The Jets (4-11) lost to the Rams (9-6), 19-9, at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. Here are three takeaways from the game.
Unable to Finish Drives
The Jets moved the ball Sunday against the Rams and totaled 321 yards but scored one touchdown in three trips to the red zone.
The Green & White had two drives of at least 8 minutes, the first game in franchise history with multiple 8-minute drives since the 1998 season. It was the seventh time this season an NFL team had multiple 8-minute drives in a game.
The Jets had four double-digit possessions -- two resulted in 9 points, one ended with a turnover on downs and the other a missed field goal. They had two 14-play series (touchdown, turnover on downs), one that went 15 plays (field goal) and another was 11 plays (missed FG). The offense maintained possession for the final 6:22 of the first half and opened the third quarter with a 9:45 drive, the team's longest since 2011 and the longest at home since 2009.
"I think we just hurt ourselves," RT Morgan Moses said. "We moved the ball up and down the field all day. The one thing that we talked about this week was capitalizing in the red zone. We fell short of that. The second half, for us, we created a lot of penalties, a lot of self-inflicted wounds and that can't happen especially when you're moving the ball consistently down the field. Those are things we have to clean up."
Rush Defense
Without All-Pro DT Quinnen Williams (hamstring), the Jets defense yielded 132 rushing yards.
Rams RB Kyren Williams, the NFL's fourth-leading rusher entering Week 16, totaled 122 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries for an average of 5.3 yards per rush. The Green & White, from Weeks 10-15, ranked No. 4 in the NFL in yards allowed per a rush (3.6).
Williams generated plus-31 rushing yards over expected, according to Next Gen Stats, and recorded 86 of his yards against light boxes (13 carries) compared to 36 yards on 10 carries when facing seven or more defenders in the box.
No Limitations for Breece Hall
For the first time since returning from the bye week, RB Breece Hall was not listed on the final injury report (knee) and carried the majority of the workload in the backfield.
Hall led the team with 14 carries, 11 more than the next player (Isaiah Davis), and 52 rushing yards. He added 5 receptions for 38 yards, his 16th game with at least 5 grabs.
The only running backs in Jets history with more are Curtis Martin (25) and Richie Anderson (19) and only Saints five-time Pro Bowl RB Alvin Kamara (21) and 49ers three-time first-team All-Pro RB Christian McCaffrey (17) have more such games since Hall was drafted in 2022.
"I thought Breece played really well," QB Aaron Rodgers said. "He had some big-time plays in the pass game, the one-handed catch, a third-and-long where he split two guys and got a first down for us." Hall got 15 yards on third-and-11 that put the Jets in goal-to-go territory in the second quarter and resulted in Anders Carlson's 21-yard field goal at the end of the first half.
