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For a receiver, Tim Patrick is an off-the-charts blocker.
It’s hard to imagine many receivers on the planet who are better blockers than this guy.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons the injury bug has hit Patrick quite a bit over his decade in the league. He plays the game like every play is his last, with his “hair on fire” to use an old scouting phrase.
This guy blocks like a tight end.
On the Jets game-winning 22-yard TD run by Braelon Allen late in the fourth, Patrick had a tremendous block on the second level on safety Grant Delpit, who was in hot pursuit of Allen and had a good angle on him. Fantastic block!
Early in the game, on a 13-yard run up the middle by Allen, Patrick was called for holding. If you have a chance to watch this play again, look at the ferocity of the block that he was called for holding. We all know most holding calls are subjective. OMG, the way he took on this defender – wow – punished him a way you rarely see from a wide receiver blocking.
This guy plays the game the way it was meant to be played . . .
Speaking of tough players, Jets defensive end Joseph Ossai is hurting, man, but it’s hard to keep this guy down.
He’s dealing with plantar fasciitis in his foot to start with, and today he suffered an ankle injury and had to be helped off. Surprisingly, he returned. The way he was helped off, it looked like he was done for the day. Then after making a tackle, he limped off the field again.
So now he’s dealing with plantar fasciitis and a sprained ankle, but this guy is so freakin tough, and such a team player, he’ll probably be out there next Sunday in New England . . .
They expected about 60,000 in the house for the Browns-Jets game, but it didn’t look like it hit that number with the game played in a rainstorm . . .
The Jets’ run defense had a nice bounceback game today after clunkers against Detroit and Chicago.
Browns featured back Quinshon Judkins had 14 carries for 44 yards.
The Browns finished with 96 yards rushing, but 40 of those were by Deshaun Watson running around, avoiding the Jets’ constant pressure, including 20 on one play.
All of the Jets’ defensive linemen, across the board, were better against the run this week than in Chicago or Detroit . . .
As for Watson, not taking anything away from the Jets’ strong defensive performance today, but the veteran QB was terrible today.
During the Browns’ 3-1 start, especially the last three games before Sunday’s contest against the Jets, Watson looked like he was perhaps back to his Houston form.
But today, as one long-time Browns observer put it, “He looked like the player we saw before this year in Cleveland.”
It’s intersting though, that even if Watson had continued his solid play, the observer told us that there is no way he would be on the Browns next year, even if the team makes the playoffs.
Watson has an enormous balloon payment in his contract next year, and it would be impossible for the Browns to keep him from a salary cap standpoint.
But even if there was a small possibility he’d be back, a game like today’s kind of ends that.
Man, did he struggle today . . .
As for Geno Smith, he was somewhat pedestrian today, finishing 17-30 for 182 yards on 1 TD.
He was sacked four times today, but some of those were coverage sacks.
Smith has not thrown an interception this season.
He’s done a decent job for the Jets, but he’s very, very conservative with his passing approach.
He’s like the William F. Buckley of quarterbacks.
“He’s too careful,” said one long-time Jets observer. “It’s drilled into this head. Maybe it’s because he has a defensive-minded head coach.”
Look, the quarterback play the Jets are getting from Smith is much better than they got from the trio of quarterbacks they used last year.
But you could argue, perhaps sometimes, he can push the envelope a tad, and throw more guys open, more 50-50 balls, more anticipation throws.
You can beat a team like Cleveland with Watson with his arch-conservative approach, but it might not work against better quarterbacks . . .
Allen, above, addressing the media after the game.
On his game-winning TD run, you have to give a lot of credit to Jets left guard Jordan Meredith for opening the initial hole on the left side.
It’s been a little up-and-down for Meredith since taking over for the injured Dylan Parham at left guard a couple of weeks ago, but this was a huge play for the veteran guard/center at a key moment in a must-win for the Jets.
October 11, 2026
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