The good news for the New York Jest (1-2) is that they cannot play any worse than they did in last Sundays error filed 24 to 3 loss at Kansas City. How bad was it you ask? How about eight turnovers, two of which where returned for touchdowns and three that were intercepted in the endzone.
Fair to say eight was more than enough for New York Jets head coach Todd Bowles.The eight turnovers were the most by the Jets since they set a franchise record with 10 in a loss to the New England Patriots on Nov. 21, 1976.
The Jets will need a short memory if they are to overcome their error prone ways and beat the visiting Seattle Seahawks (2-1) Sunday (10:00 a.m PT) at MetLife Stadium. The Seahawks have won the last three games between the teams, two were in Seattle ( 2008,2011) and the third was in New York( 2004). The Jets recently signed former University of Washington TE Seferian-Jenkins who was released by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last week .
JETS HEAD COACH TODD BOWLES
CONFERENCE CALL
September 28, 2016
(On how much blame is on QB Ryan Fitzpatrick for the turnovers last week) “Six interceptions is six interceptions. That’s a bad day at the office. We’ve got to take care of the football. Our biggest thing is that we threw three in the red zone. That part, we’ve got to make better decisions on. We know that as a team, as a quarterback and as a coach and staff. We’ve got to take better care of the football down there. A bad day is a bad day so everybody gets the blame.”
(On how long it will take Austin Seferian-Jenkins to learn the offense and get integrated into the offense) “I’ve got to meet him first and gauge his intelligence. I’ve seen some people get it in a few days and I’ve seen some people take a few weeks. Without meeting him yet it would be hard to answer that question.”
(On how long it will take Austin Seferian-Jenkins to learn the offense and get integrated into the offense) “I’ve got to meet him first and gauge his intelligence. I’ve seen some people get it in a few days and I’ve seen some people take a few weeks. Without meeting him yet it would be hard to answer that question.”
(On what’s the reason behind the defense going from causing seven sacks in week one to only three sacks combined in the following games since then) “Well it’s not necessarily a lack of pass rush. It doesn’t mean that you get sacks because you don’t have a lack of pass rush. We rushed the passer pretty good, they disrupted some things. The biggest thing is disrupting the time and throwing people off their routes and making the quarterback uncomfortable. If you can do that then you don’t worry about the sacks either. So we’ll just continue to keep working on that and getting better and the sacks will come.”
(On his thoughts on RB Troymaine Pope formerly with the Seahawks during preseason) “Not yet. We know he can run the football, we know he’s a good athlete and we got him in. We’ve just got to find time to get him up to speed where he can get some reps and play ball.”