Skip to main content

Jets Mecole Hardman expecting to see action after taking backseat



ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Jets signed wide receiver Mecole Hardman to a one-year, $4 million contract this offseason and talked excitedly about what he could bring to their offense.

In Week 1, he played zero snaps on offense and one on special teams.

It was an odd thing to see Hardman barely get on the field.

The Jets said Hardman was a part of the plan going in against the Bills, but things changed once Aaron Rodgers was injured.

The team went to more running formations, with more tight ends and fewer receivers, and that left Hardman on the bench.

"You kind of know what was going on, man," Hardman said. "When Aaron went down and everything transpired, I think everybody got out of whack and everything. I don't blame them for it. I think it was just something that happened, and hopefully this week I can get some looks out there, some opportunities to make plays."

Head coach Robert Saleh explained what happened.

"Obviously with Aaron, there was a certain plan that was in place, and so when Aaron went down, we shifted gears to a different style of football," Saleh said. "A lot of the things that Aaron wanted to do was three receiver sets and once he was out of the game, we went to a different type of offense. We pivoted, especially at halftime. Credit to the offensive staff making the adjustments we needed to make to be able to start moving the ball and get points on the board. So, that wasn't the plan."

Hardman anticipates having a role this week against the Cowboys.

"I hope so. That's the mindset," Hardman said. "I'm just about the team winning. If we can win, I'm all for it."

Cowboys RB Tony Pollard rushed for 70 yards and two touchdowns on 14 carries last week against the Giants.

With Ezekiel Elliott now in New England, Pollard is the man for the Cowboys.

Saleh said Dallas' decision to move on from Elliott tells you what how good Pollard is.

"When teams make a decision to keep a guy over another, they're speaking to the football world," Saleh said. "I think inside the football world, I think anyone who's ever played Dallas knows that Pollard's extremely talented, and always has been by Dallas doing what they did this off season by making him the back and the only back. Just let the rest of the world know what football already knew."

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Osho Quotes on Meditation

Osho Quotes on Meditation If tea-drinking can become a meditation, then anything can become a meditation — cooking or washing your clothes, any activity can be transformed into meditation. And the real sannyasin, the real seeker, will transform all his acts into meditation. Only then, when meditation spreads over all your life, not only when you are awake in the day — slowly slowly it starts penetrating and permeating your being in sleep too — when it becomes just part of you, like breathing, like your heartbeat, then, only, have you attained to the discipline, to the essential discipline of Zen. Meditation means: drop all thoughts, drop all ideologies, drop all knowledge. Drop the mind itself. The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That’s what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state. Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on
2 comments
Read more

33 Crore Gods (Devi / Devtas) of Hindus

33 Crore Gods of Hindus For the believers of God, it is an accepted faith across the globe that God is one. Hindus too believe so, but then there remains a question often shaped as a mockery over Hindus about the various practices of worship rendered to innumerous God in their faith. And this question is often thrown by people, who are philosophically and religiously recognized. How come Hindu religion has 33 crore Gods? Is it sensible at all to believe and practice this? I have a question – How can one decide what is sensible and what is not, particularly when none of those great thinkers have attained perfection in realization of God, none of them have seen God, none of them have heard God. There are numerous instances where religion, religious books and their beliefs have tried to define God. Criticism is an easy thing to do but we have coins with two sides always. Realization of the positive side and its practice is not only hard to recognize but difficult to accept as well. Critic
3 comments
Read more

Osho on Witnessing technique

Osho on Witnessing technique – You can witness breathing, you can witness the thought process in OSHO INSIGHTS ON MEDITATION Osho – Societies will come and go. You will take birth and you will die and many lives will come and go, and many, many clouds will pass through you. But the inner sky – AKSHAT – remains uncorrupted, virgin. But you can become identified with clouds. You can begin to feel that ”I am the clouds”. Everyone is identified with his own thoughts which are nothing more than clouds. You say, ”my thought,” and if someone attacks your thought, you never feel that your thought is being attacked – you are being attacked. The sky is fighting – fighting for clouds because some cloud has been attacked. The sky feels, ”I am attacked!” The sky was there when there was no cloud, the sky will be there when there is no cloud. Clouds add nothing to the sky. And when clouds are no more, nothing is lost. The sky remains itself totally. This is the nature – the inner sky, the inn
Post a Comment
Read more