{"id":14419,"date":"2012-08-20T12:42:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T16:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=14419"},"modified":"2022-04-01T02:44:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T06:44:09","slug":"rex-doesnt-commit-to-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2012\/08\/20\/rex-doesnt-commit-to-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Rex Doesn’t Commit To Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"NY Jets fans have not been shy in expressing their disappointment with starting right tackle Wayne Hunter.\u00a0 He is coming off a rough season and many thought he was going to be released in the off-season, myself included<\/a>.\u00a0 It seemed to make sense, he was the weakest link on the offensive line and the Jets had plenty of time to upgrade the position.\u00a0 After ignoring it in the draft and free agency, it became clear that the Jets were serious about giving Hunter another shot this year.<\/p>\n

Hunter made his preseason debut against the Giants and things got much worse.\u00a0 The Jets offense has not scored a TD in either preseason game and Mark Sanchez has been under constant pressure with the starting offense on the field.\u00a0 Jenny Vrentas looked at the sacks<\/a> allowed against the Giants and added:<\/p>\n

Hunter had a rough night against the Giants in Saturday’s preseason game, playing a role in all three sacks of Mark Sanchez, and a fourth nullified by a phantom penalty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Manish Mehta just wrote<\/a> that Rex won’t commit to either Wayne Hunter or backup Austin Howard.\u00a0 The Jets have been praising Howard all off-season, so that is an indication that they could be scanning the waiver wire soon.<\/p>\n

Rex Ryan didn\u2019t exactly give Wayne Hunter a vote of confidence when he danced around the question whether the maligned right tackle would be the Week 1 starter against the Bills on Sept. 9.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to say this. We\u2019re committing to putting a good football team on the field,\u201d Ryan said on Monday morning. \u201cCompetition not just at the right tackle spot, but there\u2019s competition throughout\u2026 We\u2019re loaded in some spots and the competition is elevating peoples\u2019 play\u2026 But to sit back and say this guy\u2019s definitely the starter, I\u2019m not ready to do that\u2026 I like to see guys compete and earn their jobs out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan wouldn\u2019t even commit to Hunter or backup Austin Howard being the starting right tackle in three weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to paint myself in a corner because things happen.\u201d Ryan said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One move that would seem to make a lot of sense would be bringing in former Jet Kareem McKenzie<\/a>.\u00a0 After the performance against the Giants, there is no way that the Jets can start the season with Hunter at RT.\u00a0 Look for Austin Howard to get 1st team snaps against the Panthers.\u00a0 Depending on how that goes, Howard could get the starting nod or the Jets will be discussing McKenzie and other veteran free agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NY Jets fans have not been shy in expressing their disappointment with starting right tackle Wayne Hunter.\u00a0 He is coming off a rough season and many thought he was going to be released in the off-season, myself included.\u00a0 It seemed to make sense, he was the weakest link on the offensive line and the Jets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1337,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Wayne_Hunter2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-3Kz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14419"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14493,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14419\/revisions\/14493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}