CHFF Pats Pass D - Jets Put Downs Edition

Last week I mentioned the Jets offense was Glass Joe compared to the Soda Popinski Colts.  After that whitewashing on Thanksgiving Day I think we can all agree the Jets are Glass Joe everyday, twice on Sunday, and good for a 49-19 taking candy from a baby and the Gronk brothers beating on Bill Gates type of loss.  So what did we learn?  They improved yet again their Defensive Real Quarterback Rating from Cold Hard Football Facts.  That's good.  Keeping in mind a lower score is better, they went from 81.82 after the Colts to 81.50 after the Jets.  That's not bad, per se, because the Jets are just that bad.  So instead of focusing on how the Patriots improved by a lot less than .01% I'll focus on how incredibly awful the Jets are.  They suck so bad Fireman Ed is hanging up his helmet.  Superfan my ass by the way, a bad string by your team and you're hitting the highway?  Well why don't you cry about it?  Saddlebags.

Subjectively things continue to look better for Belichick's minions.  My questions update:

1. Aqib Talib: They didn't throw his way as he had zero passes defended.  This clearly was more about the slack jawed troglodytes chucking the ball for Rex Ryan than Talib's one on one ability.  However it cannot be denied that there has been improvement since he got here. That earns a soft B.
2. The rookies Jones and Hightower: Hightower continued his recovery from a tight hammy earlier in the season with a sack and 4 tackles (3 solo 1 assisted).  And it's a good thing considering his fellow linebacker Jermaine Cunningham has just been suspended for 4 games for PEDs.  As for Chandler Jones there are still questions about his ankle injury.  The Boston Herald's The Blitz blog had the incredibly well researched and dirt digging insight that he walked without a limp for about 5 seconds.  Of course the Patriots are so tight lipped and childish about releasing information that this tidbit qualifies as an injury update.  What I don't understand is why sports departments at local news organizations don't hire private investigators to at the very least follow injured players around and at best get some real information?  Are the Patriots going to cut the media off?  Oh no, then they won't get to run the fluff and Stalin-esque propaganda pieces that are the height of 'time to change the channel'.  Why hasn't Ron Borges done something like this?
3. Tackling? Forcing a couple of fumbles, no breakaway runs, things are looking better.

Of course this was against the Jets, and with the Dolphins and their 26th ranked RQBR of 69.74 coming up next we're either going to have a massive disappointment or yet again find subjective ways to see improvement in the pass defense.

Until next time,

The SAHD