Rookie RT Armand Membou has largely let his play do the speaking as one of many younger anchors of the Jets’ offensive line. However the man he protected so ably in faculty at Missouri, QB Brady Prepare dinner, tasted life on an NFL area for the primary time final week, and now it is attainable Prepare dinner might get his first begin as knowledgeable in Sunday’s Week 15 recreation at Jacksonville.
“I simply assume he will be Brady Prepare dinner, he will do his factor,” Membou mentioned in regards to the prospect of the undrafted free agent taking part in in opposition to the Jaguars (9-4), who’re in first place within the AFC South.
Membou has made a big assertion of his personal on the sphere — beginning and taking part in 100% of the snaps (803) on offense in all 13 Jets video games so far. The Jets’ different rookie from Missouri and the crew’s first-round choose (No. 7 total) has been a quiet however environment friendly member of the one NFL O-line that has trotted out the identical 5 guys the complete season.
“It has been such a blessing that we have all been in a position to keep wholesome and play these previous 13, 14 video games collectively,” Membou mentioned of his linemates — Olu Fashanu, John Simpson, Josh Myers and Joe Tippmann. “I really feel we have positively grown lots with our chemistry with one another.”
Prepare dinner, 24, was thrust into the highlight throughout final week’s recreation in opposition to Miami when veteran Tyrod Taylor left with a groin damage after two three-play sequence. Prepare dinner, who had been elevated from the apply squad to QB2 as a result of Justin Fields was coping with a knee damage, took over.
“I believe he did a extremely good job in a tricky state of affairs,” Membou, 21, mentioned. “We had a whole lot of adversity that hit us in the course of the recreation, however I believe he simply stayed actually levelheaded and poised and he did effectively. I simply dapped him up earlier than he went in, however I had full confidence in him although. I did not say a lot.”
He added: “I simply assume he did a extremely good job taking command of the huddle.”
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