NFL News today Friday: Mike McCarthy talks about Trey Lance; JC Jackson, upset with the Chargers; Vance Joseph opens up after beating; and more. Don’t miss the news from the NFL Today.
Mike McCarthy: “I’m glad Trey Lance is here, for sure”
During the first two weeks of the year, the Cowboys looked like one of the strongest teams in the league, but everything changed when they were proven against Arizona the previous Sunday. Thus, they will seek to change the narrative when they face the Patriots in Week 4, although New England is not a team to really measure against another. The real test will be present in Week 5, when Dallas visits San Francisco in what will be the return of QB3 Trey Lance to the 49ers.
Lance, third overall pick in the 2021 Draft by the 49ers, was acquired by the Cowboys via trade on August 25 after he lost his starting job in San Francisco to QB Brock Purdy and his backup job in favor of QB2 Sam Darnold . The situation for the 23-year-old quarterback is no different in Dallas: Dak Prescott is the starter, Cooper Rush is the second option, and Lance is the emergency quarterback, but he is happy to be where he is since this restart required.
“It’s been good for me to have a fresh start. It’s a breath of fresh air here,” Lance mentioned, via Nick Harris of the Cowboys website. For now, Lance, without the benefit of many reps with the first-team offense, is trying to learn about Dallas’ offense mostly in the meeting room with quarterbacks coach Scott Tolzien. Three hours before each game, Lance and Tolzien meet to go over a checklist.
“Scotty always has a checklist,” Lance mentioned. “He wants to address things that we talked about throughout the week and that I didn’t have time to have repetitions. Many different throws and many different repetitions. He’s great for me and I appreciate him being able to do that for me before the game. I do great training and I have their eyes on me all the time,” concluded a Lance who, honestly, was hired by Dallas thinking about the future, not in the short term.
“He’s doing well,” HC Mike McCarthy said. “I’m glad he’s here, for sure. Great addition. He does everything, he is part of the quarterback school, he puts in extra hours. “He’s doing everything he’s supposed to do,” McCarthy concluded about Lance who, although he’s already entering his third professional campaign, really only has four games as a starter, so he surely foresees a real opportunity to show his talent. It comes to you sooner rather than later.
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Trey Lance: It’s been good for me to get a new look and a fresh start. https://t.co/KI3eV8q4Rl
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) September 28, 2023
JC Jackson benched: “I don’t know why the Chargers treat me like that”
The Chargers got their first victory of this season just the previous weekend after defeating the Vikings. However, not everything is happiness for those from Los Angeles: prior to the meeting with Minnesota, it was announced that CB JC Jackson, whom the team signed for 2022 under a multimillion-dollar 5-year, $82.5 million contract, would be inactive. Thus, the tension between player and organization begins to rise, and Jackson has declared his confusion at having remained on the bench.
“I don’t know, what else do you expect me to do?” Jackson said to NFL.com. “I told the head coach [Brandon Staley]: What else do you expect me to do? I’ve been doing everything. I came back from my injury pretty quickly. I have been working more after training, even in the meeting rooms. The defensive backs get together every Friday to watch additional tape and I’m a good teammate, so I don’t know what it is. “I am still confused and have no answers as to why they treat me like this.”
“I know what I’m capable of. I know I can help the team, so it frustrates me a little not to be a starter and that the coach has me on the bench. “I am one of the best players on the team, one of the best defensive backs we have,” added Jackson, who early last season suffered a ruptured patellar tendon that ended his 2022 season prematurely. Now, the 27-year-old veteran cornerback claims to not be completely healthy yet, but he is well enough to be playing.
“That’s exactly what it is, I’m not 100 percent,” he added. “I know the doctors know this. I’m not at 100 percent, so I’m doing the best I can. I’m doing the best I can and I don’t know what they expect me to do,” concluded Jackson, who since his arrival to the Chargers has not looked like the player he was with the Patriots, especially when in 2021 he ended the campaign being a Pro Bowler by becoming with 23 passes defended, leading the league in that category.
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J.C. Jackson on Chargers benching him: I’m confused why I’m being treated like this.
— NFL Rumors (@nflrums) September 28, 2023
DC Vance Joseph on allowing 70 points: “I’ll fix it quickly”
As is known to the NFL world, the Dolphins entered unthinkable books last week by crushing the Broncos 20-70, becoming just the third team in league history to reach the seventh floor in points. However, despite the humiliation for Denver, HC Sean Payton declared at the beginning of the week that none of his coaches are in danger in the organization, supporting, above all, DC Vance Joseph, who this Thursday finally spoke out on the matter.
“Obviously it wasn’t good,” Joseph mentioned this Thursday, via Troy Renck of Denver7. “When your unit plays like that, the first thing I think is that it’s me. I have to do a better job training and preparing the guys for the challenge. It was a hard day. As a coach and as an experienced coach, when those things happen, in my opinion, it’s always me first. I’ll fix it quickly, I have to,” he said about the Broncos that allowed 10 TDs and 726 offensive yards.
With this, the Broncos fell to a 0-3 record and are the only AFC team that has not yet won, although they will have a golden opportunity to change that when in Week 4 they face the Bears, who, with the same brand, they look like the worst team in the NFL. Meanwhile, Denver S Justin Simmons, who missed the game against Miami with a hip injury, plans to quickly return to the field and prevent another tragedy of that level from happening again.
“It was a tough game to watch not only as a competitor but also as a leader trying to find different ways to help and change the game,” Simmons said. “That is not the standard we hold ourselves to. I’m not here throwing a fit, cursing and showing a ton of emotions, but it hurt and it was embarrassing to be a part of that. Coach Joseph? I believe in him, in his personal. “I believe in the players we have, and a game minimizes or maximizes what a selective group is made of,” he concluded.
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“It’s always, in my opinion, me first. I’ll fix it quickly.” – Vance Joseph.
— DNVR Broncos (@DNVR_Broncos) September 28, 2023
OC Luke Getsy: “We Bears are in the process of building something special”
Last weekend it was the Bears who fell to a dismal 0-3 record to start the year after being blown out by the Chiefs. Without a doubt, nothing is going well in Chicago, but the facet that generates the most doubts is the offense of QB Justin Fields; Against Kansas City he didn’t even surpass 100 passing yards. However, Fields commented last Tuesday that he still believes his team can qualify for the playoffs, and this time it was OC Luke Getsy who admitted that the organization is building something special.
Getsy, in his second season as offensive coordinator of the Bears, instead of criticizing his quarterback’s level of play, congratulated him for “being prepared and assuming a leadership role” during this disastrous start to the season, and also said he felt that “the lack of particular details in several different situations” has prevented the team’s offense from making the explosive plays they require. Finally, he also emphasized believing that this problem will be solved as the campaign progresses:
“We are in the process of building something special,” Getsy said, via Mark Potash of the Chicago Sun-Times. “We’re in the Week Three phase, going into Week Four, and we’re going to find a completely different way to attack Denver than we did against Kansas City. It is a 17-week process, not three,” concluded Getsy, who will have the opportunity to demonstrate this weekend a Broncos defense (0-3) that has just allowed 70 points on the board to the Dolphins.
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Luke Getsy says the 0-3 #Bears are: “In the process of building something special.”
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— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) September 28, 2023
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