Things haven't been going well for the Jets this season, and Sauce Gardner's frustrations seemed to boil over on Monday. After losing again to Gang Green over the weekend, Corner fired back at his critics on social media.
Gardner missed a crucial tackle on a second-quarter drive that ended with the Cardinals leading 21-6.
Gardner acknowledged his mistake on Sunday, but on Monday he fired back at those who pointed it out. He posted and then deleted a reply to He is a reporter for ESPN covering the Jets and a fan who frequently posts social media content about the team.
ESPN's Rich Cimini called the missed tackle “the costliest” of the game in a post by X that was quickly deleted after a response from Gardner.
“Yes, the missed tackle at the start of the second quarter for a 17-yard gain was 100 percent definitely the most costly mistake and in fact, that's why we lost the game,” Gardner said late Monday morning. I was writing.
Later the same day, Gardner appeared to go after another critic again.
Jets fan and content creator Matt O'Leary posted a clip asking Gardner to take his lumps and hold the team to some responsibility for its past play.
Gardner caught the clip and posted a message to O'Leary on X, which he later deleted.
“I have a lot of responsibility and my teammates know that.” According to Jets X Factor, he wrote: “I owe it to them, not you or anyone else on this app. We missed one tackle and gave up like 19 yards. Do we want each play back? Sure. But the NFL Why don’t you come and play in our corner for a week and let us know how it goes?”
The Jets lost to the Cardinals on Sunday, dropping to 3-7 and falling well below .500 in an ugly AFC East division.
Gardner admitted to reporters after the game that he missed the tackle, saying, “I have to make the tackle.''
“Just make tackles,” Gardner said. “I don’t know as a team. I know we practice that all the time — D-line, [linebackers] Secondary — we practice it all the time. It starts with me. We have to be better. I have to make a tackle. ”
Gardner wasn't the only defender to miss a tackle in the loss, with NextGenestats showing the Jets missed 20 tackles in the game.
