{"id":62357,"date":"2023-03-17T17:54:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T21:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=62357"},"modified":"2023-03-17T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T21:55:35","slug":"jets-bring-punter-thomas-morstead-back-in-the-fold-after-manns-disastrous-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2023\/03\/17\/jets-bring-punter-thomas-morstead-back-in-the-fold-after-manns-disastrous-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Bring Punter Thomas Morstead Back in the Fold After Mann&#8217;s Disastrous 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breathe a sigh of relief, Jets fans; Thomas Morstead is back.\u00a0 Yes, after watching Braden Mann punt away field position (<a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/topic\/168105-braden-mann-is-awful\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>and possibly a won or two<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) in 2022, the Jets have turned their attention to the same veteran punter who came in to spell Mann for a handful of games in 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Got my green on. <br \/>Kiss me, I\u2019m a Jet!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HappyStPatricksDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HappyStPatricksDay<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllGasNoBrakes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AllGasNoBrakes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PinchMe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PinchMe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NeedANewNumber?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NeedANewNumber<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cyNemVTiWn\">pic.twitter.com\/cyNemVTiWn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Thomas Morstead (@thomasmorstead) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomasmorstead\/status\/1636811440861454336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Morstead is coming off of one of his best seasons as a pro, dropping 28 punts inside his opponent&#8217;s 20 on just 61 punts.\u00a0 Mann had 27 such punts but needed 83 attempts to hit that number.<\/p>\n<p>An intriguing punter from the moment he was drafted, Mann made name for himself at Texas A&amp;M where he won the Ray Guy award, given to the nation&#8217;s top punter, for his jaw dropping punts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We give Punters love around here too. 2018-2019 Ray Guy winner Braden Mann has an absolute BOOT. He will also be at the senior bowl. Top specialist in the draft <br \/>??\ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WNSFilm?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WNSFilm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bGgYkPu2Qx\">pic.twitter.com\/bGgYkPu2Qx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kells (@KellsTalksBall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KellsTalksBall\/status\/1219242358245597184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>As a pro, things haven&#8217;t worked out quite as well as expected as Mann could easily find himself looking for work by the time the 2023 season kicks off.<\/p>\n<p>Stepping in for a seven game stretch when Mann injured himself in 2021, Morstead averaged 48.2 yards per punt for Gang Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breathe a sigh of relief, Jets fans; Thomas Morstead is back.\u00a0 Yes, after watching Braden Mann punt away field position (and possibly a won or two) in 2022, the Jets have turned their attention to the same veteran punter who came in to spell Mann for a handful of games in 2021. Got my green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":62358,"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":[3226,3519],"class_list":{"0":"post-62357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news","8":"tag-braden-mann","9":"tag-thoms-morstead"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Thomas-Morstead-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-gdL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62357","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=62357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62361,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62357\/revisions\/62361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}