One of the biggest disadvantages of playing on a Thursday night is the lack of recovery time for injuries.\u00a0 The Jets will be heading out to Mile High a banged up team, with some key injuries on the offensive side of ball.\u00a0 As of now running back LaDainian Tomlinson, and wide receivers Jeremy Kerley, and Patrick Turner are listed as questionable for the game against the Broncos.\u00a0 When asked about their status head coach Rex Ryan offered the following:<\/p>\n
“Well, I would say every one of them, if they make the trip, will be a game-time decision. So, LaDainian has an MCL and Patrick got hit in the kidneys, so we\u2019ll see how he is. And then Kerley has a little bit of a knee. You know the way I am, we don\u2019t travel them. If we don\u2019t think a guy is going to play or have an opportunity to play or a possibility, then we\u2019ll probably just leave them back home. That doesn\u2019t mean that they\u2019ll play for sure, but it means that we\u2019d like to see how they feel when they get there. It\u2019s just like what we did with Plaxico in the preseason when we left him at home because (with) the swelling or whatever, it\u2019s probably not the smartest thing to travel guys. So we\u2019ll know, maybe by (Wednesday) if some guys are staying back. But I\u2019m thinking it\u2019s a possibility that all three will be game-time decisions.”<\/em><\/p>\n If all three of these guys are out on Thursday night the Jets are going to have some serious issues on offense.\u00a0 LaDainian Tomlinson is the Jets best receiving back out of the backfield and is very consistent in terms of pass protection.\u00a0 With LT out Gang Green will have to look to Shonn Greene, John Conner, Joe McKnight and rookie Bilal Powell to pick up the slack.\u00a0 In terms of blitz pickup in the passing game that could be a scarey notion.\u00a0 (Note: Broncos LB Von Miller enters the game with 8 sacks and 2 FF)<\/p>\n As for Kerley and Turner, if they are both ruled out for the game the Jets will be down to two starting receivers (Plaxico and Santonio) and will be forced to activate Eron Riley from the practice squad.\u00a0 In order to spread out the field Gang Green will have to use Dustin Keller, Matthew Mulligan (gasp), Joe McKnight (if healthy), and Josh\u00a0 Baker to fill the void.\u00a0 As you can see not exactly an ideal situation in terms of establishing the passing game.<\/p>\n On defense safety Brodney Pool has been ruled out and Darrelle Revis was limited with a knee problem.\u00a0 Before you panic about the Revis injury Rex eliminated any potential concerns: “He had a knee. Don\u2019t worry, he\u2019s playing. I\u2019m not even going to make the trip if Darrelle doesn\u2019t go.”<\/em><\/p>\n One of the biggest disadvantages of playing on a Thursday night is the lack of recovery time for injuries.\u00a0 The Jets will be heading out to Mile High a banged up team, with some key injuries on the offensive side of ball.\u00a0 As of now running back LaDainian Tomlinson, and wide receivers Jeremy Kerley, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-2z0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9861,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions\/9861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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