Like so many different enhancements early within the Jets season, the explanation why is straightforward.
Getting into Monday, they owned a 56.8 p.c conversion price on third down — the perfect within the NFL.
Final 12 months, the Jets had been useless final at 26.0 p.c.
From worst to finest — what’s the reason?
“Aaron Rodgers,” heart Joe Tippmann mentioned on Monday. “He’s a man that’s on the market speaking, getting us to the precise name, proper play. He’s breaking down the protection earlier than they’re even exhibiting what they’ve. For him to have the ability to do this and get us on the identical web page, after which he simply will get time to work and make one thing occur and that’s what he’s phenomenal at doing. Credit score is to Aaron Rodgers there.”
On third down this season, Rodgers has accomplished 20 of 27 passes (74.1 p.c) for 272 yards and a landing together with a stellar 118.1 passer score.
That completion share, yardage and passer score is his highest for any down.
The Jets have additionally scored six touchdowns on eight journeys to the pink zone, good for a 75 p.c red-zone share — tied for second-best within the league.
They had been useless final at 32.4 p.c final 12 months, scoring simply 12 touchdowns on 37 journeys.
The Jets are signing defensive again Jalen Mills to their apply squad, The Put up confirmed.
An eight-year professional, he performed the previous three seasons with the Patriots, beginning 34 video games — together with eight final 12 months.
He spent his first 5 seasons with the Eagles, who drafted him within the seventh spherical in 2016.
The Jets blitzed Patriots quarterback Jacoby Brissett on 40 p.c of his dropbacks throughout their 24-3 win Thursday evening — the very best price towards any opposing quarterback underneath head coach Robert Saleh’s tenure, in line with the workforce.
The Jets cashed in with three sacks off blitzes, whereas Brissett accomplished simply two passes towards the blitz.
“That feels good,” security Chuck Clark, who had a kind of sacks, mentioned Thursday. “You hear it, and it’s, ‘Let’s get house.’ Hopefully every little thing goes proper up entrance which you could get there, nevertheless it undoubtedly feels good.”
The Jets have hardly ever despatched a lot stress underneath Saleh and defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich.
Final 12 months, they blitzed simply 16.3 p.c of dropbacks, the second-least within the NFL.
By three video games this 12 months, although, the Jets have blitzed a mixed 21.4 p.c of dropbacks — ninth-most within the league.
“We felt if we may generate stress, get [Brissett] shifting off his spot, we may do no matter we needed within the recreation,” linebacker Jamien Sherwood mentioned Monday. “Our line of defense, and everyone else that ended up with a sack, they performed nice. They simply didn’t know the place it was coming from, and that opened lots of doorways for us as a protection.”