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\"Geno<\/a>Geno Smith was on the practice field today during #JetsCamp<\/a>.\u00a0 He was asked if it was important to practice today to help win the QB competition and he responded, “I felt it was important just to practice. You can\u2019t miss a day of practice. I pride myself on being out there at all times and one little ankle injury wasn\u2019t going to keep me from practicing and competing with my teammates.”<\/p>\n

The trainers gave him the green light to practice which is a strong indication that this isn’t a serious injury.\u00a0 Geno said it isn’t a sprain.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t say a sprain. It\u2019s just a minor ankle injury. I\u2019m not really sure. We had x-rays. We did an MRI and had great results. Nothing showed up, so pretty much just a little ankle injury.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Geno said the ankle doesn’t hurt but it is sore.\u00a0 He spoke to the media after practice and discussed the NY Jets offense and his status for the Jaguars game.<\/p>\n

On whether he has gotten any indication whether he will be starting on Saturday\u2026<\/b>
\nNo, not yet.<\/p>\n

On how he felt about the offense\u2019s performance in the preseason game at Detroit\u2026<\/b>
\nThe time that I was in, I think the offense did a pretty good job. One thing we needed to correct was penalties, that\u2019s something that hurt us. We weren\u2019t able to sustain drives and that\u2019s something we need to do a better job of. Moving the chains and hopefully we can get points on the board.<\/p>\n

On whether he thought it would be detrimental for him to miss a day of practice\u2026<\/b>
\nI don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t plan on missing any days. As long as I have the chance to compete and practice, I\u2019m going to be out there.<\/p>\n

On whether he is still excited about his play in the preseason game after watching the game tape\u2026<\/b>
\nObviously, there\u2019s room for improvement. Nothing was perfect. Overall, I think I did a pretty good job. We speak as a whole and as a group. The offense as a whole, we didn\u2019t put points on the board.\u00a0 I think we had two or there, three and outs, so that\u2019s never good. We\u2019ve got to do a better job of sustaining drives and when I\u2019m in there, I\u2019ve got to make sure that we don\u2019t have any penalties or turnovers. Just do a better job of getting the ball down the field and progressing the offense.<\/p>\n

On why he thought Coach Mornhinweg was telling him not to limp\u2026<\/b>
\nI mean, that\u2019s Marty. He doesn\u2019t want me out there limping. He\u2019s that type of coach. He\u2019s going to coach me hard. He\u2019s going to coach all of us hard. That\u2019s the way he is. He\u2019s an old school coach. He told us about Brett Favre and the way he played through every single injury, so I try to be the same way.<\/p>\n

On if he thinks it is important his teammates think he can play hurt\u2026<\/b>
\nOf course, those guys, they\u2019re hitting non-stop. This is a contact sport, a very physical and violent game. And those guys are constantly putting their bodies on the line, so a little injury, such as an ankle, shouldn\u2019t keep me out of practice. It\u2019s important to show those guys that no matter what happens, I\u2019m always going to come out there and give it my best.<\/p>\n

On whether he should have sat out of practice since it\u2019s August\u2026<\/b>
\nI don\u2019t think so. I think this is one of those injuries where it\u2019s best to push through it. It\u2019s best to get out here. You don\u2019t want the ankle to get stiff and get tight on you, so the more you can flex it, the more you can get out here and run, it helps. It helps strengthen the ankle. It helps me get back into the groove, as well as stay on pace with the progress\u00a0 I was making throughout camp.<\/p>\n

On what he needs to improve on personally\u2026<\/b>
\nOverall, just moving the offense (and) getting first downs, whether it\u2019s third-and-short or third-and-long. We had a few third downs that we didn\u2019t convert. And as the quarterback, of course, we want to work on that as a team, but you also want to put some of that burden on yourself because that\u2019s what this game\u2019s about, converting those first downs. Usually, it depends on the quarterback to do so.<\/p>\n

On whether he looks forward to getting Joe McKnight and Chris Ivory back\u2026<\/b>
\nYes, we love those guys and we hope they can contribute. We expect a lot out of those guys. To get Joe (McKnight) back, to get Chris (Ivory) back, along with other guys who have been nicked up, is going to\u00a0 really help us out as an offense.<\/p>\n

On whether it is harder to gauge the offense without McKnight, Ivory and Santonio Holmes\u2026<\/b>
\nYeah, Tone (Santonio Holmes) is a big-time player, a key contributor for us, so we have to make sure we just get those guys back healthy and continue to get better as an offense. The guys that are out there have to step up and we all have to do a great job just competing, practicing and getting better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geno Smith was on the practice field today during #JetsCamp.\u00a0 He was asked if it was important to practice today to help win the QB competition and he responded, “I felt it was important just to practice. You can\u2019t miss a day of practice. I pride myself on being out there at all times and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21333,"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":[1337,24,491],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-camp-reports","9":"category-player-interviews"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/USATSI_7364184_158813650_lowres.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-5y4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332","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=21332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21334,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332\/revisions\/21334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}