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right tackles won’t play this week due to injuries, George Fant and Chuma Edoga. Fant never had a shot at playing with knee and ankle injuries, but Edoga did practice on a limited basis at every practice this week, so there was a shot with him.
However, watching him practice on Wednesday, he was clearly hobbling around on his bad ankle. To his credit, he tried to give it a go, but he was clearly limping around.
So Conor McDermott will start at right tackle. Joe Douglas, who is considered a very good judge of offensive line talent, likes McDermott a lot, and that is why he extended his contract last week.
The UCLA graduate, is 6-8, 305 pounds, fairly athletic and plays with an attitude. He had a nice drive block in the third quarter, on a one-yard TD run by Frank Gore to the left side. McGovern filling in for Mekhi Becton, had a terrific block on Joey Bosa pushing him inside.
Speaking of offensive lines, the Miami Dolphins unit didn’t play very well last week in Denver, and that contributed to the loss. The Jets’ pass rush kind of came to life last week, getting a number of hits on Justin Herbert.
Dolphins rookie left tackle Austin Jackson had a bad game in Denver, and starting right guard Solomon Kindley is out with a foot injury.
So the Jets might be able to get some pressure on the Dolphins’ QB, whoever that might be, and they better, because with their secondary struggles, it’s hard for them to get off the field without pressure up front . . .
Read this on ESPN.com:
“After going over 17.5 fantasy points in four of five games to open the season, Panthers receiver Robby Anderson has been held under 15.5 in every game since.”
I don’t play fantasy (though I hear it’s a lot of fun), and I don’t know the rules, but the way they wrote this, it doesn’t seem like a positive.
Joe Douglas has been blasted for not re-signing Anderson in the off-season, but it’s probably not as terrible a move as some people would lead you to believe.
First of all, who knew they were going to get ravaged with injuries at wide receiver, with Denzel Mims, Breshad Perriman and Jamison Crowder all missing time.
With all those guys back, the Jets’ passing offense has looked pretty good the last couple of games.
The point is there was a plan to move on without him, but then a bunch of injuries threw a wretch in those plans, but now, the last couple of games, you are seeing the plan in action, and it clearly wasn’t a bad one.
Also, let’s not forget that, there wasn’t much of a market for Anderson in free agency, and he ended up signing essentially a one-year deal with his former college coach at Temple, Matt Rhule. The Jet would have given him a deal like that.
It seems like nobody wanted to commit to Anderson long-time with some track record issues in his past, like two arrests.
So with all this being said, Joe’s “crime” in not bring back Anderson wasn’t as egregious as some would lead you to believe.
Of course it wouldn’t have been a bad thing for the Jets to bring him back, but he wanted top-tier receiver money from them, and they weren’t going to go there, and no other team was either.
November 27, 2020
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