Here is the transcript from the press conference earlier today with NY Jets head coach Todd Bowles. This is when he announced that Geno Smith had a broken jaw to the media.<\/p>\n
Opening statement\u2026<\/strong> On when the incident happened\u2026 <\/strong> On coach\u2019s bewilderment level on this\u2026<\/strong> On what caused IK to punch Geno Smith\u2026<\/strong> On whether there was a prior issue between the two players\u2026<\/strong> Here is the transcript from the press conference earlier today with NY Jets head coach Todd Bowles. This is when he announced that Geno Smith had a broken jaw to the media. Opening statement\u2026 This is very brief because I have practice, but our quarterback is out six to 10 weeks, meaning Geno (Smith). There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28799,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29441","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\/2015\/06\/Bowles.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-7ER","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29441","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=29441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29442,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29441\/revisions\/29442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis is very brief because I have practice, but our quarterback is out six to 10 weeks, meaning Geno (Smith). There was an altercation in the locker room. It had nothing to do with football. It was something very childish. He got coldcocked, sucker punched, whatever you want to call it, in the jaw. He has a broken jaw, fractured jaw, it requires some surgery. He won\u2019t be at practice today, so you won\u2019t see him today. The culprit was IK (Ikemefuna Enemkpali), the outside linebacker, who has been released. We released IK and that\u2019s pretty much the gist of it. I have meetings and if you want to know more after practice, I can tell you more, but he (Geno Smith) will be out six to ten weeks at least and IK is gone and he won\u2019t be practicing today. (Smith) won\u2019t be playing this weekend, he probably won\u2019t play in the preseason and depending on how surgery goes, we\u2019ll see where we go from there. We may add or not add another quarterback, but we are down (a player at the quarterback position). It\u2019s something we\u2019re dealing with. The team knows it\u2019s something we don\u2019t tolerate, something we can\u2019t stand. You don\u2019t walk up to another man and punch him in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIt happened this morning.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s something you don\u2019t tolerate. You can\u2019t tolerate that. If you have a team and you have a bunch of side issues, you can\u2019t tolerate that and this is something that happens in the locker room. We\u2019re dealing with it internally and that\u2019s where we\u2019re at right now.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ll let them tell you. It\u2019s something very childish, something that sixth graders could have talked about. It had no reason happening and if they want to tell you what happened, they can tell you what happened, but I told them I wouldn\u2019t say anything about it, so I\u2019ll keep it there. I can talk to you guys after practice because I have meetings and then practice.<\/p>\n
\nNot to my knowledge. Obviously, it was a sudden thing. I don\u2019t know what kind of history they have, but I\u2019ll get more details and I\u2019ll let you know after practice. You can ask their people what happened, but he (Smith) is down and he won\u2019t be playing this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"