Jets quarterback Justin Fields\u2019s performance in the team\u2019s second preseason game didn\u2019t do much to inspire confidence in what the passing game will be capable of doing this season. <\/p>\n
Fields was 1-of-5 for four yards during his brief time in last Saturday\u2019s game against the Giants and he has not thrown a pass over 10 yards in either of the team\u2019s two preseason outings. That led to a question for head coach Aaron Glenn at Tuesday\u2019s press conference about his confidence in the team\u2019s ability to throw the ball down the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery confident, because that\u2019s what practice is for,\u201d Glenn said, via a transcript from the team. \u201cI mean, you have so many people that want to talk about a small amount of plays that these guys get to go out there and play, and then everything is falling down because we throw six passes, and then I mean he\u2019s Johnny Unitas when he throws four passes. It bothers me, and I laugh at it quite a bit, but the thing is, I understand it because that\u2019s the noise that happens on the outside that our guys can\u2019t really listen to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glenn also bristled about a question that referred to the NFL as a passing league by noting that the Eagles were 29th in passing yards last season. Should the Jets run the ball as effectively as the Eagles did in 2024, there will be likely be less hand-wringing about the passing game but that\u2019s a high bar to reach if the team isn\u2019t going to show more through the air come September. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jets quarterback Justin Fields\u2019s performance in the team\u2019s second preseason game didn\u2019t do much to inspire confidence in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-96241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}