to win this game.

Hate Dabolls decision to receive the ball. Kickoff, stop the Jets offense, then get the punt and kick a game winning field goal.

Punting was an option too.

It must be so weird for the Jets to play an away game at home. Imagine walking into your house and the walls, rooms, furniture etc are all the same, except someone painted your walls.

We are the only team to give up more than 20 points to the Patriots all season.

If Josh Allen had the wide open WR’s that Tua had, he would have 70 TD’s per season. Its nuts how open Miami receivers get.

That should be game in NE.

Im surprised Belichick didn’t make a bigger stink about that.

They’re already playing Cover 3 when rip/liz is called. It’s a call for pattern match. Pattern match often has the deep third boundary player coming down to cover an area for the sole reason that the pattern matched sky safety will take the man coverage into the now deserted area. If the pattern match safety takes the man crosser, and no one comes down, that entire area of the field is left open. They essentially switch. It’s nothing unique - it happens all the time. But I don’t want to continue arguing, since I doubt it’s interesting to anyone except the two of us and I think we would just go in circles. All I will say is that I agree to disagree with your interpretation. .

Every one who has faced the Patriots offense has stymied them. Except us.

Well that’s definitely not true. It’s how pattern matching with Cover 3 works. It wouldn’t be possible if the boundary didn’t move to cover the flat, since the SS is moving to cover the boundaries original deep 3rd he abandoned on the man route. It becomes Mable with the SS. Saban defenses do this all the time. Agree to disagree I guess. I don’t see any banjo here at all.

You’re right, but here is my hypothesis on why that is happening. When the play first develops. He IS watching Cook and maintaining responsibility for the flat. If Allen throws it right now (pic below) to Cook, it’s the SS who is taking the flat tackle. But as the play developers and Diggs crosses the field, the SS pattern matches and takes Diggs, while the weak side third comes down to cover the flat. Which would basically be a Cover 3 Sky/Buzz with a pattern match, right?

Correct. The strong safety comes down to cover the flat. Which is exactly what we are seeing in the Tampa scheme. Except the strong side is flipped. To be honest it’s not even a question in my mind that this is some version of Cover 3 Sky. Not sue what you mean by they would all be wrong. They’re all where they mostly should be if they’re running Cover 3. .

I agree, this is not a banjo call. Im sticking with my original assessment that this is some subtype of Cover 3, with my best guess being Sky (just look at the down safety).

I disagree. This is what Allen is seeing (photo below). An open Kincaid with a large enough space between Allen and the free rusher to rifle a patented Josh Allen tomahawk missile, despite the tight alley. I truly believe if this same scenario was attempted 10 times in a row, Allen completes at least 8 of them. Winfield jumps in the air and barely gets one hand (maybe even half a hand) on the ball. It was a good play by Winfield, and Allen probably should have just ate the sack, but as mentioned before, he knows he can make it work more times than not.

Im pretty sure it was an attempt at Cover 3 Sky.

Wasn’t clearly downfield!? He was half way to Bahstan!

Not sure I agree here. Allen was plenty vertical enough to turf it or eat it. He chose to make the throw and it was tipped. Being a yard or two more vertical would not have changed his options. Agreed. Allen gets that throw off 9 out of 10 times.