Last week, the Jets were officially eliminated from playoff contention, and while there is plenty of evaluation to be done over the final four games, many fans are now turning one eye to the offseason, with the Jets facing some critical decisions. 

Year one of a new regime is all about transition. We’ve seen a number of moves made by Darren Mougey with an eye to creating a sustainable winner in New York for the next decade. We’re already seeing some of those players put down statement performances, namely from Jowon Briggs, AD Mitchell and others. 

The big question around the Jets heading into the offseason is at the quarterback position. The Jets have a number of options and plenty of cap space and draft capital to ensure they can come away with one of their primary targets. 

Over the next few weeks we’ll start looking more towards the offseason, and we’re kicking things off today with a quick introduction to the QB class in the 2026 NFL Draft. 

If you’re looking for QBs in the first round, there are three names that you need to be familiar with. 

Fernando Mendoza from Indiana, Dante Moore from Oregon and Ty Simpson from Alabama.

There is however plenty of uncertainty surrounding who will put their name forward for the draft and who will elect to return to school. All three prospects have college eligibility remaining and the latest rumours doing the rounds make me believe that Dante Moore is the most likely to return to school with Fernando Mendoza the most likely to enter the draft. 

There’s an argument that Mendoza has very little to prove by heading back to college considering he’s just led Indiana to their first Big Ten Championship in 58 years with an upset victory over powerhouse Ohio State. That performance at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis ticked a lot of boxes for NFL teams, not because of the numbers (15-23 for 222 yards and 1 TD) but because of the way the Florida native managed the game down the stretch, making big throw after big throw to secure the title. 

Dante Moore, on the other hand, may believe that heading back to school for another year is the best course of action for his long-term career. Moore has just one year of starting experience in college and while he put up an outstanding year (72.5% completion, 24 TDs, 6 INTs) some question his ability to perform under pressure and his arm strength when trying to stretch the field. Those are concerns that could be answered with another year of starting experience. 

The same can be said for Ty Simpson, who has only this year become a full-time starter at Alabama despite joining their college ranks in 2022. If you’d have looked at Simpson a month ago his draft stock chart would have been like a rocket launch, but struggles over the last month have caused some pause for thought in his pre-draft evaluation. He has 6 TDs to 4 INTs over his last five games, along with a completion rate that has fluctuated between 48.7% (vs Georgia) and 68.8% (vs Eastern Illinois). Another year in college could show teams that Simpson can play up to the standard of his opponents. 

But the college football quarterback class doesn’t finish with the first round talents, and if the Jets do miss out on their first target or baulk at the asking price to move into position to draft him, they could look down the draft to find and develop a QB.

It is also worth remembering that while there are no guarantees in college football, most experts believe the 2027 class will be loaded with talent, headlined by Texas man Arch Manning and OSU star Julian Sayin. 

As with the top of the draft and the doubt over Simpson and Moore, there is doubt further down the draft about which quarterbacks will declare. Listen to draft analysts and they’ll tell you that South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers is likely heading back to Columbia after a down year where he managed just 13 touchdowns in 12 games and threw 8 interceptions. 

John Mateer is an incredibly talented passer but his first year at Oklahoma didn’t go to plan following his transfer from Washington State. After throwing for over 3,000 yards and 29 touchdowns in 2024, he managed just 2,578 yards and 12 touchdowns to 10 interceptions in the Sooner state. If he does enter the draft, he’ll likely be drafted in the middle rounds and a team could see that as an opportunity to buy low on his talent. If he chooses to return to school, it could allow him to re-build his stock up towards the first round, which is where many had him projected at the start of 2025.

One prospect who could hold a lot of interest for the Jets is USC signal caller Jayden Maiava, who has spent the last two years learning his trade under ‘QB whisperer’ Lincoln Riley. The Junior finished this season completing over 66% of his passes for over 3,500 yards and 23 touchdowns. He has the ideal size at 6’4 and 225lbs, has a plus arm and quick release and has shown the ability to step up and avoid pressure and deliver the ball on time. There is some momentum behind him returning to school next year and I’m sure Riley will make a big push to return his leading man for a potential run at a title. 

Another name to watch is Brendan Sorsby whose name has been linked with the transfer portal in recent days following a breakout campaign in the Big 12 with Cincinnati. The 21-year-old Texas native completed 61.6% of his passes for 27 touchdowns and just 5 interceptions to go with over 500 rushing yards and 9 touchdowns. Considering the Jets looked to the dual ability of Justin Fields, bringing in a QB who has the ability to hurt defenses both on the ground and through the air could be very appealing. I’d consider Sorsby a big name to watch. 

There are of course other QBs to consider and I’m sure that as we work through the draft process, the projections will become clearer. Expect to hear a lot about Garrett Nussmeier, Sam Leavitt, Cade Klubnik, Drew Allar and of course 2 x CFP national champion Carson Beck. 

If you want a sleeper name to watch out for, then mark down Duke QB Darian Mensah who has decent size, a live arm and is coming off a year where he threw for 3,646 yards, 30 TDs and 5 INTs while completing 67.9% of passes and throwing 20 TDs against the blitz. The only thing holding Mensah back is his deep ball consistency. One to watch. 

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The Jets have experienced the kind of season you expect when you have a new regime installing from the ground up. There have been some sensational highs, some depressing lows and everything in between. The one consistent throughout the 2025 campaign has been the Special Teams unit led by first year coordinator Chris Banjo.

There is an argument to be made that the Jets have at least three Pro Bowlers on their special teams unit in punter Austin McNamara, kicker Nick Folk and return man Isaiah Williams, with all three of them playing a part in the Jets recent victory over the Falcons.

Isaiah Williams had a momentum shifting 82-yard return, Nick Folk kicked the winning 56-yard FG and Austin McNamara consistently pinned the Falcons deep in their own territory, including one punt that was downed inside the 5-yard line.

You don’t need statistics to tell you that the Jets have one of the best special teams units in football, but I’m going to give them to you anyway.

Last weekend, the Jets had an EPA (expected points added) of 15.22 against the Falcons, the second best single-game performance of any special teams unit in a game this season, and it just so happens to be the second best single-game performance by the Jets since the year 2000.

The Jets are:

#1 in the NFL in terms of field goals made (95.6%).
Joint first with a 100% conversion rate on extra points.
They’re one of only two teams to have both a kick return TD and a punt return TD.
The unit ranks 3rd in EPA across the entire season.
They’re #1 in kickoff return average at 29.6 yards.
They lead the NFL with 55 returns of 20+ yards and are 3rd with 5 returns of 40+ yards. 

They’re a top 10 team in punt return average and have had two returns of 20+ yards and one return of 40+ yards.

That’s just on the offensive production side of special teams. Defensively they’re also right up there with the best units in football. 

The Jets rank 3rd in the NFL having allowed just 89 yards of total punt return yardage all season, which is good for an average of 5.6 yards per return.
They’re top five with 22 punts downed inside the 20-yard line.
They have the 6th best net average in the NFL at 43.6 yards per punt.
They also haven’t allowed a single return TD all season, whether through punts or kickoffs. 

Right now, Austin McNamara is making a very good argument for being the #1 punter in the NFL. The Arizona native went undrafted out of Texas Tech in 2024 and was cut early in August last year before catching on with the Jets this season. 

His success is not overly surprising. Austin was a 3× first-team All-Big 12 in college and the Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Year in 2023. His emergence this year will have you dreaming that your punter position is secure for the foreseeable future. 

Austin often said that he believes his hang-time is what got him his opportunity with the Jets and the stats back him up. As of week 13 his 4.75 hang-time is the 2nd highest in the NFL. You can have a booming leg, but it’s largely pointless if you continuously outkick your coverage. 

McNamara has the perfect combination of directional punting, leg strength and hang-time. Right now he’s 7th in Pro Bowl Voting, but I think we can – and should – get him climbing up those rankings. 

The Jets are getting contributions up and down the lineup, including from Isaiah Williams who has quickly turned his Jets tenure around after he was demoted to the practice squad following some difficult moments on MNF. Add in the play of guys like Kene Nwangwu and Qwan’tez Stiggers who dived on the fumble on Sunday and you have a unit that is operating at a very high level. 

Then you get to Jets kicker Nick Folk, who made his debut in 2007, 6 years before special teams coordinator Chris Banjo made his own debut with the Green Bay Packers in 2013. 

Folk spent 7 years with the Jets between 2010-2016 before returning to the team this year, and his steady presence is proving incredibly helpful to first-time coordinator Banjo. 

Banjo learned his trade under one of the finest special teams coordinators in NFL history and a name very familiar to Jets fans, Mike Westhoff. Banjo worked as Westhoff’s assistant in Denver, and Mike has often called Banjo his protege. When Banjo was hired with the Jets this offseason, he brought Westhoff into camp, which if you ask this humble writer, was an incredibly smart thing to do. 

Earlier this week Aaron Glenn was asked about what makes Chris Banjo such an effective coach: “Those guys can relate to him really, really well.  He was one of those guys that was a true special teams demon so he understands how that part of our team has to operate.”

He certainly has the playing experience to tell some old war stories. Banjo recorded over 2,600 special teams snaps over his 10-year career, and when you combine that with the experience working under one of the very best, is it any surprise the Jets have one of the best units in football?

For the Jets head coach, life in green and white stretches back a long way.

Aaron Glenn grew up in Humble, Texas and went on to play for Texas A&M after a brief stint at Navarro College in Corsicana. As a teenager he nicknamed himself “Prime Time Jr.”after the legendary CB Deion Sanders. That changed to “showtime” at Navarro, where it became clear that Glenn was destined for bigger things. 

Glenn’s penchant for post-tackle theatrics didn’t go down well at College Station, with Texas A&M coach R.C. Slocum saying it gave him a bad name. Glenn focused on his craft and won a number of accolades over his two year stop with the Aggies including the SWC Newcomer of the Year award in 1992, the SWC Defensive Player of the Year in 1993 while being named a Consensus All-American the same year. 

Coming out of college he was seen unanimously as a first-round draft pick. He reportedly ran a sub (or close to, depending on who you ask) 4.40 forty yard dash. Renowned for his quickness and ability to mirror receivers, Glenn was taken with the 12th overall pick by the Jets in the 1994 NFL Draft.

GM Dick Steinberg, who made the selection, said this of Glenn following the pick: “He’s got the speed, the instincts, and the toughness you want in a corner. We see him starting right away and helping us in the return game too.”

It was those instincts which really made people pay attention. Glenn had nine interceptions in two years with the Aggies and his 13 passes defensed led the nation in 1993. He also returned 2 of the 19 punts he returned in college for TDs. 

The focus in that 1994 offseason was to refresh the Jets defense with young talent and experienced veterans. As well as taking Glenn in the first round, the Jets also selected defensive tackle Lou Benfatti in the 3rd, linebacker Horace Morris in the 5th (great name by the way) and signed veterans Donald Evans and Perry Williams…although some of those moves worked out better than others. Williams, for example, never actually played for the Jets despite winning two Super Bowls with the Giants (XXI and XXV).

Glenn has always had humility and honesty. When he was asked to review his preseason performance against the Eagles in his rookie season he simply said “I don’t want to really talk about it… It wasn’t good.” While he didn’t log a trademark interception as a rookie, he made a number of notable plays and finished his season with 67 tackles and 2 forced fumbles, showcasing the quickness and instinctive play that made him a first round player.

His first interception would come in 1995 as he picked off Rick Mirer of the Seahawks, jumping a slant route, and in the same game he’d recover a fumble and take it on a mazy run that lasted around 30 seconds and gained around 10 yards. 

His career with the Jets was full of marquee moments. There was the 100-yard pick-six against the Dolphins in 1996, the 6-interception season in 1998 and of course we have to mention the fake spike situation in 1994, with Glenn along with the rest of the Jets defense being faked out by Dan Marino, which led to the TD that won the game for the Dolphins. 

In total, Glenn played in 124 games for the Jets including three in the playoffs. He recorded 24 interceptions, with three of those being returned for touchdowns. He had 36 pass defenses, 6 forced fumbles and 396 tackles. He returned 115 kicks and even took one to the house against the Bills in 1997.

During his final season in New York in 2001, Glenn’s 14 pass defenses led the team, as did his 5 interceptions. But that offseason, the Jets exposed him to be selected by the Houston Texans in the expansion draft. The decision to leave him unprotected was made by Terry Bradway who cited salary cap restraints as the reason he allowed both Glenn and Marcus Coleman to be selected from the defensive side, as well as offensive tackle Ryan Young who was taken with the second pick by the Texans. 

Glenn held the highest salary of all players selected by the Texans in the draft, and while his selection helped to solve the salary cap issues in NY, the Jets missed not only his playmaking ability on the field, but his leadership in the locker room. The Texans got a Texas native to build their defense around, and Glenn would go on to pick off 11 passes in 43 games for Houston as well as being named a Pro Bowler in 2002. 

Glenn would go on to play for the Cowboys, Jaguars and Saints before calling time on his career after the 2008 season. 

After a short stint as GM with the Houston Stallions in the Texas Lone Star Football league, it was the Jets who gave Glenn his first front office opportunity as a personnel scout in 2012. Glenn credits his mentor Bill Parcells for the motivation to scout because getting into the coaching game: “Bill Parcells told me, ‘If you want to be a great coach, learn how to evaluate talent first.’ That stuck with me.” 

He credits that start in personnel for helping him on his coaching career: “Being a scout taught me how to look at players beyond just athleticism. You learn to see character, fit, and upside. That’s helped me tremendously as a coach. I always knew I wanted to coach. Scouting was the bridge. It gave me the foundation to teach, not just react.”

That holistic approach to coaching is what Glenn is hoping to bring to the Jets as he continues to build this roster for sustained success. You sometimes have to go through some tough periods before you reap the rewards, and Glenn has experience in Detroit to call upon for that. Dan Campbell and Glenn arrived together in Detroit in 2021 with the Lions having missed the playoffs for four straight years and without a playoff victory since 1991. 

It wasn’t until week 13 of their first year that they tasted success on the field, and while they won just 3 games in that first year, it set the foundation for what we see today in Detroit. A team that has won more playoff games in two years than they did in the previous 30. Glenn will be hoping to replicate that turnaround and end another playoff drought here in New York. 

The New York Jets that took the field last Sunday to face the Cleveland Browns looked a lot different to the team that recorded their first win of the season two weeks prior in Cincinnati, even if the final act in both cases was a celebration on the field. 

Darren Mougey stated that the trading of Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams didn’t equate to a teardown, but the value on offer was too good to pass up. It’s never easy to trade two All-Pro’s and plenty of fans are disappointed to have lost two good players and two players who were beloved by the fans. 

But the Jets have now positioned themselves to control the first round of the next two drafts, and you can be sure that we’ll be getting into those draft discussions as the season winds down. 

Along with an array of picks, the Jets picked up several intriguing pieces which includes defensive pair Ja’sir Taylor and Mazi Smith, but today we’re focusing on the two new receivers added to the roster in Adonai Mitchell, acquired as part of the Sauce Gardner trade and John Metchie III, acquired in the Michael Carter II trade. 

Aaron Glenn said that he was unsure how long it would take to get both new receivers up to speed. We saw Metchie in limited action on Sunday, and both could play key roles on Thursday, offering intriguing upside for a team looking to improve their receiver room to help Garrett Wilson who is so often doubled on Sundays and has been ruled out this week with a knee injury. 

Let’s start with John Metchie III, who was the 44th selection in the 2022 draft by the Houston Texans. The former Alabama man was forced to miss his entire rookie season as he recovered from acute promyelocytic leukemia, a type of cancer of the white blood cells. In 2023 he joined a Houston Texans team that had plenty of receiving talent ahead of him including Nico Collins, Tank Dell, Dalton Schultz and Noah Brown. 

Two and a half years into his career, I think it’s fair to say that Metchie would have hoped to have more than the 44 catches for 440 yards and 1 touchdown on his resume, especially considering at one point he was generating first round buzz following his 96 catch, 1,142 yard and 8 touchdown season at Alabama, a season in which he secured 61.1% of his contested catches and forced 20 missed tackles. 

Metchie landed in Philadelphia in a trade this offseason but again found himself buried on a depth chart that included DeVonta Smith, A.J. Brown, Dallas Goedert, Saquon Barkley and Jahan Dotson. That resulted in 4 receptions on 4 targets for 18 yards and a move to the Jets where he should be given an opportunity to showcase his talent with a higher snap % than he’s had at any point in his career. 

The Jets have the perfect opportunity to evaluate him due to him being signed through the 2026 season and this is the perfect example of buying low and trusting your coaches to develop the skills that convinced the Texans to spend a 2nd round pick on him.

Coming out of college Metchie was renowned as a savvy and polished route runner who had plus body control and reliable hands. The fact he’d played in a pro-style offense at Alabama and excelled against elite level competition didn’t hurt either. 

Joining Metchie is Adonai Mitchell, a player who electrified during his one year as a Texas Longhorn in college, making 55 catches for 845 yards and 11 touchdowns. 

It’s rare to find a 6’2 receiver who has 4.34 speed and a 1.52 10-yard split. Within those three numbers you find the size you want, the long speed you want and the acceleration you want in a prototype wideout. 

With Mitchell having been drafted in 2024, he’s signed through the 2027 season. Not only does that give the Jets plenty of time to evaluate him, it gives them plenty of time to develop him and unlock his potential. 

That development is clear for everyone to see, even halfway through his second year in the league. He’s improved his reception % from 45.1% to 60.0%, improved his yards per reception from 13.6 to 16.9, and his yards after the catch per reception from 4.5 to 6.2. He hasn’t had a single drop this season on 15 targets and has caught 100% of his contested catches. 

It may be a small sample size, but it shows that Mitchell is heading in the right direction. 

The Jets now have two promising and very exciting young receivers in the mix, players who are signed through the 2026 and 2027 seasons respectively at very reasonable cap hits. The wide receiver room has been refreshed and both players will look to prove that they’re long-term solutions in the quest to find some help for Garrett Wilson. 

New York Jets fans have waited a long time for the sweet taste of victory and that wait was rewarded last Sunday with a 39-38 victory in Cincinnati over the Bengals. 

The Jets faced deficits of 17-3, 24-10, 31-16 and 38-24 during that game, but walked out of Paycor Stadium with Aaron Glenn’s first win as Head Coach. 

That win on Sunday was also the first time the Jets have won in Cincinnati since that 2009 wild card game where Shonn Greene rushed for 135 yards and a TD and Chad Johnson took a short visit to Revis Island. 

The victory was propelled by an offensive explosion which saw the Jets outscore their opponents 23-7 in the fourth quarter. Finishing strong is a trait associated with good football teams, and if we can maintain that trait then more wins will surely follow. 

After several down weeks for Tanner Engstrand and his unit, the Jets put on an offensive clinic:

• 39 points, including 23 in the fourth quarter
• 502 total yards
• 248 passing yards
• 254 rushing yards
• 9 conversions of either third or fourth down
• 7.2 yards a play
• 0 penalties
• 0 interceptions
• 0 fumbles
• 0 sacks
• One memorable afternoon for Jets fans. 

Just like the Mike White game of Halloween past, this may be remembered as the Breece Hall game. The Jets RB played a hand in three touchdowns in the fourth quarter and became just the fourth RB since 1950 to throw a game-winning TD in the final two minutes. Legendary Jets RB Curtis Martin did it back in 2000, which means the Jets are responsible for 50% of those unique plays. 

Hall also became the first non-QB since 1950 to have two rushing touchdowns and a passing touchdown in the fourth quarter. In fact, he became just the third non-QB since 1950 to have two rushing touchdowns and a passing touchdown in any quarter. 

Hall became the first RB since Ronnie Brown in 2008 to have two rushing and one passing touchdown in the same game. It also represented Hall’s 16th career game with 100+ scrimmage yards, which ties Laveranues Coles for the third-most such games by a Jet, only Thomas Jones (21) and Curtis Martin (48) have had more. 

The Jets scored 35 points and had over 500 total yards for the first time in a game since the year 2021 and that fourth quarter deficit that they faced was the second largest that the team have ever overturned to win. It was also the first time this season and the first time since 2023 that the Jets hadn’t allowed a single sack in a game. The game marked Joe Tippmann’s 35th consecutive start, the longest such streak for a Jets offensive lineman since Kelvin Beachum notched 37 consecutive starts between 2017-19.

The Jets 502 yards of total offense are the fourth-most and their 254 rushing yards are the second-most by any team in a game this season.

When you put all of these stats together, you realise just how unique that performance was, and now Aaron Glenn and Tanner Engstrand will be looking to build on that success over the coming weeks, with the Browns coming up straight after the bye week.

When the Jets take the field against Cleveland they’ll have a new face at receiver. Late on Wednesday night it was announced that the Jets had traded CB Michael Carter II to the Philadelphia Eagles for WR John Metchie III. A former Alabama standout who has overcome considerable adversity to get to the league, which included a battle with cancer which forced him to miss his entire rookie season. 

The talent possessed by Metchie III is unquestionable. He played for a Nick Saban team that made winning look easy. In his final year at Alabama he caught 96 passes for 1,142 yards and 8 touchdowns while bringing in 61.1% of his contested catches. With Metchie III signed through the 2026 season, this move gives the Jets plenty of time to get him up to speed and evaluate whether he could be part of the solution to the playoff drought puzzle. 

Expectations for this Jets offence has risen considerably after the outburst against the Bengals and providing Justin Fields with another weapon is never a bad idea. Metchie will join star receiver Garrett Wilson, alongside rookie receiving options Mason Taylor and Arian Smith. He’ll also have the veteran presence of Josh Reynolds to lean upon. If the Jets want to consistently hit the dizzying heights of 30+ points and 400+ total yards they’ll need contributions up and down the lineup. 

The Jets will be hoping that a change of scenery is the key to kickstarting their season as they head over to London for their fourth international game since 2015. 

Aaron Glenn and the team boarded a transatlantic flight on Monday night with promises to stay the course despite a disappointing 0-5 start to the season. 

New York will be hoping to channel the energy of their first international appearance back in 2015 when they beat the Dolphins 27-14 behind a suffocating defense and a dominant 166-yard performance from Chris Ivory and a 128-yard performance by Brandon Marshall.

Standing in their way is a Denver Broncos side who are coming off their best win of the season, and arguably the best win of the Sean Payton era, a 21-17 victory over the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field, just the fourth game they’ve lost at home since the start of the 2023 season. 

The Broncos head into the game against the Jets on a two-game win streak, and boast one of the NFL’s best defenses having allowed just 84 points through the first five games, an average of 16.8 points per game. Only the Houston Texans have allowed fewer. 

The Broncos have the best red-zone defense in football, allowing teams to score touchdowns on just 28.57% of entries inside the 20 and boast the third-best third down conversion rate allowed of 30.30%, so the Jets will need to be at their absolute best when it comes to moving the ball. 

The offensive line will have its hands full with a Denver front that generates pressure at a league-high rate of 31.7%. They also blitz on 29.1% of all drop-backs which is the seventh-highest number in football. That unit is led by star linebacker Nik Bonitto who has generated 26 pressures and 7 sacks in just 114 pass-rush snaps this season. But the talent on this Denver defense filters through to all three levels. 

Outside of Bonitto you have Jonathon Cooper, D.J. Jones and old friend John Franklin-Myers up front, with dynamic linebacker duo Alex Singleton and Justin Strnad behind them and one of the better secondaries in football led by 2x All-Pro Pat Surtain II and safety Talanoa Hufanga who’s enjoying a career year to start the season. 

No defense is perfect, and DeVonta Smith took advantage of Denver’s #2 CB in Riley Moss at the weekend beating him for 114 yards on 8 catches, with Moss later admitting that he played “dumb football” by pressing Smith on a 3rd and 17 which resulted in a 52-yard completion and a Philadelphia TD two plays later. 

For as good as Denver can be, their linebacker unit can be exploited in coverage. Alex Singleton for example has allowed 88.5% of passes to be completed into his coverage for 273 yards and 2 touchdowns and while Pat Surtain has not been credited with allowing a TD this season, he has been called for five penalties. 

Tanner Engstrand’s gameplan will be a difficult one to devise this week, but it may be worth taking a page out of Jim Bob Cooter and the Indianapolis Colts playbook. In week two at Lucas Oil stadium, Indianapolis and Daniel Jones put up 473 total yards and 29 points which included over 300 passing yards and over 150 rushing yards. 

On the offensive side of the ball the Broncos have been more inconsistent ranking 18th in football at 23.4 points per game, just above the Jets who rank 19th with 22.4. 

However, moving the football hasn’t been much of a problem for Sean Payton, as the Broncos offensive unit ranks 10th in the league with 355.2 yards per game which includes 140.6 yards per game on the ground, ranked fourth in the league. 

A week after having to deal with the difficult George Pickens, Sauce Gardner will again be matched up with one of the best receivers in the league in Courtland Sutton. The veteran receiver is coming off an 8-catch 99-yard game against Philly and is now up to 365 yards and 3 touchdowns on the season. 81 of his 99 yards on Sunday came against young star Quinyon Mitchell, a player who had never allowed more than 2 receptions or more than 49 yards to any receiver in a single game. 

If you’re not worried about Sutton then you need to be worried about running back J.K. Dobbins, who is on course to have the best season of his young career. The former Raven and Charger has racked up 402 yards and 4 touchdowns on the ground which is good for 5.2 yards per carry. His ability to extend plays is a dangerous skill set that the Jets will need to be wary of, his 255 yards after contact is 7th highest in football and his 14 missed tackles forced is good for 11th best in the league. In short, he’s an absolute handful. 

It’s clear that Sean Payton wants to run the football, the Broncos average 28.4 rushing attempts per game and try to control the clock. When they need a first-down through the air, they often turn to Courtland Sutton. In many ways their offense reflects the identity that the Jets are trying to establish, they’re just a little further down the line. 

If the Jets hope to find success against this offense they’ll need to ensure they find success stopping the run on early downs forcing the Broncos into obvious passing situations. Bo Nix is a very good QB, but under pressure his completion percentage drops to 47.6% and in 42 attempts under pressure he’s only thrown 1 touchdown (1 INT) and his average yards per attempt drops all the way down to 4.5. 

The Jets have been unable to generate pressure over the last couple of weeks which has put pressure on their secondary to hold up. Jermaine Johnson is currently re-habbing his ankle injury and it appears he will make his return on Sunday. Reuniting him with Will McDonald may be the recipe needed to get this pass-rush going. 

Sunday will be a difficult match-up, but maybe the unfamiliar confines of N17 is exactly what the doctor ordered, and maybe years from now we can say we saw Glenn’s first triumph as HC of the Jets. 

There are certain things that become synonymous with sports franchises all over the world. Something that ensures you know you’re home, even if that home is thousands of miles across the Atlantic ocean. For the Jets, that’s without doubt the J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS chant. 

Whether you’re taking in a game at MetLife or walking down N17 this weekend, that chant will ring out, and as soon as the hush descends before the J, you know it’s time for football. 

Today that chant is widely associated with Edwin M. Anzalone, better known as Fireman Ed due to the fact he spent 20 years in the NYFD, working in Harlem. Ed will often be hoisted onto shoulders, quiet the crowd with arms spread before firing up the fans, calling for volume, volume and more volume. 

Ed has been in control of the chant since the mid 1980’s and we’ve seen it around NFL stadiums but also here in London when the Jets played the Dolphins and Falcons.

But that chant goes back a lot further than Ed, who took up the reins of leading it in 1986, in an attempt to get the lower deck of the meadowlands going. It goes all the way back to the 1970s when the Jets called Shea Stadium home. Some people claim it was around as early as the late 1960s. 

Having started life at the famous Polo Grounds, the Jets moved to Shea Stadium in Queens in 1964 alongside the New York Mets, baseball’s newest expansion team. The Mets held exclusive rights to the stadium during their season which often meant the Jets would start their season away from home, but while Shea was designed as a baseball stadium, older Jets fans still insist that the atmosphere generated there was unparalleled. 

For many baseball fans Shea was and still is their spiritual home, for the Jets it was home to one of the best games in franchise history, the 1968 AFL Championship win over the Raiders which sent the Jets to the Super Bowl, and we all know how that ended. In total the Jets spent 20 years at Shea stadium and while we can’t pinpoint the exact moment of creation for the chant, it started and evolved in Queens. 

Following their move to the meadowlands in 1984, the franchise worked tirelessly to ensure that Jets fans felt at home in a stadium that was designed for their cross-town friends, hence the red and blue seating. But like with every stadium, it took a little bit of time before the atmosphere regained its volume. The J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS chant was a huge part of improving the experience for home fans. 

At Shea, Jets fans Larry Mack and Don Schaeffer started spelling out J-E-T-S on opposite sides of the field in the upper bowl and Fireman Ed wanted to bring that energy to the whole stadium, noticing that the lower bowl was struggling to generate any kind of atmosphere. So in essence the chant started as a friendly rivalry between two sets of Jets fans and has morphed into the rallying cry that it is today. 

This Sunday, the Jets will be as far from home as their schedule takes them this season. But with the J-E-T-S chant binding fans from all over the world together, you can be sure that the atmosphere inside Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will still bring the energy as that first kickoff is sent into the sky. For those attending the game – make sure you are loud and proud so that the J-E-T-S can be heard all the way back in Queens where it first began.