GLENDALE, Ariz. — Jeff Ulbrich is nothing if not a extremely noble and accountable human being.
The Jets interim coach, minutes after his workforce was slaughtered by the Cardinals, 31-6, Sunday at State Farm Stadium, didn’t simply fall on the sword for his workforce’s putrid efficiency, he dove off a diving board onto the sharp tip.
Ulbrich mentioned the workforce, coming off a nine-day layoff since their earlier sport (a house win over the Texans on Oct. 31), wasn’t ready Sunday.
“We didn’t execute even near our normal, and that falls on my shoulders 100%,’’ Ulbrich mentioned. “I didn’t do a adequate job getting these guys prepared. I believed the physicality and the trouble was superb. That was not the problem. It was execution, after which that was in all three phases.’’
The Jets protection was a large perpetrator within the sport.
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 dashing 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 sport.
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 %) and the one fourth down they went for.
What the … what provides?
“It comes all the way down to our base fundamentals, and clearly I did a poor job of getting us prepared for this workforce in that means — tackling, edge setting, getting off of blocks,’’ Ulbrich mentioned. “I’ve received 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 came about when Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner, whose tackling has come underneath scrutiny of late this season, didn’t 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 acquire to maintain a drive alive that might finish in a 3rd Playing cards landing and a 21-6 lead.
“I’ve got to make that tackle,” Gardner mentioned. “It starts with me. I’ve got to be better.”
Gardner was hardly the one perpetrator.
“We’ve got to work it,” Ulbrich mentioned of the tackling. “We’ve got to get better at it. I thought we made a huge emphasis of it this week [in practice]. We’ve got to continue to take the extra step, we’ve got to wrap, we’ve got to get population to the ball … the core foundation of this game 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 thing,” Reddick instructed The Submit. “He’s doing what any coach would do, but it’s on players as well. At the end of the day, we’re the ones out there on the field. We have the playmakers to make plays, and that’s exactly what needs to get done.”
“You can’t put this on Brick. I’m not sure if you could put any of it on Brick. At the end of the day, we have to be better for him.”
