Jets Receivers Passing the Test, Need More From Tanner Engstrand | New York Jets News

Jets Receivers Passing the Test, Need More From Tanner Engstrand | New York Jets News

What is going on, Jet fans? Matt Ori back with another video on this Monday morning. Wanted to come on and talk to you guys about the New York Jets offense. Right, we talked about how after the Jets were making the change at quarterback, we were going to use this time to evaluate the offense and it’s only been one game, but I wanted to talk about kind of just update where we are in this process of looking at this offense. Then uh we’re going to start by talking about it again this week. There are still six more games left on the season. Uh so we’ll see how things go over the remaining six games. We may eventually get some Brady Cook action. Uh Tyrod is a quarterback who’s had some injury problems in his career. So we might even if uh Brady Cook isn’t ready, you might have to go back to uh Justin Fields. But let’s just take a look at this game individually. I wanted to talk about the Jets two newest wide receivers and uh John Mechy is absolutely passing the test so far through two games. Uh he had six catches for 65 yards and a touchdown on seven targets in this game. Uh over the first two games with the New York Jets, 10 catches for uh 113 yards and two touchdowns. Touchdowns in back-to-back games without Garrett Wilson. Uh, look, the Jets passing offense in general in a very tough spot without their number one receiver, Garrett Wilson. Uh, John Mechy is absolutely rising to the occasion right now. Am I saying that he’s a a star wide receiver and someone who is your wide receiver too behind Garrett Wilson? No. Let’s not get crazy here. But can he be a functioning piece in your offense, a resigned candidate to be your slot receiver? I think absolutely. I think there is certainly a world where next year the Jets go into it with John Mechy in the slot, a another addition at wide receiver on the outside along with Garrett Wilson. And then that leaves AD Mitchell who has two more years under contract. He helped the Jets stretch the field a little bit in this game. Two catches for 42 yards. Consistency is going to be the biggest thing with him. Can he find that consistency? He hasn’t been able to do it through two years in the NFL. Um he had some drop issues and just not on the same page uh with Justin Fields a little bit in that game which was his first game with the New York Jets. Um it might take a little bit to build up that uh chemistry with the quarterback. Uh but can he be a useful player? Again, like I’m not even saying that AD Mitchell has to be your number two wide receiver for this trade to make sense for the Jets. You’re taking a flyer on a guy who was a second, you know, round pick. Is there a world next year again where I mentioned Wilson and an addition and John Mechy, but then you add in uh Ady Mitchell and Aryan Smith. Is that okay for your top five guys? Maybe you add one more wide receiver. You have Isaiah Williams as your sixth receiver uh and returner. that suddenly looks a lot better than when you were touting out Wilson, Josh Reynolds, Alan Lazard as your top three. And it depends on what, you know, rookie you get if you go with a a pick in the first round or uh if they go the veteran route, whatever, right? Like TBD on who they fill that in with. But uh this wide receiver room has turned around a a great deal in a very short amount of time. Is it 100% complete? No, it’s not. But we have seen some noticeable change over the last few weeks. Okay. Want to talk some Tanner Angstrand who I thought was up and down in this game. There’s some things that Tanner Angstrand has done just this year in general that I’ve liked and some things that um I haven’t liked as much. Uh something that I I think will be a criticism um just overall is they need to get Bree Hall more involved in the passing game. He had four catches for 75 yards. Uh, and he needs to have three to five catches every week. And there was before this game a fivegame stretch where he h where he had two catches or less in each of those games. That there are very few running backs who can do what he can do as a pass catcher. And I know he had the fumble. Uh he was fighting for extra yardage and unfortunately fumbled inside the five and that completely changed the momentum of the game. The Jets were down 10. uh if they score a touchdown there, they make it a three-point game. Uh unfortunately, we know what happens, right? There was the fumble and that pretty much sealed it for for the Jets and they would lose 23 uh to 10 in that spot, right? But Bree is a weapon and I think he needs to continue to be utilized in the passing game, especially without Garrett Wilson. Man, we’re talking about, you know, funneling targets to AD Mitchell and John Mechy with which is good. like both those guys had, you know, six plus, I think it was seven a pop, uh, targets-wise, there’s no reason that Bree Hall shouldn’t have, you know, like I said, maybe five targets there. Mason Taylor, too, get him involved in the offense. Uh, something else that frustrates me with Tanner Angstrand is kind of the run to set up going for it on fourth down. Like there was the Isaiah Davis third and long draw plays. It’s becoming too predictable. Like I get it. You can catch a team sleeping that way, but when you do it more often than not, I I think it you kind of lose your luster there. Uh and I think we’re kind of getting too much Isaiah Davis on third and fourth down. Like I get he’s better in pass pro than Bree Hall, but I don’t think you could afford to take one of your best offensive weapons. I would say your best offensive weapon without Garrett Wilson off the field on third and fourth down. If you want to have the better pass pro, instead of going four wide, go with two running backs. Instead of going three wide, go with two running backs and keep Mason Taylor on the on the field as the tight end. Uh I I just I don’t think you could afford to continue to do that with Bree Hall. Um, and again, I understand from the pest protection perspective why you would want to keep a guy like Isaiah or put a guy like Isaiah Davis out there on the field, but again, you’re I think you’re limiting what you can do. Guys, think you know football? Then trying to turn your football knowledge into real money with the Sleeper app, the ultimate fantasy sports app that can turn game day to payday. 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I don’t think you have much of a chance to win on the road in Baltimore if you’re going to play conservative that way. and Aaron Glenn said after the game, “I trust my defense.” So, going for it in that spot, he trusted his defense to to get off the field. It it didn’t work. But again, I would rather this coach show signs of being more aggressive than more conservative in a already lost season, right? Like what? So, you have you have Austin McNamera out there and you punt. Okay, fine. But that’s in a way give up. You’re playing not to lose that way. The Jets were in that spot, in my opinion, playing to to win and it didn’t work out, right? It’s not going to have a 100% hit rate, but I’d rather them go down swinging against a team that is significantly better than them. Um, and look on that, honestly, I did not think that fourth and two play call was honestly that bad um from Tener Inkstrand. You know, they came out, they they threw. And look, I’m not going to pretend that I know how Tyrod’s progressions were supposed to go on that play. I’m not in the team meetings. I’m not, you know, going to pretend that I know, oh, like his he was just on his first read the whole time and, you know, he was had to throw it to John Mchi no matter what. However, he made it very obvious where he was going with the ball, right? like he his feet were set up to the right and his eyes were to the right and Meti was pretty much the only player out over there and he throws a back shoulder ball on fourth and two that’s incomplete and like that’s a very low percentage play and if you watch the play develop AD Mitchell’s like throws his hands up in frustration a little bit that the ball wasn’t going his way and not in a at least my interpretation of it not in a like diva throw me the ball kind of way but he was about to be wide open. They had uh Mitchell running an inbreaking route with Mason Taylor kind of going out into the flat on the left side and AD Mitchell got his defender turned around and starts cutting towards the middle of the field as the linebacker is you know going out into the flat uh with Mason Taylor. So that part of the design it worked wonders, right? You had the a really good route from Mitchell gets himself open. you take the linebacker out of the play with Mason Taylor going into the flat on the left side. Uh and they could have picked up, you know, the first down. It It wasn’t a crazy deep play. It was, you know, a 5-yard in route. It was, you know, quick hitter kind of thing. Um but again, it was kind of predetermined where Tyrod was going. And I don’t know if that was Tyrod just saying, you know, John Mety’s been my best receiver today. I trust him to make a play. or if that was like this is your only read on the play. You know what I mean? Like again, I don’t want to say definitively that we should know how the play, you know, from the passing perspective is supposed to go. That’s unfair. There’s no way to really know that. But point being, the play design I thought was a good one. So, uh, kind of up and down from Tanner Angstrand. I think there’s some things to to like about him, but there definitely is room for improvement from Tanner Angstrand. Uh, as far as the passing offense goes in general, look, Tyrod wasn’t perfect. He played pretty much exact exactly how I’d expect a backup quarterback to play. Offense had 204 passing yards. Over the previous five games, the Jets were sitting at -10, 139, 248, 42, and 105. The Bengals game was the outlier. And honestly, their highest output of the season at 248 passing yards. Um, and that’s against one of the league’s worst defenses. Now that they had a great great great offensive showing, uh they had like 500 yards of offense in that game, which was uh truly awesome. Uh but outside of that, look, in the other four games leading up to this one, they they really struggled, man, against New England, 105. Um you know, -10 against Denver. Carolina got 139 in a lot of that game in the second half. Uh and then 42 against Cleveland in a win. They found a way to win the game, but uh and 42 or 41 of those 42 yards came on a a screen pass to to Bree Hall, which is just again kind of shocking, but um we’ll see how the passing offense kind of progresses over the remaining six games. I’m not saying that like and not that I was ever saying that Tyrod Taylor was going to be the long-term answer for the Jets, but I think they kind of just needed to see a different look. Um they only scored 10 points, which clearly isn’t enough. They did have a fumble inside the the 5 yardd line and should have gotten more points on the board and this probably should have been like a 20-7 kind of game instead of a 23-10 kind of game. But whatever, you know, the Jets are Jets are 2-9. Let’s not go nuts one way or the other over this game. U but that’s kind of where I’m at with the offense. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. I’m Matt Ori. Subscribe if you’re new and I’ll catch you next time.

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