Starving Jets get golden chance to feast against atrocious Patriots

The Jets pulled retired immoderate classical clichés this week arsenic they effort to find their measurement retired of their losing streak. 

Motivational reside to nan team: check.

Great week of practice: check. 

What mightiness beryllium nan astir important point for nan 2-5 squad to threat its four-game losing streak is this week’s opponents.

The Patriots are terrible.

They are 1-6 and look bad successful each way. 

In different words, this is conscionable nan type of force a struggling squad needs. 

The Jets participate this crippled arsenic seven-point roadworthy favorites, their biggest statement arsenic roadworthy favorites successful much than 30 years.

Despite looking atrocious complete nan past month, nan Jets person a chance to get correct against nan unspeakable Patriots, a squad they dismantled past period successful New Jersey.

That was their past triumph and feels for illustration it happened a twelvemonth ago. 

Since that win, they person fired coach Robert Saleh, changed play-callers from Nathaniel Hackett to Todd Downing, traded for Davante Adams and convinced Haason Reddick to extremity his holdout. 

The Jets pummeled nan Patriots, 24-3, past month, truthful they cognize they tin predominate a New England squad that went done its ain play this week aft coach Jerod Mayo called nan players “soft.” 

“I deliberation this squad is tin of doing truthful overmuch and evidently we sewage to show it,” Jets interim coach Jeff Ulbrich said. “We sewage to show that, and this is nan week we sewage to start. Yeah, we played good that crippled [against nan Patriots], but we’re tin of that each week. I’m excited astir this opportunity for nan guys.” 

There was a batch of happy talk this week astir turning it astir and really inspired they were by a postgame reside from Adams, who was conscionable six days into his clip pinch nan Jets earlier calling nan squad retired for lacking energy. 

The Jets judge Adams’ speech could flip nan switch. 

“Sometimes it conscionable takes that 1 point to happen,” backmost Aaron Rodgers said. “It could beryllium a reside earlier a game, aft a game, thing during nan week that conscionable clicks. The power of that click tin beryllium contagious. I deliberation what you do is you effort to group up a batch of different things that are portion of nan building and nan instauration of a winning civilization but until each of those things click successful you’re fighting against immoderate of nan ghosts of years past.”