Jakobi Meyers Joins Rare Company With Incredible Game Vs Jets

Jakobi Meyers has joined a rare company with an incredibile game vs the Jets. The Patriots were able to bounce back after struggling to win much of anything in past few games.

A lot of this had to do with Jakobi Meyers and his play on Monday night. He talked about it after the game.

“It was a fun game, I’m not going to lie,” a smiling Meyers said in his postgame news conference. “It was just fun to be out there with the team. I just enjoyed every moment of it.”

“I’m just a young guy trying to take advantage of my opportunities,” Meyers said. “The more they give me, the more I’m going to try to do. Hopefully, I can keep building and every week gets better than the week before. Just keep taking advantage of those opportunities and keep trying to grow every day.”

“Hopefully, my teammates and my coaches just trust in me, and hopefully they just see what I can do,” Meyers said. “As far as proving what I can do, they see me in practice, so they see what I can do.”

Jakobi Meyers Joins Rare Company With Incredible Game Vs Jets

Bill Belichick also talked about him.

“Jakobi’s done a good job for us all year,” Belichick said. “He’s a good route-runner, really understands the coverages and timing and when to be open on the route and how to take advantage of different coverage leverages. Cam did an excellent job. We missed him on one big-play opportunity, but Cam hit him quite a few times. It must have been double digits there.”

Last but not least, Cam Newton talked about his play.

“He’s such an easy target to throw to, as you can kind of tell, and he just finds a way to get open,” Newton said. “He’s got a knack for the ball, and his decisiveness while running routes (makes it) easy to tell where his body language is going to go.”

“He’s the person who I’ve known the longest (in) this whole ordeal,” Newton said of Meyers. “Me knowing Jakobi when he was 16, 17 years old coming out of high school, and both of us being from the greater Atlanta area, for him to be morphing into the player that he is today, it’s just hard work paying off for him.

“He’s learned so much from believing in this system and also learning from the best to do it — the gritty type of guy in (Edelman) — and him being accessible for him, watching him on film and seeing how he practices and using him as a vessel, it shows for Jakobi to go out and put it to fruition with the hard work that he puts in.”

“It was a lot of fun,” Meyers said. “I truly enjoyed the game, and hopefully we can build off this. … It’s definitely a momentum-builder, I think.”