Speaking<\/a> to the media on Friday, Jets special teams coordinator Chris Banjo discussed what has contributed to his team\u2019s incredible start to the season.<\/p>\n\u201cJust relentless attention to detail,\u201d said the former Arizona Cardinal. \u201cWith him [McNamara], just continuing to chase that standard that we talk about on a game-day basis. Also, coach Kevin O\u2019Dea has been doing a phenomenal job with him and his approach. When we talk about his attention to detail, that comes from Coach O\u2019Dea and his checklist. He continues to grow on a daily basis, and right now, we are happy where he is at, still really early in the season, but day-by-day process with him and we look forward to continuing to do that.<\/p>\n
Three games through the 2025 season, McNamara holds the highest overall grade among punters at Pro Football Focus (82.0). He also ranks fifth in net average per punt (44.5) and fourth in hangtime (4.74). The Texas A&M product is the only punter to currently rank within the top five in both of those categories this season.<\/p>\n
Special teams assistant Kevin O\u2019Dea is in his first season back with the Jets after serving as the team\u2019s special teams coordinator for two seasons (2008-2009). According to Banjo, the longtime coach has played a pivotal role in McNamara\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n
Through all the struggles, McNamara has quietly given the Jets one thing they can count on every Sunday. The unfortunate irony is that their most reliable player so far is someone who only takes the field when the offense fails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite a rough 0-3 start to the season, the performance of punter Austin McNamara has served as one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[29076,22090,7,3228,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,3231,3916,3234],"class_list":{"0":"post-403528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-austin-mcnamara","9":"tag-chris-banjo","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-free-content","12":"tag-jets","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-jets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkjets","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-ny-jets-news","19":"tag-ny-jets-players","20":"tag-standard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115281761753830175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403528","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=403528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}