{"id":593869,"date":"2025-12-12T04:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/593869\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T04:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:12:13","slug":"the-new-york-jets-are-prepping-for-jags-best-against-a-rookie-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/593869\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Jets are prepping for Jags’ best against a rookie QB"},"content":{"rendered":"

It isn\u2019t hard to predict what the Jacksonville Jaguars will do when they host the New York Jets<\/a> on Sunday afternoon, and it\u2019s purely circumstantial \u2026 <\/p>\n

Gang Green is set to start undrafted free agent Brady Cook in Week 15. The Missouri product struggled in his first game action last week against Miami<\/a>, but he did put some quality throws on tape during the contest.<\/p>\n

Against Jacksonville, however, the Jets know they are in for a much different matchup. <\/p>\n

If the season ended today, the Jaguars would be the AFC South champions and a playoff team in their first season under the guidance of Rhode Island native Liam Coen. While all eyes have been on their offense, it is their opportunistic defense that has led the team to victory.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s that same defense that is licking its chops going into a matchup against a quarterback making his first-ever start in the NFL. <\/p>\n

Jets are preparing for anything<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters ahead of Thursday afternoon\u2019s practice, Jets offensive coordinator Tanner Engstrand was confident that the team would have a plan that would allow Cook to perform admirably on Sunday. <\/p>\n

The reality is, though, that he was never supposed to be in this predicament in the first place. Injuries to both Tyrod Taylor and Justin Fields have forced the organization\u2019s hands. <\/p>\n

In preparing for Jacksonville and their strong secondary, Engstrand is aware of the different ways the Jags can attack his young quarterback. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt can go one of two ways,\u201d Engstrand said. \u201cI think, historically, some defensive
coordinators say, \u2018Hey, we\u2019re going to heat the young kid up and see what he\u2019s made of.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re prepared for that, and we\u2019re prepared for the other stuff that they\u2019ve shown on tape, so we\u2019ll have whoever is ready to play, ready to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacksonville has recorded 15 interceptions on the season\u2014good for second-most in the NFL. They can come away with those picks due to disguised zone coverages and an aggressive blitz package.<\/p>\n

For a Jets offense that has struggled to throw the football all season, Sunday\u2019s matchup isn\u2019t a good one for the 24-year-old rookie. <\/p>\n

That is where Engstrand\u2019s game plan comes into play. New York\u2019s offensive play-caller has done an admirable job in scheming receivers open all season, despite having his quarterbacks missing reads at an alarming rate. <\/p>\n

A savvy game plan for Sunday could be allowing Cook to roll outside the pocket on bootlegs and shortening the field, thus simplifying his reads.<\/p>\n

It may not be enough to beat the AFC South leaders, but it is at least a plan that shows the Jets are prepared for another day as the underdog on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Reporting from the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center in Florham Park, NJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It isn\u2019t hard to predict what the Jacksonville Jaguars will do when they host the New York Jets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[2723,30015,7,3228,125,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,4403,7823,3231,3916,3234,31834,12599],"class_list":{"0":"post-593869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-brady-cook","9":"tag-faria-on-the-beat","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-free-content","12":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","13":"tag-jets","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-jets","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkjets","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-ny-jets-coaches","20":"tag-ny-jets-image","21":"tag-ny-jets-news","22":"tag-ny-jets-players","23":"tag-standard","24":"tag-syndication","25":"tag-tanner-engstrand"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115704649933763926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593869","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=593869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}