Three on O: Taylor, Warren, Moses

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:

Pumping up your Tyrod

It would have been interesting to see more of Tyrod Taylor this year, particularly when Aaron Rodgers was banged-up and struggling. Taylor has only seen action in garbage time - with and against backups - but he was extremely efficient in those appearances, leading three straight touchdown drives.

The two drives he led in this game again came with backups in, but the Bills were still trying to put him under pressure. He was, to an extent, just taking what the defense gave him, but it's not like that's an approach that he hasn't had success with during his career.

On the second drive, Taylor completed six of seven passes, with all seven of them thrown to tight ends. That included five of five to Tyler Conklin, giving the veteran a season-high eight receptions on the game and his first back-to-back games with 50 receiving yards since last November.

The two connected on a 20-yard touchdown pass down the seam and displayed good timing on this route:

Taylor displayed more variety on the other drive, hanging in the pocket to hit Garrett Wilson down the field, throwing some screens and eluding pressure to find check-down options.

He ended that drive with a back shoulder throw to Wilson, on which he made another spectacular one-handed catch.

Taylor's numbers for the year - 17 for 22, 119 yards and three touchdowns - give him a 128.6 quarterback rating. Of course, the question isn't just how he might have fared this season, or indeed how the 2023 Jets would have fared with a backup of his caliber, but also whether him being a bridge option for the new regime is viable. Taylor is under contract next year, don't forget.

Right under their Moses

The 2025 offensive line seems to be taking shape nicely. The interior trio has played well together and is all under contract and Olu Fashanu played well enough despite his recent injury for the team to be confident in his as the full-time left tackle.

The outlook at right tackle is less certain, though. Starter Morgan Moses is just on a one year deal and has played through a ton of injuries this season so the team may not be keen to rely on a 34-year old who is breaking down.

Moses' ability to stay in the line-up has been useful for the line continuity this year and has contributed towards this group gelling better over the course of the season than we've seen in recent years. However, he's only played more than half of the snaps twice since the bye week and when his play is compromised to the point where he could be a liability, him playing hurt can cause more harm than good.

That's the situation we saw this week as Moses had one of his least consistent games of the year. He left the game briefly in the first half before eventually leaving permanently late in the third quarter, so he was limited to just 28 snaps. However, despite some good run blocking early on, he had too many bad negatives in those plays, which is probably why he eventually left the game for good.

Here's a play where the Jets were relying on Moses to get out in front of a receiver screen but his body control was poor and he overran his target in space.

He was beaten off the edge a few times too, including on an inside move that got pressure in Rodgers' face and an outside move that almost led to an interception. He also got badly beaten for this sack.

If they can, the Jets would probably like to have Moses back as a fallback option but still seek out a longer-term solution at that position. He could be a good swing tackle option. Would he really be interested in signing here again, though?

Warren is Over

In weighing up the options at right tackle, the Jets got another chance to get a look at Carter Warren this week when Moses got hurt.

With Max Mitchell deputizing for the injured Fashanu on the left, Warren played 35 snaps in place on Moses. However, he had some struggles too.

He only gave up a few pressures but he was absolutely dominated on this sack, something which happens too often when Warren is in the line-up.

He did have a couple of good blocks in the running game but also badly missed his block on this run that was blown up.

Mitchell has been much more consistent than Warren this year, although his ceiling is probably just as a backup. Warren has been thought to have more upside as the superior athlete but has never been able to deliver on that potential. Mitchell's rookie deal ends a year earlier than Warren, though.

Previously: Three on D: Hector, Adams, Oliver