Lamarcus Joyner’s skills are perfect for Jets free safety spot (Film)

It’s the offseason, but we should really call it overreaction season. During this time—when there’s no live football for us to entertain—anything can be used to fill our football entertainment vacuum. Another chapter of the non-stop overreacting was recently written when New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh labeled franchise-tagged safety Marcus Maye as a strong safety, while also calling newly acquired defensive back Lamarcus Joyner a deep safety. Many Jets fans were confused. Two of the arguments they made against the designations are as follows: Maye wasn’t great at strong safety last year. Joyner struggled in Oakland/Vegas and should be nothing more than a backup in New York. Well, I’m here to tell you that both assessments are wrong. First and foremost, Maye had a pretty decent passage at strong last year, before Gregg Williams decided it was time to move him back to FS. Have Jets fans already forgotten when the man caused turnovers vs. the Buffalo Bills in Week 1, matched up well vs. Jordan Reed in We