Jets have ‘a lot of faith’ in Zach Wilson amid Patriots rematch

Jets coach Robert Saleh defended his quarterback on Monday. 

Because the Jets return from their bye, there stays a query of whether or not Zach Wilson can carry the group to a victory or if he can solely be alongside for the experience. 

Saleh mentioned the Jets trust in Wilson and he thinks the media are nonetheless specializing in his three interceptions towards the Patriots an excessive amount of. 

“We’re type of holding him hostage to 4, 5 performs that he had towards New England, for my part, at the very least externally,” Saleh mentioned. “Internally, I feel all people’s obtained a whole lot of religion in Zach to have the ability to run this offense and get the ball the place it must get to and do it in an environment friendly method and I do assume that if we do must put it on his again and put it on our receivers backs and put it on the O-line to guard, I feel we’re able to doing that. However once you begin slinging it round and also you ask the quarterback to make 60 performs a sport, they’re going to make errors. It’s exhausting to play quarterback, I don’t care how good you might be, it’s simply exhausting to play quarterback on this league and it’s our job as coaches to ensure that he’s not being requested to do this consistently. If he has to, now we have religion that he’d be capable of.” 

Saleh praised Wilson’s efficiency in video games aside from New England this yr. Wilson solely has 4 landing passes, however Saleh identified others the place gamers have been tackled wanting the tip zone. 

“I feel we’ve obtained confidence in him,” Saleh mentioned. “You already know, we speak about landing passes, like I’ve mentioned earlier than he’s a yard away from having two landing passes towards Miami, he had an unbelievable fourth quarter. He performed rather well final week towards a very good soccer group.” 

Saleh offered some damage updates. WR Corey Davis (knee) is day-to-day. Saleh mentioned Davis stayed in Florham Park over the bye to work on returning. DT Sheldon Rankins (elbow) is out this week. Rookie OT Max Mitchell (knee) will start practising this week, which begins a 21-day window for the Jets to activate him off injured reserve. Fellow OT George Fant (knee) isn’t prepared to start practising.