Dolphins HC Jeff Hafley said that the team\u2019s penalties continued to put them in a bad position in their loss to the Lions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe penalties put us in a lot of hard positions where we were in a lot of get-back-on-track situations where it\u2019s hard to stay balanced,\u201d Hafley said, via ESPN<\/a>. \u201cWhen you\u2019re able to stay ahead of the sticks at second-and-6 rather than second-and-15 or first-and-15 or second-and-20, I mean, it\u2019s hard to call anything. And that\u2019s where we have to be better. We have to stay on track. It\u2019s not OK to have it second-and-20 or first-and-20. We can\u2019t play the game like that. So a lot of it, again, give them credit, but a lot of it was self-inflicted yesterday that we have to be better at.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019d hope to say it was a one-off, but we can\u2019t make excuses. We can\u2019t have that many penalties. I mean, we\u2019re not going to be efficient to play the game that way and we\u2019re not going to win if we continue to have penalties like that,\u201d Hafley continued. \u201cSince the bye week, it had been better, but it wasn\u2019t good enough yesterday. So again, let\u2019s look at what we did lately and let\u2019s correct it.\u201d<\/p>\n Per Brian Costello<\/a>, Jets DE Will McDonald<\/a>\u2018s trade request came after he had numerous conversations regarding an increased role on defense, but nothing materialized.\u00a0 Jets HC Aaron Glenn<\/a> doesn\u2019t appear ready to move on from veteran QB Geno Smith<\/a> any time soon.<\/p>\n \u201c[He\u2019s] really just finding his rhythm on who he is and what he does best,\u201d Glenn said of Smith, via ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cGeno is a better passer and better processor [than Fields], but sometimes you question his decision-making because he\u2019s so confident with his arm and his ability but less of an athlete,\u201d an AFC scout said, comparing Smith to former Jets starter Justin Fields<\/a>. \u201cGeno is a better quarterback; Justin is a better athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a tough environment, and it\u2019s a very hard position to play and only so many can really do it,\u201d backup QB Cade Klubnik said of supporting Smith. \u201cThere\u2019s not very many that can do it at the level he\u2019s doing it right now. The result of every game isn\u2019t just based off how the quarterback plays; it\u2019s a team effort. I just try to support him and always just be the best teammate and leader that I can for him.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a way to get another quality player onto our unit that actually can cover the kicks. I thought it worked out really well for us,\u201d Glenn also noted on adding FB Andrew Beck<\/a> to kickoffs, via The Athletic<\/a>. \u201cThose are things I\u2019m always going to look at \u2014 things that are out of the box thinking with good players on the field. We\u2019re missing a number of players because of injury. Anytime we can think outside of the box to try to improve our units, that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolphins HC Jeff Hafley said that the team\u2019s penalties continued to put them in a bad position in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1051646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[1585,1087,5385,7,1507,8628,226,493,1917,255,2321,2097,6,20113],"class_list":["post-1051645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-jets","tag-aaron-glenn","tag-andrew-beck","tag-cade-klubnik","tag-football","tag-geno-smith","tag-jeff-hafley","tag-jets","tag-justin-fields","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-jets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkjets","tag-nfl","tag-will-mcdonald"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117596254578315651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMcDonald was particularly frustrated that other teams engaged in trade talks with offers around a second-round pick for his services, but the Jets have refused, per Costello.<\/p>\n