The NY Jets offensive line just played its best game in 12 years

We're currently living in a world where one of the greatest strengths of the NY Jets roster is its offensive line and one of the team's greatest weaknesses is its defensive line. The Jets also have a future Hall of Fame quarterback who is still playing at a high level in that same world.

No, this isn't some alternate reality. It's not a dream. This is real life. The Jets' offensive line is good — very good. But just how good were they in Week 2?

The Jets' offensive line put together an outstanding performance, at least from a pass-blocking standpoint, in the team's Week 1 loss to the San Francisco 49ers. But what the unit did this past Sunday is nothing short of incredible.

In fact, the Jets' offensive line just had its best pass-blocking performance in a game in 12 years. Not since the days of Nick Mangold, D'Brickashaw Ferguson, and Brandon Moore has a Jets offensive line been better. The numbers back that claim up.

The NY Jets offensive line was dominant in Week 2

The Jets were credited with allowing just three total pressure in Sunday's win over the Tennessee Titans. Of those three pressures, only one was allowed by the offensive line, the other two were allowed by running back Breece Hall.

Center Joe Tippmann, who finished as the Jets' highest-graded player by Pro Football Focus and the second-highest-graded center this week, was the only Jets offensive lineman to allow a pressure in Week 2.

You have to go all the way back to Week 11 of the 2012 season to find the last time a Jets offensive line has allowed just one pressure in a game. The starters for that line were Ferguson, Matt Slauson, Mangold, Moore, and Austin Howard. Howard, of course, was the one to give up the pressure.

It's not just pressures, though. All five Jets starting offensive linemen finished with PFF pass-block grades of at least 76.0. The last time that happened was Week 4 of the 2010 season with essentially the same starting offensive line, just swapping Howard for Damien Woody.

That's how dominant the Jets' offensive line was, at least in pass protection, this past Sunday. It was genuinely the best pass-blocking performance by a Jets offensive line in over a decade.

It's not as if they weren't facing steep competition, either. Titans All-Pro defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons failed to record a single pressure on Sunday for only the second time in his last 33 games. Simmons recorded at least two pressures in every game last season. He couldn't even manage one against the Jets.

For as much criticism as general manager Joe Douglas deserves for his missteps this offseason, mainly regarding the defensive line, the work he did to revamp the team's offensive line is quite frankly miraculous.

The Jets finished with the 31st-ranked offensive line in the NFL last season, per PFF. Douglas managed to add three new starters with a combined cap hit of just over $11 million and turn the unit into arguably a top-five line in the NFL.

Now, the Jets' run blocking remains a work in progress. While it was better in Week 2, there's no denying the team still needs to improve in that area. But as far as pass protection is concerned, you might not find a better offensive line through the first two weeks of the season.

It helps that Aaron Rodgers has been doing his best to get the ball out quickly. Rodgers' average time to throw of 2.41 seconds in Week 2 was second-fastest only to Tua Tagovailoa. The Jets' offensive game plan has aided the offensive line.

But that should take nothing away from the outstanding performances we've seen from the likes of Tyron Smith, John Simpson, Joe Tippmann, Alijah Vera-Tucker, and Morgan Moses through two games.

There's a lot of football left to be played and the players have to stay healthy, but the Jets' offensive line is quickly making a case to be one of the better units in football.

Again, this is reality. The Jets finally have a good offensive line. No, they have a great offensive line.

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