After Greg Zuerlein missed two kicks in Sunday’s loss to the Patriots, Jets interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich said he had no regrets left to stick with Zuerlein despite several other missed kicks that played large roles in several of the team’s losses this season.
Ulbrich’s lack of regret isn’t stopping the team from looking at other options heading into Thursday night’s game against the Texans. Ulbrich said at a Monday press conference that the team will “bring the kickers in for a workout” on Tuesday and then decide who will handle the duties on Halloween.
“We’re going to have a good week of work,” Ulbrich said. “The beauty of the kicking area, you don’t need the rest that the rest of these guys necessarily need, so we’ll have a competition, bring in some guys and the best guy will play on Thursday.”
Zuerlein was reliable over his first two seasons with the Jets, but that hasn’t been the case this season and the Jets haven’t been able to do enough in other phases of the game to overcome his struggles. That makes a change likely, even if it might be too late to fix the Jets’ overall pitching.