The 2-6 New York Jets fell for a fifth straight time on Sunday to a hapless New England Patriots team on Sunday.
Comments from former NFL players continue to poor in about just how perplexing the situation at One Jets Drive is. CBS’s Matt Ryan, a former MVP quarterback with the Atlanta Falcons, questioned what else the Jets can do to salvage their season.
“There are no more moves to make,” Ryan said. “Quite simply, there are no more moves to be made in the New York Jets organization for this season.”
“They’ve tried everything: changing coaches, changing coordinators, bringing in wide receivers. They are who they are. They have shown us who they are through eight games.
Rodgers completed 17 of his 28 passes for 233 yards and two touchdowns in the loss. He led a go-ahead touchdown drive with 2:57 left only for the Jets defense to relinquish the lead with under 30 seconds remaining.
The four-time MVP was left searching for answers. .The NFL is hard. Its hard to win,” Rodgers admitted postgame. Harder when you make it difficult on yourself.
They have no margin of error for the rest of the season,” Ryan continued. He’s right: the Jets already sit four games behind the Buffalo Bills in the AFC East and two-and-a-half games behind the Los Angeles Chargers for the conference’s final playoff spot.
Interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich sounded somber when asked about the team’s fortunes postgame. “This is a moment of darkness, and we understand that the outside world is going to get really loud right now,” he said.
“The only thing I know in life is that when it gets dark, and it gets hard is that you work. You point the finger at yourself and you look inward and you figure out, ‘What can I do better in an individual standpoint?'”
“If we do that collectively, which I believe we will, that’s your only opportunity to get out of this,” Ulbrich continued. “That’s your only opportunity to improve and fix some of these wrongs. That’s where we’re fortunate that the character of this locker room I think, they will demonstrate who they are.”
Can the Jets mount a remarkable turnaround? Only three teams in the history of the NFL have reached the postseason following a 2-6 start: the 1970 Cincinnati Bengals, the 2020 Washington Football Team, and the 2022 Jacksonville Jaguars.
The schedule for New York is unkind the rest of the way, and it starts with Thursday’s must-win home matchup against a potential AFC playoff rival in the Houston Texans.
Here is the Jets schedule the rest of the way: Vs Texans (Thursday), at Cardinals, vs Colts, at Seahawks, at Dolphins, at Jaguars, vs Rams, at Bills, vs Dolphins.
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