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They might want to reconsider this.
Sam Darnold did this a lot last year, and I’ve seen it in practice quite a bit over the first few days of camp. He will throw it down the sideline to Robby Anderson, even if there is tight coverage, and when it’s a contested ball he usually doesn’t win the battle.
There were a couple of forces like that today that were incomplete.
Look, I know Anderson has great speed, but he generally doesn’t win 50-50 balls (jump balls) because he’s not built for it at 6-3, 175.
Anderson isn’t a guy you “throw open,” but a guy who you throw to when he’s open. He’s not great on contested balls.
They need to stop forcing it to him when he’s tightly covered. It’s not working.
I am not being critical of Anderson. He is an important part of the Jets offense, but he’s a jump ball guy, so you can’t just chuck it to him down field, like you would to a DeAndre Hopkins, and expect him to grab the rock away from a DB in tight coverage. Best case scenario – throw it to him when he clearly beats somebody with his world-class speed and flashes open . . .
As most of you know by now, Jamison Crowder hurt his foot today. He is going to get an MRI.
So with Crowder out, Deontay Burnett got a lot more reps, and did a great job.
Like I said yesterday, he’s not the biggest or fastest receiver, he just makes plays.
He had a great catch on a fade route in the end zone from Trevor Siemian
But, on that fade, route, he also got hurt. He came down hard after the catch and was limping, but the super-tough Compton-native got his knee taped up and went back out there. You could see a little limp in his gate, but knows as the cliche goes, “You can’t make the club in the tub.”
I can’t tell you how impressed I am with this guy. He’s very, very consistent . . .
An offensive lineman pulled to the next level, and took on CB Daryl Roberts, and after the play Roberts shoved him and a fight almost ensued. I believe it was either Jon Harrison or Kelechi Osemele. It was hard to tell because so many players surrounded them.
But this is another example or Roberts toughness. He is one of the most physical corners you will find. He’s a very good tackler, an unflinching hitter and also a very good gunner on special teams. He doesn’t back down from any contact, and that isn’t the case with all corners . . .
Adam Gase isn’t a micro-manager on the practice field. He let’s his assistants do their thing.
Gregg Williams is basically the head coach of the defense, and today I saw assistant head coach Shawn Jefferson addressing the offensive players during a special team’s drill. While Jefferson isn’t the offensive coordinator, he is the assistant head coach, and probably wants to be a head coach one day, so Gase allows him to do this sort of thing to help him prepare.
Some head coaches cramp the style of their assistants and they feel like they can’t be themselves. Gase isn’t like this . . .
Sometimes at this stage of camp it’s unclear how the coaches feel about the backup positions because they are rolling so many guys in and out.
So on occasions, when a starter gets hurt, and you see who goes in, it sheds some light on the real depth chart.
Today, when Osemele had to come out with either a foot issue or a shoe issue, it was hard to tell, the player filling in for him for a few plays was Tom Compton. So it kind of of shows you how they feel about Compton, the former Minnesota Viking and Washington Redskin.
July 29, 2019
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