“I’ve moved on, they’ve moved on”.
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Sunday’s loss to Cincinnati was a blueprint for how to begin a season 0-1. I’m trying to get where he is. Bowles did his best Bill Belichick imitation, calling to mind Belichick’s “We’re on to Cincinnati” mantra of 2014, except in this case Bowles was off of Cincinnati.
“They’re good up front”, said Dalton of the Jets. They held Jeremy Hill to a yard on the ground and then the Bengals hurt themselves with a false start. However, what I saw from him yesterday was a tangible development toward becoming a true technician. He talked openly in training camp about the inevitability of switching to safety at some point.
Wide receiver Brandon Marshall was asked if there’s a sense of urgency to beat Buffalo, because 0-2 teams rarely make the playoffs.
Dalton and Green, who seem to share a brain at times, were in sync all day, despite constant double teams and playing their first game without the supporting cast of Marvin Jones and Mohamed Sanu, who departed via free-agency and tight end Tyler Eifert who’s out with an ankle injury. According to Alex Kozora, the last time they did so was in 2008-when Ryan Fitzpatrick, the Jets’ quarterback, was under center. The Bills also beat the Jets twice last season, including in the regular-season finale that kept NY out of the postseason.
As for Wilkerson, it says a lot that he had 1.5 sacks and yet this was one of his quieter games. “It’s a new year, a new situation, a new team. We just have to come out there poised and relaxed”. “This is a big game for us, for the obvious reasons”.
“You have a game in three days so you have to get ready for it”, Bowles said. Not this early in the season. We’ve moved on to Buffalo.
“I don’t know why everyone’s talking about sense of urgency”.
“It’s nearly like the talk is our backs are against the wall”.
“We lost, so everything that we did wrong is going to be more glaring, ” Gilchrist said. And, they’ve got plenty to clean up in a hurry. “That’s all we can do as a team”. “Thursday nights are exciting to play on because you have all of your peers watching you, and you just want to go out there and show everybody what kind of team we have”. The Bengals did the same thing at the end of the first half to cut the Jets’ lead to 16-13 at the intermission. Three Cincinnati pass plays went for 40 yards or more last week against the Jets including a 54-yard touchdown.
“We had issues, so that’s something we’ve got to improve on”, said offensive co-ordinator Greg Roman, who watched newly-paid quarterback Tyrod Taylor continually struggle in the face of fierce pressure as he delivered by some way his worst performance as a pro. “It could’ve been the difference in the game”. The first six weeks of the Jets’ schedule is a nightmare. Kansas City, Seattle, Pittsburgh and Arizona follow.
“We’ve got to do a better job of executing”, said Fitzpatrick.
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Unless this one-game explosion was an aberration, signs are looking good for Williams not only becoming elite sooner than Wilkerson was able to, but also having the upside to potentially be even better than him – maybe even within the next year or two.
