Three on O: Tippmann, Patrick, Davis

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:

Loose Tipps Sink Ships

Joe Tippmann seemed to have a rough game on Sunday, as he gave up two sacks and was called for two penalties. It seemed like the broadcast was constantly showing replays of Tippmann getting badly beaten, mostly by Maliek Collins, in the kind of performance that would typically have some people overreacting by calling for a less popular player to lose his job.

Of course, a handful of negative plays can tend to stand out for an offensive lineman, without the context of what they did on the other 60 or so plays, especially when some of those bad plays are bunched together, like when he gave up a sack on the very next snap after having been called for a false start. Thankfully, this was another good example of a player who did plenty of positive things to outweight any negatives.

Tippmann was the Jets' most consistent run blocker on a day where Braelon Allen racked up a career-high 116 rushing yards, often working well in tandem with Josh Myers before climbing to the second level to make a block.

The success rate of the running game was not that good, though, overall. Allen had 18 carries or targets that went for two yards or less, with Tippmann's man blowing one of them up by getting into the backfield.

Tippmann was moving people around in the running game, though, creating a huge hole for Allen here (although this one was actually called back for a Tim Patrick holding penalty).

This was, technically, one of Tippmann's most impressive blocks. It's a reach block requiring him to be explosive out of his stance, strong enough to slow the defensive tackle down without holding and able to maintain the leverage advantage while he continues to move his feet so he can seal him off before he plugs the running lane.

As noted, he had issues in pass protection, not least when he allowed Collins to beat him on a spin move and he basically tackled him to concede the holding penalty rather than allowing another sack.

However, he didn't give a lot of pressures up and one of the sacks he did allow was really more of a coverage sack, as he picked up the stunt well and gave Geno Smith more than adequate time to make a throw. The bigger issue here was arguably Isaiah Davis being unable to get any separation from Quincy Williams so that Smith's second option was unavailable.

Had Smith just fired that pass to Davis anyway while Williams' back was turned, there was probably a good chance that it would have been a defensive penalty. However, Smith can be forgiven for not wanting to risk that given how Williams was a ball-magnet during this game and the officials were not giving the Jets any calls.

Going back to Tippmann, it's a relief to report that despite him being fairly singled out for criticism on a few plays in this game, he mostly did a good job. He'll take what he can from those negatives and hopefully learn from them as he strives to become even more consistent.

I need T.P. for my run hole!

Tim Patrick return to the wide receiver unit definitely strengthens the Jets in terms of their blocking on the outside. Two plays in particular make their plans for him apparent.

On the very first play of the game, Patrick was required to make a key block on a play that sprang Allen for a 13-yard run. As we've already seen, Patrick whiffed on his block initially and then held his man to draw a flag and negate the run, so that wasn't the best start.

However, he certainly made his mark on Allen's game winning touchdown as he crashed down to pancake a Browns defender, knocking another over in the process with the resulting carnage preventing a third from being able to prevent Allen from getting outside.

The 22-yard touchdown came on 3rd-and-9 and the Jets arguably tipped their hand in terms of what they were about to do by taking Wilson out of the game and putting Patrick in. Of course, on some level, they may not have even been thinking about definitely converting there, with a run instead just being a good way to make the Browns waste a timeout before attempting a go-ahead field goal.

However, the run they designed was definitely designed to pop and give Allen a chance at making good yardage over the left side. Tippmann once again carved his man out at the point of attack to create the lane and then, with Jeremy Ruckert's help, Allen was able to get out to the second level with an angle to get outside created by Patrick.

As a pass catcher, Patrick didn't make a major impact but had a couple of good moments. He caught an underneath pass and turned it upfield to get to the marker on his first catch and then, a few plays later, executed well on the timing route with Smith releasing the throw right as he made his break.

Patrick's other target saw him get down the seam but he dropped that one with a defender draped all over him, not that it was a routine play.

Aside from his pass catching, Patrick made one other key contribution, as he recovered an Allen fumble to preserve a possession.

At least we've now seen some of the things that Patrick brings to the table. However, it's unclear how much of a role he might actually have with Adonai Mitchell and Omar Cooper expected back soon.

I.D. Check

Isaiah Davis has had an interesting season. In 2025, he took advantage of an injury to Allen and performed well in a rotational role with over 400 yards from scrimmage and a touchdown at a rate of 5.5 yards per carry and just under nine yards per catch.

One might think this is the kind of player you'd want to keep in a similar role in 2026, but - for whatever reason - he played just two offensive snaps in the first four games and didn't touch the ball, even though Breece Hall has been out.

The reasons for this are unclear. Aaron Glenn didn't seem to have an issue with him last year, but maybe offensive coordinator Frank Reich has no faith in him, especially since he didn't get a chance to see him work in preseason.

On Sunday, Davis saw some meaningful action (10 offensive snaps) and got his first touches of the season. However, he didn't exactly give Reich a good first impression as he fumbled on his second carry. Fortunately, Smith hustled to fall on that one in a crowd.

Davis' first snap was the one we discussed above where he failed to lose Williams in space and Smith ended up taking a sack. On the next play, Smith checked down to Davis in the flat and he took it upfield with a strong finish for nine yards.

Before fumbling on his second carry, which saw him maintaining possession on the first hit only to then have it knocked out while he fought for additional yardage, Davis did have a strong run up the middle for eight with Tippmann again contributing by clearing Williams out of the middle.

The majority of the 10 snaps Davis played were in the second quarter as Allen took a series off. That may have been connected to the fact that Smith was yelling at him following an apparent pass protection screw-up.

Davis didn't get any touches and was hardly on the field in the second half, even after Allen fumbled in the third quarter, but that's perhaps not all that surprising given that Davis remained in the game and even got another carry a few plays later after his own fumble (albeit that there was a too many men penalty to negate that run).

If Allen and Hall are both healthy, it seems like Reich will be happy to stick to a two-man rotation so we will probably only see Davis on special teams (where he continued to contribute with a tackle and a good block in this game). However, given his track record in the past, hopefully he will deliver if called upon in a meaningful game and you wonder why it wouldn't be worth giving him a series to try and spark them if they have a game where they can't get the running game going in future.

He can't afford to fumble the ball any more though, otherwise they're never going to trust him.

Three-on-D will follow tomorrow.