Jetsiest season in a while? With expensive acquisitions (and the defense) underperforming, it sure seems like it

The New York Jets have, once again, stolen the headlines of the NFL season despite not actually being a good football team.

After a 37-15 beatdown at the hands of the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday Night Football, the Jets find themselves in familiar territory at 2-5 with the season circling the drain before they can even really get going. What adds an extra pinch of salt to their wounds this year is that they’ve spent a whole lot of resources to be in this position and still can’t get any wins on the board. At best, this is a mediocre team with a high-level payroll. At worst, this is the worst Jets failure that tops the long list of recent failures for this franchise.

Aaron Rodgers has been a double-edged sword. On one hand, he’s comfortably the best quarterback they’ve had in recent memory. At times, his combination of rare throwing ability and two decades of NFL experience has the Jets passing game looking like they can be one of the best in the league if they could just get a bit more consistency from everyone.

On the other hand, he hasn’t been good enough in terms of what they need to go out and win a Super Bowl. As a whole, the Jets’ offense is just 20th in success rate (gaining 40% of yards to go on first down, 60% on second and 100% on third/fourth) and 22nd in expected points added per play (-0.06). That’s better than where they were last year, when they were arguably the worst offense in football, but being below average is an abject failure for the expectations coming into the season.

This offense has spent a top pick on Garrett Wilson, paid players like Allen Lazard and Mike Williams and recently traded a pick for future Hall of Famer Davante Adams. Yet they still can’t score points. Switching from Nate Hackett to Todd Downing as offensive play-callers seems to have helped running back Breece Hall get back to being one of the best offensive players in the league. Outside of him, the Jets offense has still just been mediocre at best. Tyron…

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Publish date : 2024-10-21 17:28:45

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