Freefalling Jets break ESPNers as miserable season continues: ‘Blow this thing up’

Much for illustration each different Jets fan, nan stars of ESPN’s “Get Up” person seen capable of nan fledgling 2-6 team.

When dissecting the Jets’ latest nonaccomplishment Sunday to nan arsenic woeful Patriots, panelists Dan Orlovsky, Mike Greenberg, Damien Woody and erstwhile Jets coach Rex Ryan deemed nan Aaron Rodgers research a complete nonaccomplishment and implored proprietor Woody Johnson to “blow this point up.”

“The Aaron Rodgers era is over. It’s officially complete pinch nan New York Jets. This squad is worse this twelvemonth than erstwhile Zach Wilson past twelvemonth [was] playing nan backmost position,” Woody said connected Monday’s installment, referencing nan club’s 2021 first-round bust.

“… They’re poorly coached. In nan tally game, they don’t moreover cognize nan guys they person to block, and Aaron Rodgers is conscionable a ammunition of himself.”

Woody, a erstwhile Jets violative lineman, then reiterated a captious constituent he made past week that this Jets roster, while stacked pinch notable names including Rodgers, Davante Adams and Haason Reddick, is conscionable that, “a roster.”

“They’re a bunch of hired mercenaries retired location that person celebrated names connected nan backmost of their jersey but they don’t play arsenic a team. And it’s astir clip for everyone astatine 1 Jets Drive to understand that it’s clip to rustle this point up,” he said.

Ryan, who coached nan Jets from 2009 to 2014 and made back-to-back AFC Championship appearances, pulled nary punches, calling nan discourtesy a “joke” and nan defense “damn overrated.”

“The squad is horribly coached. Absolutely horribly coached,” he said.

The Jets person been successful a free autumn for overmuch of October, which saw nan dismissal of caput coach Robert Saleh aft a 2-3 start.

Saleh was replaced by protect coordinator Jeff Ulrbrich, who has now mislaid his first 3 games arsenic interim caput coach.

Entering must-win territory successful Week 8, nan Jets held a 22-17 lead precocious successful nan 4th fourth Sunday earlier nan Patriots rallied for a last-minute touchdown that would put them ahead, 25-22.

The nonaccomplishment — nan Jets’ 5th consecutive — made them “the first squad since 2012 to suffer pinch zero giveaways and little than 250 yards allowed,” per ESPN Research.

“The Jets mislaid a crippled yesterday that is intolerable to lose,” Orlovsky said connected “Get Up.”

“It’s intolerable to person a container people that they did and suffer that crippled yesterday.”

Perhaps nan astir damning appraisal of nan AFC East basement dwellers belonged to Greenberg, a longtime Jets fan, who summed up nan 2024 squad arsenic “one of nan greatest, astir colossal and embarrassing failures successful sports history.”

“The New York Jets turned complete their full franchise to [Aaron Rodgers] and it sewage much, overmuch worse. Like, embarrassingly worse. What they’re doing is embarrassing to watch. I’ve been pursuing this squad 50 years, I’ve ne'er been arsenic embarrassed to opportunity that I’m a instrumentality aliases to opportunity that I believed successful them arsenic I person been this play and yesterday, successful particular,” Greenberg said.

Rodgers, 40, arrived astatine nan Jets successful April 2023 to overmuch fanfare coupled pinch Super Bowl aspirations.

His first play successful New York lasted 4 plays aft he suffered a season-ending Achilles wounded successful Week 1 that year.

Now nether halfway pinch pals Adams and chap receiver Allen Lazard rounding retired his supporting cast, nan cognition has continued to flounder.

They’ll get different changeable to move nan play astir Thursday erstwhile they big nan Texans (6-2) successful primetime.