The Jets maintain the longest lively playoff drought within the NFL, a streak that C.J. Mosley expects to finish this season.
“I’m actually anticipating playoffs or bust,” Mosley, an Alabama native, instructed AL.com. “Clearly, that’s my objective yearly, however I believe it’s one thing that’s a practical objective for our whole group and our coaches.”
The Jets completed 4-13 in 2021, final within the AFC East, a place through which they've completed in 5 of the previous six seasons. The disappointing season was the group’s first underneath head coach Robert Saleh, who got here to the Jets following Adam Gase’s firing. With Saleh in his second yr, Mosley mentioned he believes the Jets are much more snug along with his scheme than a yr in the past.
“Final yr, everybody was type of studying the system and studying one another,” he mentioned. “This yr, coming into the offseason, you may inform guys already comprehend it, and we’re two steps forward of the place we have been final yr so far as being within the playbook. We all know what we have now to do, guys are snug and now it’s all about going on the market and making performs and executing, so I believe that’s going to be the most important step for us this yr.”
Mosley, who spent 5 seasons with the Ravens after being drafted seventeenth general in 2014, signed with the Jets in 2019 on a five-year, $85-million contract. The four-time Professional Bowler was instantly sidelined with a groin harm two video games into his debut season, then opted out of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 state of affairs.
“Being out just about two years, it put a whole lot of issues in perspective,” Mosley mentioned. “All people’s human, so once you’re out that lengthy of a time, a whole lot of issues run in your head about how lengthy you need to play, you’re getting older, who’s the subsequent man, these sort of issues. However on the finish of the day, I needed to come out right here on my own and put within the onerous work, and it paid off this previous season.”
Mosley’s onerous work paid off final season, when he amassed a team-high 168 tackles, two sacks, and two compelled fumbles.
Nonetheless, the 30-year-old mentioned he believes there are nonetheless areas through which he can enhance.
“[I’m] simply trying ahead to stepping as much as one other degree so far as being a participant and a pacesetter and attempt to get us to the Promised Land,” Mosley mentioned.
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