The Jets will miss the playoffs for the 14th consecutive season and a few gamers have urged they know why.
On Wednesday, quarterback Aaron Rodgers provided his perception on what could also be holding the Jets again.
“Might be some sort of curse we got to snap as well,” Rodgers mentioned. “But whatever the case, this team, this organization is going to figure out how to get over the hump at some point.
“The culture is built by the players. There’s a framework set down by the organization, by the upper ups, by the staff, but in the end it’s the players that make it come to life and at some point everybody’s going to have to figure out what that special sauce is to turn those games that should be wins into wins.”
Since their first 12 months of existence in 1960 as a part of the AFL, the Jets have principally struggled as a franchise. In 64 seasons, the Jets have made the playoffs simply 14 instances, gained 4 division titles and famously gained Tremendous Bowl III in the course of the 1968 season.
Nonetheless, the final 14 years have been particularly tough for Gang Inexperienced. The Jets final made the playoffs in 2010, when Rex Ryan was the coach and Mark Sanchez was the quarterback.
Since then, 5 Jets coaches have been unable to snap their present playoff drought — Ryan (4 seasons), Todd Bowles (4), Adam Gase (two), Saleh (three) and interim coach Jeff Ulbrich (one). Not solely do the Jets have the longest postseason in North American sports activities, however they haven’t completed with a profitable document since 2015.
After Rodgers was acquired in a commerce from the Packers in April of 2023, the Jets misfortunes have been supposed to alter and lots of believed they’d be championship contenders. However Rodgers’ season lasted simply 4 performs earlier than he tore his Achilles and missed the remainder of the season.
Rodgers, 41, returned this season, however the shedding has continued. Gang Inexperienced has misplaced 9 of its final 10 video games, and proprietor Woody Johnson fired Saleh and basic supervisor Joe Douglas throughout that stretch.
How do the Jets change their tradition?
“First, we gotta win, do whatever it takes to win some games,” Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner mentioned. “I can say stuff about changing the culture, but if we not winning, it’s like I’m just talking at that point, you know, and I don’t want to just be talking.
“Obviously, I want to win … got people that voice their frustration. You know, you got fans, who to be honest, they pay money to [be] season ticket holders. And it’s like the end of the day, we still losing. I don’t want to keep losing. I want to do whatever it takes so we could turn around.”
Whereas they gained’t be within the playoffs this season, the Jets want to finish the season on a constructive observe, starting this Sunday towards the Jaguars.
Gang Inexperienced is 0-7 in video games determined by six or fewer factors. The Jets have additionally led within the fourth quarter in 5 video games this season. Nonetheless, they’ve misplaced each single a type of video games, together with towards the Dolphins final Sunday, once they held an eight-point lead within the ultimate quarter-hour.
“I don’t know what the proper nomenclature is for the situation where we’ve lost some leads or haven’t been able to take the lead late in the game, but that’s the way it goes sometimes,” Rodgers mentioned. “We haven’t been great in situational football.
“Lot of those games come down to the plays in the first and second, even third quarter, where if you make the play the game is not in that situation. But in those situations, we haven’t been very good on offense or defense or even special teams.”
