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Once a hamstring, always a hamstring . . .
Jamison Crowder had those issues in Washington, and once you injure hamstrings, they are really never the same.
Of course you can come back from them, and play for stretches, even long stretches, but these problems tend to pop back up at times, once it happens the first time.
In Washington training camps in both 2015 an 2016, Crowder missed time with hamstring issues.
“During camp, especially with me being a receiver, I do a lot of running, obviously, run a lot of routes,” Crowder said in the summer of 2016. “It just gets a little fatigued.”
Then in 2017, he suffered a hamstring injury in-season.
November, 17, 2017: “The Washington Redskins have downgraded wide receiver Jamison Crowder (hamstring) to out for Sunday’s game against the Seattle Seahawks. Crowder did not travel with the team.”
And now he has another one with the Jets.
Once again, once you hurt a hamstring, it’s never exactly the same.
And he’s coming off a training camp and first game, where he did a lot of running, perhaps extra, due to the Jets shortage of receivers.
His replacement this week in the slot, Braxton Berrios, had a very good camp. He had a couple of days where he as uncoverable, if that is a word.
He has a similar skillset to Crowder – low center of gravity, good short-area quickness, and does a nice job of cutting away form cornerbacks in a flash.
I’m not saying he’s as good as Crowder, at least yet, but he’s more than capable of doing a very solid job for the Jets on Sunday.
People will make a big deal about the Jets injuries at receiver, and make Sam Darnold into a victim, but remember: “Quarterbacks make receivers, receivers don’t make quarterbacks.”
With Breshad Perriman, Chris Hogan, Berrios and Josh Malone, along with a good group of tight ends, he has enough weaponry to get by, especially against a 49ers secondary down two starting corners – Richard Sherman and Jason Verrett.
I will leave the excuse making to others. Darnold needs to play a lot better than last week, speed up his internal clock, go through his progressions more smoothly and throw with more consistent accuracy . . .
The Jets’ offensive is obviously going to have a challenge this week against Nick Bosa, Arik Armstead and company, but honestly, they weren’t bad in their first game together last week.
Becton was pretty solid. Three plays he would want back –
In the third quarter, Mario Addison beat Becton for a sack.
Late in the third quarter, Jerry Hughes slipped under Becton, forcing Darnold to roll right, and he ran out of bounds for a loss of five.
On the first play of the fourth quarter, Addison beat Becton with an inside move, but Addison grabbed Frank Gore’s facemask for a 15-yard penalty. The play worked out for the Jets, but Becton still got beat on an inside move.
But the thing he did very well throughout the game was keep his pad level low, which can be a challenge for an offensive tackle as tall as Becton (6-7).
One other thing on the Jets’ new line – I really like the center Connor McGovern – he’s power, athletic, smart and has great size for the position. He had one of the key blocks on Josh Adams two-yard TD run late in the Buffalo game.
September 18, 2020
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