The Jets haven't crushed the Payments because the season finale in 2019. Buffalo has outscored them 117-54 previously 4 video games. The Jets misplaced 45-17 and 27-10 in head-to-head battles final yr.
The hole between the 2 groups by no means felt wider than after that closing sport final season, when the Jets’ season ended and the Payments ready for a playoff run.
Now, they meet once more.
“Most likely probably the most full soccer crew we’ll see all season,” Jets coach Robert Saleh mentioned.
Sure, the 6-1 Payments is likely to be the very best crew in soccer. If they don't seem to be the very best, they're within the high three.
Sunday’s sport is a measuring follow see how a lot the Jets have closed the hole with the present kings of the AFC East. It's a check for the protection specifically. The Jets have made enormous leaps on that aspect of the ball this yr. After rating useless final a season in the past, they enter this one sixth in yards towards, averaging 311.4 yards allowed.
However the Payments’ offense is by far the very best one the Jets have seen this season. Buffalo enters this sport first in complete offense (430.6 yards per sport), first in passing offense (307.7) and second in scoring offense (27.7 factors per sport).
If the Jets’ protection desires to point out it’s for actual, it must decelerate these high-powered Payments.
“They current an enormous problem,” rookie cornerback Sauce Gardner mentioned. “Having plenty of weapons at receiver, having a quarterback that may throw the ball and do it together with his legs, having an important working again — they current an enormous problem. However I really feel like we have now what it takes with the blokes right here.”
It begins with quarterback Josh Allen. He leads the NFL with 21 complete touchdowns and is equally harmful together with his arm and his legs. He has thrown for two,198 yards and 19 touchdowns this season. He has run for 306 yards and two touchdowns. The 2018 first-round decide is an MVP candidate and has answered all the questions surrounding him when he was within the draft.
“He’s like enormous,” Jets defensive sort out Quinnen Williams mentioned. “He’s like 6-[foot]-5 I believe, can stiff-arm, can run the ball, can leap, can hurdle. He’s mainly like a working again who can throw the ball actual good. He’s an elite quarterback. When he has to throw a deep ball, he has an elite arm. He’s a super-powerful quarterback. Going towards him goes to be an enormous problem.”
Allen has a robust supporting solid round him. Stefon Diggs has a franchise-record 55 receptions by means of seven video games. To place that in perspective, it's 21 extra catches than Jets main receiver Garrett Wilson has in a single much less sport.
Gardner mentioned he would “most positively” prefer to comply with Diggs on Sunday, however that isn't one thing Saleh’s protection often does. It will likely be attention-grabbing to see if the Jets really feel like this week ought to be an exception. D.J. Reed has performed effectively reverse Gardner, so the Jets could play sides. The Payments even have a robust No. 2 receiver in Gabe Davis, who has 418 yards receiving.
“The quarterback is a cog to a much bigger machine: The extra you encompass them with nice gamers, the higher he’ll get,” Saleh mentioned. “Stefon is without doubt one of the finest in soccer, wonderful route-runner, violence, performs with depth, performs with swag, so he’s actually good. Gabe is only a large, large physique after which their backs are all actually good, out of the backfield, tight ends actually good, O-line does a pleasant job. So, he’s surrounded by the fitting items, and you are taking a man like Josh who’s already, by himself, unbelievable, it simply makes for a very good offense.”
The Jets’ protection carried the crew throughout its four-game profitable streak and may do it once more by containing Allen and Co.
“We now have to be bodily,” defensive finish John Franklin-Myers mentioned. “We now have to be violent. We now have to show [Allen] right into a working again if that’s what he desires to be.”
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