{"id":996587,"date":"2026-09-10T02:09:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/996587\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T02:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:09:26","slug":"david-bailey-tells-the-post-how-jets-are-out-to-contain-cam-ward-in-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/996587\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bailey tells The Post how Jets are out to contain Cam Ward in Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Bailey has Titans quarterback Cam Ward solely in his sights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bailey, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft<\/a>, told The Post\u2019s \u201cGang\u2019s All Here\u201d podcast Wednesday that he\u2019s not looking ahead to AFC East foes such as Josh Allen or Drake Maye<\/a> twice apiece later in his rookie campaign with the Jets. He is firmly focused on limiting \u2014 and perhaps dropping \u2014 Ward in his NFL debut Sunday in Tennessee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not really thinking about [divisional teams] right now, honestly. I\u2019m thinking about it week by week,\u201d the 23-year-old Bailey told hosts Brian Costello and Ryan Sampson. \u201cI mean, we\u2019re going [against] a good-ass quarterback right now. Obviously going against Cam Ward, he\u2019s extremely elusive. He\u2019s a good quarterback.<\/p>\n

\"AJets linebacker David Bailey (31) lines up during the first quarter of a pre-season game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Aug. 14, 2026, in East Rutherford, NJ. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019ve put together a plan to try and contain him\u2026It\u2019s going to be a group effort, but you know going against a specific quarterback, obviously you got to be cognizant of certain abilities they have and certain strengths they have. But my mindset, really, I don\u2019t think it drastically changes from week to week. I think it\u2019s pretty consistent in terms of what I want to get done and what I want to help the team with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ward, the first overall pick in 2025, was sacked 55 times<\/a> as a rookie with the Titans, tying returning Jets quarterback Geno Smith<\/a> while a Raider for the league lead.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"TennesseeTennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward (1) throws during a team practice at the Vanderbilt Health Football Center on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Bailey registered one sack during the preseason<\/a> against the Steelers after totaling 14.5 last season at Texas Tech.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-3 edge rusher has cited eight-time Pro Bowler Von Miller \u2014 now with the Cowboys<\/a> \u2014 as an outside linebacker he emulates.<\/p>\n

\u201cVon is, man, just the way he plays, man. When it\u2019s all said and done, I want my highlight tape to look just like his, man,\u201d Bailey said. But man, just the ways he gets after the quarterback, elite, it just seems like he always knows what to do. When his first move doesn\u2019t work, he always has a counter ready. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo, man, yeah, he\u2019s\u00a0just like the first that I really studied, for real.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Bailey has Titans quarterback Cam Ward solely in his sights. Bailey, the No. 2 overall pick in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":996588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[127,4155,7,255,6,9,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":["post-996587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennessee-titans","tag-cam-ward","tag-david-bailey","tag-football","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-tennesseetitans","tag-titans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117244314931939882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996587","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=996587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/996588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}