We’re back for the final Jets coverage report of the 2018 season!

I missed last week’s report for the Packers game White James Carpenter Jerseys , so in this post I’ll include numbers from both the Jets’ Week 16 loss to Aaron Rodgers’ Green Bay team and their Week 17 loss to Tom Brady’s Patriots.Previous editions: Pre 1, Pre 2, Pre 3, Pre 4, W1-DET, W2-MIA, W3-CLE, W4-JAX, W5-DEN, W6-IND, W7-MIN, W8-CHI, W9-MIA, W10-BUF, W12-NE, W13-TEN, W14-BUF, W15-HOURULESThe coverage numbers include only legitimate targets into the general area of a receiver/defender; throws in which a defender in coverage was directly involved the outcome. Throwaways, deflections at the line James Carpenter Jerseys 2019 , and other plays of that variety are excluded.The stats for each individual are that of the quarterback’s passing numbers when targeting the individual’s matchup. A player could receive coverage credit even if a teammate finished the play. For example, against Denver this season, Morris Claiborne tipped a pass in his direction that ended up being intercepted by Marcus Maye. I credited Claiborne with that interception.Penalties and pass breakups counted are only those accumulated in coverage. Penalties/PBUs picked up on blitzes, or penalties tackling another player’s responsibility, are not included. Also, PBUs and INTs in the box score are not exclusive to one another.“Burns mitigated by opponent miscue,” or “miscues” (M) are included in charting to attempt to knock defenders who benefited from an egregious error by the offense (drop, horrible throw) and give perspective to the validity of their raw stats. A defender can still register an interception or incompletion to his credit on a miscued play.We’ll go in reverse order, starting with the game most fresh in your mind. Here are the individual numbers for the Jets against New England.Next, let’s take a look at the coverage numbers broken down by individual player-vs.-player matchups and man coverage vs. zone coverage.Quick takeaways from New England:Nice game for Derrick Jones. Not perfect, as his technique seemed shaky at times and there was one dive tackle he made where he just barely got enough of the receiver to turn a potential 15+ yard gain into a 4-yard one. Regardless, he finished the game allowing only 18 yards on four targets while not allowing a first down. Tom Brady had much more success attacking the rest of the Jets defense.Another rough game in coverage for Neville Hewitt, who allowed two touchdowns and a total of 51 yards. He was schooled by James White on a Texas route for an early score and later made a blatant error as he completely missed his zone assignment as Julian Edelman picked up the most wide open score he’ll ever get.I tagged Hewitt for 50+ yards allowed in each of his final two games; I had Darron Lee for 55 yards allowed in total over his final four games. I also hit Lee for only one touchdown over his twelve games. Altogether, Hewitt finishes the year with his success rate a whopping 25.2 percentage points lower than Lee’s (67.3 versus 42.1).Let’s turn the clocks back a week and look at what happened against the Packers, as Aaron Rodgers tossed for 442 yards. Here are the individual numbers for the Jets against Green Bay.Next, let’s take a look at the coverage numbers broken down by individual player-vs.-player matchups and man coverage vs. zone coverage.Quick takeaways from Green Bay:This was a tough game to judge. Miscommunications were aplenty, and they often occurred on big plays. I had to make some tough calls on who to assign big time plays to. For example, there was a Jake Kumerow 49-yard touchdown in which it was a tossup between Trumaine Johnson and Jamal Adams as to who was responsible. Both guys played the underneath route while Kumerow ran over the top uncovered. I ultimately went with Johnson, as Adams seemed to be trying to redirect him to play the second man out White Buster Skrine Jerseys , and usually that is supposed to be the outside corner’s responsibility anyway. A lot of plays like that in this one.Johnson racked up short completions throughout the first three quarters of the game, but collapsed late with a myriad of chunk gains. In addition to the Kumerow touchdown, he was beat by Kumerow inside for a 13-yard gain. He allowed a 24-yard completion over the top along the sideline to Equanimeous St. Brown in zone coverage, as he got greedy locking on to Rodgers and tried to undercut the ball. He added an absolutely terrible 33-yard pass interference on Marquez Valdes-Scantling. The contact was completely unnecessary as an errant Rodgers throw would’ve brought up 4th & 10 on the Green Bay side of the field, giving Sam Darnold the ball back with a chance to win. Instead, the Jets’ highest paid player blew the game.Here is my final tally of Jets coverage numbers for the 2018 season! NEW YORK (AP) — So, who are these guys?Are the New York Jets the team that looked dominant in victories over Denver and Detroit? Or, the sluggish squad that struggled through three straight losses in between?Well, probably a mix of both. But their next game against the skidding Indianapolis Colts could help provide some clarity. Or, at the very least, some consistency.“We’re trying to find that week after week,” coach Todd Bowles said Monday. “That’s the biggest thing after a game. We’ve got to make sure we carry it over to the next game, and make sure we continue to do things to get better. We’ve just got to keep our heads down and keep grinding at it.”Sounds simple enough, but it has been a challenge so far for the Jets (2-3).“We’ve got to grow up,” left tackle Kelvin Beachum said. “It’s a maturity game for us. It’s great to get a win, but at the same time, we’ve got to keep things in perspective.”They opened the season with an impressive 48-17 win at Detroit in front of a prime-time audience on “Monday Night Football,” a rousing debut by rookie quarterback Sam Darnold.That all quickly faded with three consecutive losses — 20-12 vs. Miami, 21-17 at Cleveland and 31-12 at Jacksonville — that had the season teetering on the brink of spiraling. The hot seat under Bowles suddenly got a lot warmer and some fans and media wondered when the next win might come.Out of nowhere came a 34-16 victory over the Broncos on Sunday Buster Skrine Jerseys 2019 , highlighted by Isaiah Crowell running for a franchise-record 219 yards, New York putting up 512 total yards — the most in Bowles’ four seasons — and the defense making things miserable all day for Case Keenum and Denver’s offense.So, what gives with the Jet-kyll and Hyde act?“It just starts in practice, man, just communicating and playing fast and just making plays in practice,” safety Jamal Adams said. “I strongly believe in practicing how you play. We had a great practice week and it showed (Sunday).”Andrew Luck and the Colts (1-4) are right where the Jets were coming into last week, having lost three in a row and in danger of already having their thoughts turn to next season. If New York can capitalize on the struggles of Indianapolis and build off its impressive victory and start a modest winning streak, the Jets’ season could look a lot better in a hurry.Of course, the outside panic could all start up again if the Jets have another dud of a performance after such an uplifting win.“It’s about just staying level-headed as a team,” Adams said.The players can all look to Darnold, who has somehow been the picture of cool and calm to start his NFL career.“He’s honestly like a five-year vet,” Adams said. “He stays grounded. He stays hungry.”Even as he struggled during the losing streak, Darnold found some positives and assured his coaches and teammates that his mistakes wouldn’t be repeated. And, most importantly, he’d learn from them.Perhaps even most telling is how Darnold reacted after helping lead the Jets back into the win column Sunday.“I think his demeanor stays the same, even with the lows that we had a couple weeks ago,” Beachum said. “Even with the win yesterday, he stayed the same. As a leader, as a quarterback — the starting quarterback on this team — to have that type of demeanor White Brian Winters Jerseys , especially in a market like this, is really impressive for his age.”The 21-year-old Darnold had mostly pedestrian numbers against the Broncos, going 10 of 22 for 198 yards and an interception — but with three touchdowns.He placed a perfect ball into the hands of a wide-open Robby Anderson who outraced the coverage for a 76-yard TD. Darnold later threw a ball to where only Terrelle Pryor could reach, and the Jets receiver corralled it with one hand for a 20-yard touchdown. There was also the third-and-12 throw to Jermaine Kearse for 14 yards when he zipped the pass over the defender.“I thought my feet were a lot more quiet,” Darnold said, “which means I felt like I did a better job of staying under control and taking what the defense gives me, but also taking my shot when they’re there.”Showing patience to go along with his poise can only rub off on his Jets teammates, especially as they search for consistency as a whole moving forward.“It’s really cool to be able to just kind of be me, but also when I do talk, when I do say something in the huddle, guys can kind of look at me and just believe, ‘OK, here we go,'” Darnold said. “I mean business, but at the same time, I’m just a normal dude who wants to get a win just like everyone else.”NOTES: Bowles had no immediate update on the status of defensive coordinator Kacy Rodgers , who is sidelined with what the coach has called a “serious” illness. … Bowles on S Marcus Maye’s 104-yard interception return in which he was tackled at the 1-yard line: “It looked like it was in slow motion.”