If you’re a Jets fan, you know exactly where you expected the weak link on this year’s team to be. Ben Ijalana knew. So did Brent Qvale. And they play the position of concern — right tackle.
“I understand it because neither one of us had ever had any starts,” Qvale said Monday.
“I understand the initial concern,” Ijalana said. “People don’t know us. It’s the unseen, the unproven.”
Well, through two games against teams with pretty stout defensive fronts (the Bengals and Bills), Qvale and Ijalana — the unproven — have begun to prove themselves as competent starters.