Author: Max Dean

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Max Dean is the Executive Producer of Multimedia for Gridiron Heroics, as well as the host of The Gridiron Heroics Football Show. Additionally, he covers the NFL as a writer for Gridiron Heroics.

NFL

OTA’s are done, and minicamp is over. That means it’s time to talk about the New York Jets who are trending up approaching training camp. To preface this list, two points must be made in regards to players who have showed out so far in OTA’s and Minicamp. The first is that the padless nature of OTA’s, along with the Jets’ utilization of lower intensity practices has meant that essentially it’s been a passing camp up to this point. As a result, we are primarily looking at passers and pass catchers, not blockers or ball carriers. The other is of…

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NFL

The New York Jets have completed OTA’s, and it was a far cry from the frenetic camerawork of Any Given Sunday. In fact if you didn’t know any better, you might have thought the green and white players casually jogging and taking padless reps were actors getting ready for a pressure-free day of filming. A closer look revealed more: a wildly acrobatic catch here, a thirty yard pass on a rope there… It was more than clear that these were world class athletes.  So where was the speed, the ferocity of NFL Football? Everyone knows it’s on the way, but…

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