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The Redskins’ defense made a lot of . . .
. . . mental errors in coverage, and Sam Darnold did a nice job making them pay.
A perfect example was on Darnold’s six-yard TD pass to Robby Anderson in the second quarter.
Darnold ran a bootleg to the right side and threw a TD to Anderson in the deep right side of the end zone. The Redskins had three cover guys on that side, and the Jets had two receivers over there, so how was Anderson so wide open? That is just terrible defense. CB Josh Norman clearly thought he was getting help from safety Montae Nicholson, and he didn’t get it. Maybe Nicholson was distracted. Google him.
On Daniel Brown’s 20-yard TD catch in the first quarter, safety Landon Collins jumped a shorter route, and Brown was wide open behind him.
I could go on and on.
So many mistakes by the Redskins defense and the Jets did a heck of a job of taking advantage . . .
One of the strangest things I seen this season was Redskins left tackle Donald Penn going apoplectic after guard Brandon Scherff was called for holding Henry Anderson bringing back a 67-yard pass from pass from QB Dwayne Haskins to WR Terry McLaurin.
Penn’s temper tantrum that led to an unsportsmanlike penalty was bizarre. The penalty wasn’t even debatable. In fact, you could have called Scherff for two penalties – both holding and face-masking. He was just called for holding.
“He’s a clubhouse lawyer,” said one of the Redskins radio announcers said about Penn.
His tantrum made no sense. His teammate was 100 percent guilty as charged . . .
So many legals picks being executed these days in the NFL passing game.
On the Jets’ second series, Darnold completed a 16-yard pass over the middle to Ryan Griffin.
Griffin was wide open over middle, a big reason was Vyncint Smith legal pick taking out the man covering Griffin.
Smith didn’t have a great game with a fumbled kick and a dropped pass, but his pick was the key to this Griffin completion . . .
We broke recently about the Jets aggressively putting guys on IR who had chances to return later in the season. You saw that again with Ryan Kalil being put on IR over the weekend, and the Jets promoting center Leo Koloamatangi from the practice squad.
Joe Douglas, with the approval of Christopher Johnson, is moving injured older veterans off the roster faster than the Jets have in the past, and adding younger promising players, with an eye toward the future.
Koloamatangi is an interesting prospect; right out of central casting to play NFL center at 6-4, 305, with a nice thick build to deal with NFL nose tackles. He’s also very bright. Koloamatangi spent last year with the Detriot Lions, but was waived on the final cutdown this summer with an injury settlement. The injury was never revealed. The Jets added him to their practice squad on October 30 when he got healthy and promoted him to the active roster on Saturday.
Another example of this was speedy linebacker B.J. Bello who was Jets signed to their regular roster last week when Brian Winters was put on IR. Bello had two impressive kick cover tackles in Washington.
Not saying the Jets are going to land Pro Bowlers this time of year, but this proactive approach of putting injured older players like Kalil, Trumaine Johnson and so forth on IR, and using their spots to add talent they can look at now, who can help them in 2020 and beyond, is an approach that has some merit.
November 18, 2019
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