Jets protection ‘possibly bought too snug’: Sauce Gardner

Jets star cornerback Sauce Gardner watched Sunday’s loss to the Dolphins from the sideline.

Gardner missed the sport with a hamstring damage.

However he noticed the acquainted sight of the Jets protection collapsing down the stretch in one other loss.

Gardner stated Wednesday the Jets protection could have entered this season “too snug” due to the offense’s star energy with Aaron Rodgers, Garrett Wilson, Breece Corridor and the midseason addition of Davante Adams.

“Possibly we bought too snug having all these guys, all these playmakers on offense to the place it’s like we’re not filling up our finish of the cut price,” Gardner stated. “We’ve bought to be higher. We’ve bought to be higher on protection.”

The Jets protection gave up fourth-quarter leads in every of the final three video games — all losses.

The belief coming into this season was that the protection can be pretty much as good because it has been within the final two years, and with a wholesome Rodgers, the Jets can be playoff-bound. As a substitute, the protection has taken a serious step again.

“I do know if we had this offense now and we performed almost pretty much as good protection as we performed the final couple of years, we’d be chilling proper now,” Gardner stated. “It’s not the place I imagined we was going to be this 12 months.”

Gardner stated the protection is attempting to recapture the mentality that they had within the final two years.

“We’ve bought to play the best way we’ve been enjoying the final couple of years the place it’s like we’re not likely anticipating the offense to attain that many factors, like we’ve bought to win the sport ourselves,” Gardner stated.

Gardner stated he’s absolutely wholesome and can play Sunday in Jacksonville.

The Jets positioned particular groups ace Irv Charles on injured reserve after he tore his ACL in Sunday’s loss in Miami.

The staff signed CB Jaylin Simpson off of the Colts observe squad. Simpson was a fourth-round decide within the spring.

Corridor remains to be struggling along with his knee damage, interim coach Jeff Ulbrich stated.

“It’s a factor that possibly it isn’t enhancing as a lot as he would love at this level, so we are going to see the way it goes this week,” Ulbrich stated.

The Jets didn’t observe on Wednesday. As a substitute, that they had a walk-through.

The damage report is an estimation of what the gamers would have executed in a observe.

Corridor (knee), RB Kene Nwangwu (hand), DE Haason Reddick (sickness) and RG Alijah Vera-Tucker (ankle) didn’t observe. CB Brandin Echols (shoulder), RT Morgan Moses (wrist), G Xavier Newman (groin) and CB D.J. Reed (groin) had been restricted.