Jets' Rising Potential: Analyzing Their Strong Start

Your jets There's a pulse. They look good, man I mean, you know what I thought this was gonna be one of those years that you're really gonna have a lot of question marks here, especially on the offensive side, but After three games, what's your takeaway so far on the jets? Yeah, it's been a really good brand of football, you know Uh, I actually thought the different side on offense I mean, you know frank reich obviously is is a seasoned plate caller that understands how to call plays I I think that he's in the booth for the first time in his career. Like he's always called it from ground level I just feel like his visuals are like it's a cheat code for him to get things the way he wants it and they got gino smith like Let's be honest. I mean like gino is a well accomplished quarterback that I can just tell he's seeing the right things. He's looking the right places. He's getting the ball out on time He knows his check downs like that's we haven't seen that functionality With the jets offense for whatever reason quarterback play callers So I give at uh, aaron glenn a lot of credit for I think he's got 16 new coaches Which is unprecedented after one year But to really go out there and pivot and to and to get guys that he feels like now are putting their team in a better place and I think on the flip side defensively dan like You know, I I just see a more engaged tech coach calling football plays on defense, right? Like I just feel like he's in his element I mean like, you know if something looks bad He can call a timeout real quick or he can yell at anybody in that moment like And he holds people accountable on a day-to-day basis because he's the play caller So, you know, like I said, he's got good eyes with duker in the top He doesn't call the plays, but he can give the information while he's watching the offense And uh again, I just like I said darren muji too and the third piece is personnel I think we can all sit here and and look the personnel is that much better Uh, they brought in much better defensive personnel up front Uh, they got some great leaders. So I mean, yeah, like this is a dangerous team like I don't know when you look at the jets, you're like, ah, you know, like This isn't going to be one of those games in the past We're like, you know You just kind of winning and yet like you're gonna have to play four quarters and that's what they've shown so far Would you agree anthony when you go on a journey like geno smith has gone on? It seems to be a calmer geno smith a more confident geno smith Maybe when you go through all the trials and tribulations like geno smith 1.0 when he was there in new york The guy that I watch playing football right now. He's like 10th in the nfl in passing I mean, he just looks different So you think all those like journeys that he's gone on has put him in this room right now and put him in this position Or really? He's a different looking player than he was his first time with the new york jets yeah, absolutely, I mean you think about like You know from a standpoint of like when that time was dan like that's a long time ago, right? Like, you know, this is a guy this is a guy to me. That's just in a much different place in his career his ability to you know Just see the field distribute the ball. Um, you know a lot of turnovers maybe the last couple years Uh, which kind of like for me since he doesn't have any like I still like the fact that he's aggressive when he needs to Be aggressive and that's important in this league You know if you're convicted on it and and you can take those shots like we've seen a few in games now Where he's taking some really strategic shots. So Again, he's not scared. So I think you know, he's feeling his playmakers out. He's got you know, garrett wilson who had a tremendous game Uh sadiq looks like he's the real deal tight end from oregon. He had 100 yards receiving. He was fun to watch Obviously from a guy that plays tight end watching and calling a game to see that that was exciting So, uh, and then just you know, how do they kick start the run game? I think that's more you know Just kind of like how frank wants to establish that you know that two or sometimes three tight end looks like what's better? Is it is it 11 personnel? So that'll be something good coordinators take a hard look at after you get some information like sometimes it takes three four games Like okay, we're not this we're that or we're that and we're not this so I think those are our learning pieces But man, like they've been in every game man, like they won one and they've been in the fourth quarter They got the ball in your hands Like I think jets fans would appreciate like hey We want the ball in our hands to try to win in the fourth like they want that and that's been true So far through three weeks You know frank, right? Let me go back and he's a former teammate of mine when I was at the university of maryland And he obviously knows boomer and syson very well You know, I said one of the things that I love about him the most is like when you go back To the eagle experiment, you know, and they ended up winning that championship. He's a backup quarterback He ended up taking nick foals to a championship another guy with experience right on going through a lot of different places What's he added to the jets offense in your opinion? I just think there's a sense of calmness like Being a player been through these moments been on good teams bad teams had success been on the low ends Like you get a lot of learning experiences through that And he's a very player friendly coach like, you know, listen He holds everybody accountable because he knows as a player like you got to go out there and function and operate But he gets like okay like okay Garrett wilson didn't have any a lot of touches last week like what are we doing there like and it gets It changes this week. He gets a ton of looks right like so he's very like okay aware of the situations at hand He feels like he's got a really good feel for the game. And you know as a play caller it's not just I know as a head coach, I don't call plays, but I tell my coordinator like We just went through three series like the game plan is is crap right now Like whatever we worked on I got a lot of respect for it, but we got to find a way to get in a flow Throw it all away and go to this so we can go back to what we've been working on to get confident I just think like he he probably doesn't need to be told that Which is good and he's got a good feel for the football game. So I just think man like, you know, um, You know those experiences have helped him and I think guys respect that because he's a realist but yet he holds everybody to a high standard You