Cromartie Showing Signs of Leadership

by Matt Birch on Sep 21, 2010 7:03 AM EDT

The Jets' secondary was phenomenal in the second half against Tom Brady on Sunday, holding the Justin Bieber look-a-like to just 69 yards passing in that time period.

All of this was accomplished without shutdown CB Darrelle Revis.

CB Antonio Cromartie, who was criticized by his former teammates in San Diego, rallied the troops during a terse halftime speech, telling the guys they needed to tighten up in their play. And they listened.

Cromartie provided four words of wisdom. He kept it short.

"It's time to dominate."

And they did just that. Cromartie was especially dominant, holding WR Randy Moss to 0 catches in the second half.

On why he decided to speak out:

"The front seven was doing a hell of a job applying pressure," Cromartie told the Daily News. "Everything bad that happened was happening on the back end. We made a few mistakes and had a little miscommunication. I felt like we weren't holding up our end."

It would be nice to get some leadership at the CB position to compliment Jim Leonhard back there. Great to see.

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This is encouraging.

Cro drives me nuts sometimes, but I like his aggression, and there’s no questioning his ability to make spectacular game-changing plays. I don’t think he’s gotten enough credit for how he’s played so far.

That pick against the Ravens was not only incredible (how the hell did he catch that ball and then how the hell did he stay in bounds?), he then took it basically from our end zone all the way down to their 35. It was a huge swing of momentum and field position which should have stolen points from them to give them to us.

His pick against the Pats was also crazy when you think about it. Lets not forget that Brady overthrew Moss. Now, its not easy to overthrow Randy Moss streaking down the side-line. Not only did Cro match Moss stride-for-stride, when he saw that the ball was overthrown he kicked in the after burners and left RANDY MOSS sucking fumes to prevent the errant pass from falling incomplete. Sick.

by Crackback on Sep 21, 2010 10:05 AM EDT reply actions