An inside look at Sunday night’s Jets-Chiefs NFL Week 4 matchup at MetLife Stadium:
An inside look at Sunday night’s Jets-Chiefs NFL Week 4 matchup at MetLife Stadium:Marquee matchup
Chiefs TE Travis Kelce vs. the Jets’ secondary
The media’s focus all week has been on who Kelce is dating. When the game starts, everyone will remember that he is also a very, very good player.
Kelce is one of the best tight ends ever to play football and always seems to be open.
The Jets have a lot of belief in their defense. This is a massive challenge for the secondary and a chance to prove they are as elite as they said they were entering this season.
Kelce enters the game with 74 career touchdowns, the third-most in Chiefs history and just two behind another legendary tight end, Tony Gonzalez.
“His football intelligence is just elite,” Jets defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich said. “He is a guy that if it is man, then he fully understands leverage. He is going to stress you to your leverage, he is going to break away. In zone, he is a master of finding the soft spots in your zones, at the same time, you got a quarterback that for a couple reasons, he doesn’t panic in the pocket, he will navigate the rush, he will buy time, and he will really fixate himself at times on Kelce and allow Kelce to get open, so it is a combination of all those things, and a really good quarterback that can deliver the ball, obviously.”
It will be interesting to see how the Jets attack Kelce.
They do not usually have a defensive back “travel” with a player and cover them exclusively, but you wonder if they will try to get Sauce Gardner on Kelce some in this game.
