Nationalists Blank Jets, Leave Sam Darnold Searching for Answers
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| Darnold turned the ball more than multiple times as the Jets neglected to score on Monday night. Chris Szagola/CSM/Shutterstock |
Sam Darnold and the Jets neglected to get anything moving in a shutout misfortune to the Patriots and their vaunted barrier on Monday night.
Possibly Sam Darnold truly was seeing apparitions.
Down 24–0 in the second quarter of Week 7's challenge against the Patriots, the Jets' 22-year-old quarterback conceded to such an extent while sitting on the sideline. Darnold had recently tossed his second block attempt of the game– – his third turnover of the half– – in what had turned into an early victory for New England at MetLife Stadium.
"They're going to continue presenting to it," the mic'd up Darnold stated, later including, "I'm seeing phantoms."
Whatever it was, one thing during Monday night's 33–0 misfortune was clear: The Patriots' safeguard was all the while frequenting the lives of its contradicting quarterbacks.
Darnold was only the most recent injured individual.
Entering the night brimming with hopefulness after a major 23–20 win over the Cowboys a week ago, Darnold and the Jets trusted the force would convey them against the group's No. 1 guard.
It didn't. Effectively down 7-0, Darnold was picked off by Devin McCourty on his first spend of the night. The turnover gave the Patriots an extra three points before Darnold expeditiously went three-and-out on the Jets' resulting drive. Tom Brady (31-of-45 for 249 yards, one touchdown and one interference) made it 17–0 on New England's next belonging.
An effectively monstrous half got much uglier when Darnold neglected to see John Simon surge him immaculate, prompting a bumble recouped by New England's Kyle Van Noy. Another touchdown drive from Brady, this one topped by a 26-yard score to Phillip Dorsett, stretched out the Patriots' lead to 24. What's more, when the Jets were at long last in position to score later in the subsequent quarter, Darnold let a pass sail on a third-and-10 from the 19-yard line– – one Duron Harmon effectively captured.
Darnold tossed for only 34 yards in the main a large portion of, his least at halftime in his vocation, and was 6-for-13 passing.
The bad dream didn't end there, either. The Jets' initial three second-half drives on offense finished in another Darnold block attempt, a security and another Darnold capture attempt. New England was up 33–0 by the beginning of the final quarter, however the game was over far before at that point.
Darnold wasn't the only one in his poor play. The resistance looked wretched as it so happens, surrendering scores on its initial four drives, giving up three touchdown races to Sony Michel and enabling the Patriots to change over in each significant circumstance. The hostile line was a calamity, as well, apparently incapable to get a barrage and leaving Darnold scrambling for his life.
The Patriots' guard, in the interim, has turned into a mammoth that can't be restrained. Before the finish of the game, the unit had held Darnold to 11-of-32 going for only 86 yards, four interferences and a rating of simply 3.6. They sacked him once for 13 yards and compelled him into unlimited goofs, holding the Jets to 154 absolute yards.
Also, as though those troubles weren't sufficient, Adam Gase picked to keep Darnold in for each of the four quarters. Games like Monday night's leave scars, and if the Jets are to ever recapture the idealism they felt following a week ago's success over Dallas, they'll need Darnold to get over the agony of this one rapidly.
Something else, those "phantoms" may not vanish at any point in the near future.
Oh no Sam Darnold do not admit to "seeing ghosts" when you're mic'd up in prime time.
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