GLENDALE, Ariz. — Jeff Ulbrich is nothing if not a extremely noble and accountable human being.
The Jets interim coach, minutes after his group was slaughtered by the Cardinals, 31-6, Sunday at State Farm Stadium, didn’t simply fall on the sword for his group’s putrid efficiency, he dove off a diving board onto the sharp tip.
Ulbrich stated the group, coming off a nine-day layoff since their earlier recreation (a house win over the Texans on Oct. 31), wasn’t ready Sunday.
“We didn’t execute even near our customary, and that falls on my shoulders one hundred pc,’’ Ulbrich stated. “I didn’t do a adequate job getting these guys prepared. I believed the physicality and the trouble was tremendous. That was not the difficulty. It was execution, after which that was in all three phases.’’
The Jets protection was a large perpetrator within the recreation.
The Cardinals scored on every of their first 5 offensive possessions.
Their quarterback, Kyler Murray, completed 22 of 24 for 266 yards with one landing cross and two speeding touchdowns and accomplished the final 17 passes he threw.
The Jets tackling was abysmal.
In line with the NFL’s Subsequent Gen Stats, they missed 20 tackles within the recreation.
They couldn’t cowl anybody on the again finish.
The Cardinals amassed 18 first downs within the first half and completed with 28.
They transformed 5 of seven third downs (71.4 p.c) and the one fourth down they went for.
What the … what offers?
“It comes right down to our base fundamentals, and clearly I did a poor job of getting us prepared for this group in that manner — tackling, edge setting, getting off of blocks,’’ Ulbrich stated. “I’ve acquired to proceed to attempt to discover methods to place them in a greater place to achieve success.’’
There are actually no turning factors in a rout like this, however a key second within the first half occurred when Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner, whose tackling has come underneath scrutiny of late this season, did not get Arizona tight finish Trey McBride down on a third-and-7 completion within the second quarter.
McBride tossed Gardner like a bull throwing a rider off its again and turned what would have been a failed third-down conversion right into a 17-yard achieve to maintain a drive alive that might finish in a 3rd Playing cards landing and a 21-6 lead.
“I’ve acquired to make that sort out,” Gardner stated. “It begins with me. I’ve acquired to be higher.”
Gardner was hardly the one perpetrator.
“We’ve set to work it,” Ulbrich stated of the tackling. “We’ve acquired to get higher at it. I believed we made an enormous emphasis of it this week [in practice]. We’ve acquired to proceed to take the additional step, we’ve acquired to wrap, we’ve acquired to get inhabitants to the ball … the core basis of this recreation from a defensive perspective.”
Edge rusher Haason Reddick defended Ulbrich after the sport when knowledgeable that he’d shouldered the blame for his gamers’ shortcomings.
“Brick is doing the honorable factor,” Reddick informed The Put up. “He’s doing what any coach would do, but it surely’s on gamers as effectively. On the finish of the day, we’re those on the market on the sphere. We’ve got the playmakers to make performs, and that’s precisely what must get executed.”
“You may’t put this on Brick. I’m unsure for those who might put any of it on Brick. On the finish of the day, we’ve got to be higher for him.”
