When you lose a game after having a\u00a0 14 point lead and Matt Moore carves up your secondary, you can usually expect changes. The Jets are making changes in the secondary, but this time they are injury related.<\/p>\n
Buster Skrine was diagnosed with a concussion on Monday. Sounds like it happened during the game, but it wasn’t diagnosed until he came into the facility on Monday. So he has not practiced and when you consider his performance last week and now the concussion it seems safe to assume that he won’t be on the field on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Jets have placed cornerback\u00a0Xavier Coleman\u00a0on injured reserve and have signed tight end Neal Sterling off of the Kansas City practice squad.<\/p>\n
Coleman, signed by the Jets as an undrafted free agent out of Portland State after the April draft, was signed off the practice squad and made his pro debut against New England. He was injured playing special teams at Miami and goes to IR after having played on three defensive plays and seven special teams plays.<\/p>\n
Sterling (6’4″, 257) was originally signed by the Jets as a free agent on Sept. 3 and played on 23 offensive plays and 18 ST plays in Games 2-4. The Jets waived Sterling on Oct. 5 and Kansas City signed him to its practice squad two days later.<\/p>\n
Sterling, who began his NFL career as Jacksonville’s seventh-round selection (220th overall) out of Monmouth in the 2015 draft, had one catch for 8 yards at Oakland this year and has 13 receptions for 118 yards for his career.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Todd Bowles told the media why the Jets added a tight end after the injury to a cornerback.<\/p>\n
With Leggett down, we needed an extra third tight end in case something happens. He\u2019s a good option to bring back. He\u2019s been in the system. He kind of knows it. We liked a lot of the things we saw in him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The slot cornerback position is a huge question mark at this point. Buster Skrine had a terrible game against the Dolphins. Coach Bowles was asked what they would do if Skrine can’t plan on Sunday and the cornerback position in general.<\/p>\n
On if Robert Nelson is the nickel cornerback if Skrine is out\u2026<\/strong>
\nNo. We have some gymnastics to work out, but he\u2019ll take some reps.<\/p>\nOn if they\u2019ll shuffle some things around at nickel cornerback\u2026<\/strong>
\nYes.<\/p>\nOn if they could use Juston Burris or Darryl Roberts at the nickel\u2026<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s possible. We\u2019ll shuffle some around.<\/p>\nOn if Skrine got concussed on Stills\u2019 touchdown play\u2026<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m actually not sure when it happened because he couldn\u2019t tell. I\u2019m not sure when it happened.<\/p>\nOn if he\u2019s frustrated with how Josh McCown is protecting the football\u2026<\/strong>
\nNo, we have to protect it better. We can\u2019t put him in those situations where he has to throw the football. At the same time, he\u2019s been playing good football. But we do have to protect the football. There\u2019s some he\u2019d like to have back. Some are not his fault. But nevertheless, we can\u2019t turn it over.<\/p>\nOn if Skrine\u2019s struggles against Miami were due to playing with a concussion\u2026<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t know. I mean I didn\u2019t know about it at the time. We just have to play better. I don\u2019t want to say that was the cause of it because I don\u2019t know when he got it.<\/p>\nOn if Xavier Coleman\u2019s shoulder is a surgical situation\u2026<\/strong>
\nRight now, it\u2019s not but we\u2019re going to wait and see. it could be.<\/p>\nOn the diagnosis for Coleman\u2019s shoulder\u2026<\/strong>
\nLabrum.<\/p>\nOn if there\u2019s any thought to signing a cornerback\u2026<\/strong>
\nNot at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you lose a game after having a\u00a0 14 point lead and Matt Moore carves up your secondary, you can usually expect changes. The Jets are making changes in the secondary, but this time they are injury related. Buster Skrine was diagnosed with a concussion on Monday. Sounds like it happened during the game, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":37313,"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":[8,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-injury-report","8":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bng-l-raiders-0918-100.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-9Q5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37825","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=37825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37829,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37825\/revisions\/37829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}