I agree. #1 overall should always be a hall of fame type talent. If you're not drafting a guy with that in mind, then you're doing it wrong. It's way too early to tell about Jake at this point, but the weaknesses everyone knew he had were certainly evident on Sunday. Hopefully, the coaches are still working on how to cover those up.
Really? I watched the game twice and Jake made a couple of mistakes as you'd expect from a rookie especially playing LT, but he also made some damn impressive plays.
Here's a couple,
Chad's in the shotgun, TE split out wide to the left, covering the TE is Vernon Gholston, the ball is snapped and Gholston lets the TE go and Blitzes. Jake has his primary block under control, at full speed Gholston has no one on him coming down hard on Chad's blindside, to get to Chad untouched he has to get by Jake who's rather busy. Jake sees Vernon out of the corner of his eye coming full speed and Jake shoves his primary block into the pile and turns and launches his body fully extended at Gholston and gets his hands on Gholston at the last second. Gholston was able to get a hand on Chad, but Chad gets lose and throws an incomplete pass.
Now you can look at the play any way you like, but Jake is a rookie who had enough awareness to mkae a play to save his QB's *** and keep the play alive.
Play number 2, inside the Jets 5, it's a pass play Jake is lined up across from 8 year pro 6-5 285lb DE Shaun Ellis, at the snap of the ball Jake lands a monster punch that stands Ellis straight up and Shaun was neutralised in his tracks, Jake had help from Smiley but didn't need it as Smiley turned away from the block and looked to help elsewhere.
Now that's just two plays, but there were no sacks against Jake, and he pass blocked very, very well. Fans and so called "Experts" can see whatever they want but I watch the games too, and I replay the plays over and over and whatch each positin on the same play multiple times and Jake had himself a real nice debut, IMO.
And BTW, I have a real problem with these "Experts" who say Miami only had one bright spot in that game, yet we were one catch away from winning a game. Sounds like a rather uneducated or plain bias view of the fatcs. Anyone who thinks the Jets should have beaten us easily because we were 1-15 last year is simply ignorant. We have not only changed half the roster, we've made quite an upgrade to the FO and coaching staff so we aren't anywheres close to that team, so why are we going to be treated as such? I know we need to prove we're better before we get the respect, but how ignorant do people have to be to know we don't have the same players or FO this team has last year?
