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The Jets have a young, athletic faster linebacker who should play more, and his name is Chazz Surratt.
Third-and-15 early in the Jets-Browns game, Joe Flacco hit a wide-open David Njoku on a crossing route. The tight end was WIDE OPEN, and the play went for 35 yards. For some reason, Mosley ran to cover WR David Bell on the short left side, but CB Michael Carter seemed to have him covered, so Njoku cut over the middle and was wide open. Then three plays later, Flacco hit Njoku in back of Mosley for a 28-yard gain. Then late in the first quarter, Njoku beat Mosley on a crossing route for a 48-yard gain.
This is far from an ideal quarter for a linebacker in coverage.
Where is the accountability?
You bench WR Allen Lazard, you cut RB Michael Carter, but Mosley goes unscathed after coverage like this, and Mekhi Becton is a penalty machine and gives up myriad sacks, and he keeps his job?
Mosley is clearly a liability in coverage at this point, but since he’s the captain, and introduced last at home games, perhaps they don’t want to hurt his image by pulling him sometimes.
I’m not saying totally bench him, but how about using Surratt or Sam Eguavoen sometimes in coverage situations?
If the Jets pay Mosley $17 million next year, that would make no sense.
You can get an inside linebacker at about $4-6 million for one year to do what he does without a dropoff.
If people want to just buy the hype and not watch the tape, what are you going to do . . .
A lot of fans want Jets offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett to be fired.
Well, we all know that it isn’t going to happen, since Aaron Rodgers is going to be the Jets QB next year, barring injury, and he loves Hackett.
Injuries, or no injuries, you could argue Hackett has done a substandard job as the Jets’ offensive coordinator.
You can look no further than the fourth quarter against Cleveland, down double digits, and there was no urgency, running the clock down, and then throwing short passes to running backs. What kind of comeback offense is this for late in a game? You milk the clock and throw checkdowns to running backs? What kind of situational football is this?
But all that being said, Hackett can be a decent offensive coordinator with Rodgers at QB, and let me explain.
As we written before, Rodgers is the king of audibles at the line, so even if you don’t love Hackett’s play-calling, the 4-time MVP is essentially a co-offensive coordinator, with his top-shelf ability to change things at the line based on looks the defense gives him.
Hackett perhaps isn’t the best offensive coordinator with a young QB, or a journeyman QB, because he might be great at scheming that guy to consistent success like play-callers along the lines of Ben Johnson (Detriot Lions) or Sean McVay (Los Angeles Rams), but with Rodgers, he should be just fine . . .
January 1, 2023
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