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New Jersey – Time for a heaping helping of Website Whispers with a variety of notes on some different subjects. Let’s get it started . . .
Not to put a damper on the Jets win over Cleveland, which they earned, but it certainly helped their cause a great deal that the Browns were without star tight end Jordan Cameron.
He has 75 catches and seven touchdowns this season.
He’s 6-5, 250 and runs 4.53 (that is a faster forty time than Jeremy Kerley ran at the combine).
Cameron is similar to New Orleans tight end Jimmy Graham and Denver’s Julius Thomas. All are former college basketball players who made the transition to tight end effectively.
Cameron actually went to BYU on a basketball scholarship, but decided to transfer to USC to play football.
He’s really good, and the kind of tight end who gives the Jets big problems.
I really don’t think the Jets coverage of tight ends by their linebackers has improved that much this year.
Cameron is the kind of guy who usually gives them big trouble, like the player they face this week, Charles Clay, who killed them in the first Jets-Dolphins matchup.
Look – the Jets won the game, and they deserve a lot of credit, but the Browns not having Cameron was a big break, along with the absence of slot receiver Davone Bess, who has their worst nightmare when he was with the Dolphins . . .
While Brian Winters was far from perfect in the Jets-Browns game, he showed some flashes, and displayed some of the skills that led the Jets to draft him in the third round.
Here are three examples in the first half –
On a third-and-one, on the Jets’ second possession, Chris Ivory ran up the middle for a gain of two. Brian Winters had the key block on this play on DT Phil Taylor.
In the second quarter, Chris Ivory had a gain of 21 to the right side. Brian Winters pulled right and mauled LB D’Qwell Jackson.
Late in the first half, Bilal Powell had a 39-yard run up the middle. Winters did a nice job on the second level and blocked safety T.J. Ward.
He needs to work on his consistency, but does have a chance at being a good one for many years if he cuts down on the mental errors and cleans up his technique . . .
Marty Mornhinweg had a great day calling plays in the Jets win over the Browns.
He consistently dialed up amazing first reads for Geno Smith.
Two perfect examples of the Jets second quarter touchdown drive
Smith hit Kerley for a gain of 22 on a crossing route over the middle. It was the perfect first read – Jeremy Kerley was being covered by D’Qwell Jackson. Kerley. This drive ended with a Smith TD pass to David Nelson on a post route in middle of end zone that was the first read and it worked out well.
If the Jets make a heading coach change, the new coach would be foolish not to retain Mornhinweg.
Not only is he a good coordinator, but if they Jets change offenses, it will be their fourth offense in four years. That is awful for the players, especially the young ones.
December 25, 2013
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