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Let’s be honest, he was covering for his guy . . .
Today, Jets special team’s coach Brant Boyer was asked about Carolina’s Kaelin Clay returning a punt 60-yards for a touchdown, essentially icing the Panthers win over the Jets.
Boyer was asked what happened on this play.
“Well, it’s a unit-wide deal and it starts with me, first and foremost,” Boyer said. “We had done a relatively good job of covering those punts for three quarters. As a coach, I have to keep them focused for all four quarters. It’s a unit breakdown – from the kick, they didn’t stack as they were running down there, to the coverage to tackling to everything, so that’s my fault as a coach and we’ll get that fixed. It was everything, so that is on me.”
It’s probably not.
It was on the punter and he’s covering for him.
The punter has improved this season after a rough start, but this was a terrible punt. Low, short, down the middle might the worst kind of punt. This punt had a hang-time less than four (bad), was 37-yards (bad) and was right down the middle (bad).
I asked Boyer a follow-up question to his first answer (above) about his philosophy about punt right down the middle.
“Well, obviously I would like to keep it more towards the edges, but that is something that is damn hard to do,” Boyer said.
So he can talk about coaching, tackling whatever, but this one was on the punter.
End of story.
The punter can’t let this happen again . . .
I asked Leonard Williams about an example of why the Jets’ football culture is so much better this year than last year.
He said one big difference is there are “no cliques” in the locker room . . .
Headline – “Jets can become winners if they find 53 players like Jamal Adams.”
Will Adams fall for the con job?
We will see.
This writer gets into disputes with players, is on bad terms, but then writes a flowery story about the player to get back on their good side, and perhaps make them an unnamed source.
Will Adams fall for this?
We shall see . . .
Cornerback Juston Burris might not play on Sunday. He has a concussion. That is unfortunate.
But with him likely out, Rashard Robinson will probably finally get to play.
It’s rare that Todd Bowles makes lineup changes. He doesn’t seem into that, regardless of how outsiders look at it.
So it probably takes an injury for Robinson to get on the field
And it’s important for the Jets to see what this guy can do.
If they can get Robinson to cut down on the penalties that plagued him in San Francisco, and led to his trade to the Jets on October 31, 2017 for a fifth-round pick, he could really help them.
The Jets need to upgrade their cornerback position in the off-season, via the draft and free agency. Perhaps they re-sign Mo Claiborne, if he stays healthy the rest of the season. But after that, they have a lot of work to do.
Robinson is oozing with talent – tall, fast, explosive. LSU knows how to recruit defensive backs.
He’s only 22 and a diamond-in-the-rough. And now we might get a chance to see him with the Burris injury.
Jets need to see what they have.
November 30, 2017
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