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Florham Park – A lot of good stuff to get into today in Dan’s Training Camp Notebook . . .
The Jets’ punter Lachlan Edwards needs to be more consistent.
I’m saw a couple of very bad punts today.
I don’t want to make too much out of a couple bad punts, but this isn’t the first practice I’ve seen this.
If he wants to establish himself as a long-term punter, he needs to even out his performance . . .
Bruce Carter had an interception of Josh McCown in the one-on-one part of practice. He is probably the Jets’ best coverage linebacker as of today.
Let’s not forget he had five picks for the Dallas Cowboys in 2014.
In this same one-on-one drill, Jets ILB Darren Lee got torched over the middle by tight end Jason Vander Laan. It wasn’t even close.
Lee needs to improve his play in coverage. He should not be getting beat this bad by a guy who was a college quarterback who the Jets made a tight end after the 2016 draft . . .
Jets right tackle Brent Qvale is having a superb training camp. I thought that Brandon Shell was a lock to be the Jets’ starting right tackle on opening day in Buffalo, but now I’m not so sure. Qvale’s technique is outstanding . . .
In a one-on-one pass rushing drill between defensive linemen/linebackers and offensive linemen, Lorenzo Mauldin had a play that made his position coach Kevin Greene go crazy, in a good way.
Mauldin had an effective bull-rush on Shell, pushing him back on skates.
Greene went nuts yelling, “All Day Long!”
The reason Greene was so excited was that he wants Mauldin to be more physical as a pass rusher, and he did just that on this play.
Mauldin isn’t one of those pass-rushers who is going to take the corner on tackles with top-shelf quickness, and Greene knows that, so he needs what he did on this play more.
Greene was a great hire by Todd Bowles. Not only is he a master at pass rushing technique, but he has nonpareil enthusiasm on the practice field, which is going to rubbing off on his charges . . .
In this pass rush drills, the outside linebacker that might have been the most impressive was Towson’s Frank Beltre. In the spring, the Jets had moved the former CFL player to inside linebacker, but with the addition of Spencer Paysinger, the Jets moved him back to OLB. Beltre, who spent the first 11 years of his life in the Dominican Republic, is an explosive athlete, with a powerful built lower body that gives him a nice burst off the edge.
Greene actually pointed out one of Beltre’s rushes to Dylan Donahue and told him that is how you do it . . .
A bread-and-butter route in the West Coast Offense is the quick slant, and one guy who has been very good on this play in camp is Charone Peake. And he’s built like you want a receiver to look running this quick slant at 6-3, 207 pounds . . .
K Ross Martin looked much better than Chandler Catanzaro in the Jets’ field goal competition today. Catanzaro missed two relatively short kicks. Martin hit from 55 to wrap up this part of practice.
August 3, 2017
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