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Look, we all know Aaron Glenn is a riverboat gambler who doesn’t coach in fear, but his decision to go for it on fourth-and-two from his own 42, down just 10-7 in the third quarter, turned out to be a dubious decision.
The Ravens proceeded to score on a six-play, 42-yard drive to go up 17-7.
“That decision kind of flipped this game,” said CBS analyst Jason McCourty, who was providing color commentary on the game with Charles Davis.
Davis nailed it when he said about the decision, “Understand it based on their record, but not how the game was being played today.”
What Davis was essentially saying was that when a team is 2-8, he understands taking risks like that, but not in a 10-7 game that was a defensive battle, a field-position game up to that point.
There are times to roll the dice and go for it on your own 42, but perhaps this wasn’t one of them . . .
I have written this before, and I’m going to write it again – the Jets trade of cornerback Michael Carter to Philadelphia for wide receiver John Metchie, is a steal of biblical proportions.
The Jets also got a sixth-round pick in the deal and gave up a seventh-rounder.
So many people in the media are so quick to tell us how Eagles GM Howie Roseman makes one brilliant move after another.
And there is no doubt he’s made a lot of good ones, but this wasn’t one of them.
Metchie has caught touchdown passes for the Jets in back-to-back games.
He led the Jets with six catches today.
Nick Saban was one of the best recruiters in college football history, with a great eye for talent, and he signed this guy for Alabama out of New Jersey prep school, and Metchie had a terrific career in Tuscaloosa. He likely would have been a first-round pick, but suffered a serious knee injury in his last year in college, so he wasn’t 100 percent for the draft, slipping to the second round in 2022, and was picked by Houston.
Then he was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia, as a rookie, so he missed the 2022 season getting treatment. After getting cleared, he was a backup in 2023-24, hauling in 40 passes.
In August, he was traded to Philadelphia, and then in late October to the Jets.
I understand the Eagles are deep at receiver and have a diva they have to feed the ball to a lot, but talent is talent.
How did they not see this guy’s talent?
He’s a good route-runner with terrific hands, impressive short-area quickness, and a high football IQ, and high real IQ for that matter.
The New York media had a chance to interview him Metchie recently, and wow, is he impressive.
Born in Taiwan to a Nigerian father and Taiwanese mother, he moved to Ghana with his family, then Canada, and went to high school for a few years in the States in Maryland and New Jersey.
So he’s pretty worldly and mature.
This guy has the potential to be one of the NFL’s top slot receivers. He’s perfect for the slot with his size and short-area quickness.
He’s very QB-friendly with his ability to get open fast with his quick twitch, elite route-running skills, and ability to find soft spots in zones, as you saw on TD passes from Justin Fields in New England and Tyrod Taylor in Baltimore.
The Eagles have made a lot of good moves under Roseman, but trading this guy wasn’t one of them.
Bad for the Eagles.
Good for the Jets . . .
The Jets have the potential to have a very good receiving corps in 2026 with AD Mitchell and Garrett Wilson outside, and Metchie in the slot . . .
Not the best game for the Jets’ two young offensive tackles, who had been playing well as a tandem.
Hey, it happens.
On a late series, they had issues on back-to-back plays to end a drive.
Around the two-minute warning in the fourth, edge-rusher Dremont Jones beat Olu Fashanu for a sack on third down, and then Kyle Van Noy dipped under Armand Membou to pressure Taylor into an incompletion on fourth down.
Look, both are having good seasons, but this game will certainly provide some good film for the two youngsters to learn from in their maturation process . . .
November 23, 2025
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