Very similar to each different Jets fan, the celebs of ESPN’s “Get Up” have seen sufficient of the fledgling 2-6 group.
When dissecting the Jets’ newest loss Sunday to the equally woeful Patriots, panelists Dan Orlovsky, Mike Greenberg, Damien Woody and former Jets coach Rex Ryan deemed the Aaron Rodgers experiment a whole failure and implored proprietor Woody Johnson to “blow this factor up.”
“The Aaron Rodgers period is over. It’s formally over with the New York Jets. This group is worse this 12 months than when Zach Wilson final 12 months [was] taking part in the quarterback place,” Woody mentioned on Monday’s installment, referencing the membership’s 2021 first-round bust.
“… They’re poorly coached. Within the run recreation, they don’t even know the blokes they’ve to dam, and Aaron Rodgers is only a shell of himself.”
Woody, a former Jets offensive lineman, then reiterated a vital level he made final week that this Jets roster, whereas stacked with notable names together with Rodgers, Davante Adams and Haason Reddick, is simply that, “a roster.”
“They’re a bunch of employed mercenaries on the market which have well-liked names on the again of their jersey however they don’t play as a group. And it’s about time for everybody at 1 Jets Drive to know that it’s time to blow this factor up,” he mentioned.
Ryan, who coached the Jets from 2009 to 2014 and made back-to-back AFC Championship appearances, pulled no punches, calling the offense a “joke” and the protection “rattling overrated.”
“The group is horribly coached. Completely horribly coached,” he mentioned.
The Jets have been in a free fall for a lot of October, which noticed the dismissal of head coach Robert Saleh after a 2-3 begin.
Saleh was changed by defensive coordinator Jeff Ulrbrich, who has now misplaced his first three video games as interim head coach.
Coming into must-win territory in Week 8, the Jets held a 22-17 lead late within the fourth quarter Sunday earlier than the Patriots rallied for a last-minute landing that might put them forward, 25-22.
The loss — the Jets’ fifth straight — made them “the primary group since 2012 to lose with zero giveaways and fewer than 250 yards allowed,” per ESPN Analysis.
“The Jets misplaced a recreation yesterday that’s unimaginable to lose,” Orlovsky mentioned on “Get Up.”
“It’s unimaginable to have a field rating that they did and lose that recreation yesterday.”
Maybe probably the most damning evaluation of the AFC East basement dwellers belonged to Greenberg, a longtime Jets fan, who summed up the 2024 squad as “one of many best, most colossal and embarrassing failures in sports activities historical past.”
“The New York Jets turned over their whole franchise to [Aaron Rodgers] and it obtained a lot, a lot worse. Like, embarrassingly worse. What they’re doing is embarrassing to observe. I’ve been following this group 50 years, I’ve by no means been as embarrassed to say that I’m a fan or to say that I believed in them as I’ve been this season and yesterday, specifically,” Greenberg mentioned.
Rodgers, 40, arrived on the Jets in April 2023 to a lot fanfare coupled with Tremendous Bowl aspirations.
His first season in New York lasted 4 performs after he suffered a season-ending Achilles damage in Week 1 that 12 months.
Now beneath middle with friends Adams and fellow receiver Allen Lazard rounding out his supporting solid, the operation has continued to flounder.
They’ll get one other shot to show the season round Thursday once they host the Texans (6-2) in primetime.
