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After the Jets went for it on fourth-and-two in the third quarter, down 10-7, and failed to convert, Baltimore drove 42 yards for a TD.
But while there are no moral victories in the NFL, something happened defensively for the Jets on this drive which was pretty impressive.
Inside the three-yard line, before Henry finally kicked it in for a TD, Jets cornerback Jarvis Brownlee had a pair of plays that show you something about his level of toughness.
On first-and-three from the three, he stopped Henry for no gain. Then, on second-and-three from the three, he stopped Henry after a gain of one.
Keep in mind this is 6-2, 252 (Henry) against 5-10, 194 (Brownlee).
Brownlee is one tough hombre who is not afraid to “put his face in the fan” as a tackler . . .
Jermaine Johnson went at it with some Ravens fans/bloggers today on Twitter (X).
I usually don’t get into Twitter (X) wars because they are generally petty, and a lot of it is trolling, but this exchange was kind of intriguing from a football standpoint.
“Ravens Nation Live” which has 65,000 followers, tweeted, “Ronnie Stanley dominated Jets EDGE Will McDonald IV on Sunday, allowing just 1 pressure on 22 pass-block snaps. On the right side, Roger Rosengarten held his primary matchup, Jermaine Johnson to zero pressures on 18 snaps.”
Johnson responded, in defense of himself, “I cooked 70 even with chip help lol. Having 8 back there saved him.”
70 is the right tackle, Rosengarten. Stanley is the left tackle.
The first part seemed accurate – Stanley definitely won his battle with McDonald, who had no stats listed on the post-game stat sheet. Tough matchup for him at 6-4, 240 against Stanley, who is 6-6, 310. Some would argue that McDonald, with his size, is more of a situational pass rusher than a full-time end.
As for Johnson’s claim that he “cooked 70,” not sure that is entirely accurate. Now Rosengarten didn’t dominate Johnson by any stretch, so the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle – Johnson was okay – he made some plays (4 assisted tackles). That “zero pressures on 18 snaps” is probably a little misleading.” There was more to the story than that.
As for Rosengarten being saved by #8, Lamar Jackson, some might debate that since the QB was clearly not his normal self as a runner, dealing with hamstring and knee issues this year, he wasn’t in much of a position to “save” his line, at least not like he often does when he’s healthy.
Another Raven fan/blogger, Cole Jackson, who has about 20,000 followers, played off the word “cooked” and wrote about Henry’s two-yard TD run in the third quarter:
“Speaking of getting cooked, who’s #11 on the Jets? Patrick Ricard just planted some new grass seed with his face!”
Ricard, a 300-pound fullback, yes, you read that right, a 300-pound fullback, pancaked Johnson on this TD run.
Johnson feels Jackson doesn’t understand football.
“I know y’all don’t know ball,” Johnson tweeted at Jackson. “On this call my gap is inside of 70 (Rosengarten). When I sensed him and 42 (Ricard) trying to wash the line down I played back into 42 and I put him in the gap, closing the b and c gap the best I can using his body. Common football knowledge, if they’re trying to wash you put his body in the gap. But I don’t expect y’all to know this lol.”
I can’t really comment on what Johnson’s responsibility was on this play because I don’t have access to the playbook. So I will take his word on this. You could argue the bigger problem on this play was Michael Clemons, whose pad level was too high, and got easily pushed inside by Rosengarten, and Quincy Williams took a poor angle to the ball carrier, running around tight Mark Andrews, instead of taking him on, and taking himself out of the play. Williams ran around Andrews’ outside shoulder, and Henry ran inside, so Williams was in no position to make a play.
The coach will never get asked about these issues with Clemons and Williams because it’s not on most people’s radar, but how each performed on this play as far from ideal. Once again, not knowing all the details of the defensive play-call, based on my eye-test, I would blame Clemons and Williams a lot more on this play than Johnson.
Questions about Clemons getting washed out of too many run plays for a man his size, or Williams guessing gaps and running around blocks, might be good questions for Glenn or Steve Wilks, but don’t expect it to happen, Maybe those kind of questions would have been asked 10-20 years ago on this beat, but not now. Most of the questions now are just long philosophical queries – not a lot of meat on the bones like yesteryear.
Some would argue that Johnson debating people on Twitter (X) about his play is chasing windmills and not worth his time. Others would argue he’s just defending his reputation.
Would I do it? No, but he’s from a different generation than I am, a generation that grew up on social media and has different sensibilities, so who am I to judge?
November 24, 2025
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