{"id":315607,"date":"2025-10-19T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315607\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:00:08","slug":"3-key-matchups-to-watch-in-week-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315607\/","title":{"rendered":"3 key matchups to watch in Week 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-jets\/352\" data-autotag=\"61e70eee-950b-4335-a373-675b010563dc\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Jets<\/a> will face the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"noopener\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> in Week 7 for a 1 p.m. kickoff at MetLife Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>For this conference battle between Aaron Glenn&#8217;s Jets (0-6) and Dave Canales&#8217; Panthers (3-3), it will be the games, within the game, that will make all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Here are <a href=\"https:\/\/jetswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jets Wire&#8217;s<\/a> three key matchups to watch during the Jets&#8217; matchup with the Panthers:<\/p>\n<p>LB Jamien Sherwood vs. RB Rico Dowdle<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all on Sherwood and it&#8217;s not on just Dowdle&#8230; Chuba Hubbard is healthy for the Panthers&#8217; backfield, too&#8230; but Dowdle has 389 yards rushing over the past two weeks. He&#8217;s on fire. Sherwood has to make sure the Jets defense is in the right spots to spot Dowdle&#8230; and tackles cannot be missed.<\/p>\n<p>WR Josh Reynolds vs. CB Jaycee Horn<\/p>\n<p>The No.1 receiver for the Jets, Garrett Wilson, is out for a few weeks with a knee injury. Reynolds needs to find some chemistry with quarterback Justin Fields. Opposing defenses can&#8217;t think the Green and White are one dimension on offense. The passing attack has to be established.<\/p>\n<p>OL Joe Tippmann vs. DL Derrick Brown<\/p>\n<p>Quietly, Brown is the fifth-best defensive tackle in the NFL according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pro Football Focus<\/a>. His grade is an impressive 87.1. Tippmann will lead the way in stopping Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Jets will face the Carolina Panthers in Week 7 for a 1 p.m. kickoff at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":315608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,8015,8019,2625,17355,8996,158736,111224,37392,158740,158735,97462,1318,31962,12940,11652,158737,158738,123618,34007,33783,144385,25231,129938,26079,12942,6415,81391,32980,1571,5382,942,635,405,403,5287,50,5226,5225,1232,12623,5228,5227,450,950,7009,69646,158734,116400,117429,45245,45439,62,1458,11124,158739,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,22869,636],"class_list":{"0":"post-315607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-brown","12":"tag-carolina","13":"tag-carolina-panthers","14":"tag-chuba","15":"tag-chuba-hubbard","16":"tag-derrick","17":"tag-derrick-brown","18":"tag-dowdle","19":"tag-fields","20":"tag-football","21":"tag-garrett","22":"tag-garrett-wilson","23":"tag-hub","24":"tag-hubbard","25":"tag-jamien","26":"tag-jamien-sherwood","27":"tag-jets","28":"tag-joe","29":"tag-joe-tippmann","30":"tag-josh","31":"tag-josh-reynolds","32":"tag-justin","33":"tag-justin-fields","34":"tag-listicle","35":"tag-metlife","36":"tag-metlife-stadium","37":"tag-national","38":"tag-national-sports","39":"tag-neutral","40":"tag-new","41":"tag-new-york","42":"tag-new-york-city","43":"tag-new-york-jets","44":"tag-news","45":"tag-newyork","46":"tag-newyorkcity","47":"tag-nfl","48":"tag-nfl-hub","49":"tag-ny","50":"tag-nyc","51":"tag-overall","52":"tag-overall-neutral","53":"tag-panthers","54":"tag-reynolds","55":"tag-rico","56":"tag-rico-dowdle","57":"tag-sherwood","58":"tag-smg","59":"tag-smg-listicle","60":"tag-sports","61":"tag-sports-news","62":"tag-stadium","63":"tag-tippmann","64":"tag-united-states","65":"tag-united-states-of-america","66":"tag-unitedstates","67":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","68":"tag-us","69":"tag-usa","70":"tag-wilson","71":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}