Jets report card: Another letdown for the defense
NY Post
Grading the Jets’ 24-17 win over the Titans on Sunday:
The Jets did not move the ball for long stretches of the game and looked really shaky early, but they did score three touchdowns and put together a game-winning drive in the fourth quarter. They get credit for that. QB Aaron Rodgers (18-of-30, 176 yards, 2 TDs, 98.7 rating) was not spectacular, but he went 5-for-5 on the game-winning drive and moved the Jets down the field. RB Breece Hall (14 rushes, 62 yards, 7 rec., 52 yards, 1 TD) was a steady presence throughout the game. The offensive line played better than last week, but it still feels like the offense is a tick off.
GRADE: B-
It was another substandard effort for a defense that prides itself in being one of the best in the league. The Titans gained 300 yards, 130 on the ground. QB Will Levis (19-of-28, 192 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT, 84.2 rating, 1 fumble) had moments where he made the Jets defense look bad, but his fumble in the red zone really kept the Jets in the game. DE Will McDonald sacked Levis three times and was credited for the forced fumble when Levis threw the ball away. CB Sauce Gardner did not have a good game, allowing a touchdown to Calvin Ridley and getting beaten on several other throws.
GRADE: C
Irv Charles might have had the best game of anyone on the Jets. Charles blocked a punt and made two open-field tackles on punt returns. Thomas Morstead was his usual steady self with two punts inside the 20 and Greg Zuerlein made his only field-goal attempt.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.