Ernie' s sides love a gift. Paracki delivered one. They become rabid from there.
Our players in possession looked to lack options. Was Ridenton's absence a contributer to that? I didn't see the first four games.
I am not an expert but I think this loss was a midfield failure. Putting McGlinchey in a deeper role might have made sense on paper but somehow Finkler did not get the memo about his job on the park last night. This deprived us of properly functioning left hand side and that is where Jets' successful raids came from. Bringing Parkhouse on for Finkler was a way to fix this but the horse has bolted by then. Both Vidosic and Kaljuderovic were starved of supply and Roy did not get much joy either despite his running, because the orders were to play out of the back (we were losing possession in midfield).
I maintain that we seem to take excellent players from somewhere else and then reduce them to pedestrians. This was visible under Ernie and did not seem very different now, over the last three halves of football. The problem seems to be mind-, not body- related.
At the same time, I think people underestimate how well Jets played last night (if not all night then at least they dominated long passages of play). Ernie seems to have finally got a team that responds to his style of coaching, and they are clearly a likely top four team this season on present form.