Head coach Robert Saleh made the Jets’ offseason mission clear shortly after the ultimate recreation towards the Payments final season: shut the hole within the AFC East.
The Jets haven't received a division recreation since 2019 and Saleh made it identified that the workforce needed to begin catching as much as the Payments, Patriots and Dolphins.
After the offseason additions the Jets have made, does he suppose the hole is closing?
“We’re higher,” Saleh mentioned Tuesday after the workforce’s second organized workforce exercise apply. “I do know we’re going to be higher. We’re younger. We’re a yr older. We introduced in some actually cool items, a whole lot of guys who stand for the correct stuff, who dwell and breathe soccer. Now it’s only a matter of making an attempt to achieve that continuity and confidence and once more, simply take it one recreation at a time.”
The Jets took the sphere on Tuesday for the primary session open to the media with these new toys on show. Zach Wilson was throwing to new receiver Garrett Wilson and tight ends C.J. Uzomah and Tyler Conklin. Sauce Gardner confirmed his expertise in protection and D.J. Reed made a pleasant move breakup on a throw from Wilson to Elijah Moore.
Alijah Vera-Tucker mentioned he didn't hesitate when the coaches requested him to maneuver from left guard, the place he performed as a rookie, to proper guard after the workforce signed veteran Laken Tomlinson to play on the left facet.
Vera-Tucker mentioned he was “hyped” in regards to the workforce including Tomlinson and when Saleh and offensive line coach John Benton referred to as him about switching positions, it was a straightforward resolution.
“They requested me if I felt snug shifting to proper guard. I instantly mentioned sure,” Vera-Tucker mentioned. “I had a few experiences there, two years at USC. At this level, I’ve been switching positions now the final three, 4 years. I’m fairly used to it.”
A number of members of the 2019 draft class have requested for brand spanking new contracts this offseason and a few are staying away from their workforce’s voluntary offseason packages. However Jets DT Quinnen Williams, the No. 3 total decide that yr, has not made any noise about wanting a brand new deal. He's scheduled to make $4.9 million this season.
“I simply consider the contract goes to deal with itself, the cash goes to deal with itself,” Williams mentioned. “I play this recreation for the love of the sport, before everything, so cash will not be an enormous factor on my coronary heart or on my thoughts proper now. I simply need to be the perfect soccer participant on the sphere that I might be.”
OT Mekhi Becton was not on the OTA. His first little one was born a number of days in the past and the Jets knew he wouldn't be there. … OT George Fant (knee) and DE Carl Lawson (Achilles) weren't on the sphere as they recuperate from surgical procedures. DT Sheldon Rankins additionally was not on the sphere, whereas TE Jermey Ruckert (foot), CB Brandin Echols (unknown) and LB Jamien Sherwood (Achilles) had been working with the trainers on a facet area.
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