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After last week's poor perfomance the team needs a win big time. After sitting pretty at 9-2, the team is facing the reality that it may not make the playoffs after losing the last two games. With the Chargers winning on Thursday night, the Jets must go 2-1 over the last three games of the season. If they do not there is a very good chance they will not make the playoffs.
Jets on Offense:
Obviously the offense has been killing the team lately. Dating back to the Bengals game the offense has scored only one TD. There have been four games this year where the offense has failed to score a TD. It has been no coicendence that Mark Sanchez has been horrible during those four games. This team is going to go as far as their QB takes them. He must improve his play. Rex Ryan said his "mechanics" and "footwork" were poor in the Miami game. You can also see he has lost all confidence in himself. So what can the Jets do on offense to give them a chance to win this game? Looking at the Steelers D, shows they are very good at stopping the run. They will also be without their leader, Troy Polamalu. That is a huge blow for the Steelers and a positive for the Jets. The Steelers have been exposed by spread formations. Their CB's(Ike Taylor, Bryan McFadden) are average at best. Schotty should go with 4 or 5 reciever sets and run slants, hitches, and quick outs to move the chains. These routes are all timing routes and are of the shorter variety. If Sanchez can complete passes with these routes then he will get into a rythem and he will build confidence. They should dink and dunk early, roll Sanchez out of the pocket, and do play action to neutralize their blitzing LB's. Doing these short routes early on will set up the deeper routes later in the game. Slant and go's and out and up's will be there later in the game if they can be successful with the dinking and dunking. When the Jets decide to run the ball they should not run up the middle. The Steelers will stuff anything they got up the middle. They should try to run to the outside on this D. Offense's have been successful running to the outside on the Steelers.
Steeler D Rankings: Total - 2nd
vs.Pass - 23rd
vs.Run - 1st
Jets O Rankings: Total - 18th
Pass - 20th
Run - 6th
Jets on Defense: The defense played well last week,even though Chad Henne is horrible. The unit recorded 6 sacks and recovered three fumbles. Pittsburgh's defense has struggled over the last few games. They did not score a TD in the last game. Like always, the Steelers offense revolves around their rushing attack. Rashard Mendenhall is a very good back. He is going to have hard time finding room to run against the Jets. New York is 3rd in the league against the run. Their ILB's are very formidable against the run. Where David Harris and Bart Scott lack, is in the passing game. They will have a problem covering Mewelde Moore and Mendenhall coming out of the backfield. They will also have a hard time if they have to line up against Hines Ward, Heath Miller, or (hopefully not)Mike Wallace. Big Ben is at his best when he is forced out of the pocket. The Jets should time their blitz's wisely. There was a stat that showed how Ben Roethlisberger has not thrown an INT agaisnt a DB blitz all season. This is how the Jets mostly blitz. So they should stay away from that and force Roethlisberger to stay in the pocket. Darrelle Revis was having trouble with his right hamstring all week but he says he is fine and will play. Is this gamemanship? Or is he really injured. Look for the Steelers to test him early.
Jets D Rankings: Total - 6th
vs.Run-3rd
vs.Pass - 9th
Steelers O Rankings: Total - 16th
Run - 10th
Pass - 17th
Prediction: The Jets have been distracted all week and are acting like a desperate team. Brian Schottenheimer has been called out by the fans and his coach and he needs to have a great game. No one respects Mark Sanchez and the Jets offense. The defense is fed up with the offense and their head coach. What does all that lead to? Look for the Jets to NOT respond and get pummeled in Pittsburgh.
New York - 10
Pittsburgh - 27
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