The veteran safety was as pivotal as any Jet to the team’s first win of the season, coming up with a career-high three interceptions in their roller coaster of a 22-16 victory at MetLife Stadium.
He nearly had as many in the Jets’ first game of 2023.
The veteran safety was as pivotal as any Jet to the team’s first win of the season, coming up with a career-high three interceptions in their“Something like this, you got to talk about it, you got to talk about it during the week, believe that you’re going to do it,” said Whitehead, who had two interceptions and eight passes defensed in his first year with the Jets last fall. “That’s where it comes from.
It was a personal goal of his to be able to take the ball away after dropping too many passes last year.“I’ve just been working all offseason, teammates have been pushing me. So no surprise,” Whitehead said. “Deep balls, just every day at practice. [Safeties coach Marquand Manuel] throws the ball to me, different drills. When I get time off [in practice], special teams drills, I’m catching balls.”
He added: “I like to read a lot; I like to hear what a lot of people have to say. I just use all of that as motivation.”He committed four turnovers — he also fumbled in the fourth quarter — and was sacked five times.It was the kind of stifling performance Gang Green will need moving forward without Rodgers.
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