The holdout of Haason Reddick reached a brand new degree on Monday when the sting rusher missed the Jets’ first sport of the season.
The query stays how this may ever finish.
Reddick forfeited his sport test of almost $800,000 by lacking the sport and his holdout has now value him almost $6 million between fines and forfeited cash.
There is no such thing as a indication the Jets and Reddick are making any progress on discovering a option to get him to hitch the staff.
On Tuesday, Jets coach Robert Saleh reiterated that Reddick might be embraced if he ever exhibits up.
“No matter how I really feel about it, we’ve received the blokes who’re right here,” Saleh stated. “We’re excited to work with the blokes who’re right here and I’ll say it once more. The second he walks via these doorways we’re going to provide him an enormous hug, give him the playbook, after which we’re going to get rolling.”
The Jets sacked 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy thrice on Monday, however two of these had been when he scrambled and didn’t make it previous the road of scrimmage.
The one true sack got here late within the sport from Micheal Clemons.
That lack of a cross rush has some folks speculating that Reddick gained some leverage in his quest for a contract extension from the Jets.
Saleh stated it was robust to stress Purdy due to how shortly he was making his throws.
“I believed San Francisco did a extremely good job with their sport plan as regards to chips on the ends, and eliminating the ball in a well timed style,” Saleh stated. “I don’t suppose Brock actually held it lengthy sufficient for us to have any impact. We had some alternatives, couldn’t wrap him up and convey him down, however credit score to them.
“They did a very nice job with getting the ball out of his fingers.”
The Jets moved Quinnen Williams to defensive finish a number of occasions in Monday’s sport, a transparent effort to attempt to spring him from the double-teams he noticed all final yr.
He was double-teamed 70 p.c of his snaps final yr.
“I simply felt prefer it’d be a great matchup for Quinnen to get in there, the place they couldn’t simply slide to him and get 4 fingers on him, simply to attempt to get him on a man and we felt like he had some manufacturing [Monday],” Saleh stated.
