BREAKING: Tyrod Taylor Will Start for New York Jets vs. Buccaneers; Move Means BIG Offensive Changes

BREAKING: Tyrod Taylor Will Start for New York Jets vs. Buccaneers; Move Means BIG Offensive Changes

This is the Lockdown Jets podcast on this Wednesday. This is a bonus episode. I’m your host John B from gang greennation.com. And the reason we have this bonus episode is there is major New York Jets news today. Head coach Aaron Glenn has announced that Tyrod Taylor will start at quarterback for the Jets this Sunday in week three action against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Justin Field suffered a concussion in the Jets week 2 loss to the Buffalo Bills and will not be ready for this next game against Tampa Bay. This changes a lot for the Jets. It changes the team’s path to victory and it changes everything about the way this offense will run and that’s what we’re going to break down in this episode. Stylistically, Tyrod Taylor and Justin Fields are two very different quarterbacks. Now, there is some overlap. Both of them have a degree of mobility, but the way they use that mobility is very different. You are not going to run the types of plays with Tyrod Taylor under center that you would with Justin Fields. you will see far fewer designed runs in the New York Jets offense with Tyron Taylor playing the quarterback position. That’s first of all because while Taylor is mobile, he’s not as natural of a runner as Justin Fields. It’s also because Taylor is more of a natural thrower than Fields. Um, and also you have to factor in age. Taylor is in his mid30s. He’s also a guy known to be prone to injuries. So, you don’t want to risk Tyrod Taylor getting injured because if anything happens to Tyrod Taylor in this game, then suddenly you’re playing Brady Cook at the quarterback position. I think what you’re going to see from the Jets this coming Sunday against Tampa Bay is more of a conventional NFL offense than you saw with Justin Fields. With Justin Fields in there, it is a run focused offense. The Jets run the ball, they run the ball, and they run the ball some more. under with Tyrod Taylor, you’ll see more of a traditional drop back passing game and the Jets will hand the ball off to Bree Hall and Brilen Allen, but you’re not going to see the types of zone reads that the Jets ran with Justin Fields at quarterback. Now, let’s talk Tyron Taylor’s strengths and weaknesses to try and figure out what types of plays the New York Jets are going to run this coming Sunday. Tyrod is an aggressive quarterback. You know, a lot of times you get a backup quarterback who’s afraid to make mistakes. So, you get a lot of checkdowns, you get a lot of inefficient offense. Tyrod Taylor through his career has been one of the quarterbacks in the NFL most willing to th try and throw the ball down the field. Now, he’s not particularly great at it. So, you’re not talking about an offense or a passing game that are going to operate with a high degree of efficiency. In fact, the Jets offense is probably going to look pretty pedestrian under Tyrod. The hope is that maybe you run into a hot week with Tyrod throwing the deep ball. Maybe you’re able to hit a few splash plays. Um, and that’s really the way it will happen with Tyrod at quarterback. With Fields out there, he can make splash plays with his legs, both in terms of extending plays when he’s under pressure and keeping his eyes down the field and tucking and running. With Tyrod, it’s you’re going to see a lot of deep balls. Tyrod is good at protecting the football. He typically has a very low interception rate despite his propensity to try and throw the ball down the field. And if you look statistically across the NFL, deeper throws down the field are more likely to be intercepted. Even though Tyrod likes to push the ball down the field, he does not throw a lot of interceptions. He also has a lower fumble rate than Justin Fields. And we saw that on Sunday against the Buffalo Bills. Fields had a fumble early in the fourth quarter. It set up a Buffalo field goal that gave the Bills an early two-score lead. Tyrod is going to protect the football. And the one issue with Tyrod, the one area where his game gets a little sloppy is also it’s something he shares with Fields. Tyrod does have a propensity to take bad sacks. And it’s not surprising when you factor in all of his skills because first of all, again, he’s a guy that likes to throw the ball deeper down the field. The deeper throws take a longer time to develop. You got to give the receivers time to get down the field, which means you got to hold the ball longer. Tyrod also has good mobility when we’re talking about escaping pressure. So the guys who have mobility, they tend to trust their legs when they’re under pressure. They think, “I can escape from it.” And sometimes they do. Frequently, they do not though, and they’ll take bad sacks. And again, this is true across the league when you talk about mobile quarterbacks. So, you know, that’s another reason Tyrod can take bad sacks. But generally speaking, you’re going to have an offense that looks much more like the offenses the other 31 teams in this league run or most of the other 31 teams in this league run than the offense we saw under Justin Fields, which was a very unique type of offense. You know, the Jets were kind of trying to break the mold of Justin Fields at quarterback because Justin Fields is the type of quarterback who has a unique skill set. Uh Tyrods is far more conventional. You know, I think that Tyrod is a guy who coaches might say understands the value of a punt, and I know as fans, we don’t want to see punts happen often, but Tyrod is not a guy who’s very likely to turn the ball over. He will protect the football. Will he produce big plays again? That comes down to like whether he has a hot game throwing the ball deep because he’s not particularly effective at doing it. He’s also, you know, not a natural rhythm passer. He’s not a guy who, you know, you spread him out, you shred the defense, you, you know, you you make quick reads. That’s not really Tyrod’s game. Tyrod is, you know, your standard veteran. And what he’ll do is, you know, he’ll make sure you’re in the right protection. There were a couple of times where the Jets were in the wrong protection against Buffalo. A couple times, you know, you got a tight end matched up one-on-one against the Ned rusher. a veteran like Tyrod, a guy who has started as many games, a guy who’s been around the league, who’s been part of these been part of a lot of these practices, he’s not going to make those mistakes. He’s going to make sure you’re in the right protection. You’ll see less free runners. You’ll see less bad matchups like tight end versus pass rusher than you saw with Fields under center. I think Tyrod will also hit the gimme passes. That was an issue on Sunday. You know, when Fields is off, he will miss throws that an NFL quarterback should make. Tyrod will not miss those throws. So, you will see a very different New York Jets offense. Will it be better? Will it be worse? Well, I have some thoughts on that. And as we continue here on this special Wednesday edition of Lockdown Jets, I’ll talk about why the ceiling is lower, but the floor is higher with Tyrod Taylor at quarterback. And unfortunately, that may not be the best thing for the Jets. And I’ll explain what I mean ahead here on this special Wednesday edition of Lockdown Jets. This episode is brought to you by Mazda’s moving the game forward. For those who believe it’s not just about playing the game, it’s about redefining it. There are moments that do more than put points on the board. 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Download the FanDuel app now by visiting FanDuel.com to get started. That’s fuel.com to place your first $5 bet. This is the Lockdown Jets podcast. On this Wednesday, big news from Floren Park today. Tyrod Taylor will start for the Jets week three against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On today’s show, we are breaking down what that means for this team. And it’s not a surprise the Jets announced this on Wednesday. The Jets in some ways had to make a decision today and that’s because of the way the NFL weekly calendar works. And if you’re not familiar with the way an NFL team usually spends its week, your typical team plays the game on Sunday. Monday is a day where the players may come into the facility. They’ll watch some film. If they’re a little banged up, they’ll get they’ll visit the trainer to try and get some treatment. Monday’s usually a pretty light day. Tuesday is the day the players are off and it’s a day the coaches work all day because they figure out both on the offensive and defensive sides of the ball which plays that week against that opponent. And it’s a combination of what do you do well, what are your players strengths, and what weaknesses, what weak players do you want to exploit in your opponent. They start installing those plays Wednesday and Thursday. And then Friday is a lighter day where they finish up the installation. So Wednesday is the day where you really need to know your quarterback. And that’s especially true when you have two quarterbacks with such different styles as Justin Fields and Tyrod Taylor. It would be difficult for the Jets to get to Wednesday, Thursday with uncertainty about which of the two quarterbacks was playing because the Jets need to implement their plays. And if Justin Fields is not ready to play, you don’t want Tyrod Taylor executing Justin Fields plays on Sunday. You’d rather put in plays that Tyrod Taylor can can execute at a high level because again, this offense is going to have to be much more conventional with Tyrod Taylor if it wants to have success than it would be under Justin Fields. I remember back in 2019, you know, you go back six years, Sam Darnold had mono. You remember that episode if you’re a Jets fan and the Jets played a game in Philadelphia early that season and Darnold had not been cleared and the Jets went the entire week giving him the first first team reps in in practice and then he wasn’t cleared at the end of the week. So Luke Faulk had to go in despite not practicing any of the game plan. It was as bad as Adam Gase was, that may have been his worst moment cuz Luke Faulk had no shot in that game and a guy like Luke Faulk needs all the preparation he could get. So, you wanted to avoid a situation like that because you don’t want to you want to make sure the guy who’s starting has plays that are designed for him and that he’s comfortable with the game plan that he’s practiced with the first team offense. So, it was really important for the Jets to make that decision today. I don’t think it’s a big deal to have two quarterbacks with different styles if you’re talking about week to week because implementing this game plan, the Jets could, now that they know Tyrod starting, they could just put in the Tyrod Taylor plays. their playbook’s big enough that they have plays Justin can execute well and they have plays that Tyrod can execute well. Now that they’ve got some finality, they know that Tyrod’s starting, they can put in the plays that will work best for them. Does this give the Jets a better chance to win though? I don’t think it does. Um, I think that this is a bit of a paradox because I actually do believe that the odds are Tyrod Taylor will play better than Justin Fields would play if he was up against the Bucks. Uh, because Tyrod’s going to give you more consistency. Again, this is a higher floor but a lower ceiling. And I think like the first two weeks actually kind of explain this in a way that makes it obvious to Jets fans in a way it may not be obvious otherwise because you saw week one Justin Fields look great. I mean we you saw that when Justin Fields is on he looks like a top 10 quarterback. The problem is when Justin Fields is off he looks like the worst quarterback in the NFL. And we’ve already ridden that roller coaster through the first two weeks of the season where we’ve seen Justin Fields look like a top 10 quarterback one week and look like a B look the worst quarterback in the NFL the next. Tyrod’s going to hit the easy throws that Justin missed last week. You know, Tanner Angstrand will design plays. The the Jets passing offense is pretty well designed. It is drawn up to give quarterbacks pretty easy windows, pretty easy throws to make. Tyrod will hit those, but Tyrod’s not going to provide the splat plays that Justin did unless he, you know, has just a week where he uncharacteristically hits those deep balls. And I think that’s really what that comes down to for the New York Jets. And I think that’s a challenge because unless like Bree Hall has a monster game or, you know, unless Garrett Wilson just slips some defenders on catch after catching a short pass, I don’t know where this big plays are going to come from this Jets offense. I think if you had an offense that was loaded with playmakers from top to bottom where the quarterback’s job was just to kind of play the point guard role and distribute it, get it out quick and let the playmakers do the work, I could see that being a situation where I’d rather have Tyrod Taylor than Justin Fields. But in an offense where yeah, you have a couple playmakers, you know, I mean, obviously Bree is a home run hitter and Garrett’s a very qual a very high quality receiver, but in an offense where a lot of the creative load falls to the quarterback and, you know, big reason the Jets did so well, you know, put up 32 points in week one was Fields’s play and Fields’s ability to make things happen. I think that your odds are better of winning with Justin Fields. Even though I think like I think Tyrod’s median game, Tyrod’s like middle of the pack game is better than Justin Fields middle of the pack game, but Tyrod’s best game, even if it’s going to come more frequently than Fields’ best game. I’m not sure Tyrod’s best game gives the Jets a great chance to win against Tampa Bay. Fields’ best game does, even if it’s going to happen less frequently. So, it’s kind of like it sounds like kind of contradictory when I say that Tyrod probably will play at a higher level, but Fields gives you a better chance to win. And that’s just because I think Fields is highest is higher and the Jets need Fields is highest to have a good shot at winning. But I guess we’ll see what happens. That’s why they play the games, so to speak. Anyway, that’s all for this special Wednesday edition of Lockdown Jets. On tomorrow’s show, we’ll do Crossover Thursday. Uh James from Lockdown Bucks and I are going to preview this game. We’ll chat then.

Tyrod Taylor takes the helm for the New York Jets. Will this quarterback change spark the offense against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?

Host John B. breaks down the shift in the Jets’ strategy as Taylor replaces the injured Justin Fields. From fewer designed runs to a more aggressive downfield passing game, the analysis covers how this veteran QB could reshape New York’s attack. The discussion explores Taylor’s strengths, his potential impact on key players like Breece Hall and Garrett Wilson, and whether his experience gives the Jets a better shot at victory.

Tune in for an in-depth look at how Taylor’s start could elevate the Jets’ offense and their chances in this crucial Week 3 matchup.

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