Following their Green & White practice Saturday night, the Green & White returned to One Jets Drive Monday for their 10th practice of training camp. With their first preseason game set for Saturday vs. the cross-town Giants, Jets head coach Robert Saleh sounded like a wise philosopher while describing where his offensive units and defensive units are at this point.
"We don't fear the man that has 10,000 kicks that he practices one time each, we fear the man who has one kick that he practices 10,000 times," he said. "So the more that they get the rep the things that we ask them to do, the faster they're going to get naturally. The offense just finished their install, so this is their chance to getting on repeat and doing the same things over again and try to catch up. The defense is moving at a pretty good clip right now and they look good, physical and fast. It'll be good to go up against another opponent here soon, so we can kind of see where we're at."
Rookie QB Zach Wilson started practice with an early overthrow of TE Chris Herndon over the middle in a team period, but he steadied himself with a sideline completion to Keelan Cole after a WR screen to rookie Elijah Moore. Wideout Corey Davis had a busy day, catching multiple balls from Wilson inside the red zone including two scores with one coming in team and one coming in 7-on-7. A master of the back-shoulder fade at BYU, Wilson, the No. 2 overall pick in the draft, delivered a fade to Davis for a TD despite good position from CB Bless Austin. Wilson, who led a scoring drive Saturday but was intercepted twice, will continue to experience ebbs and flows.
"For most rookies, for especially on the offensive side of the ball, for everyone, it's going to get worse before it gets better," Saleh said. "It is what it is. There's just a lot of things that happen. I mean, there's a reason why being a rookie is hard in this league. There was a Hall of Famer yesterday (Peyton Manning) that was inducted (into the Pro Football Hall of Fame) that had a 71 quarterback rating his rookie year. It's not easy to play quarterback in this league as a rookie, especially quarterback. But it is going to get worse before it gets better. But he's at that point now where he's going to be able to stack up days and we have all the most utmost confidence in him and his ability, his ability to figure out the mistakes and correct him and get to a better place."
Despite the turnovers over the weekend, Saleh saw a lot of good from Wilson at MetLife Stadium.
"He made a lot of great decisions in the scrimmage, it doesn't show because of the stats," he said. "He's on track and he's getting better every day with what's being asked from him. This is the middle of training camp – when everything is just on your shoulders and the entire offense has everything on its shoulders. Now it's just a matter of taking these reps, taking these fundamentals and working your way through so you can catch up to where the defense is right now, which is being on repeat."
Late in Monday's practice, Wilson got some good fortune during a 7-on-7 drill. He rifled a ball that TE Tyler Kroft deflected into the waiting arms of Vyncint Smith for a score. On the next rep, he couldn't find anyone open in a timely fashion so he patiently rolled right and hit Elijah Moore for a touchdown.
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"We don't fear the man that has 10,000 kicks that he practices one time each, we fear the man who has one kick that he practices 10,000 times," he said. "So the more that they get the rep the things that we ask them to do, the faster they're going to get naturally. The offense just finished their install, so this is their chance to getting on repeat and doing the same things over again and try to catch up. The defense is moving at a pretty good clip right now and they look good, physical and fast. It'll be good to go up against another opponent here soon, so we can kind of see where we're at."
Rookie QB Zach Wilson started practice with an early overthrow of TE Chris Herndon over the middle in a team period, but he steadied himself with a sideline completion to Keelan Cole after a WR screen to rookie Elijah Moore. Wideout Corey Davis had a busy day, catching multiple balls from Wilson inside the red zone including two scores with one coming in team and one coming in 7-on-7. A master of the back-shoulder fade at BYU, Wilson, the No. 2 overall pick in the draft, delivered a fade to Davis for a TD despite good position from CB Bless Austin. Wilson, who led a scoring drive Saturday but was intercepted twice, will continue to experience ebbs and flows.
"For most rookies, for especially on the offensive side of the ball, for everyone, it's going to get worse before it gets better," Saleh said. "It is what it is. There's just a lot of things that happen. I mean, there's a reason why being a rookie is hard in this league. There was a Hall of Famer yesterday (Peyton Manning) that was inducted (into the Pro Football Hall of Fame) that had a 71 quarterback rating his rookie year. It's not easy to play quarterback in this league as a rookie, especially quarterback. But it is going to get worse before it gets better. But he's at that point now where he's going to be able to stack up days and we have all the most utmost confidence in him and his ability, his ability to figure out the mistakes and correct him and get to a better place."
Despite the turnovers over the weekend, Saleh saw a lot of good from Wilson at MetLife Stadium.
"He made a lot of great decisions in the scrimmage, it doesn't show because of the stats," he said. "He's on track and he's getting better every day with what's being asked from him. This is the middle of training camp – when everything is just on your shoulders and the entire offense has everything on its shoulders. Now it's just a matter of taking these reps, taking these fundamentals and working your way through so you can catch up to where the defense is right now, which is being on repeat."
Late in Monday's practice, Wilson got some good fortune during a 7-on-7 drill. He rifled a ball that TE Tyler Kroft deflected into the waiting arms of Vyncint Smith for a score. On the next rep, he couldn't find anyone open in a timely fashion so he patiently rolled right and hit Elijah Moore for a touchdown.
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