Three on O: Hall, Tippmann, Mitchell

After each game, we'll be highlighting three defensive and three offensive players and looking in detail at their performance. We'll wrap up today with the offense:

All the Hall Things

After a great week one performance and two unproductive games in the past two weeks, Breece Hall bounced back on Monday night with another good game.

Hall had 111 yards on 19 touches, including 81 rushing yards on 14 carries.

Basically half of those yards came on just two plays, as he averaged just less than 3.5 yards per carry on the rest. This one showed good patience to give the play time to develop and hit the correct lane to break into the clear at speed.

On this one, he displays good vision and burst to elude the linebacker at the second level.

Hall's five catches were all short passes although one was a tough catch over by the sideline. He also stayed in to pass protect four times, enabling Justin Fields to escape and run for a first down on one of those, although he was perhaps lucky not to have been called for a hold.

With the Jets 0-4 we aren't going to find the same correlation between wins and losses and productive Hall games as we've seen the past couple of years, but it is evident the offense is better when he is producing...or vice versa.

Hall could see some extra touches with Braelon Allen sidelined, so let's see if his production can be sustained. Right now, he's on course for his first thousand-yard season, but by less than a yard per game.

Tipp-Top Condition

Joe Tippmann played his part in a rushing attack that racked up 197 rushing yards, although 81 of those were from Fields, most of which came on scrambles.

Here's one of Tippmann's best reps as he pulls left and drives back the edge defender. Andrew Beck and Olu Fashanu also deserve credit here, but it doesn't pop for positive yards without Tippmann's initial block.

Pass protection is where the Jets are most feeling the loss of right guard Alijah Tucker. This is Tippmann's new position and he's part of an interior trio who have been tested by stunts and blitzes over the past few weeks.

Tippmann was at fault on the strip sack that ended New York's second drive. He initially double teams, but recognizes late that the linebacker is coming and collides with his own right tackle as he tries to get across to pick that up.

If Tippmann himself was at center, you'd feel more confident that the right guard wouldn't need to give him that initial help and then make the task of reacting to and picking up a rusher that much harder for themselves.

Tippmann also had a false start but he didn't make a lot of mistakes in this game and is doing his job well. It's just a shame the overall group has been downgraded by Vera-Tucker's absence.

Baddest Mitch

In this game, the Jets did something they had only done a couple of times in the previous games and operated out of six-offensive lineman personnel packages eight times. That sixth lineman was Max Mitchell each time.

You can't really argue with the success of these packages based on the statistics. The last play they ran was stuffed for a loss, but prior to that, they had run seven such plays for 77 yards.

That was five runs for 50 yards, a 27-yard pass and an incompletion on a play where there was an offensive penalty anyway.

In the running game, most of the runs went away from Mitchell, although he made a key block on the play where Allen almost scored, only to lose a fumble.

One of those runs was 19 yards on a Fields scramble where Mitchell was actually pass protecting.

On the play where there was a penalty, it was an illegal shift as Garrett Wilson went in motion too soon after Mitchell and Jeremy Ruckert had shifted to the right side. This was also probably Mitchell's worst rep as he double teamed on the outside, allowing a blitzer that he could have picked up a free run at Fields.

Mixing in these packages are a good idea and Mitchell has shown that he probably deserves these reps more than any other backup currently on the team. We'll see if this is something they can continue to have success with in the weeks ahead.

Previously: Three on D: Carter, Sherwood, Clemons