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A caller to SiriusXM NFL Radio was talking about how their team has the Jets on the schedule coming up, and how that should be an easy game.
Host Pat Kirwan responded, “Yeah, but they got Percy Harvin.”
Kirwan, who I have known for 20 years, was clearly being sarcastic.
Kirwan is best friends with Pete Carroll. The relationship developed in the early 90’s, when Pat and Pete were on Bruce Coslet’s staff with the Jets.
Nobody in the media, nobody, knows more about what is going on with the Seahawks than Kirwan.
At another point of the same show, Kirwan said, “Some guys who just don’t get it and had to be shipped lately.”
You could say Pat has an agenda because he’s friends with Pete. Perhaps, but he also knows the inner-workings of the Seahawks’ organization.
So when Pat says Percy, “doesn’t get it,” that means Pete feels Percy, “doesn’t get it.”
We will see how this works out, but let’s not be naïve and just ask like the past is the past, and Harvin is a new man in Florham Park. It’s not as simple as that . . .
The Jets are going to use a limited package for Harvin with simple reads. He has very little knowledge of their playbook, which was obvious today when Geno had to help him line-up correctly on a play that I was watching . . .
I think it’s fair to say that the Bills will expect bubble screens to Harvin. That is one of his best plays. So it will be interesting to see if the Jets can make hay with this play-call with the Bills knowing darn well this is going to be dialed up . . .
It’s interesting how things change. When the Jets claimed cornerback Phillip Adams on waivers, not much was made about it. It was looked at as the Jets taking a flyer on another street corner, since they had such a need at the position.
Now, the Jets and their fans are keeping their fingers crossed he can play against the Bills. Adams, who is currently starting for the Jets and doing a solid job, is dealing with a groin injury.
I asked him if he thinks he will play.
“I should be able to go,” Adams told Jets Confidential . . .
Jets wide receiver T.J. Graham had a real edge to him when I interviewed him today.
He clearly has a bone to pick with the Jets’ next opponent, the Buffalo Bills, his former team.
I asked him what he could tell me about the Bills’ corners, a few he faced in practice a great deal over the last couple of years.
“I will show you on Sunday,” said Graham.
The Bills are very average at cornerback, but I’ve said that before, and it didn’t mean much against opponents like Detroit and Chicago, so I’m not going to predict the Jets can exploit this.
But with so much focus on Harvin as a speedy new weapon for the Jets, people are forgetting about Graham, who has world class speed.
With David Nelson (released) and Greg Salas (injured) out of the picture this Sunday, expect a big role for Graham.
Graham knows these corners, and he is highly-motivated to show the Bills they made a mistake by cutting him this summer.
Don’t be surprised that when he talk after the Jets-Bills game, we are talking about a big play or two for Graham, a reverse, a deep pass, something of that nature . . .
There is no way Salas is going to play this week. The dude has a broken wrist. The cast he’s wearing just keeps his fingers free. You really need wrist flexion to catch a football properly . . .
October 23, 2014
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