The Jets need to be better by the time 1 o’clock arrives Sunday, much better.
As a Jets fan, you know this. You know that a few of the more satisfying seasons in Jets history started off slowly. You recall 1981, which started 0-3 before the Sack Exchange flexed its muscles and ultimately delivered the first playoff berth after a 12-year drought. You recall 1998, which started 0-2 including — for disciples of symmetry — an opening-week loss in San Francisco, and ended in the AFC Championship game.
You might even recall 2002, which began with a win but then descended into hell, 1-4 and 2-5, before Chad Pennington fell out of the sky and before long was beating Peyton Manning in a playoff game — aSo yes, the Jets can lose at Tennessee on Sunday — they can fall to 0-2, they can lose to a Titans team that looked positively dreadful last week in Chicago, and to a quarterback, Will Levis, who played so poorly you half expected he was wearing “GSH” on his left sleeve the way Bears players do —...
“It’s a long season,” Rodgers said earlier this week. “I think at times people think the season is like: You’re out in the prairie or the desert and you’re wandering around trying to find water. But it’s more like a nice, slow bolero, whereIn other words — in Rodgers’ words — “Just trying to not get too high with the highs or too low with the lows.” Rodgers looked sharp on his two scoring drive, rusty on others, and most important he kept his name off the injury report.
“That was not to our standard by any means,” defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich said of the Frisco fiasco, “and that’s everyone involved. That’s coaches, that’s every single player, that’s the call, and it starts with me, so we’ve got to be better, and we will be better.” Sometimes it really is that simple. The season won’t be over if they aren’t, but if that happens, then by Thursday they might all wish it was.See All ColumnistsNYCFC's Matt Freese bucked family's scientist aspirations to chase budding MLS stardomNew York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, right, sits on the bench during the second half of an NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara, Calif., Monday, Sept. 9, 2024.
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