{"id":1000566,"date":"2026-09-14T12:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1000566\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:33:17","slug":"the-four-things-we-learned-from-jets-week-1-win-the-right-answers-on-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1000566\/","title":{"rendered":"The four things we learned from Jets&#8217; Week 1 win: The right answers on defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/13\/sports\/jets-geno-smith-make-easy-work-of-robert-salehs-titans-in-week-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Jets beat up the Titans 23-10 on Sunday<\/a> to open the season 1-0 for the first time since 2023. Here are some thoughts and observations from the game:<\/p>\n<p>1. I wrote mostly about the offense\u2019s performance on Sunday because it was impressive and they controlled the game, but the defense should not be overlooked. This was a dominant performance.<\/p>\n<p>Some numbers:<\/p>\n<p>The Titans did not have a play longer than 14 yards<\/p>\n<p>The Titans had the ball for a total of 1 minute, 39 seconds in the second quarter and just 21 minutes overall.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans had 49 overall plays<\/p>\n<p>They went 4-for-12 on third down.<\/p>\n<p>The defense did not make splash plays (yes, still no interceptions), but they were swarming Titans ball carriers and Titans QB Cam Ward did not look comfortable all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn \u2013 The Jets beat up the Titans 23-10 on Sunday to open the season 1-0 for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1000567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[1585,4155,7,226,36863,28626,1917,255,2321,2097,6,9,3248],"class_list":["post-1000566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-jets","tag-aaron-glenn","tag-david-bailey","tag-football","tag-jets","tag-jets-rewind","tag-kenyon-sadiq","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-jets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkjets","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117269417417972665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}