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The Jets had issues on offense with managing the play clock and breaking the huddle from the start and it continued through the end of Sunday’s 25-22 loss to the New England Patriots.
“We’ve got to be better from an operations standpoint, just overall, and that’s every single player, every single coach,” interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich said after the game. “That’s [Aaron Rodgers]. That’s all of us.”
New York’s offense used all three of their first-half timeouts in the first nine offensive plays of the game – a stretch of play that also included a delay of game. When asked about the issues that led to burning all the timeouts, the 40-year-old quarterback playing in his 20th NFL season said he wasn’t “exactly sure.”
“On one of them, we were lagging out of the huddle, one I was trying to get the protection right. One I felt like we could have gotten off, but it was fine to take it there,” Rodgers said. “Yeah, our operation was a little slow at times.”
The troubles propped up again in the fourth quarter after Braelon Allen plunged into the end zone to put the Jets up 22-17. Looking for a two-point conversion and a touchdown advantage, the play clocked ran out before Rodgers got the snap.
“Well, they start the clock at 20, and we had a shift and a motion, and by the time it came down to it, the defense they were playing wasn’t good for the play that was called,” Rodgers said of the delay. “I figured let’s just move it back to the seven, not that much of a difference, I liked the play that we called. But they brought zero pressure, and I guessed wrong, they guessed right.”
And after the delay, the two-point try failed when Rodgers completed a pass to Mike Williams but he was tackled well short of the end zone. It proved costly as the Patriots’ ensuing touchdown put them ahead without attempting a try.
Does the head coach see it as a problem of the players not knowing where to line up?
“We’ve just got to be better collectively,”…
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Publish date : 2024-10-28 02:45:00
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