We work our butts off to be able to come in here and play well, so it’s tough when you don’t do that.” “I thought our defense played well and they deserve to see good football. “They should be, right? They should be disappointed,” Wilson said following the Jets’ home-opener. The kid realizes just how disappointed Jets fans were and should be.
Zach Wilson‘s four interceptions put his team in a near-impossible situation this past Sunday-an unusual 180-degree turn from what the Jets produced in Week 1’s 19-14 loss to the Carolina Panthers when the kid quarterback had to fight through a poor team performance.Īt least Wilson said the right things following the disaster. Make it 11 straight for the Pats and another young quarterback putting up a stinker.
Yet, that’s exactly what happened in New Jersey’s green professional team’s 2021 NFL season home-opener at MetLife Stadium-a 25-6 shellacking at the hands of the AFC East’s kingpins (until the Buffalo Bills officially rip that title away for certain). Not against a Pats team with Tom Brady long gone and currently torturing the NFC South.Įspecially not while Sam Darnold is slinging it in his second life down in the Carolinas.Īlthough it’s happened quite frequently over the last decade, the New York Jets’ home-opener simply shouldn’t unfold with the most rabid “J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets!” chants coming from the swamp-backdropped North Jersey parking lots at noon ET. Nobody wants to hear it, but patience is still the New York Jets’ key