Cade Klubnik debuts in Jets' preseason opener against the Bucs | Gang's All Here

Hey, what's up everybody? Frankie V here, New York Post Sports and U Stadium. I want to give a little breakdown as to what I saw last night in preseason game one. Some good, some bad, nothing to overreact on. However, there's some things that I think this team, for it to get to the next level, they have to address some of these things. So let me just get into that really quick. Number one, Cade Klubnik looked really good last night. Now, I'm not going to overreact, again, it's preseason, but the kid looked damn good. Before the game, it came out that Geno Smith was dealing with some foot issue. Nobody really knows what that issue is, so that'll be something to look at throughout the week. But Cade Klubnik came out and looked like he'd been playing football forever, and he kind of has, by the way, but he just came out there. He's slinging it, man. The one thing about Cade Klubnik that I really like is he is not afraid to throw the ball in traffic. He is not afraid to take risks. He's not afraid to get the ball down the field. Cade Klubnik is a gunslinger in a traditional sense, and we haven't really seen that from a quarterback here in quite some time. And even when we got guys in that have the characteristics of being gunslingers, we've always shortened the field on them. You're not going to be able to shorten the field on Cade Klubnik. He kind of does what he does. He's that kind of confident quarterback, that Texas kind of kid that he's going to get the ball out and he's going to get the ball out often. Now, speaking about getting the ball out often, he didn't have an opportunity yesterday to get into a high volume passing game because the coach took him out after two series. Aaron Glenn, I don't understand the logic here. I under, now I, I do understand that Cade came in for Gino. So Cade, I guess de facto takes the, the, the, the first team reps that the QB one's taking, but Cade Klubnik's a rookie. He's QB two or he's competing for a backup quarterback spot. He just got drafted. You're going to give him two series and seven attempts. I mean, Brady Cook had more than double the attempts of, of Cade Klubnik. There was so much momentum going on. He came in, hit Mason Taylor a few times, hit that nice dig route with Garrett. You're feeling the good juju. A drive later that they settled with a field goal, a drive later, he wasn't able to do much because Braylon Allen took that drive over and they had scored. Bring him back out, bring him back out with the twos. He's been practicing with them. I don't get the logic there. And what happens? All the good energy, all the momentum goes away. Bailey Zappi comes in and throws a pick six. I mean, sometimes you just got to, I don't want to say read the room, but got to understand that these are young guys that need reps. You only have three preseason games. Haven't been practicing that much. Also with these new rules, let him sling it. He wants to. Cade Klubnik, trust me, wants to go out there and throw it 50 times. Should have done what they did with Carson Beck who had 19 attempts in that hall of fame game. Have him play the first half. He technically only played a quarter. I didn't like that because I just thought the kid's feeling good. The kids is seeing things. He's not having issues seeing things on the field. Let him go back out there with the twos, let things cook. Plus you'll get a better look at your wide receivers. Also, you're going to have better targeted passes from Cade Klubnik than you will Brady cooker or Bailey Zappi. Glenn came out and said, I just felt that he Klubnik had enough plays. I really wanted to make sure I had a good shot of seeing all three of the quarterbacks. Listen, I don't want to overreact. I don't want to be negative. There's a lot of time for that. We all know that in Jets world, but I don't want to hear that. I don't want to see Brady cook or Bailey Zappi. I don't, I have no interest in that. I want to see the rookie. Now, if you want to see the script, he played four or five series and the script called from not throwing that many passes, but they're scoring AKA that last drive. Okay. But he only played two series. He was feeling it. Let him, let him get confidence in the NFL. Why stop a guy on his way to throwing for 200 yards? I don't understand that to see Bailey Zappi and Brady cook. It's just, it's just, I didn't want to say it's a stupid decision. It's a weird decision. It's just like you want him to do well. I want him to do well. Everyone out there wants him, uh, K club to do well. And you're like limiting that from happening basically. Or like throwing a wrench into that for, for no reason. Cause there's no reason to see Brady cook and Bailey Zappi. By the way, we went to Bailey Zappi, throws a pick six, comes back out there, throws a pass little bit off center, but still should have been catchable by Arian Smith. That's a tip ball that leads to an interception. You know, it's deflating the whole, the, the, the stadium got deflated. The sidelines deflated. You had so much good vibes and Juju with Kate club, Nick, and then you go to these guys and it's just, it's, it's just done. It's, it's, it's, uh, you know, it's, it's just a bad decision by the head coach. And, and, and I'm not going to harp more on that, but when you have Brady cook with 15 attempts, more than double Bailey Zappi had 10 attempts. Why is Kate club? Nick only throwing seven passes in a preseason game where Gino was out. Now on the other side, there could be something else here. So I'll play devil's advocate with myself. Maybe this Gino injuries, a little bit concerning, just a tad bit. Maybe, maybe that foot, they got to look into it a little bit more. So don't put your starter out there too long in Kate club. Nick could be, could have been a, or they don't know what it is. So be conservative in the approach. Anyway, I'll be honest. If it was me, I would have had him out for another two series. I probably would have had him finished the half. That would have been me. I would have had him finished the half, regardless of how the Gino situation look. If you want to win with this kid, he's going to have to get NFL reps. He's got a ton of reps in college, give him the NFL reps. And clearly it wasn't hindering him at all. Like he didn't seem like he was overwhelmed. So all right, next thing, let's go to my guy, David Bailey. I know a lot of people have been talking about David Bailey, some good, some bad. It seems like, listen, David Bailey at the end of the day is a disruptor. He is going to want to get up the field and he's going to want to attack the quarterback. That's what David Bailey does. So I see a lot of people now say, Oh, he's going too far out. He got washed out. He didn't keep contained. Okay. Like, like I get it. Like, uh, I think it's overblown the, that contained play that happens a lot in the NFL. I mean, go and watch TJ watt clip by clip, go and watch miles Garrett clip by clip, Max Crosby, Von Miller, Daniel Hunter. You're going to have plays like that. That's what edges do. They don't get home all the time. Guy had, I think what eight plays. So eight plays, he actually got home basically once with, with him running an inside stone with Will McDonald, just doing a straight rush on the other side. He actually was there with the quarterback. He actually grabbed the quarterback's leg. It wasn't a half sack, but it was, you know, he was there. He was disrupting. That's what he does. So you're going to take the good with the bad. The bad is, yeah, he's going to get a little wild. He's a little wild child sometimes in the way he plays. But if he didn't have that, you're talking about what, like the, the, the, a perfect edge prospect. No, that's his. That's where he gets a little bit crazy in his game, but it'll come with the good people. People are like, Oh, he didn't have a sack. He played an eight. He played eight plays, but let me get a sack. If you're going to sack every eight plays, you're going to, you're going to end up the game with seven or eight sacks. I mean, come on. So, I mean, I don't, I understand people are like, you know, didn't do what he did in camp. Yeah. I mean, no, one's going to do that. You're not going to come into an NFL game with a proper script by their offensive coordinator. They were chipping him by the way. Did you see that belly? I think didn't have two guys on him or another guy looking at him, maybe one or two of those eight snaps they were chipping and they knew he was in the game and that helps your defensive line out. That's going to help. Will McDonald's going to get sacks. Juwan Briggs, those guys up front, Harrison Phillips, they're going to get plays to be made because David Bailey's there. Teams are, teams are keen in on him already. So yeah, he's going to look a little bit, you know, out of position at times that's his game, but you're going to get the good with that. And not only on his end, you're going to get the good with that from the other players on that D line. But I thought the jets run defense was actually pretty good on the game. They had 25 carries the nine yards, 25 carries for 69 yards. It's 2.8 yards a carry. Kudos to the jets front seven, the coaches, Carl Dunbar, Aaron Glenn. Good job. Like that's what you want to see. I know it's preseason, but those are just straight run fits. That's a good thing. Um, on our end, we ran the ball. Okay. I thought Braylon Allen did, did quite well, showed his explosiveness coming back from injury. I have four carries for 44 yards. That's 11 yards to carry. And I had a 31 yarder to, uh, to cap off that last Cade club, Nick drive for a touchdown. Um, Brees had a few moments, but you know, wasn't all that involved. I thought Jamal Jamal Pritchett showed a little bit that he's a baller. Um, I don't know if he's going to make the team, but I like kids that come out there and just give it their all regardless of what you asked him to do. So he's that kind of player. Quincy Skinner had a few nice place, kids, a talented receiver. You know, I don't know if he's going to be able to make this roster or a roster this year, but if that kid keeps working, that kid's got some, got, got some talent there. Um, I like what Mason Taylor did, uh, on that first drive, I like him getting open. So I think this team, listen, this team has talent. This team has a ton of talent. It's just, are the coaches going to be able to maximize that talent and put these guys in a position to make plays score touchdowns or stop opposing teams from doing so? Yeah. Um, on, uh, a few guys I, I, I circled, I thought Jordan Clark, Ryan Clark's son, I thought played awesome. I mean, when guys pop, they pop, he was popped. I saw him. Um, and then we got this guy, Maury Bamba. I mean, for past deflections in a game is in insane for past deflections in a season, sometimes good for corners. He had them in a game and one game. I don't know. I don't know much about this kid. I'm not going to sit here and lie, but, uh, he looked good. He definitely looked the parties. He's a, he's a taller kid from BYU six to bigger build kid, aggressive, make some place for past deflections in a game is a lot. It shows that he's not intimidated by the NFL and, uh, he wants to go out there and make plays. But yeah, with that being said, overall, it's preseason let's wait until game two, but I want Aaron Glenn and, and, and I want the jets brass to put these guys in a position to play, give Kate club, Nick, the next game, give him the first half. Let's go. The kid looked awesome. Let him play even Bailey. If you want to put them out another series, let them play. I am never going to be the one to shy away from having guys not play or not being an advocate of guys playing the more they play, the better they're going to get, especially against NFL level competition and coaching. And that's the difference between what the preseason will bring you and what training camps brought you preseason. It's schemed up by the coaches in a sort of game atmosphere, a real game atmosphere, the seasons, even more of a game atmosphere, it is the game atmosphere. So we're getting a little bit of sense of it. Team's got a lot of different things going on, but I kind of like certain things, Braylon Allen's, you know, I love Bailey, some of these receivers. I mean, they got some stuff there at one jets jets drive. Now you want to bring it all together because the talent's clearly there. But with that said, Frankie V here from the New York post sports and you stadium, we'll be doing post games after real jet games. And yeah, make sure you like, and subscribe to the channel. I'll be doing some one-off videos every week or so, but yeah. Enjoy the rest of preseason and let's go jets, baby.