Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New York Jets Review | PFF Grade Release Show

Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New York Jets Review | PFF Grade Release Show

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Ghost your losses, get your payout in partnership with DraftKings Sportsbook. The crown is yours. Bless you. Uh, speaking of Javon Kinlaw’s old team, speaking of Aaron Rogers old team, uh, the New York Jets, I wish you guys could have the pleasure of of watching a New York Jets football game. Watching actually watching Dalton watch a New York Jets football game like I got to do yesterday. It’s it’s always it’s always a wonderful time. The Pittsburgh Steelers ended up winning this game 34 to 32. I believe the final over underline for this game, depending on where you look, was either 37 and a half or Wait, wait, wait. What do you That’s I did not think this would be the second highest scoring game of the day. I am laughing. I don’t know if you guys can hear that. I don’t think you can, but uh one of our producers, Eli, just just said over the speakers in the studio room. He wanted to make sure that everybody knew that the overunder was 37 a half and he took the under and he in fact did not win this one. 34-32. Never would have seen this one coming. Uh Steelers ended up winning this game off a thrilling Chris Roswell uh field goal here. Top five graded players that we have for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Edge rusher TJ Watt at the top of the list with an 82.4. Quarterback Jaylen Ramsey in his first regular season game as a Steeler 79.4. Wide receiver DK Mechav in his first game as a Steeler 75.6. Safety Deshaawn Elliot with a 72.3. And then tight end Pat Frymouth with a 71.7. Aaron Rogers game in this one. I know his stat sheet might make you think it’d be a little bit higher. 54.5. We’ll get to that in a second. On the other side of things for the New York Jets, Quinnon Williams at the top of the list, an elite 92.0. Sauce Garner right behind him. Another elite 90.3. You love to see your stars with elite single game grades to start the season. You love to see this as well. First round pick offensive tackle Armanu. Tough assignment going up against the Steelers defensive line and went up against TJ Watt quite a bit in this one and yet still stood tall. 89.0 grade for Marammanu to start his NFL career. That was awesome. wide receiver Garrett Wilson with an 86.1, running back Bree Saul with an 80 81.5, and then Justin Fields in this game, an 82.2. Dalton stat told the story. What do we got here? Um, this honestly, it’s almost when you look at all the numbers and you look at everything the statistical in this game, it almost makes no sense that the Jets lost this game, right? And the number of things that had to happen for them to lose this game. I mean, the Xavier Gibson fumble on the on the kick return that basically uh, you know, gave the Steelers a free touchdown there. They scored was the very next play or two plays later. Um I think the one thing that did get away from they had a chance with about four minutes left to really put to put together a four-minute drive and kill all the clock and they they ran the ball. There was some times on with the Jets where they ran the ball on third down. It was a bit conservative. It was a third and four on their second to last drive where then they didn’t get it and had to punt it away. Chris Boswell is just an absolute weapon. I mean, it’s just ridiculous with it feels like every week is you got a 60-yard game-winning field goal here and then obviously Jaylen Ramsey making him making his presence known to win the game. But I think it just comes down to the Jets for the most part. They were the more physical team. I thought they were ready to go. Aaron Glenn had this team more ready to go early in the game than any game we saw last year or maybe even the last couple of years. Um and and it ended up just being it’s another one late game execution, right? One turnover is one to nothing but it was so costly. the Jets not being able to put together extend a four-minute drive at the end and giving Rogers one more shot. Then you had the fluky DK Metaf like triple deflection catch and a PI and and the Jets secondary was struggling other than S Gardner. But it’s just what it comes down to. I I mean just the narrowest of margins and a very very young team, one of the five or six youngest teams in the NFL trying to learn how to win, right? A for a franchise that hasn’t done it in a long time. I thought the Jets played a really darn good game. Justin Fields was really good. But again, Aaron Rogers, Steelers, Mike Tomlin, you have a veteran team that understands situational football and they got just enough done in the fourth quarter. But all all of the basically all of the numbers would tell you the Jets should have won this game and bas Mike Tomlin and Aaron Rogers just found a way to do it. Yeah, I mean they they found a way to do it and and to be honest with you, they had two blown coverages that led to touchdowns, right? getting into Aaron Rogers grade and and why the stat sheet because Rogers, let me find let me find his stats that were on the regular stat sheet here. Um Rogers was 22 for 30, 24 yards, four touchdowns, and zero interceptions. I think a lot of people would look at that scoreboard and and say, “How in the world is he at 54.4?” Well, he didn’t have any big-time throws in this game. Two of the touchdowns that he threw were completely blown coverages. I mean, there weren’t guys within 15 feet of him and they scored touchdowns. So, that obviously you don’t get a ton of credit for throwing to a guy who’s absolutely wide open when blowing coverage is the reason why he’s wide open. The other touchdown that he had was a pop pass. And then one of the other ones was in the red zone for in a goal to go situation and it’s a throw to the flat to the running back and Jamon Sherwood has no chance to cover him in that for the coverage that was called. So, it was sort of like it was it was kind of the Jets to me in a lot of ways were the better football team. I agree with you, but they also had the more costly plays that the Steelers took advantage of. And that’s why you bring in Aaron Rogers, right? I mean, his his PFF grade is what it is, but to be honest with you, like you want to have a quarterback who can mentally go through things very quickly when the ball is snapped to say, “Wait a second, that guy’s wide open.” and he can immediately throw it to him and get it there in in good timing and Rogers was able to do that. Now, obviously those are viewed at as low difficulty plays, but I’ll give him the credit for just the awareness that he has from playing this game so long to where he goes, “Yep, that guy’s wide open and he’s already looking his way and going to make a pass there.” So, I agree with you. I thought the Jets showed a lot of fight in this one. Uh the Jets were three for four in the red zone, 75% in the red zone in this game. They were three for three in goal to go situations. The Steelers were also great in the red zone. That’s why I think that we had both these teams uh scoring in the 30s. They were three for three. That’s 100% of course. And then goal to go situations, they were two for two, of course. 100% there again. But to me, the most impressive was the Jets defensive line. Jermaine Johnson looked great. Quinn Quinn and Williams looked great. Uh Will McDonald had, I believe, an 86.3 pass rush grade in this one with two sacks. Those three combined for 12 pressures and three sacks in this game. They were fantastic. You combine that with what S Garner was able to do getting an elite coverage grade. It’s basically you can’t really ask for a recipe that’s better for the Jets. You just have to ask for a better floor for the guys around them. The ceiling was there. Your stars played up to your potential. It’s just the rest of the guys got to play better. So I I think that this is albeit a loss and probably a tough one for the Jets to take. Like game one of the Aaron Glenn era like you feel pretty good about this. Absolutely. I mean the way that Fields played you mentioned all of the stars came out. Bree Hall was great. Garrett Wilson was great. How about Armanu? That’s that’s my most impressive guy. you consider the assignment that he had against this Pittsburgh Steelers defensive line and he was one of your highest graded players. I mean, you’re you’re talking about a guy who and he didn’t look all that consistently great in the preseason, but it’s a small sample. It’s preseason, but especially in the run game. The way the Jets ran the football in this game, that’s their ideal blueprint to win. Armanu 90.3 run blocking grade, nine positive run blocks. And the funny part of it is I don’t know if I don’t know if you saw the uh there was a NextG metric uh graph about which direction the Jets were running the ball in and it was constantly left just to stay away from TJ Watt. They ran the ball 36 times in this game. 26 of them to the left. That’s awesome. So Arman Meu all those but all those positive run blocks for on that side though. Uh I think he did. I think he they’re running outside either way. They’re just not they’re just not running at TJ. That’s really the big thing. But Meu getting all those cut off blocks on the backside. Nine pos and most of the time he’s on the back side of that. He looked fantastic from start to finish in this game. Really this whole offensive line, especially in the run game, was really good. This is how the Jets want to run their offense, right? It’s running the ball first, getting the read option game a little bit. They scored the their initial go-ahad touchdown on on a Justin Fields naked boot down on the goal line. Fields looked really good throwing the ball, especially with the play action concepts. I think offensively, I think this is everything the Jets could have dreamed of. And then you look at the stars on defense playing up. But you you make a good point about the lack of depth with the Jets because that’s really the issue, right? Your only good wide receiver is Garrett Wilson. Right now, the only player who played well in the secondary is Sash Gardner. That was a big problem is all the coverage bust and they’re playing more man-to-man coverage under Aaron Glenn. The stars came out and and I’ I’ve said this this offseason to some people. The Jets 10 best players can play with just about anybody. It’s the other 43. What are you What are you getting out of the rest of them that’s going to decide that you win ball games? Absolutely. That’s exactly how. Yeah. Going into my most disappointing because I mentioned that the Jets defensive line was my most impressive. The Jets coverage unit was my most disappointing because S had a 90.5 coverage grade with two pass breakups. He was excellent. There was only one other Jets defender that had a coverage grade above 51 and it was Andre Cisco who I think had it was like a 51 and a half. Yeah. I the rest of the group the floor was so low unfortunately for the rest of the group that which you figure is going to be the case anyways because year one of Aaron Glenn and you know he’s probably going to do the same thing that Detroit did three years ago where they just three or four years ago I can’t remember what it was now with Dan Campbell where they just kind of like cleaned house of everybody and they’re just like we’re going to draft the dudes like we’re going to draft the guys that we believe in and we are going to build our core out of those players and it’s sort of just about surviving until So, uh, most disappointing for you and they’ll move on. Uh, look, the Steelers, they they do need to play better on offense. The 34 points and all of that. You know, you can look on the surface and Aaron Rogers, they got to be better. They got to be better up front. Especially Rogers, I don’t think was protected all that well. I thought Jones especially just continues to struggle starting out his third year and they have to run the football. I mean, that was non-existent for them. 20 carries for 53 yards, negative three yards before contact. It was one of those scenarios where they had more yards after contact than actual yards. So, especially old Ashley Genty. Exactly. So, I mean, you talk this Steelers, this offensive tackle situation. I I’m keeping an eye on it still because I I don’t and I know Germaine Johnson and Will McDonald are really good players, but there’s even better edge defenders that the Steelers are going to see on their schedule throughout the year. There’s a ton of them in the NFL. And this offensive tackle situation, this run game, they’ve got to run the football. They can’t ask Rogers to carry them. That’s not what he’s going to do anymore. He got him through this game. He took advantage of the Jets mistakes and there was even some fluky things that happened. But they have to be balanced on offense. They cannot go in there with in every week with their offensive line honestly playing as poorly as they did in this game. Uh somebody in the chat was asking like, “Hey, would you what did you think about Justin Fields?” I thought Justin Fields is great. Yeah. Now obviously like he’s holding on the ball a little bit longer than you want most quarterbacks to like he’s going to take a little bit more time to scan the field. He’s going to run, right? I mean when pressure is in his face when the first progression or even the second progression, I’m not just calling like a a first read and run kind of a quarterback. I think he’s evolved a little bit, but he is somebody who knows that his legs are a weapon and so he uses those consistently. I thought he played well this past game and to be honest with you, I have thought Justin Fields has played well in the NFL when he has been confident. Very clearly when he was with the Bears, he was not confident. The coaching staff, whoever was in his year, the offensive play caller, whatever was going on, he was not confident when when he was with the Chicago Bears. So to me, I was not gonna have I’m I wasn’t really going to judge him entirely off of what I saw during his tenure there. When he was with the Steelers last year, there were moments through the first what what was it like four, five, six games of the season where we went, hold on here, like do they really need to go to Russell Wilson? Like Justin Fields is actually playing pretty well. And it’s because he was playing confidently. That is again what I saw with the Jets this past week. So I mean, was it a light the world on fire game for Justin Fields? No. But I thought he was Like you mentioned, this was a good game from the New York Jets and Justin Fields absolutely goes into watch. Should be noted 90.4 passing grade. That’s the best of his career. So look, and it’s again, it’s only on what he throw the ball. 22 attempts, 25 dropbacks. And that’s the Jets ideal. Yeah, they’re they’re going to call they’re going to run it more than they throw it. But when they ask Fields to throw it, he was spectacular. And I think you mentioned the confidence and the trust in Tanner Angstrand’s play calling. He did look comfortable. And that’s that’s a big thing. I think if the if he’s going to play like that, then the Jets real only downfall on offense is going to be a lack of receiving depth behind Garrett Wilson. But he looks just fine throwing the ball to Garrett, throwing the ball. Bree Hall looked spectacular, and we weren’t sure how he would look with the contract situation and all the kind of we thought hard feelings coming out. It’s not his last year in New York. Well, maybe maybe he’s just motivated. I mean, you know, I I mean, they but this team offensively, this was the blueprint that the Jets want week in and week out. they bring this every week, especially if they run the ball the way they did, they will be a problem for a lot of teams.

PFF’s Trevor Sikkema and Dalton Wasserman review the matchup between The Pittsburgh Steelers and The New York Jets.

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