Before kickoff on Sunday there was plenty of uncertainty surrounding whether or not the Jets' Linebacker would see significant game time. Earlier in the week Aaron Glenn announced that he was relegated to a bench role and presumably fighting for minutes with the backups. His brother Quinnen was shipped to Dallas and opened plenty of comments on whether he would be motivated to continue with the struggling Jets defense without the former stalwart of the defensive line's presence.

Well then the ball was kicked off in Met Life and there was 56 making the opening tackle on special teams along with rookie Ja'markis Weston. Throughout the game from then on he showed up in big ways, stuffing 2 big runs at the line, snuffing out a short pass to the Tight end for -7 and a momentous sack that pushed the Browns back well inside their own 20 yard line at a pivotal moment during the 3rd quarter when the game was tied up at 17.

It seems as though he regained his starting position, but the question remains what was the motivation for announcing the benching to begin with? Aaron Glenn stated that he would still be a factor from the bench throughout the lead up was this move purely to see how he would react considering his brothers departure? Interesting in hearing if there was any more information and what we can expect from Quincy for tomorrow night's game and the season moving forward. It seems to me that this move was a head coach posturing one of the vets for leadership in the locker room sending a message to all that unwavering commitment is necessary if you wish to be apart of the team.

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  1. Few points:
    1. That was a damn novel, brother.
    2. Quincy hasn’t played well in a lot of plays this year, missing his assignments and holes, out of position, etc..
    3. Quincy has played extremely well, his typical all-pro self in other plays – edit for typo
    4. He was working as the backup on Monday prior to the trade deadline
    5. He’s the best or 2nd best linebacker on the team. He’s going to get 85%+ of snaps, despite whoever is the “starter” in the game
    Edit 6. He was coming back from injury and needed to find his game again

  2. To me it was all about the mind games and it makes Glenn look like a rookie HC.

    It was to show people he “Holds people accountable” and yet won’t bench Fields.

  3. Thong with Quincy is his play can be very inconsistent. Makes it tough to rely on him game to game. Makes him a tough eval too.

  5. Quincy has sucked for an overwhelming majority of this year. He also, outside of roughly two seasons with the Jets, has been below average/bad (including his first year with the Jets when claimed).

    Quincy just recently came back from injury.

    Sherwood will be the guy on the field if only 1 LB is on the field.

    There’s also a possibility that he did/said something given Q being traded (and others) but not him, Breece, etc. Especially given it was now known that at one point he was part of a package the Cowboys were after.

    Lastly, he may not have been straight benched, but Quincy decided to make a public thing after the trades and him still being here. He needs good tape and attention because he’s about to be 30 coming off an ugly season, with injuries, and his career is more bad tape than good. Wanted his own narrative out there/written.

  7. He still got 71% of the snaps. Wasn’t much of a benching, it just meant that he wasn’t gonna get 100% of the snaps like he did to start the season. More of a call-out by Glenn it, and it seemed to have worked.

  8. >It seems as though he regained his starting position, but the question remains what was the motivation for announcing the benching to begin with?

    I thought Quincy announced it before Glenn spoke on it?

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