For the most part, the best teams in the NFL have balance. It’s important to have more than one way to win a game. There will be weeks where your offense is down. In cases like that, it’s important to have a defense that can pick up the slack and carry you to victory. In a game where the defense is struggling, a good offense can win a shootout.

The inverse can also be true. On truly bad teams even when one unit plays surprisingly a surprisingly strong game, the other unit can be weak enough to produce a loss.

It was true in Week 1 when a dazzling Jets offense wasn’t enough to overcome an awful defense. It was again the case yesterday in London as the Jets wasted a stellar defensive effort because the offense couldn’t function on a basic level.

Steve Wilks’ defense had been much-maligned

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