The holdout of Haason Reddick reached a brand new degree on Monday when the sting rusher missed the Jets’ first recreation of the season.
The query stays how this can ever finish.
Reddick forfeited his recreation examine of almost $800,000 by lacking the sport and his holdout has now price him almost $6 million between fines and forfeited cash.
There isn’t any indication the Jets and Reddick are making any progress on discovering a solution to get him to hitch the staff.
On Tuesday, Jets coach Robert Saleh reiterated that Reddick might be embraced if he ever reveals up.
“No matter how I really feel about it, we’ve acquired the fellows who’re right here,” Saleh stated. “We’re excited to work with the fellows who’re right here and I’ll say it once more. The second he walks by way of these doorways we’re going to provide him a giant hug, give him the playbook, after which we’re going to get rolling.”
The Jets sacked 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy thrice on Monday, however two of these have been when he scrambled and didn’t make it previous the road of scrimmage.
The one true sack got here late within the recreation from Micheal Clemons.
That lack of a cross rush has some folks speculating that Reddick gained some leverage in his quest for a contract extension from the Jets.
Saleh stated it was powerful to stress Purdy due to how rapidly he was making his throws.
“I believed San Francisco did a very good job with their recreation plan close to chips on the ends, and eliminating the ball in a well timed trend,” Saleh stated. “I don’t suppose Brock actually held it lengthy sufficient for us to have any impact. We had some alternatives, couldn’t wrap him up and produce him down, however credit score to them.
“They did a very nice job with getting the ball out of his arms.”
The Jets moved Quinnen Williams to defensive finish a couple of occasions in Monday’s recreation, a transparent effort to attempt to spring him from the double-teams he noticed all final 12 months.
He was double-teamed 70 % of his snaps final 12 months.
“I simply felt prefer it’d be matchup for Quinnen to get in there, the place they couldn’t simply slide to him and get 4 arms on him, simply to attempt to get him on a man and we felt like he had some manufacturing [Monday],” Saleh stated.
