Can the Jets become the Mets?
After a shaky start to this season, can the Jets bounce back like the Mets did after losing their first five games? He finished 11 games under .500 on June 3 and is now playing in the National League Division Series as a beloved comeback kid. 2024 baseball season?
Can the Jets find their way to the postseason and make some noise once they get there, like the Mets are currently doing?
Could they actually become the team we admire in the same way we embrace the Mets?
The Jets aren't a very popular team at this point.
Underachievers will never be accepted.
A team that played below its potential and expectations, the Jets' position at 2-3 after losing to the Vikings in London, will never be praised.
Instead, Jets fans have been calling for the head coach to be fired, but Jets fans are now united in regards to Robert Saleh and his 20-36 record over three seasons. is.
The Jets enter this year with Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers healthy, despite missing the 2023 season with a torn Achilles tendon. If Rodgers is healthy, there will be Super Bowl expectations and a lot of hype.
Receiver Garrett Wilson was poised to emerge as one of the league's most prolific pass catchers after Rodgers' energetic throws. Running back Breece Hall will be one of the most dynamic two-way backs in the league. A rebuilt offensive line was going to contribute to the running game and protect Rodgers.
And five weeks later, this is what we got: an offensively clumsy Jets team that looks very much like the edition that has disappointed and angered fans for the past 13 years.
Last season, the Jets, quarterbacked by Zach Wilson, went 2-3 and scored 93 points through five games. Through five games this season with Rodgers at quarterback, the Jets are 2-3 with 93 points.
Strange.
This is also something to be concerned about.
Rodgers struggled. Wilson remains uncomfortable and, inexplicably, not on the same page as Rodgers. Hall is averaging just 39.4 rushing yards per game. Rodgers has been sacked eight times in the past two games and has endured 26 hits.
But the Jets have been terrible in their past two games — an unforgivable 10-9 loss at home to the Broncos in London on Sunday, when Rodgers threw three interceptions — and a revamped offensive line has It looked like they had never played together. The running game continued to regress – the Jets were lucky.
Yes, you're lucky.
Thanks to the Bills' 3-2 loss to the Texans on Sunday, the 2-3 Dolphins' injury-ravaged quarterback situation, and the 1-4 Patriots, they are within striking distance of first place in the broken AFC East. There is one game. Worst team in the league.
The Jets' next game is Monday night against the 3-2 Bills at MetLife Stadium, but a win would put them in first place in the division with a tiebreaker against Buffalo at 3-3.
“We are not panicking,” Saleh said on Monday. “There's no one in the building panicking. There's always going to be a sense of urgency to go out there and win and continue to be efficient on offense and play great defense and special teams.” .
“But Monday night is a great opportunity to play football and try our best and try to get the results we want.”
It's early. It's too early to panic. But that doesn't excuse his team's performance over the past two weeks. The offense is healthy except for right tackle Morgan Moses, who missed the past two games with a knee injury.
The fan base is angry, and rightly so. Yes, the Vikings entered Sunday 4-0, and Sam Darnold was playing as well as any quarterback in the league.
However, the defense did its job and limited Minnesota's offense. The lack of creativity and efficiency on offense is hard to watch.
“As I said last week, the NFL is built for disruption,” Saleh said. “Either the sky is falling or we have Super Bowl ambitions.” [and] There is no more in between. The reality is that the current standings will be completely different by the end of the season.
“There’s a lot of football to be played. [are] There are a lot of things we can do better, a lot of things we can continue to do, and a lot of things that are going well. ”
Rodgers said after the loss to the Vikings that he still had “a lot of confidence in this team.”
He added, “I think this is a team that's going to run hard.''
The 2024 Mets have made good progress.
Could the 2024 Jets do the same?
