Entering the final week of the 2021 regular season, the New York Jets have the NFL’s worst defense based on both points allowed (29.8 per game) and yards allowed (396.0 per game).
Many of the unit’s woes have been attributed to injuries and a roster that is exceedingly young and inexperienced on the whole.
However, when a unit is the worst in the NFL, the struggles cannot merely be pinned on one group of people. Everyone is at fault.
That includes the veterans.
In particular, there are two veteran players on coordinator Jeff Ulbrich‘s defense that vastly underperformed in 2021: defensive end Shaq Lawson and defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins.