Josh McCown gives early offensive predictions for 2017

Things won’t be easy on offense for the New York Jets this upcoming season but quarterback Josh McCown knows the standard is high despite all the new faces.

In case you missed any New York Jets games during the preseason, their offense left much to the imagination. They didn’t score many touchdowns and well, have some glaring issues on the offensive side of the football. From inconsistencies on their offensive line to issues on timing passes, the offense of the Jets looks like they’ll need some more time before everything starts clicking.

With the regular season almost upon us, the Jets are hoping all the new, young faces on offense will play with intensity, urgency, and a sense of pride. The leadership regime has done their best of getting rid of overpaid and unproductive players with hopes of having a young roster hungry to prove their worth.

Expectations as a whole should be low when it comes to the Jets and a huge reason for that is their inefficiency on offense. The truth of the matter is, they have a huge question mark when it comes to their quarterback situation, offensive line, and their wide receiver corps. Quarterback Josh McCown is the most experienced of the group but can anyone expect him to be healthy all season long considering the tough matchups that await?

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One can only hope that new offensive coordinator John Morton puts his players in a position to succeed and brings a new, fresh playbook that is successful. There is hope that unlike former offensive coordinator Chan Gailey, he uses his tight ends more efficiently as receiving targets and actually commits to having a balanced offensive attack.

McCown believes that while many focus on the lack of execution on offense to even get first downs, it’s not just their offense that’s going to put them in a position of winning football games. Their defensive line is a core strength of the team and their new-look secondary has an infusion of young and veteran talent that should hopefully be an upgrade over what we all saw last season. Even their special teams unit got some new talent that could help when it comes to getting better field positioning for their offense.

Courtesy of the Media Relations Department of the Jets, here is what McCown said about his personal expectations for the offense this upcoming season:

The answer is probably the same around the league. Every offense wants to move the football and put points on the board, and that’s our expectations and we don’t back off of that. There’s a standard and a high bar that we set for ourselves and it’s easy to obviously look at the circumstance, and you have new pieces and pieces that are gone. But when you’re in this, in our situation, we don’t operate under those circumstances and we don’t operate in that were going to tell all, ‘Oh well we don’t have this guy.’ We don’t have excuses. There’s a way that we expect to play and we’re going to do that and so I put a lot of pressure and expectation on myself to get that done and the idea is that we’re all going to do it together and we’re a complete team. It’s not just going to be our offense, but it’s going to be defense and special teams is going to be how we win football games.

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Overall, the Jets have a natural born leader in McCown as he was brought in for much more than just being a starter. He has a good head on his shoulders and even though the football world has already written off the Jets to do anything this season, he still believes that this team will fight each and every week to win.

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