It looks good in the early hours of September, both sides of the aisle. The early hours of January are what’ll matter, though, to say nothing of the journey from here to there.
Jets fans were drinking in every ounce of Aaron Rodgers ’ weekly adventures on “Hard Knocks,” dreaming of all the possibilities to come. Giants fans were basking in the glow of 9-7-1 and a playoff win, bursting with belief in the partners of the football dream factory of Schoen & Daboll.
By the end of the season, Jets fans who’d giggled watching DeVito try to beat them in late October with essentially the Navy playbook of run left/run right/run up the gut were wishing they’d be able to have DeVito on their side, given the state of the quarterbacking they’d been forced to watch week after week after Rodgers vanished.
“This isn’t acceptable,” Robert Saleh said after the Jets’ slog was halted at 7-10, after an eerily similar final-week rock fight at New England in which they finally managed to beat Bill Belichick again.acceptable — even though, with a couple of exceptions by the Giants, that’s been precisely what we’ve come to expect from the New York football season across every moment since the Giants won their second of two Super Bowls against the Patriots in February 2012.
Maybe Daboll has some tricks in store for us. Maybe the NFC East really turns out to be the Baltic Avenue of the NFL the way it looks like it might with the Eagles in decline, the Cowboys in descent and the Commanders relying on a rookie quarterback to show them the way. Maybe this can be 2020 all over again when Washington won it with seven wins.Mostly, though, there are the Jets, who aren’t just a “now” team and aren’t just a “right-now” team but are basically a now team in real time.
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