An inside look at Sunday’s Jets-Browns NFL Week 10 matchup at MetLife Stadium:
Marquee matchup
Browns DE Myles Garrett vs. Jets OTs Olu Fashanu and Armand Membou
In the postgame locker room in Cincinnati, a few Jets were trying at their telephones, checking scores from other video games when someone blurted out, “Myles Garrett had five sacks.” Players reacted with disbelief.
Garrett is the kind of participant to make fellow NFL gamers marvel at his play. The famous person is second in the league with 10 sacks and leads a protection that is ranked second general, permitting 276.9 yards per sport.
Myles Garrett Getty Images
Garrett wants two sacks to become the first participant to attain 12 in six consecutive seasons, breaking a tie with Giants legend Lawrence Taylor.
Membou, a rookie, and Fashanu, a second-year participant, have performed nicely for the Jets this season, but this will be their greatest check, even greater than Steelers star T.J. Watt in Week 1.
“Garrett needs a lot of attention and he’s just that type of player, but our guys are ready for that,” Jets coach Aaron Glenn said. “And listen, we had that with Watt, we had to give him a lot of attention, too, so it won’t be anything new for us and there’s going to be times where guys are going to be one-on-one, and when you are one-on-one, you got to win your battle.”
Olu Fashanu Corey Sipkin for New York Post
Four downs
QB query: Jets coach Aaron Glenn selected not to reveal who his beginning quarterback would be for Sunday’s sport again this week. It would be onerous to see why he would bench Justin Fields after the efficiency he had in Cincinnati to get their first win.
Fields went 21-of-32 for 244 yards with a landing and orchestrated the 39-38 comeback win. Tyrod Taylor practiced this week and is wholesome after a knee damage saved him sidelined against the Bengals.
While Glenn saved up the gamesmanship, the expectation is it will be Fields under heart. Fields is hoping the Jets can construct off their efficiency against the Bengals.
“We’ve been building on everything since Week 1,” Fields said. “We have a lot of games that were one score games and we just happened to be on the other side of that one score game this time. So, we know games are going to be like that each week, week-in and week-out, but I think the biggest thing is just building on that win and just taking that momentum into this week.”
Justin Field, who performed nicely in the Jets’ win over the Bengals, is expected to be the beginning quarterback Sunday against the Browns. AP
Pick up: The Jets stay the only group with out an interception this season. It is a staggering streak. The eight-game drought is the second-longest streak to open a season, per ESPN stats. The most video games with out an interception to start a season is 10, set by the 2017 Raiders.
The Jets traded away Sauce Gardner, who has just three profession interceptions. Maybe that will spark something?
“No one is happy when you don’t have interceptions, because when you tip balls and things like that, you usually get them,” Glenn said. “Some of that is luck, we just haven’t had a chance to get those, but when you do get a chance to get your hands on the ball, we haven’t caught some of them either. So, it’s a little bit of everything combined.”
Woe away from house: The Browns enter this sport on a 12-game highway shedding streak, the NFL’s longest shedding streak away from house since the Jaguars went 18 video games with out a highway win from 2019-22.
The last time the Browns won a highway sport was Week 2 of the 2024 season when they beat the Jaguars. They have lost their previous seven highway video games by at least 13 factors.
The Browns are not shut to reaching the franchise file for highway futility. Cleveland lost 25 straight highway video games from 2015-18.
New faces: The headlines on the Jets’ trades this week were about the gamers they shipped out, but they also got some gamers back in the offers.
The greatest additions could be at receiver where they got Adonai Mitchell from the Colts in the Gardner commerce and John Metchie from the Eagles in the Michael Carter II commerce.
New Jet Adonai Mitchell talks with reporters earlier in th week. Bill Kostroun / New York Post
The Jets have been looking for receivers reverse Garrett Wilson, who is returning from a knee damage this week. Can these new guys be these enhances to Wilson? “They’ll definitely be a part of what we’ve got going on,” Glenn said.
Costello’s call
This could be an ugly sport in the rain at MetLife Stadium.
These two offenses are dangerous. I think the Jets may get a increase after the massive trades this week and rally collectively to quiet the naysayers.
It won’t last, but they get a little post-trade bump and win an ugly one.
Jets 17, Browns 13