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A heaping helping of Jets Whispers . . .
It looks like the return of Kevin Pierre-Louis is at a good time for the Jets, because the Jets’ #3 ILB Neville Hewitt was held out of practice today with some kind of knee injury. He had a medical sleeve of some kind of his entire left leg.
So the Jets might need Pierre-Louis as the first guy off the bench at ILB.
By the way, I had a chance to talk to Pierre-Louis today for the first time – very impressive guy, extremely bright. The speedy Stamford, CT. native should be able to help the Jets in sub-packages and on special teams . . .
Watching the Jets’ punt return practice today, backup punt returner Trenton Cannon dropped a punt.
I have said this a million times, he’s not an NFL punt returner right now. He didn’t do in college, and needs a lot of work. He is a good kick returner and third down back, and that is fine.
The point here is simple – if something happens to Andre Roberts in a game, they might need to have a veteran receiver or defensive back, with experience as a punt returner, to go back to catch it.
I like Cannon as a prospect, but punt returning isn’t his deal right now, and the Jets need to stop forcing the issue . . .
Jets starting OLB Josh Martin returned to practice today, but had a red sleeve over his helmet, which means nobody could touch him.
He’s still in the concussion protocol. It’s unclear if he will play on Sunday . . .
Jets WR Terrelle Pryor really wants to wear #1, but the league won’t let him, so he he is wearing #16 on game day.
But in practice he is still wearing #1, the number he wore in training camp and the preseason.
Why can’t he wear #1?
When teams get to the regular season, wideouts are limited to numbers from 10-19 and 80-89. Only quarterbacks, kickers and punters can wear single digits.
In the preseason, with 90-man rosters, the number rules get relaxed so that wide receivers can wear numbers in single digits. Remember Keyshawn Johnson wanted to wear #3 and the league wouldn’t let him so he went to #19 (same as Andre Roberts this year) . . .
Dolphins QB Ryan Tannehill has completed at least 70 percent of his passes in three straight games and five of his last six. This is all under Adam Gase, who took over in 2016, but Tannehill missed last season due to a knee injury suffered in the summer of 2017.
Gase was considered a QB whisperer who was hired to take Tannehill’s game to the next level. He’s clearly improved his accuracy . . .
Speaking of Gase, he made a great point today about Sam Darnold’s successful first NFL game in terms of a lot of first-reads being open.
“I thought (Offensive Coordinator/QBs Coach) Jeremy (Bates) did a good job of calling the game,” Gase said. “He put [Darnold] in great position. Guys were springing free; guys were where they’re supposed to be. That’s a rookie quarterback’s best friend right there where you get to (progression) number one and he’s open and you’re able to make a good throw.”
So well put – an open first-read is a rookie quarterback’s best friend.
September 12, 2018
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