He’s really good. And he knows how and when to get out of Zo’s way when he goes off.
Socci was so excited his hair came loose. (Or something like that, based on his look during the post game)
Love Socci. A belated game ball for that awesome call!
The Jets put up 387 yards on us just three weeks ago. Their second half in particular today was unfathomably bad. A good deal of that was the Pats D, but I suspect some of it was being thoroughly psyched out.
This led to a link to the Jets studio show, where Willie Colon said that at some point, Robert Saleh has to "drop his nuts" and tell Zach Wilson that he's going to the bench.
They’ve got a good size cemetery of buried balls going this year…….. Judon, Duggar, and Jones.
That’s a great angle. Jones has some awesome speed and that was him with a bum ankle.
I love this line: “Belichick is still really, incredibly, unfathomably good at this.”
Saleh did say on postgame that the punt was not supposed to go down the middle. Wonder how much the wind played into it. Maybe punter thought he'd have some help and it died at the most inopportune time, or maybe he overcompensated and didn't want to shank it too far left.
I always find it funny how big tough head coaches who constantly preach big tough things leave so many game-deciding moments to little guys who kick for a living.
I was watching SMU Houston last year. All tied up with 0:37 left to go and SMU was kicking off. I was watching under the table while at a dinner party but was muttering “Don’t kick it to Jones. Don’t kick it to Jones.” They did. He took it too the house. I yelped. Got some looks and was asked what was wrong. “They kicked it to Marcus Fucking Jones,” I replied. All I got back were blank stares. One friend, “Oh are you watching sportsball? I’m… sorry?” Partner: “They are putting their phone away aren’t they.”
Not only that, but the punt was hit really hard on a line drive. Seemed like very little hang time and the punt coverage had no time to get down field. Jones was able to get a head of steam before even getting to the first line of defense. I knew at that point it was game over - he was either going to score, or get close enough for a FG try.
The wind was a huge factor. In that game situation, they may have been worried about a short punt, and his previous few punts that he had kicked OOB had been pretty short. So he had a football Sophie's Choice: punt it OOB and risk setting up the Pats on the 50 just needing a FG (with the wind) to win, or boom it deep, risk a return, knowing that the Pats' offense had been unable to sustain long drives all day.
