{"id":37807,"date":"2017-10-24T12:35:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T16:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=37807"},"modified":"2017-10-24T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T16:35:33","slug":"new-york-jets-football-jetnation-tuesday-tidbits-when-will-mccown-be-bench-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2017\/10\/24\/new-york-jets-football-jetnation-tuesday-tidbits-when-will-mccown-be-bench-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"JetNation Tuesday Tidbits: When Will McCown be Bench-Bound?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few notes, random thoughts and links related to the current state of Gang Green.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Josh McCown produced 28 points in the Jets&#8217; 31-28 loss to the Miami Dolphins, placing them 20th in the NFL in points per game at 19.6. It&#8217;s far from the greatest show on turf, but it&#8217;s also 10 or 11 spots higher than most pundits expected when the season started.\u00a0 Even still, should the Jets drop another game or two in a row, the calls for Bryce Petty and\/or Christian Hackenberg will only get louder.\u00a0 Will head coach Todd Bowles give in or stick with the QB who gives him the &#8220;best chance to win&#8221; for the duration?<\/li>\n<li>If Todd Buster Skrine&#8217;s meltdown against the Dolphins wasn&#8217;t enough to get him benched, you have to wonder if his salary has him locked in as a starter regardless of performance, much like the Darelle Revis situation last year.<\/li>\n<li>People losing their minds over Robby Anderson&#8217;s foolish penalty late in the game for throwing his helmet have got to be joking.\u00a0 Anderson is the team&#8217;s first legitimate deep threat the Jets have had in years.\u00a0 If not for consistently being under-thrown on deep routes, he would be one of the most productive receivers in the NFL.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a kid who made a mistake in the heat of the moment.\u00a0 Relax.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_37590\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_3585.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37590\" class=\"wp-image-37590\" src=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_3585-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_3585-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_3585-600x533.jpg 600w, https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_3585-768x682.jpg 768w, https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_3585-1024x910.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_3585.jpg 1455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darron Lee has shown significant improvement in recent weeks.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>After stringing together multiple quality performances on defense, there&#8217;s reason for hope in regards to linebacker Darron Lee who led the team with 11 tackles on Sunday.\u00a0 Lee also had a sack that was nullified when Dolphins quarterback Jay Cutler dropped his facemask down in to Lee&#8217;s helmet, resulting in a roughing the passer penalty.\u00a0 How long before the Patriots add that one to their playbook when they need a quick 15 yards?<\/li>\n<li>According to pro football focus, no Jets starter on offense has been worse than center Wesley Johnson (overall grade of 36.0) this season.\u00a0 The grade is consistent with what we&#8217;ve seen on film and Johnson&#8217;s performance has been a big reason for the Jets&#8217; sputtering rushing attack.\u00a0 Taking a look at Dakota Dozier in his place wouldn&#8217;t be the worst idea in the world.<\/li>\n<li>As reflected in the\u00a0JetNation\u00a0post game <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2017\/10\/23\/new-york-jets-report-card-week-7-6\/\"><strong>report card<\/strong><\/a>, the linebackers turned in a solid all-around effort led by Lee. Demario Davis and first-year starter Josh Martin also picked up a sack each.<\/li>\n<li>As the weeks roll on, Mike Maccangan&#8217;s trade of Sheldon Richardson to the Seattle Seahawks in exchange for wide receiver Jermaine Kearse and a 2nd round pick looks better and better.\u00a0 Kearse scored his fourth TD of the season on Sunday while Richardson is still in search of his first sack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few notes, random thoughts and links related to the current state of Gang Green. Josh McCown produced 28 points in the Jets&#8217; 31-28 loss to the Miami Dolphins, placing them 20th in the NFL in points per game at 19.6. It&#8217;s far from the greatest show on turf, but it&#8217;s also 10 or 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":33115,"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":[6],"tags":[2373,2745,2297,2447],"class_list":{"0":"post-37807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"tag-darron-lee","9":"tag-jermaine-kearse","10":"tag-josh-martin","11":"tag-robby-anderson"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1835.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-9PN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37807","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37808,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37807\/revisions\/37808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}