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Fans like Chinn more than Shaq. Understandably so. but come on…

I think Teddy was a bad fit in hindsight for a super green staff. Especially one trying to figure it out in the shortened COVID lead up. Sam could probably be slightly worse than Teddy and they stick with him. Because Sam isn't going to always give the textbook response.

I think Horn will defiantly get his shot to show what he has got. I mean, given his play style....you got to think a NFL staff is going to look his way to see what is what.

man coverage is always an interesting play. People hate soft zone. But coaches run so much of it to limit the big plays and forces QBs to play a certain way. I'm not sure this team is anywhere close to being ready to run tons of man coverage. More? Sure. We ran more cover 3 than anyone. But a lot? Out the gate? Well, that can be playing with fire with a gunslinger. Especially when your team as a whole hasn't run a lot of it and your number one man DB is a rookie that sat out most preseason reps.

I got a soccer game. I'll basically watch the ticker on Sunday. But to get a feel for what is going on.... I'll check the gameday thread around halftime to see which players we are melting down over vs enshrining in the HOF.

The turnovers were HUGE vs rookie Herbert. He had 2 which became auto FGs. 6 points was the difference in the game. But outside of the turnovers, we did a poor job making a rookie look like a rookie. He completed over 70% of his passes, 300+ yards, and got his team into the endzone more times than the Panthers. Let's hope the Panthers D can step that up a little this year vs a rookie.

Unless we get to garbage time, I actually think Hubbard is going to temporarily move to being 3rd string RB. I think given our OL situation, Freeman is going to jump him early in the season largely for pass protection and tough yards.

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Offenses generally start slow. Our guys didn't get much work. OL looked problematic vs Steeler backups. Jets interior DL is pretty solid. So I think this game is actually close. I think it will be an overload of CMC and people irritated about his workload. I'm calling it comes down to our new FG kicker. That seems like a predictable storyline for how this one could go.

such a great actor. Omar Little was one of the GOATs in terms of TV characters.

Tom Brady thinks it will be….because players won’t be locked down. basically because he expects poor decisions to increase. So when team X travels to random city X… they have the freedom and ability to be exposed to more people vs last year. not entirely sure of what restrictions are on the players….but in normal times players are allowed to do pretty much whatever they want. Strip clubs, bars, restaurants, meet up with out of town friends, etc when on the road.

Rhule just confirmed he is unvaccinated Next up is Dailey, then Brown and they still don’t know he will return punts. So it sounds like there are high odds that someone will be making there first PR of their career Sunday (college or pros)…..which makes the odds of muffed punts super high.

Local beat writers know who the 2 are. I’m sure he is one of them given they all are coming out pretty hard with the unvaccinated player protocol stuff.

Reports are coaches are really worried about testing this week. Tons of guys went off to college games, parties and events this weekend. not sure what days the testing is for vaccinated guys. Think unvaccinated is everyday. Something to watch late this week.

Week 1 often tells you lies. Hard to predict it. Lot of bad teams look good and good ones bad. Hard to have a lot to confidence in our OL though. And if it is what it is, hard to have confidence in Sam behind it

We have a great OL

If the Panther OL holds. If it can’t….those sweet Panther matchups at WR begin not to matter as much. Not confident enough in the OL based off what we saw vs the Steelers to predict some beat down . Jets interior DL is much better than the Steelers JV squad

He also did the flip side for us https://jetsxfactor.com/2021/09/04/carolina-panthers-mismatches-ny-jets/ 1. DJ/Robby vs Jets DBs 2. CMC vs Jets LBs 3. Moton in the run game 4. Brown inside 5. Burns off the edge but I would assume people would feel he is 100% right about all these though

His 5 weren’t actually that crazy it’s the NFL. The Jets will have some individual advantages in certain scenarios.

a college accusation. FSU settled the case in civil court for a million bucks.

CMC was literally hurt all year. If he doesn’t increase our win total higher if healthy last year ….then we should of traded him yesterday. and our D should be improved this year on top of the CMC factor.

As a “Darnold hater”….this just isn’t true. Sam isn’t Jimmy Clausen. If our team is healthy….Sam being Sam isn’t going to give us a top 5 pick. We should be able to win around 7 with being NY Sam (pending we stay healthy). You have to throw out 2020. The Jets tried to orchestrate a top draft pick. It nearly worked. It was a legit tank job. They just didn’t pull off making the cast bad enough to get the #1. if Sam isn’t great but merely plays the best football of his career? We should be able to get close to 9 IMO.

You right that stats are stats. And they alone, never tell you what actually went down on a football field. you are projecting arguments I never made. I didn’t say he couldn’t of made strides and improved since college. I’m sure he has continued to grow I said it is foolish for people to be pimping Horn as a shutdown corner week 1 of his rookie year. who said he isn’t a dog lol? And I’m the one arguing people shouldn’t set the bar so crazy high for him. I’m clearly NOT portraying that he should be elite out of the gate. That’s unfair to him. That kinda the point I keep making. Just like folks shouldn’t of expected Brown to an Aaron Donald nightmare last season upfront.

PFF stats don’t show when he got beat by being overly aggressive and the QB couldn’t make the throw, bad zone coverage by the Gameocks he was part of, his plays that would be instant flags in the NFL, etc. and he is overly reliant on play IMO that gives auto first downs in the NFL. He is the most talented DB we have ever drafted. He should be great down the road for us. But yeah, I don’t expect Revis to be on the field for us this year. That’s not fair to Horn.