David Bailey Just Did The Unthinkable...

The Jets have found their next superstar. David Bailey was questioned. Is he worth the third overall pick? Where's David Bailey? Well, Sunday he broke out in a massive way with three sacks, and he absolutely transformed the look and feel of this Aaron Glenn defense. What's going on, guys? I'm Josh Byrne. You're tuned into Jets Digest. Guys, thank you so much for all the engagement and all the support through the early part of this season for me and Chris Gallagher at Jets Digest. We greatly appreciate it. If you're part of the 65% of viewers who are currently unsubscribed and you're enjoying the daily content, please do consider doing so, as it means so much. Now, Aaron Glenn, he was faced with a must-win. No two ways about it. He had to have this game. Am I saying that if the Jets didn't pull off the victory at home against the Cleveland Browns during what was, for part of the game, an absolute monsoon out in East Rutherford? No, I'm not saying he would have necessarily been fired. But I think we can all forecast exactly where the season was going had they not pulled out the 17-12 victory. And another key element going into this game was what were we going to see out of David Bailey? Because despite the Jets' defense looking vastly improved over the first two and a half games of this season, the game against the Bears was not pretty. Now we know that the Jets could have easily had up to four interceptions in that game and three of them were taken away by flags. But the fact remained they could not get any pressure on Tyson Bajan. The fact remained prior to that that they could not get any pressure on Jared Goff. And so when you looked at the Browns coming in, a team that was flying high, coming off three consecutive victories, Deshaun Watson turning back the clock, playing the best football we've seen him perform as, as a Cleveland Brown, you figured if the Jets are going to have success on defense, they need to get more from David Bailey. Perhaps a little too harsh, perhaps a little unfair to expect so much out of a rookie playing in just his fifth game overall, but man, did he live up to those expectations and then some on Sunday. Pro Football Network 365 grading him as their highest graded NFL edge rusher in week five, entering Monday Night Football, giving him a grade of 95.3. that is 4.3 points above the second highest, Will Anderson, and we all know how good he is. If you look at the final stats for David Bailey on the game, he had three total sacks, seven tackles, five of them solo, and four total QB hits. Absolute demon, absolute dog. And if you want to be a dog in your sports betting life, then you've got to check out Otis Edge Analytics. 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He would be more of a day one contributor with his ability to get after the quarterback. And you saw that thought process and that decision to take him number two overall paid dividends immediately in the game on Sunday. Zach Rosenblatt making a point here on X tweeting that David Bailey gets three sacks, nine pressures, four QB hits, a 65.2 pass rushing grade it's ridiculous but again I digress on that you look at what Steve Geltz said and yesterday marked the third time in five games he obviously tweeted this yesterday that the Jets defense held an opponent under 200 yards of total offense they didn't do that once last season not once and in fact they held opponents under 300 yards just four times all year so this was a very impressive performance all around even with that massive edge late in Chicago look Aaron Glenn definitely deserves a lot of credit on the defense, and yes, he does deserve credit for the development of David Bailey. Obviously, David Bailey's the one putting in the hard work, but when you look at this defense as a unit, it's been much improved, and David Bailey becoming the next Jets superstar, of which they've had many over the years on the defensive side of the football, is now looking increasingly likely. But let me know what you guys thought of David Bailey's performance this past weekend and what you expect to see out of him moving forward for him and the Jets defense. Comment below, let me know, and as always, guys, let's go Jets.