In 2023, the Jets have been the flavour of the month. In 2024, they really feel like the identical outdated squad that forces its followers to run for the Rum Raisin, maintain the raisin.
Coach Robert Saleh likes it that manner.
“Final yr was a bit loud,” Saleh instructed Steve Wyche of NFL Media. “We welcome a bit little bit of quietness.”
Loud is an understatement. The Jets acquired strong-armed into doing Exhausting Knocks. Everybody thought they’d be nice with Aaron Rodgers on the crew. The schedule instructed it wouldn’t be straightforward. The lack of Rodgers after solely 4 snaps made it an impossibility — and a broadly perceived failure.
This yr could possibly be what final yr was purported to be. However this yr will probably entail decrease expectations, and presumably fewer stand-alone, high-profile, nationally-televised video games.
“Aaron, he’s on a mission,” Saleh stated. “He’s doing his rehab. He’s out in California, I consider. Clearly he’s taking a while for himself. He was able to go final yr, man. So I do know he’s preparing. We converse to him usually. I don’t wish to converse for him, however I’m going to talk for him and say that he’s actually enthusiastic about attacking this season.”
After all, a bit over per week in the past, the Jets didn’t know what Rodgers was really enthusiastic about, since he was probably going to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s working mate. That went away virtually as rapidly because it emerged, and now the Jets can deal with the duty at hand.
“[I’m] excited to assault this season and attempt to accomplish the issues we have been supposed to perform a yr in the past,” Saleh stated.
It nonetheless received’t be straightforward. The schedule isn’t as daunting. They face the three groups in their very own division twice, all 4 groups of the NFC West, all 4 groups of the AFC South, the Steelers, Broncos, and Vikings.
However they’ll be relying on loads of getting old gamers at key positions to get and keep wholesome by means of the grind of a 17-game common season and, in the event that they qualify, the postseason.
In the event that they don’t high quality, that’ll be that for many of the gamers, coaches, and executives at the moment on proprietor Woody Johnson’s payroll.
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