Hot Reads

On the play

Against Kansas City, Sam Darnold got sacked, and aggravated his injured shoulder, but it should never have happened.

And this sack was not the fault of the offensive line.

I’m not saying the offensive line had a great game, but this play, wasn’t on them.

Two defensive backs blitzed from the right side, all the linemen were tied up blocking other players. So you can’t blame them for these two defensive backs blitzing.

And since those two defensive backs who were blitzing, and abandoned the short left side, and Jeff Smith was wide open as a hot read on the short left side, but the QB didn’t throw it to him. But instead, ran up the middle, and took the big hit.

So just like on the sack when he hurt his shoulder originally, this should not have happened. On the sack he hurt his shoulder against Denver, he had five seconds to throw, Lawrence Cager was open, but he didn’t see him, but even if he didn’t see him, he needed to scramble or throw it away, and get out of harms way.

You can talk about the lack of weapons and linemen,  but on the two plays he got hurt, it wasn’t on the weapons or the line.

He must do a better job on his hot reads in blitzing situations . . .

Getting back to the weapons situations, it was a little surprising that WR Vyncint Smith played only 13 plays. Yes, that Vyncint Smith, who is 6-3, and runs 4.3. Wouldn’t it be kind of interesting to see him team up with Denzel Mims, who is also 6-3 with 4.3 speed?

Well, he hardly played. Why? I can’t explain it. Instead, Jeff Smith, played a lot more than Vyncint Smith. Jeff Smith played 48 snaps. Jeff Smith is a solid, but is he worthy of 35 more plays than Vyncint Smith? No.

That made little sense.

Then, you want to talk about weapons, why didn’t Jaleel Scott play? Who is Jaleel Scott? He’s a 6-5, 225-pound receiver who the Jets called up from their practice squad last week. He was a fourth-round pick of the Baltimore Ravens in 2018.

I got to watch him up close at the 2018 Senior Bowl practices. He was one of the standouts. He’s one of those huge receivers with an enormous wingspan, the kind of guy who is a real weapon in the red zone. You throw it to an area, and he will go up and grab it over the defensive back.

The Jets couldn’t have used a guy like that in Kansas City?

Why call up a guy, with this skill set, from the practice squad, and then not play him?

There is something amiss here – almost a disconnect between the personnel department and the coaching staff. Everybody was complaining after the game about the lack of weapons for Darnold. Okay, so why not give more time to Vyncint Smith, and get the massive Scott out there, and throw him so fades and 50-50 balls?

The personnel department goes out and gets the coaches Vyncint Smith and Scott, who have unique triangle numbers, but then they are underutilized.

We all knew Denzel Mims was going to start in this game, but why after Mims, why was it the Jeff Smith-Braxton Berrios show, with Vyncint Smith and Scott getting eschewed.

Just like when Josh Andrews played for Alex Lewis against Buffalo, and had issues due to his size, when the team had three bigger options to replace Lewis with, in Conor McDermott, Jimmy Murray and Cam Clark.

All Joe Douglas can do is get the players. He doesn’t coach the team or decide who plays on game day. That is the coach.

Something needs to change in terms of this set-up . . .

As you know now, the Jets traded Avery Williamson and a seventh-round pick to the Pittsburgh Steelers, for a 2022 fifth-round pick.

As we mentioned yesterday, it’s time to get Peanut Onwuasor on the field at inside linebacker. Sunday in Kansas City was another bad day for linebacker pass coverage for Gang Green. Now they can get Onwuasor on the field, and added a fifth-round pick, to boot, Williamson is a good run defender and blitzer, but struggles in coverage.

November 2, 2020

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