The holdout of Haason Reddick reached a new level on Monday when the edge rusher missed the Jets’ first game of the season.
The question remains how this will ever end.
Reddick forfeited his game check of nearly $800,000 by missing the game and his holdout has now cost him nearly $6 million between fines and forfeited money.
There is no indication the Jets and Reddick are making any progress on finding a way to get him to join the team.
On Tuesday, Jets coach Robert Saleh reiterated that Reddick will be embraced if he ever shows up.
“Regardless of how I feel about it, we’ve got the guys who are here,” Saleh said. “We’re excited to work with the guys who are here and I’ll say it again. The moment he walks through those doors we’re going to give him a big hug, give him the playbook, and then we’re going to get rolling.”
The Jets sacked 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy three times on Monday, but two of those were when he scrambled and did not make it past the line of scrimmage.
The only true sack came late in the game from Micheal Clemons.
That lack of a pass rush has some people speculating that Reddick gained some leverage in his quest for a contract extension from the Jets.
Saleh said it was tough to pressure Purdy because of how quickly he was making his throws.
“I thought San Francisco did a really good job with their game plan with regards to chips on the ends, and getting rid of the ball in a timely fashion,” Saleh said. “I don’t think Brock really held it long enough for us to have any effect. We had some opportunities, couldn’t wrap him up and bring him down, but credit to them.
“They did a really nice job with getting the ball out of his hands.”
The Jets moved Quinnen Williams to defensive end a few times in Monday’s game, a clear effort to try to spring him from the double-teams he saw all last year.
He was double-teamed 70 percent of his snaps last year.
“I just felt like it’d be a good matchup for Quinnen to get in there, where they couldn’t just slide to him and get four hands on him, just to try to get him on a guy and we felt like he had some production [Monday],” Saleh said.
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