It seems as if Jets linebacker Avery Williamson feels he may have ruffled some feathers in his weekly appearance with Joe & Evan on Tuesday, specifically in agreeing with Bradley McDougald’s sentiments about Jets practices.
In case you missed it, this is what McDougald said on SNY after the Jets’ loss to San Francisco:
“It all goes back to practice. We had some slow practices…it correlates to the game. We need to have a complete full week of just great practices. And I don’t think we’ve had that yet. The sooner we realize that and hone in on to how important practice is and coming out and winning in practice, then it will translate to the games on Sunday. But we’ve yet to have one complete dominating week of practice, and until we can dominate in practice Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday is going to be a toss-up.”
Joe & Evan asked Williamson about that on Tuesday - which you can read more about here - and that answer reportedly led to Williamson having to text head coach Adam Gase to clarify his remarks.
Gase then responded during his weekly Wednesday media Zoom call.
“Nobody said anything during the week. I felt like we had really good tempo to practice,” Gase said. “Sometimes, an individual guy, if he wants to change something, I mean…we talk about it every week, it’s not like it’s not an open forum. If somebody doesn’t like the way something’s going, we can easily speak up.”
"If that's the feeling they have, we have a chance to ramp it up and make sure we're doing what we need to do in individuals and pick up the tempo," Gase continued. "I haven't necessarily felt that."
McDougald and Williamson’s comments aren’t the first to question Gase’s chops, harkening back to comments Jamal Adams made days before he was dealt to Seattle. That may or may not have been sour grapes, but Williamson did say in his Joe & Evan spot that it’s on the players to take accountability for the practice situation, which is also a reiteration of something McDougald had said on SNY.
“We’re in this together,” McDougald said. “Nobody’s coming in to save us…right now, people are probably looking at us like, ‘Oh we got the Jets this week. I’m going to get my numbers up.’ Until we can stop other teams from thinking like that or we go out and punch somebody in the mouth and we make them deal with us four quarters at a time, none of it matters.”
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