Jason Myers, Eddie Pineiro, Austin Seibert, Nick Folk, all former Jets kickers who are still playing very well for other teams. Take with that what you will.
Must be, they did everything they could to avoid kicking when points were involved. He was just there to kick the ball off 4 times I think.
Lately, 4th down has been a complete mystery to me. I have no idea what Ulbrich was trying to accomplish not taking the points. Zuerlein never sniffed the field yesterday. The only thing I could come up with was they did Zuerlein a favor from a contractual angle. Some payment clause must have kicked in with him being Active for a certain amount of games?
That would be typical Jets. They've been doing it all year, paying people and getting nothing in return for that investment.
They should build a statue to that trade outside of MetLife, for two reasons. An impressive display of incompetence by literally everyone involved, with the exception of the Eagles, who have to still be laughing about it.
I guess I shouldn’t be, but I am actually a bit surprised that Reddick has been so invisible. He has been a very good pass rusher in the past, but for us, he’s been a total zero. Literally NO impact at all. Goes to show that if a player doesn’t want to be here, you can’t force it. What a fucking disaster of a trade and totally avoidable as the player was open about wanting a new deal. JD should NEVER have made that trade once he couldn’t sign him at the time.
He should have never made the trade even if Reddick wanted to be here. There was no reason to mess with the undeniable strength of the team.
I agree it is surprising he had no impact at all, but it has nothing to do with his desire or not to play for the Jets. There are numerous financial reasons to play well, there should be plenty of motivation. The problem is that he missed months of training camp coming into a brand new system, and he is getting up there in age. He only started training 2 months ago - that 10 months since the last football activities he had - a long ass time. Sure, he should be ahead of where he is, but missing all the offseason program, new system, age, two months to get back after 10 months lay-off may not be a lot of time. 10 month rust coupled with decline is what we get. I suspect he would have been a shell of his former self even with the off-season program, though perhaps not as bad. Howie Roseman knew exactly what he was doing when he basically took his former pupil JD to school.
