11-08-2020, 10:40 PM
It seems apparent that Jet is still not recovered from his injury last year. If this is true, how did Shaw not know? Was Jet making good kicks in practice? Was he making them from long range with a confident swing?
For a former Mr. Automatic to miss the first couple of FGs should have been a brobdingnagian sign that a course correction was needed. Going for it on fourth down or putting in a new kicker seemed like reasonable decisions. Now you have a former Mr. Automatic with completely shattered confidence as you put the team's scoring on his back four times only to fail every time.
That doesn't even take into account the game's effect on Jet's NFL resume...I presume you'd have to be a good salesman to convince an NFL team that your 0-4 game was not representative of your kicking ability and that it was really due to lingering effects of an injury from the previous season. Maybe missing one kick might be okay, but four...that's brutal.
For a former Mr. Automatic to miss the first couple of FGs should have been a brobdingnagian sign that a course correction was needed. Going for it on fourth down or putting in a new kicker seemed like reasonable decisions. Now you have a former Mr. Automatic with completely shattered confidence as you put the team's scoring on his back four times only to fail every time.
That doesn't even take into account the game's effect on Jet's NFL resume...I presume you'd have to be a good salesman to convince an NFL team that your 0-4 game was not representative of your kicking ability and that it was really due to lingering effects of an injury from the previous season. Maybe missing one kick might be okay, but four...that's brutal.