{"id":59512,"date":"2022-06-15T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=59512"},"modified":"2022-06-15T10:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:51:10","slug":"mcgovern-still-standing-as-jets-man-in-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2022\/06\/15\/mcgovern-still-standing-as-jets-man-in-the-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"McGovern Still Standing as Jets Man in the Middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL Fans can be a finicky bunch.\u00a0 Add a proven veteran who fills a need in free agency and the masses rejoice.\u00a0 Watch that same player have a rough start and those same fans will demand he be released.\u00a0 That&#8217;s how things played out for Jets center Connor McGovern, but the Jets rejected the calls for his ouster and held tight.<\/p>\n<p>The Missouri product had entered the league in 2017 as a guard for the Denver Broncos.\u00a0 After moving to center in his third year, he hit free agency and signed with the Jets to fill what had been a black hole since the departure of future Ring-of-Honor member Nick Mangold.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> thinking: They like Connor McGovern &amp; believe he will excel in the Kyle Shanahan\/Mike LaFleur offense. <\/p>\n<p>Moving him to guard wasn\u2019t ever something they considered. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uO5XgXMJye\">https:\/\/t.co\/uO5XgXMJye<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Connor_J_Hughes\/status\/1371598174247383044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Things didn&#8217;t go well for McGovern in his first season with the Jets, but that could have been said about pretty much anyone on the 53-man roster under the since fired and still unemployed Adam Gase.\u00a0 With Gase engineering what was the NFL&#8217;s worst offense, McGovern had his share of struggles and many worried that he would join a long list of poor signings for Gang Green.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward the 2021 off-season and the Jets didn&#8217;t pursue any replacements in free agency and reportedly liked McGovern&#8217;s fit in the team&#8217;s new offense.<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, the Jets were right.\u00a0 McGovern&#8217;s play from year one to year two with the Jets was night and day.\u00a0 This meant McGovern would stays while being flanked by Laken Tomlinson at left guard with Alijah Vera-Tucker moving from left to right.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Connor McGovern: Career best 78.9 run blocking grade last season. 9th highest among all Centers\ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tFvS8k2Rjn\">pic.twitter.com\/tFvS8k2Rjn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PFF NY Jets (@PFF_Jets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PFF_Jets\/status\/1536072092038205440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>What this means for the Jets offense is that their young quarterback has continuity at a vital spot.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Vera-Tucker will have an experienced center to lean on as a mentor.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing McGovern may have been what some wanted, but sticking with the veteran was the right call all along.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL Fans can be a finicky bunch.\u00a0 Add a proven veteran who fills a need in free agency and the masses rejoice.\u00a0 Watch that same player have a rough start and those same fans will demand he be released.\u00a0 That&#8217;s how things played out for Jets center Connor McGovern, but the Jets rejected the calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":59538,"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":[2421],"class_list":{"0":"post-59512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"tag-connor-mcgovern"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Connor-McGovern-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-ftS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59512","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=59512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59566,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59512\/revisions\/59566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}