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Edition #711

Good morning!

I don’t know how many Mets fans we have here but what a way to stamp your ticket to the post-season last night. A 2-run shot in the top of the 9th to take the lead in the home ballpark of one of your fiercest rivals? Doesn’t get much better than that. Head over to Mets Fix for all those celebrations today.

I started re-watching that Broncos game. It sucked in real-time, it sucked on review. Time to put that into the deepest, darkest corner of Jets history alongside the Patriots game from last years.

I’m going to presume that we don’t see any major changes in terms of the coaching staff this week, but we need to see some changes with how the Jets use their personnel groupings ahead of the game against Minnesota in London.

🟢 Robert Saleh met with the media and here are the highlights:

1. Backtracked on the comments about the Cadence and confirmed the Jets won’t be changing a thing. "Yesterday I was mentioning operation. We're always going to push the envelope with cadence. With operation, getting in and out of the huddle, communication being had, those are things we can look at and clean up. But cadence is what makes us who we are and we're always going to push the envelope."

2. Defensive tackle Leki Fotu may return to practice this week. He’s been on IR meaning he missed the first four games and is eligible to return.

3. Corley is not playing because "There's a group of receivers ahead of him operating a little better than he is right now."

4. Thinks that Tyron Smith has been fine: “He's been fine. As he continues to get comfortable he's going to get better and better. He's doing fine."

⚪ The cadence issue is a non-issue for me. Before the game yesterday the Jets had been flagged for one false start through the first three games of the season. It was just one of those games against Denver - "We do it every day in practice, we change cadences every walkthrough, so I'm not sure. That was way out of character for us. We haven't had an issue. Morgan [Moses] had one false start, I believe, until this. [The cadence] has been a weapon. We use it every day in practice, we rarely have a false start and to have five today, it seems like an outlier."

🟢 Robert Saleh was asked about Rodgers getting hit 14 times - "It would make you sick if he were a 20-year-old quarterback," HC Robert Saleh said. "You want your quarterback feeling comfy back there and he definitely wasn't comfortable. Give those guys credit. They're a legit top defense and they're going to give a lot of teams a lot of headaches. Last week they beat up on Tampa and Tampa just dropped 33 [points in Week 4]. It's a good defense, give them a lot of credit."

⚪ Why did the Broncos have more success running the ball in the second half? - "I have to watch the tape to see what was going on, but my guess would be fatigue, just being on the field for a while," said CB D.J. Reed, who had 3 tackles, 1 tackle for loss and 2 pass defenses. "They started to get leaky yardage from just not driving our feet while tackling and the running backs falling forward. That's my guess, but I have to watch the film."

I’m not sure the Minnesota Vikings are as good as their 4-0 record indicates, but the one thing we shouldn’t do is underestimate a very good team after seemingly underestimating a very bad Denver Broncos team.

We can make a lot of improvements across the board. It starts with the prep and the coaching staff and finishes with the execution and the players. Too often the Jets have looked completely unprepared on Gameday’s and to me that’s on the coaching staff.