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The New York Jets may have fired their head coach Robert Saleh, but it was more of the same in their 23-20 Monday Night Football loss to the Buffalo Bills that dropped their record to 2-4 and their vibes even lower.
Despite hitting the panic button of firing Saleh just five games into the season, the Jets looked like the same team they have all season under interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich, and that’s a sluggish, disorganized, and generally average one. If not for a halftime Hail Mary, the Aaron Rodgers-led offense would’ve scored just one touchdown on Monday night.
With the season “getting late early” for the Jets, the potential for implosion only increases, which is a scenario that Hall of Fame QB and Monday Night Football color commentator Troy Aikman seems to think is likely.
Speaking after the Jets’ loss, Aikman delivered a grave assessment of the Jets’ prospects, saying that he could see the wheels coming off and the team could implode.
“I could see this totally unraveling, maybe that won’t happen, I know the players won’t agree with that,” Aikman said of Gang Green following their backbreaking home loss to Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills.
“But I could see it happening because I think they put so much into this week to winning a game and getting back on track and the owner says this is the best team’s he had in 25 years, all those things, but they didn’t get it done. They’re right back where they were and now what’s the answer for them? They don’t have it.”
Anyone who’s been paying attention to the Jets for as long as I have can already see what’s coming: the team will finish in the neighborhood of 7-10 or 8-9, Aaron Rodgers will retire at the end of the season, general manager Joe Douglas will be fired, the house will be cleaned, and the cycle will begin all over again.
Because, as Bill Belichick so aptly pointed out on last night’s Manningcast, the issue is with the team’s owner Woody Johnson: one of the worst owners in American professional sports that is overseeing the longest active playoff drought in all the major American sports leagues (13 years and counting — this will be the 14th).
Rodgers certainly isn’t doing all that much to help the situation, either, as the 40-year-old future Hall of Fame signal-caller has had the opportunity to deliver a game-winning drive in three straight weeks and has failed to do so each time.