Several veterans didn’t play through the Jets 24-16 victory towards the Atlanta Falcons Monday evening.
Among them have been quarterback Joe Flacco, extensive receivers Corey Davis and Elijah Moore, defensive finish Carl Lawson and linebacker C.J. Mosley.
With the Jets scheduled to have a joint observe towards the Giants Thursday afternoon, Jets coach Robert Saleh thought it could be higher to relaxation the gamers with a shorter week forward.
“I want to treat this week as a dress rehearsal,” Saleh stated in regards to the upcoming recreation towards the Giants. “I felt like it would be a heavy load to play in this game, practice Thursday, have a dress rehearsal and call it a preseason.”
But even with many starters out of the lineup, there was nonetheless loads to remove from the Jets’ win over the Falcons.
Bryce Hall had a tough evening within the secondary
Hall began at cornerback reverse Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner and the Falcons have been clearly concentrating on the previous Virginia Cavalier. On the opening drive, Falcons quarterback Marcus Mariota accomplished a 52-yard move to tight finish Kyle Pitts on the left aspect towards Hall, which arrange a area purpose.
On the subsequent possession, Atlanta accomplished two passes with Hall in protection, together with a 13-yard landing reception by Olamide Zaccheaus.
“Poor vision, poor eyes,” Saleh stated. “The two performs that we gave up have been large performs. Overall, we held them to 3 factors on the primary explosive play and the second, we gave up a landing and we had them go three and out versus their guys.
“Overall, it was two plays, but it was kind of a lesson that if you give up explosive plays in this league, you’re going to give up points 90% of the time.”
Hall entered the preseason in a cornerback competitors with Gardner. He did nothing to assist his case towards the Falcons as they hardly ever regarded Gardner’s approach. Meanwhile, Hall missed a few assignments in protection on lengthy move performs. He additionally had a holding penalty that was declined on a move play to Damiere Byrd within the second quarter.
The remainder of the Jets secondary wasn’t quite a bit higher as they allowed 275 passing yards within the first half. Last season, the Jets protection was thirtieth within the league in passing protection. That’s the first purpose New York drafted Gardner within the first place. After Monday evening’s recreation, it’s time to finish the charade and begin Gardner reverse DJ Reed in Week 1 towards the Baltimore Ravens.
Jets offense was flat with Mike White below heart
While the Falcons’ first-team offense was capable of transfer the ball, the Jets second-stringers couldn’t do the identical. Mike White, who began the sport for Joe Flacco, regarded flat as he completed 12-for-17 for 90 yards. It wasn’t till Chris Streveler entered the sport that the Jets offense confirmed life after he threw a 34-yard landing move to Lawrence Cager.
The Jets dashing assault was nonexistent as they registered 70 yards on the evening, with 33 of them coming from Streveler.
“It was one of those preseason games where you couldn’t get into a rhythm,” White stated. “There was some issues happening, presnap, postsnap penalties that sort of hindered that.
“Those are the type of games where you can kind of fall into the trap of trying to force things and making too much that’s not there as a quarterback and start throwing unnecessarily interceptions. From that aspect, I was happy with how I took care of the football.”
Yes, many starters had the evening off, however through the joint practices final weekend, the Jets second and third groups didn’t have lots of issues gaining yards towards the Falcons protection. That definitely wasn’t the case throughout this recreation.
Jets have been a special crew after halftime
After permitting 16 factors within the first half, the Jets offense and protection regarded fully completely different after halftime.
New York scored 21 unanswered factors to take a 24-16 lead within the fourth quarter. Not solely did Streveler carry out nicely by finishing 8 of 11 passes for 119 yards with one landing and an interception, however the Jets protection and their secondary was stingy within the second half.
New York allowed simply 74 yards through the remaining half-hour. The most important second of the sport defensive was when Bradlee Anae sacked Feleipe Franks and compelled a fumble in, which he recovered and scored a landing.
“For them to fly around making plays and doing what they were doing, we are feeding off that offensively too,” Streveler stated. “We go down and get a landing after which we will really feel the vitality shift. Everyone is simply feeding off that.
“That’s the nature of football, there are ebbs and flows in a game and you can try not to ride that wave when you’re low. But when you’re on the high side of that, you try to ride that momentum and continue making plays.”
Jets have an upcoming resolution with Denzel Mims
One of the strengths of the Jets offense is their receiver corps with Elijah Moore, Garrett Wilson, Corey Davis, Braxton Berrios, Jeff Smith and Calvin Jackson. That’s why the Jets should make the troublesome resolution and lower bait with Denzel Mims.
Against the Falcons, Mims did have three catches for 43 yards, nevertheless it appeared the Jets have been showcasing Mims on particular groups for presumably different groups to see. Either approach, it’s troublesome seeing Mims making the Jets’ 53-man roster.
That’s why it’s most likely within the crew’s finest curiosity now to both commerce Mims earlier than Tuesday’s lower down from 85 to 80 gamers for launch him now. Unlike final season, the Jets are in a great place at receiver and the crew doesn’t need to depend on Mims on particular groups or offensively.
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PINEIRO RELEASED, ZUERLEIN WINS KICKING JOB
Ahead of Tuesday’s roster deadline, the Jets settled their kicking competitors.
Gang Green launched Eddy Pineiro, the crew’s kicker on the finish of final season. The Jets will now transfer ahead with veteran Greg Zuerlein as their kicker.
During the final couple of seasons, the Jets have had a revolving door of kickers. Alex Kessman and Matt Ammendola have been the 2 kickers earlier than the membership signed Pineiro final December.
In 5 video games in 2021, Pineiro made all eight of his area purpose makes an attempt and 9 of 10 further level tries. But all through coaching camp, Pineiro was coping with again stiffness that stored him off form. That allowed Zuerlein to win the job. Zuerlein has additionally been excellent through the preseason (1-for-1 on area purpose makes an attempt and 4-for-4 on further level makes an attempt).
The Jets will hope they’re getting the Zuerlein who was a first-team All-Pro and Pro Bowler with the Los Angeles Rams in 2017, not the kicker who was inconsistent with the Dallas Cowboys in 2021, which led to the crew releasing him in May.
In addition to Pineiro, the Jets additionally launched security Elijah Riley, offensive linemen Isaiah Williams and Caleb Benenoch and linebacker Kai Nacua as they needed to trim their roster from 85 to 80 gamers earlier than the 4 p.m. deadline.
The remaining set of roster cuts will probably be Aug. 30, two days after the final preseason recreation towards the Giants, as all NFL groups must lower from 80 gamers all the way down to 53.
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