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You have to give Sheldon Richardson credit.
He’s clearly not healthy, but he just sucks it up, and continues to play well.
He spent a long in the trainer’s room after the game.
One of his shoulders is kind of messed up, but he’s inner city St. Louis-tough, and just keeps rolling along.
He finished today’s game with a sack, two tackles for losses and a quarterback hit . . .
I saw it coming all week in practice, and was surprised.
Actually, knowing Rex’s loyalty, I wasn’t surprised.
We all knew Dee Milliner wasn’t going to start this week, after getting pulled against New England, and struggling against both the Pats and Tampa Bay.
But it was Kyle Wilson taking his place all week in practice, not Darrin Walls.
Walls is the better player, but Rex is fiercely loyal to Wilson.
So it was Wilson starting for Milliner, not Walls.
Weird.
Rex made a change in the fourth quarter, after Wilson imploded on a series early in the fourth quarter.
Loyalty to the point of defiance . . .
The game should not have been as close as it was.
Do you realize the Bills essentially played this whole game without their two starting corners – Stephan Gilmore (out) and Leodis McKelvin (hurt early in the game) and their nickel Ron Brooks (out).
Wow, is that a lot to overcome.
They actually had to move a safety to corner.
Then they lost two of their best players early in the second half – nose tackle Marcel Dareus and running back C.J. Spiller.
If the Jets weren’t so wildly inconsistent on offense, and didn’t commit 20 penalties, this could have been a blowout.
While the Jets should be happy to be 2-1, they better stop playing so sloppy, especially when they face better quarterbacks, or this season could head south pretty fast . . .
While the Bills were ravaged by injuries in this game (not only did they lose a starting cornerback, a starting nose tackle and starting running back, but a starting guard in Kraig Urbik, and a starting defensive end Alex Carrington with what looks like a blown out knee), the Jets came out in great health. The only injury they suffered was Chris Ivory re-injuring his problematic hamstring, which bothered him all summer . . .
This is the best defensive line play I’ve seen from the Jets in a long time.
The Jets are absolutely loaded up front with Mo Wilkerson (2 sacks today), Richardson, Quinton Coples (1 TFL and 2 quarterback hits) and Damon Harrison – they are active, athletic and disruptive. This has turned into the strength of the team . . .
The Jets have to consider bringing back Joe McKnight or Mike Edwards.
Clyde Gates might run 4.3, but that doesn’t make him a good kick returner.
He’s too tentative and doesn’t break tackles . . .
Kyle Wilson was all set to address the media at his locker, but the whisked away by a PR person as he was about to begin.
One source said, Rex wanted to talk to him.
He did eventually come back and address the press.
September 23, 2013
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