One key to Sunday’s game was always going to be running the football, given how sloppy the weather promised to be. It’s surprising, then, that neither team blew the doors off the other on the ground, though Atlanta still fared quite well with Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman.
The Jets, however, did not. They carried the ball 22 times on the day and managed just 43 yards, an incredibly low total given how gouge-able this Falcons run defense has been all year. Just a week after the Patriots embarrassed them by repeatedly running up the gut, Atlanta limited the Jets to the lowest per carry average by an opponent since 2010 (technically the 2009 season).