Jets Training Camp (Day 5) Sees Offense Falter as Pads go on

The pads went on for the Jets in Florham Park today and the offense didn’t respond well.  Most standouts were on the defensive side of the ball as you’ll see in our most recent edition of camp notes from KRL.

Solomon Thomas and the interior D-line stood out today.

General Notes

– First day of players in full pads

– Practice ran 2:10

– With physicality increasing the defense was dominant and won the day in all phases

Special Teams Notes

– Greg Zuerlein practiced running on the field with no timeouts and was 4/5 on FGs.
Hitting from 30, 33, 35 and 40 yards while hitting the upright on a 55 yarder

Defense Notes

– The interior Defensive Linemen (Quinnen Williams, Javon Kinlaw, Solomon Thomas and Leki Fotu)
shutdown the running game while collapsing the pocket when the offense wanted to pass.
Repeatedly flushing the QBs out of the pocket and into incompletions or “sacks”

– The young LBs (Jamien Sherwood, Zaire Barnes and Chaz Surratt) were flying around
from sideline to sideline.  All three shut down the outside running game while Sherwood
and Barnes showed nice coverage skills causing PBUs or allowing very minimal gains on
completions

Jamien Sherwood continued his stellar camp today at 1 Jets Drive.

– Takk McKinley flashed again today showing good awareness and staying home to cause
an incompletion by Tyrod Taylor on a screen pass.  And later on coming off the edge
and recording another “sack” on Taylor

– The secondary recorded two INTs, one by Chuck Clark on an Aaron Rodgers pass when
Allen Lazard popped a ball into the air in the middle of the field.  The other was by
Al Blades (CB) picking off Andrew Peasley

– Jarrick Bernard-Converse transitioning to CB, had a nice PBU on a Taylor pass to Jason
Brownlee

Offense Notes

– A couple of things need to be cleaned up operationally, Joe Tippmann’s snaps out of
the shotgun are consistently high.  Also, Rodgers was stepped on pulling away from center
on a handoff causing him to go to the ground

– Braelon Allen probably had the two “sexiest” plays of the day.  Gaining 25+ yards on a left
outside handoff behind Olu Fashanu.  And finally “trucking” Tony Adams on a 20+ yard run up
the middle

Standouts

– Interior DLine
– Young LB’s
– Takk McKinley

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