Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald discuss whether Sauce Gardner and the Jets defense can shut down Justin Jefferson and the red-hot Vikings offense in Week 5. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on , , or
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We have the Jets.
It’s not at the Vikings but the Jets and the Vikings in this international game.
It’s London, right.
Yeah, it’s London, Justin Jefferson Sauce Gardner.
I need all of it.
All of it.
Every single play like that.
That’s, that’s what I’m here for.
I don’t think that this is like a matchup that necessarily defines the game.
I just think it’s just a spectacle of two elite, truly elite players like going at it.
But even if like, if sauce, you know, by chance is able to like, just get Justin Jefferson to slow down and not take over this game, I still think the Vikings have answers where they’ve, they’ve proven at least they can, they can scheme other guys open and, and just find chances down the field.
And I think that Robert sale over the years as the head coach of the Jets has done a good job, like just teaching kind of like the fundamentals of the game, which I, I do think get, get lost where, you know, the Jets, look at, look at how some of the guys they’ve developed over the years.
Uh Quincy Williams, John Franken Myers uh, you know, other guys on the back end, like DJ Reed has had a good start.
So, but he’s not like, actually a great schemer, you know, like they run the same thing every day.
They run the same thing all the time.
Sauce is always gonna be on one side.
Uh, the offense is right.
Kevin o’connell knows that he is really good at using what the opposite defense is gonna kind of major in.
How do they play?
Justin Jefferson?
All right.
Who blinks first.
How’s o’connell open it up for him and then the run game is good for the Vikings now, so they can kind of lull you to sleep there and kind of go like, all right, we’ll rip off another 12 yard game with Aaron Jones.
I’m curious.
All right, how they move Jefferson around?
Is he gonna be on the left side?
Is gonna be in the slot?
Is he gonna take the challenge to Sauce and open up other things for Addison and all those guys and they got Hostas everywhere.
The Vikings are a lot of fun.
They got a Hosack quarterback.
Maybe we’ll see some Sam Arnold running in this game.
It’s a Sam Arnold revenge game.
Do you even think about that?
It’s the second time because when he was the Panthers Panthers, I think this is gonna be a Vikings offense.
Jets defense can be really fun.
Really?
This whole game is gonna be cool.