Well, we're in the playoffs so...

Never fun writing about these. The offense came to play today, Sanchez was as good as you could have expected him to be against a top 5 defense. You couldn't poke a hole in Brian Schottenheimer's playcalling. What lost this game was the areas where the Jets usually dominate: Special Teams and Defense.

I said after the first half that the Jets secondary was playing at a near superhuman level, all making great plays. Pool made a great play to deny Olsen a ball down the seam from Cutler, Revis had a nice breakup on a Bennett pass. Everyone was hitting on all cylinders in the secondary. But something was seriously wrong with the defensive line, and that's been a theme all season. We always seem to do a great job of stuffing the run, despite the Forte 100 yard performance today, I still maintain that DeVito and Pouha vastly underpaid for the work they do in the trenches. Jason Taylor and Shaun Ellis, a lot of this falls on you.

In the second half, Jay Cutler had time to drop back, set his feet, admire the vastness of nature, check if he had any missed calls on his cell phone, and throw. Only when the Jets brought pressure from the secondary did we get ANY pressure on Cutler. This was particularly painful because of the fact that in the first half, on two of the times where the defense did get pressure on Cutler, he took a terrible sack, and threw a very Cutler-like INT to Lowery for 6.

I'm going to keep the positives brief, but if there was anyone who deserved some notice today it's Wayne Hunter. He did an outstanding job of protecting the right side against Julius Peppers today. Peppers was completely silent, and in the second half you could see that he was a step slower for whatever reason. Great game by Hunter, although I did notice that the Jets went left with most of their runs when the right is usually their power side with Woody. Still great fill in game Hunter.

Weatherford's punting was stellar as usual, and Sanchez did everything you could ask. That pick to end the game was a calculated risk, and it didn't pay off. Other than that, maybe two or three other bad throws and a stroke of luck that one didn't get picked in the first half. The shoulder didn't appear to be a problem, because Sanchez's throws were flying today.

Overall, tough loss, the defense played possibly their worst game of the season, but this was a tough game against a division champion team. We're in the playoffs, which is good and hopefully the team can get some momentum by beating down Buffalo for the last home game of the season next week.