In a season stuffed with offensive line shuffling, together with presumably some extra Sunday, Keith Carter has one choice that he’s dreading.
Mekhi Becton began the season at proper sort out and shifted to left sort out when Duane Brown went on injured reserve, and Becton beforehand blamed a shift from left to proper for his damage final yr. Brown was the beginning left sort out earlier than getting injured.
“I nearly want one in every of them would say, ‘I don’t wish to transfer’ to make the choice simpler,” stated Carter, the Jets’ offensive line coach and run sport coordinator.
Brown (hip), who Saleh stated Wednesday was “nearer” to returning, practiced absolutely Thursday — one week after his 21-day window opened to get activated from injured reserve.
When he returns, the Jets might want to stability Brown’s restoration with Becton’s choice and damage historical past.
“Proper now, with every part happening, it’s how do we discover our greatest 5 day-to-day and week-to-week,” Carter stated, “And I feel that call shall be a bit bit extra game-time choice as Duane works his manner again in apply and stuff and looks like he can belief his physique and be able to go.”
Although Brown’s standing for Sunday stays unclear, the Jets probably might want to tweak their offensive line once more with Billy Turner — who didn’t apply Thursday — recovering from a finger damage.
He began at proper sort out Monday, a shift exterior that Carter attributed to his historical past defending towards Chargers edge rusher Khalil Mack when their stints in Inexperienced Bay and Chicago, respectively, overlapped.
The Jets might transfer Max Mitchell again exterior from proper guard, however they’d nonetheless want so as to add one other new starter.
Particular groups coordinator Brant Boyer referred to as the Chargers’ punt-return landing “unacceptable” and acknowledged Los Angeles’ scheme and returner Derius Davis for doing a “hell of a job.”
“When that kinda stuff occurs … it’s actually an total crew effort,” Boyer stated. “Teaching wasn’t adequate, and we gotta get it mounted. That’s what it comes right down to.”
Jets defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich performed towards Raiders interim head coach Antonio Pierce and later recruited his gamers after they overlapped in 2014, with Pierce at Lengthy Seaside Polytechnic Excessive Faculty and Ulbrich at UCLA.
And due to that, Ulbrich wasn’t stunned the Raiders received “rolling and possibly demonstrated a bit bit extra power than they’d” final Sunday towards the Giants.
“It felt as if that there was a bit spark power from the crew,” Ulbrich stated. “Typically, that’s simply change, and when change happens, typically that may present a bit spark.”
When Ulbrich was the Falcons’ assistant head coach and linebackers coach in 2020, they began 0-5 however gained 4 of their subsequent six video games after Dan Quinn’s firing. This yr, the Raiders crushed the Giants. There have been victory cigars. A chaotic stretch that adopted the firings of head coach Josh McDaniels and common supervisor Dave Ziegler lastly had some stability.
Becton (knee) was upgraded from a restricted to full participant on the damage report. LB Chazz Surratt (ankle) didn’t apply.
WR Allen Lazard (knee), TE Jeremy Ruckert (shoulder) and LB Quincy Williams (knee) had been restricted contributors.
