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New Jersey – It looks like the New York Jets are going to face journeyman quarterback T.J. Yates on Sunday at Houston’s NRG Stadium . . .
Somebody leaked to Ian Rapoport that Brian Hoyer is very unlikely to play due to a concussion. Probably Hoyer’s agent.
While I’m not putting Hoyer in Canton, he is better than Yates, who has only been with the Texans for three weeks. He was signed when Ryan Mallett was released for missing a team charter to Miami.
People will point to Yates huge 22-yard touchdown pass on Monday to beat the Bengals.
That play was all about WR DeAndre Hopkins. Yates chucked it down the left sideline and Hopkins made a catch that was beyond belief – one of the best catches of the NFL season. Adam Jones had great coverage, and Hopkins went up and made an astounding leaping one-handed catch.
The Jets are getting a huge break today with the news that Hoyer isn’t going to play.
They are facing a guy who was out of league up until three weeks, and hasn’t started a game since 2011.
And keep in mind the Texans running game is awful, so this guy just signed off the street isn’t going to get a lot of help from his ground game.
If the Jets lose to this guy, they aren’t a very good team . . .
And keep in mind something else – the Jets are going to have a physical advantage in this game.
The Jets obviously played on Thursday Night Football. The Texans played on the road on Monday Night Football.
The Texans got back in in the middle of the night or morning (around 3-4 am) on Tuesday.
The Jets had 10 days to rest and prepare for this game, and the Texans had a truncated week.
This is a bad scheduling set-up for the Texans, and it should benefit the Jets . . .
Watching Ryan Fitzpatrick today, it was really wasn’t a lot different from before his surgery.
He’s still got his left thumb braced, and his doing everything on his left hand with this four fingers.
So while now he’s post-surgery, and his thumb should be much better in a few weeks, right now, his left hand situation is basically the same, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. He beat Jacksonville with a left thumb brace.
To me, he certainly looks like a guy who is going to play . . .
I asked Todd Bowles today if Antonio Cromartie is healthy, will he start?
Bowles with no hesitation said he would.
I asked him why he would started.
He said he earned it.
When was that, he didn’t have a good summer.
Look, I don’t people to feel I have an agenda against Cromartie. I do not.
I’m just think a change is needed opposite Revis. The Jets are too old at the starting cornerback spots, and both guys are having trouble with quick, fast, younger receivers cutting away from them.
I think they can get by with Revis starting opposite a younger, faster, quicker player and they have options. But to go old at both positions is a bad plan.
But when it comes to Cromartie, Bowles is very much like Rex Ryan, “Loyal to the point of defiance.”
I don’t think he wants to insult Cromartie. In a results-based business, you can’t worry about that.
November 18, 2015
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