Jets coach Robert Saleh followed Rex Ryan’s advice and imported some of his former players from San Francisco. AlbertBreer on how the moves have paid off after the Jets’ third consecutive victory
—one that explained how the outgrowth of Ryan ripping Jets coach Robert Saleh was a conversation between the two that led to material changes in the team’s roster. Ryan explained to Saleh the value he got in bringing program guys such as Bart Scott and Jim Leonhard with him from the Ravens to the Jets and suggested the Jets coach do the same in Year 2.
They did to the point where an interesting quarterback battle in this one pitting an all-time-great Aaron Rodgers against a promising, improving former top-five pick Zach Wilson was rendered, more or less, irrelevant. “With the game plan we had, we knew everybody just had to do their job,” Mosley says. “We know when we went in Cover 1, then we had to align our corners and our DBs, and we knew our D-line was going to have to get back there and cause pressure. And when we were in zone, we know Aaron likes to get the ball across the middle, get it to his backs and let them make plays. I felt like when they did get the ball, we were there.
“I don’t take any of the time that I’ve been with the Jets for granted, because wins are hard to come by, no matter who you play for,” says Mosley, a former Raven. “But I just hope that every time we win these type of games, whether we’re home or away, that we’ll reflect on what it took to get to where we are now. The work, the time we had to put in, each player individually working on whatever little things helped him get better for that week, for each other.
Which is why leading into the Giants’ 24–20 win Sunday, Martindale wanted to start on a very basic level with his players, stressing the importance of assignment football. Jackson lost a bad snap, had to chase it down, then scrambled to his right to try to avoid the rush and make a play. Unfortunately for him, Love got a bead on where he’d be going with the ball.
“He lets us play to all our strengths and allows us to grow new strengths to our game,” Love says. “He also gives us a chance to try in different areas. I’ve never really blitzed before and in the beginning of the season, I was blitzing a little bit. And so stuff like that, he just sees potential in players and he helps to unlock that. And on top of that, yeah, we just have good players who are resilient and tough who have been overlooked for a long time.
As was the case against the Broncos, Ryan and the Indianapolis offense looked hopeless for a time against Jacksonville. As was the case against the Broncos, they fought through it.
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