Is not going to be easy. These guys are bringing it tonight. Darnold is excellent. Their defense is really good. We better play 10x better than we did Sunday or they'll beat us by 3 TDs. Anxious to see what Gase and Burke come up with.
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It's never an easy game against the Jets...I'm really looking forward to it. The good news about our game is that it was so crazy, there's not nearly as much quality film as you'd get from a normal game. I'm sure we have plenty of surprises in store for them.
Remember that the Jets have one less day to prepare as well.Irishman, Surfs Up 99, Redwine4all and 1 other person like this. -
Patricia is in way over his head as a head coach. He'll be running back to Belichik after this season.
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Ansah went out for the Lions, and Darnold has had all day to throw, plus the Jets OL has been good in run blocking. Stafford has had a meltdown game, so this game is a bit of an aberration. Lions certainly look like the fourth team the NFC North, but Miami needs to be ready to play a tough, tough game.
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The Jets game is going to be tough, no doubt. But I almost feel like this stomping they're putting on the Lions may be a blessing in disguise for us. They'll have one less day to prepare for us and just might get overconfident after this game, maybe they'll let their guard down.
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The Lions weaknesses line up against the Jets strengths and vice versa, it's a great matchup for the Jets and it's showing. The Lions are hot garbage, and week 1 always produces some big abberations.
That said, the Jets are going to be dangerous. Their defense is real, and if Darnold isn't making mistakes, they have the potential to put up points. If we don't give up big plays and THill and the OL play sound ball, we should be OK.Irishman likes this. -
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I'm telling you, the blocks they were throwing in that 1st quarter were vicious yesterday...it's the best I've ever seen from the Miami line. Bodies were hitting the floor left and right. And that one block on the Pat's ex-corner? Oh my goodness....it will probably be the best pulling guard block of the season. I don't care how good/bad another team is at run defense....we can run the damn football with authority.Irishman likes this. -
Just posted some summary articles in the AFC East forum.
Darnold looked sharp apparently.
However, the Jets defence have said they knew the Lions' run/pass plays from formation and hand signals. Apparently this was an issue in pre-season too.
The Dolphins should go into this one ready for a battle.adamprez2003 likes this. -
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The Jests domination of the Lions was a bit of a surprise. Definitely gives pause. They've definitely earned respect points as a competitor. It should be an interesting game.
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Tannehill better start throwing the ball past the sticks on 3rd down or it's going to be a long day.
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Well Powell has given us some trouble in the past. I think the Jets have at least great safetys in the backfield. This will be a tough game on the road.
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Biggest difference I want to see from game 1 to game 2? Pass rush. The Lions don't have a great pass rush unit and the Jets supposedly have a weak OL. The Lions couldn't capitalise on it, I think the Dolphins might need to.
The counter to this will be the Jets running the football, so this could prove to be a solid test and/or lesson for Gas and the Dolphins.
Darnold has proven big play ability. If they can't stop the run/get to that young QB then he could end up testing our secondary or we get embarrassed on the ground, or both.
We should have the talent to win this convincingly but these are the games where discipline is tested and essential. Especially if rival tensions run high.Surfs Up 99 likes this. -
Darnold looks like he's going to be a star in this league. Robby Anderson can burn any secondary in the league, and Bilal Powell is a very underrated back at this point, as is Crowell. Defensively, it's never been an issue with that team. Todd Bowles has always had a decent defense wherever he has been. This is by no means going to be an automatic win for us. Dolphins/Jets games are always thought provoking and polarizing one way or the other. The pattern seems to repeat itself every year....One of the games is a total blowout and the other game will be extremely close and competitive. The locations of where these events occur are usually randomized so we never know, but that seems to be how our games go with them. I'm not alone when I say that i'd prefer to just steamroll them into the grass (55-3) both times we play them, but that's not going to happen.
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No current, major Dolphins pieces on SI.com but here's the standard post-game summary:
https://www.si.com/nfl/game/2040827KeyFin likes this. -
Here's some more on the Jets and those signals:
"There may be a reason why the New York Jets intercepted five passes from the Detroit Lions on Monday night.
Some Jets say that Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford tipped them off with hand signals so they knew what play was coming.
"We were calling out their plays as he was getting up to the line," linebacker Darron Lee, who picked off two passes said of Stafford. "We knew his signals."
Stafford was picked off four times in the Jets' 48–17 rout of Detroit. One of those interceptions was by Lee, who took it back 30 yards for a touchdown, the Jets' first defensive score in five seasons.
Morris Claiborne, Jamal Adams and Trumaine Johnson also intercepted passes during the game.
"We knew everything. That's just preparation as a defense. ... It seemed like we were in his head as a defense," Lee said.
Stafford completed 27 of 46 passes for 286 yards, with one touchdown and the Jets cashed in those four Stafford turnovers for 13 points.
"We was able to just take advantage of plays and stuff that we knew that they run a lot of," Claiborne said. "Our film study this week was great. It was probably one of the best I’ve been around as far as preparing for the game.""
https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/09/11/new-york-jets-knew-lions-matthew-stafford-signals
If they really are preparing well, let's hope the bubble screen gets dropped this week... (I can dream, right?)Surfs Up 99 and KeyFin like this. -
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Jets had a great showing last night and even if they were a bunch of puddin pops, history has shown repeatedly that when the Jets and Phins play you throw the records and what you think you know out the window. None of it matters. Continually in this series the "better" team does not always win. There's more to this one than X's and O's. Always has been.
Side note, I'm thrilled for Todd Bowles. Great showing last night. That guy is a class act.danmarino likes this. -
I thought kneeling on the ball 4 times from inside the 10 and handing the ball back to the Lions was a very classy move. BB would have tried to score .danmarino and Tin Indian like this. -
Bah, we'll win. I guarantee it! As someone once said at some time.... :chuckle:
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Meh Jets sucks always have always will. Even if they beat us they still suck!
They also played a Horrible team.. We are not Detroit!!ChrisKo, jdallen1222 and adamprez2003 like this. -
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Local Detroit shows are all talking about how they suspect Patricia lost the team already, back in preseason, and they are mailing it in. Apparently he came in with the tough guy, hard nosed, run em till they drop and hit em hard as often as possible approach and the players pretty much aren't having it. Combined with a big defensive switch to a scheme they don't have players for, a bad offseason personnel wise, and a superbly predicatable retained OC and it was a disaster.
All that to say, the Jets probably got away with playing a low talent team with even less motivation and desire, with their (Jet's) strengths (running game, defensive line) matching up well against weak Lion units. A unicorn game. It's a game that, frankly, Miami should win if we play our game and limit mistakes and big plays, but if we pretend it's the bottom of the barrel Jets rolling up, we can get spanked just as easily. -
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