When you are down, and have a few minutes to go down the field, a defense will respond in a certain way understanding the needs of an offense, and a smart offense will account for that. To give an example, from what I've seen, the Chargers this year suck at end of game drives, because their coaching and QB play is inept at that point. Last night, the Broncos figured out the appropriate strategy against the defense they anticipated what was coming from the Jets. It is overly simplistic to assign blame purely to the Jets. The rest of the game is a separate issue, but the same issue applies in that teams behave strategically in relation to others. If the Broncos defense was playing badly then the Tebow run offense probably would not have worked no matter what they tried.
