Three on O: Membou, Myers, Taylor

After each game, we'll be highlighting three defensive and three offensive players and looking in detail at their performance. For a change, we'll start today with the offense:

I love you just the way you Armand

Let's check in with how Armand Membou is faring in his second season. Many people took for granted the fact that Membou would build on his impressive rookie season and be even better in year two and, although the offensive line as a group haven't been as dominant as some people expected, he is living up to this for the most part.

The most obvious thing to point out is that Membou gave up eight sacks and had 11 penalties last year. So far in 2026, he's only surrendered two sacks and one penalty, so he's well ahead of the curve there.

On Sunday, he again had a clean game as a pass protector. There were only two plays where you could say his man put Geno Smith under any pressure, one where he took his man to to ground and he swiped at Smith low as he released the throw and another where Membou stayed in front of his man who got close to Smith late as he backpedalled to get the throw off, but never got by Membou so was just pawing at him from arms' length.

There was also this play where Membou absolutely destroyed Dre'Mont Jones' attempted at an inside counter, although he did then scramble to his feet to get a late, low and illegal hit (which was flagged) on Smith.

Interestingly, all three of the plays just mentioned were completed passes, so in each case Membou did his job well enough for Smith to get the throw off cleanly, whether or not it would be charted as a pressure.

While the running game and his effect within it may not have been as consistent as last year, Membou still does a good job when the run behind him, which perhaps isn't as often as it should be. He let his man shed his block at the point of attack to stuff one run though.

One of his most impressive run blocks was on this short yardage conversion. First, Josh Myers allows quick penetration which almost blows the run up. Isaiah Davis does well to slip the tackle and fall forward, but there would be no gap for him to fall forward into if Membou doesn't create that himself by double-teaming one guy and then coming off that assignment to kick out another.

Hopefully, Membou can keep up this level of play. Right now, at least the right tackle position is one thing the Jets don't need to worry about.

Lost in the Josh

Myers returned for a second year as the starting center with the Jets having restored his reputation from below average fringe starter to dependable veteran with manageable flaws.

That still seems fair for Myers, who arguably had his worst game of the season, but you still probably wouldn't call it any worse than below average.

Even within that performance, he gave up just one pressure which came as Cory Durden easily exploited Myers' narrow base and bullrushed him into the backfield, albeit that they actually went past Smith, rather than having Durden applying any direct pressure on the throw.

In the run game, there were a few plays where he man got off his block and in on a play, and obviously the play we discussed earlier almost got blown up because he got beaten. However, he also had his share of good blocks, including this one.

Myers is a player many Jets fans will feel the team can find an upgrade for. However, he's been a reliable player at a reasonable price-point for as long as they've had him so far.

Mase for the Prize

After an injury-affected start to the season, Mason Taylor is now getting back into the swing of things at the tight end position. He had his most productive game of the season so far on Sunday with four catches for 33 yards.

So far this season, Taylor has only produced on short passes, as he is yet to catch a 10 yard pass. Still, if you catch 3-5 eight-yard passes per game and break the occasional tackle or get down the seam once in a while, that will translate to some solid production over the course of a full season, as we've seen from guys like Tyler Conklin.

Right now, though, that's disappointing because the Jets would hope to see more playmaking ability from a day two pick. Hopefully that will follow in due course.

There were a couple of near misses that could have made it a bigger day for Taylor, as Smith twice threw a jump ball up to him near the pylon only for a Patriots defensive back to get a hand on it and knock it away at the last moment each time. One of these was on the play after Omar Cooper's touchdown was disallowed and the other was right before the Jets kicked their last field goal.

As for the four passes Taylor did catch, this was probably the best, as he ran a good route to get a step on the linebacker and picked up a first down.

Taylor's blocking seems to have improved this year too. Here's a nice block on the slot screen that Cooper follows well to pick up 18.

It's understandable to be underwhelmed by Taylor so far, but the 22-year old is doing some good things and will hopefully continue to contribute in a positive manner.

Three-on-D will follow tomorrow.