Mark Sanchez spoke to the media about his wide receivers and the progress he feels they are all making together…<\/p>\n
On having Dustin Keller back\u2026<\/strong> On the improvement in Kerley\u2019s route running\u2026<\/strong> On the receiving corps without Holmes\u2026<\/strong> On if the receivers have chips on their shoulders\u2026<\/strong> On what he said to Stephen Hill after his drop at New England\u2026<\/strong> On if Stephen Hill took his advice\u2026<\/strong> On his touchdown pass to Keller\u2026<\/strong> On if it\u2019s easier to control the huddle with younger receivers\u2026<\/strong> On the interception\u2026<\/strong> Mark Sanchez spoke to the media about his wide receivers and the progress he feels they are all making together… On having Dustin Keller back\u2026 (It\u2019s) great, and then we lose Jeff (Cumberland). It\u2019s this injury bug we\u2019ve hit a little bit this year. Dustin, he\u2019s one of my best friends off the field, one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16000,"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":[1337,213,491],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-jet-news","9":"category-player-interviews"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/catch1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-4a3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15999","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=15999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16001,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15999\/revisions\/16001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(It\u2019s) great, and then we lose Jeff (Cumberland). It\u2019s this injury bug we\u2019ve hit a little bit this year. Dustin, he\u2019s one of my best friends off the field, one of the best guys to play with (and) a great teammate. He studies his butt off and he makes big catches for us always. He\u2019s been my guy for four years and we just have to keep feeding him.<\/p>\n
\nJust the experience, it\u2019s something that\u2019s constantly growing. His communication has gotten better, just on the sideline talking through stuff. His recognition of defenses has gotten better. That\u2019s one of the first things you see with an improving receiver, he knows what specific routes (he has to run). He always has known what route to run against a specific coverage, but if you can\u2019t see it right away, you have to play slower and then you don\u2019t run as fast. You\u2019re thinking too much. Now, the game is really coming to him. He\u2019s trying to be one of the fastest mental players out there. Especially going through an offensive change like he did, coming in and learning one system than the very next year (learning a new one) is a little different for someone like me, who has been here for a while. He\u2019s doing a great job, all things considered. He had his first 100-yard game, which is pretty cool.<\/p>\n
\nGuys don\u2019t respect them enough to be honest. I think it\u2019s an explosive group. I think they\u2019ve shown that. The reason the ball is going around is because all of them have the ability to get open. I love Tone. We\u2019d love to have him playing, but when someone says, \u201cHow do you feel playing without a number one?\u201d That\u2019s not right for the guys that we have. I think they\u2019re all capable of being in that role and they\u2019ve all shown it from time to time. Nothing (has) really (changed). I\u2019m trying to go through my progressions and get it to the right guy. Like (Mark) Brunell always said, \u201cIt\u2019s an easy game, just throw it to the open guy.\u201d I\u2019m just working on that.<\/p>\n
\nMaybe, and part of it is just a little bit of experience. That\u2019s a group that hasn\u2019t caught many footballs to this point really until the last game. It\u2019s constantly getting better. I\u2019ve said it before, but we\u2019re an improving bunch. I still think we have some of our best football ahead of us, we just have to get it to happen on Sunday and really build off of last week.<\/p>\n
\nI just said, \u2018Don\u2019t even worry about it. There\u2019s no time because you\u2019re going to get another shot. You\u2019re going to get another shot to catch the ball. Just forget about it. (It) never happened, move on.\u2019<\/p>\n
\nHe was fine. That was one of the things I put a lot of emphasis on, making sure he\u2019s good to go, especially after a tough situation like that. You categorize your mistakes. My interception was late and\u00a0 a bad decision. His drop was a physical mistake. He ran the right route. He got himself open. He knows how to catch the football. He had a heck of a game, so I\u2019m not worried about him at all.<\/p>\n
\nIt was tight in there for sure, but I trust him. I trust him to be in the right spot at the right time. He knows that if there\u2019s a window, I\u2019ll get it in there to him and he\u2019ll do the rest. He did more than I did and he deserves the credit for it. It was a great catch.<\/p>\n
\nI wouldn\u2019t say one\u2019s easier or harder. I feel confident either way. It doesn\u2019t matter to me. I love having Tone in there. I love playing with these guys. That doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n
\nI threw it late. It was way too late. I was looking the other way. I shouldn\u2019t have been looking the other way. I just went to the wrong guy. I thought it was something different and missed it. I really did. I tried to make up for it and shouldn\u2019t have done it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"