home exercise programs<\/a> besides his scheduled training.<\/p>\nHere is what Wayne Hunter had to say:<\/p>\n
On his conversation with Coach Ryan this morning\u2026<\/strong>
\nTo kind of simplify it and put it in a nutshell, it was, \u2018I want to help this team anyway I can and right now it\u2019s not at right tackle.\u2019 I\u2019ve had struggles, everyone has seen them. It\u2019s just moving back to a position where I excelled, did really well and helped the team to two (AFC) championship (Games). Even I feel like I can help the team more (by) going back to those days.<\/p>\nOn if he would eventually like another shot to be the starting right tackle.\u2026<\/strong>
\nYeah, I have to work my way up again, but as it is right now I just want to help the team in any way possible. Right now, I can help the team best by being that Jumbo tight end like I was before and being the sixth guy off the bench.<\/p>\nOn whether he was surprised by the move\u2026<\/strong>
\nNo, it wasn\u2019t a surprise. Everybody knows, the whole New York City knows that I\u2019ve been struggling the last year and the last game I didn\u2019t do much better. So, I wasn\u2019t surprised. I was waiting for it to be honest with you. I knew I was struggling. Everything was kind of going south for me, but at the same time I still wanted to help the team in any way possible. I love the Jets. I love this organization. So again, moving to this position is the best thing for me right now and the guys.<\/p>\nOn if he thinks it\u2019s fair that he only got to play in one preseason game as a starter\u2026<\/strong>
\nIs it fair? It\u2019s a preseason game, it doesn\u2019t matter what\u2019s fair or what\u2019s not fair. It\u2019s a preseason game. That\u2019s all it is. They\u2019re making the decision off everything, not just this past game, off of everything. This goes back to last year. If I don\u2019t show signs of improvement when the bullets are flying, they have to make a choice. They have to pick the best 11 guys to go on the field and right now, my best role is as a tight end.<\/p>\nOn if he would have liked to get another chance in live action to prove himself as a starter\u2026<\/strong>
\nYeah, it would always be nice to try to improve and get that job back. They have to make moves now. It\u2019s coming down to the wire.\u00a0 The Bills are around the corner. They have to do something. Right now, the best move for me is to move to a spot where I was dominant, comfortable and confident, at the Jumbo tight end spot.<\/p>\nOn how much everyone knowing he was struggling affected him\u2026<\/strong>
\nAt the beginning, it did affect me quite a bit, but I learned to kind of brush that off a little bit. I\u2019ve just been rolling with punches. Towards the end, it was almost numb at that point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have been very critical of Wayne Hunter.\u00a0 Most Jets fans have been very critical of Wayne Hunter.\u00a0 His level of play has not been adequate.\u00a0 Those who are close to Wayne have always spoken about what they think of him as a person.\u00a0 I thought his comments on the benching were worth sharing.\u00a0 Basically, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11440,"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":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/NYJ1.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-3Mm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14530","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=14530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58622,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14530\/revisions\/58622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}