Issues look extremely bleak for the New York Jets after a deflating 25-22 loss to the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium.
The return of Aaron Rodgers had the Jets eager about the Tremendous Bowl at first of the season they usually even gained two out of their first three video games. Nevertheless it’s all come crashing down since then.
It reached a low level Sunday with their fifth straight defeat coming by the hands of their division rival. The Patriots, who got here into the competition losers of six straight, even misplaced Drake Maye to a concussion within the first half, however nonetheless pulled off a last-second win with Jacoby Brissett behind middle.
For New York interim head coach Jeff Ullbrich, who’s now 0-3 since taking on for Robert Saleh, there was solely to explain the state of affairs the Jets are in.
“It is a second of darkness, and we perceive that the skin world goes to get actually loud proper now,” Ullbrich informed reporters, per team-provided transcript. “However the one factor I do know in life is that when it will get darkish and it will get exhausting, that you just work and also you level the finger at your self and also you look inward and you determine what can I do higher from a person standpoint. If we try this collectively, which I imagine we are going to, that’s your solely alternative to dig your self out of this. That’s your solely alternative to enhance and repair a few of these wrongs. That’s the place we’re lucky, that the character of this locker room, I feel they’re going to display who they’re.”
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Rodgers definitely is snug with the darkish. In any case, he went on a darkness retreat in 2023, through which he spent 4 days in a cabin the place no gentle was seen.
“Yeah, I’ve been within the darkness. You’ve bought to go in there, make peace with it,” Rodgers informed reporters, per team-provided transcript. “Offensively, our objective has simply bought to be to attain 30. Doesn’t matter what the opposite two sides are doing. We’ve belief in our protection and (particular) groups, but when we’re not scoring 30, we’re underachieving. This offense can do that each single week.”
The Jets haven’t hit the 30-point plateau as soon as this season as their 18.8 factors per recreation ranks twenty fourth within the NFL. Rodgers is a part of the offensive problem. He did full 17-of-28 passes for 233 yards and two touchdowns towards the Patriots, but it surely’s clear he doesn’t strike the identical worry into the opposition that he as soon as did.
