Obviously 3-1 sounds a lot better than 2-2. Plus teams love
to go into the bye week after a win. The Dolphins will be tough. This is the
second week in a row the Jets will face a desperate team. There are a number of
key players for the Jets in this game. First and foremost to me are center Nick
Mangold and right guard Brian Winters who will be playing for Willie Colon.
These two players have got to step up especially with Ndamukong Suh on the
other side of the line. The success of the offensive line might depend on the
play of both.
With Jeff Cumberland out this week, tight end Kellen Davis becomes a key
player. This eight-year veteran has 50 career catches. The Jet offense is not
tight end friendly but with the receivers the Jets have, Davis should be
targeted a few times. And I hope he blocks!
Buster Skrine has got to play better! He was awful against the Eagles.
Hopefully Skrine ‘s play will be more consistent as the year moves on. He has
got to put together more than one good game in a row. And just when I erased
Kyle Wilson’s name from my rolodex.
We all know that if Chris Ivory
and Eric Decker play, we need productivity from both. Delvin Smith should be
interesting to watch this week after having two full weeks of practice
following his injury.
The Jets cannot let Ryan Tannehill get comfortable in the pocket. And
the defense must get their hands up as Tannehill loves to get rid of the ball
early. I expect if the Jets defense is playing well that we’ll see a fair
amount of tipped balls.
I don’t think Ryan Fitzpatrick is as bad as people are making him out to
be. Let’s face it, against the Eagles there were at least four dropped passes
and two of the three int’s were not his fault. I’ve said he is not the most
accurate on long passes but remember with Brandon Marshall on the team, this potentially
makes for one of those “throw ‘em up” combinations like we saw with Eli Manning
and Plaxico Burress a few years ago.
Green Tidbits:
Jeremy
Kerley is off the MIA list.
Make no
mistake, Dolphin Executive VP of operations Mike Tannenbaum wants to beat the
Jets in the worse way.
I can’t
explain it but for some reason I want to see more of Marcus Williams and less
of Antonio Cromartie.
Just in
case you were wondering, Vladimir Ducasse is listed as the starting right guard
for the Chicago Bears. And we think the Jets have problems.
For all
the Fitzpatrick bashers who want Geno in there, please refer to last October’s
Buffalo game. Here are Geno’s stats:
Oct. 26, 2014
C/ATT YDS AVG
TD INT QBR
Geno
Smith 2/8 5 0.6 0 3 0.0
Chan
Gaily has got to put some kind of “no huddle” or speed up offense into the
system. I hate it when the Jets are behind and there is no “sense of urgency”
when they have the ball.
Calvin
Pryor still looks good three games into the season.
It’s way
early but some of my draftnik spies tell me Vadal Alexander, G/OT, LSU, and
Nick Martin, C, Notre Dame (Zack’s bro’) are two good OL the Jets should keep
an eye on.
Your
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