The making of a Jets preseason touchdown

The Jets concluded their first offensive series in Saturday night’s preseason opener with a touchdown. Let’s take a look at how it happened.

We start the play with Garrett Wilson motioning from right to left across the formation.

This gives Garrett a free release off the line of scrimmage. The defender who switches on to cover him is in no real position to cover him due to the motion.

This should be about as easy of a completion as you can get.

Let’s give some love to Tanner Engstrand here. Two of the biggest tests Engstrand will face are making things easy for Fields and scheming Garrett Wilson open. Defenses are going to key on taking away Wilson. Thus Engstrand needs to design concepts that make it impossible. This is nice work by the offensive coordinator.

For some reason, however, Fields just stares Garrett down and doesn’t throw.

At first I thought Fields might have dropped his eyes because the Packers have one of their defensive tackles loop around, but before any of that happens, Fields’ back hit foot. The ball should have been ready to go.

When the loop does come, Josh Myers and Joe Tippmann do a nice job passing it off. This is made all the more impressive by the fact they had minimal practice time working with each other.

At this point, instinct just takes over for Fields.

He takes off, and he’s a dangerous runner in the open field.

Let’s also give some credit to Isaiah Davis who continued up the field and pretended to try and catch a pass to keep his defender occupied and away from Fields in the open field.

Fields makes an impressive run and scores a touchdown.

Welcome to the Justin Fields Experience. Fields is the type of quarterback who takes things off the table and also adds things. You’ll see him miss some of the easiest plays out there, and then make a really difficult play look easy.

The hope is simply the things added outweigh the things subtracted by the end of the season.