Geno Smith seeing Jets training camp through totally different view literally

It only looks like Geno Smith is seeing red. The Jets quarterback is sporting red contact lenses during training camp practice to help cut down on glare on the practice field.  Text with Brian Costello all season as he brings Sports+ subscribers the latest Jets intel from on the field and off.“It’s something that we’ve been doing,” Smith said Thursday.

“It’s actually pretty cool.it blocks out the sunlight and all that, so it’s actually pretty cool.

It keeps the glare from the sun out of your eyes.” Former Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes used to wear red contacts during games when he played for the team.Smith and Holmes actually spent one season together in 2013, Smith’s first as a pro.

He remembers that Holmes wore them, but he said the idea to start wearing them now came from some eye specialists. “The entire room is yellow, so it’s a yellow tint to everything,” Smith said.“It’s pretty cool.

You guys should try it.” Jets coach Aaron Glenn was asked about the offense and defense battling in practice and which unit is getting the better of the other. “I said this to the players the other day: For a head coach, you usually leave practice pissed off because if the offense has a great day then, obviously, the defense didn’t,” Glenn said.“But then if the defense had a great day, obviously the offense didn’t.

And that’s not a bad thing, you know, but it’s just a competition, and these guys are giving it all.They’re giving me everything that I’m asking to give.

And again, game-like intensity, and we have to continue to really focus in on that every rep.Every rep is important to us.”  Sign up for Inside the Jets by Brian Costello, a weekly Sports+ exclusive.

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