The biggest theme around the Jets right now is belief, and Garrett Wilson is leaning all the way into it. In his fifth season, the wideout is still waiting for his first winning year with the team, but he thinks this group is finally on the verge of putting it all together.
“ We’ve been building the village for four or five years now,” Wilson said, via Zack Rosenblatt of The Athletic. “It’s about to be done, and that’s just the way I see it. This is the year we finish it.”
Wilson pointed to the emotional lift that came after the Jets’ Week 5 win over the Browns, saying the celebration inside the building showed exactly what makes these moments matter.
“Man, that’s why we’re so sick when it doesn’t go that way,” Wilson said. “Coming out on top and seeing all the guys in here after - not just the guys on the team, the staff, everyone that put their effort towards this win. It’s what it’s all about.”
That kind of confidence is also being matched by the coaching staff’s view of Wilson. Jets OC Frank Reich said the receiver is like a “masterpiece of art” that the staff keeps studying to get more out of.
“If it’s a masterpiece of art that you’re looking at, if it’s a true masterpiece, you kind of keep coming back and looking at it, and you see it and appreciate different aspects of it every time you look at it, and you see something different,” Reich said. “So, for me and for us as a coaching staff, it’s been fun to watch and see.
But also to learn to try to figure out, ‘Oh, he can do this, he can do that. How do we fully utilize the things that he can do?’”
Elsewhere in the AFC, Dolphins QB coach Bush Hamdan talked about Malik Willis and said the quarterback is still working through the growth that comes with playing the position. Hamdan believes Willis has plenty of athletic upside, but also needs to get better at choosing the right moment to force a play rather than simply trying to escape with the next snap still alive.
“We all want this to be a straight line of perfect development - but there’s gonna be ups and downs. I just keep going back to his athleticism; at times it’s a superpower and at times, trying to make all those extra plays is something you’ve got to be aware of,” Hamdan said, via Marcel Louis-Jacques.
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