Nt1310 Unit 5 Paper

1259 Words3 Pages

2010 was the year for Jets fans they made it out of the regular season and into the playoffs, all the way into the Conference Finals. But no surprise, the Jets came up short again, losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers 24-19. After that, it all went down hill. The rankings of the Jets defense and offense decrease and with that so does their record, 8-8, 6-10, 8-8, 4-12, 10-6(glimps of hope), 5-11. With the decrease of wins most people, me included, you lose hope, and wonder when is that next year going to happen. If you want the easy answer as to why there is such a big difference between the years, just look at the Jets overall rating. It is like a roller coaster, from good one year to bad the next. But the real question is why was there this …show more content…

If the defense was better it would make a noticeable difference in improving the Jets team as a whole, but not all the fault should be put on them. Finally, I am going to talk a little bit about the offense specifically the running backs and quarterbacks. The two QBs, who are very important in most parts of the offense, especially offense, were Mark Sanchez (2010) and Ryan Fitzpatrick (2016). To start you can see that Fitzpatrick completed 56% of his passes while Sanchez completed 54%. So at first glance you would think that they are equal in ability to play. They both have the same capability to advance the ball down the field when it comes to throwing. If people just look at things they would ask why was the offense in 2016 worst than in 2010? If you look at touchdowns and interceptions, they are flipped. Sanchez threw as many INT as Fitzpatrick did TDs and Fitzpatrick threw as many TDs and Sanchez did INT. This means that Fitzpatrick gave the ball to the team more than Sanchez did, this is important because the long the Jets offense has the ball the more likely they are to score and less likely to let the other team score. Also this statistic means

Open Document