Could Rodgers earn another MVP award?

Two quick ways to ensure that you’re a Super Bowl contender:

1. Have a great defense.
2. Have an MVP candidate playing quarterback.

On the first point, the New York Jets are covered as they boast one of the league’s best defenses.

On the second, it remains to be seen. While quarterback Aaron Rodgers is only two years removed from back-to-back MVP awards, he also is coming off one of his worst seasons in 2022 and a season that never was due to injury in 2023.

If Rodgers can bounce back to MVP form...

Bringing your daily links to the NFL’s New York Jets

Good morning, Gang Green Nation. I hope you’re all having a great start to the day. On paper, the New York Jets enter the season with one of the best rosters in the NFL. However, I should emphasize the ‘on paper’ portion, because the team has looked good in most offseasons, only to falter throughout the season. Usually, it’s health related as the team has had some horrific luck with injuries to their star players. Of course everyone remembers Aaron Rodgers tearing his Achilles in Week 1, but the team...

What are the Jets’ odds for success in 2024?

While moves can still happen, the end of draft season usually signifies the end of teams making big moves, as cap space has largely been spent on free agents and draft picks have been used. Accordingly, I thought now made sense as a pretty good time to evaluate what the outlook for the New York Jets 2024 season is. To best measure that, I will rely on DraftKings betting lines (with figures from approximately 4PM on May 8th, 2024).

Below you will see various betting lines for the Jets season. As...

Bringing your daily links to the NFL’s New York Jets

Good morning, Gang Green Nation. I hope you’re all having a great start to the day. The New York Jets have reportedly fired coach and former player Leon Washington from the team. However, even though this apparently occurred many weeks ago, it was just recently reported in the media outlets. One of the reasons for this could be because Washington was part of the massive amount of ‘sources’ that were reportedly bad-mouthing head coach Robert Saleh. While this is only a theory, it seems like it could be very possible.After...

Joe Douglas continues to stockpile highly athletic players

Since taking over as general manager in 2019, Joe Douglas has seemingly always valued athleticism in his draft picks. Indeed, even his first ever first round pick, Mekhi Becton, was a prospect whose stock was largely contingent on having superb physical traits.

What about this year’s draft? Did that trend hold?

To put it succinctly, yes.

Specifically, the New York Jets average Relative Athletic Score among their prospects was an 8.89 out of 10, which ranked 5th among all NFL teams according to ProFootballNetwork. Of note, relative athletic score is a...

Bringing your daily links to the NFL’s New York Jets

Good morning, Gang Green Nation. I hope you’re all having a great start to the day. With WR Tyler Boyd signing with the Tennessee Titans, there are plenty of fans who want the New York Jets to trade for former first-round pick Treylon Burks. Personally, I think this is a horrible idea. We’ve seen Burks struggle when there were no other options on the Titans roster. We’ve also seen Burks struggle even when the team was able to get help at the position. In any rate, if the Jets do...

At least the oddsmakers think the schedule will be easy.

The NFL is set to release its 2024 schedule next week with a long TV extravaganza. That will only provide us with the dates and times of the games. We know the 17 opponents every team will face in the upcoming season.

For the Jets, things could be lining up favorably per our friends at DraftKings.

Of course the obvious caveat is that none of us can see into the future.

At this point of the year most of the prognosticating about easy or difficult schedules is based on the...

Taking a look at a Jets quarterback prospect

With the 2024 NFL draft behind us, we’re taking an in-depth look at each of the Jets’ draft picks, in reverse order. We continue today with former Florida State quarterback Jordan Travis, who was selected by the Jets with the first of their three picks in the fifth round.

The 24-year old Travis is listed at 6’1” and 200 pounds and was the ACC’s player of the year last year. He led FSU to an 11-0 start before suffering a serious leg injury. He passed for just under 6,000 yards with 44...

Bringing your daily links to the NFL’s New York Jets

Good morning, Gang Green Nation. I hope you’re all having a great start to the day. While the New York Jets brass tries to save face by claiming that they always wanted Olu Fashanu if he fell at tenth overall, it’s become quite clear that the Jets’ original plans were for the team to target Washington WR Rome Odunze. It’s also quite likely that the Jets tried to make a trade to acquire Odunze by leap-frogging the Chicago Bears, but that seems unlikely to be leaked for the time being....

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Taking a look at a Jets rookie running back

With the 2024 NFL draft behind us, we’re taking an in-depth look at each of the Jets’ draft picks, in reverse order. We continue today with former South Dakota State running back Isaiah Davis, who was selected by the Jets towards the end of the fifth round.

The 22-year old Davis is listed at 6’1” and 220 pounds. He was a two-time Missouri Valley Football Conference first-teamer and the 2023 co-offensive player of the year. He rushed for well over 4,000 yards and 50 touchdowns in his career, with two thousand-yard...

Bringing your daily links to the NFL’s New York Jets

Good morning, Gang Green Nation. I hope you’re all having a great start to the day. The upcoming schedule for the New York Jets is expected to be released this week. With rumors spreading that the team may be receiving a prime time matchup in Week 1, it’ll be interesting to see what the NFL decides to do. Last year, the Jets had an abundance of prime time games with the expectation that Aaron Rodgers and the Jets would still be competitive throughout the season. Yet while the Jets were...