Use it. Don’t lose it.
The Jets should keep in mind the profitable feeling of euphoria they raced off the sphere with Sunday in Cleveland and use it as gas for the longer term, starting with Sunday’s house sport towards Tremendous Bowl runner-up Cincinnati.
The Jets can not waste Sunday’s exceptional 31-30 comeback victory over the Browns. They can not permit that to be one fleeting second. Keep away from being a one-hit marvel, a flash within the pan. The Jets have to maintain what they did towards the Browns, crave that feeling repeatedly.
The Jets — head coach Robert Saleh along with his “receipts’’ rant final week and his gamers, too — talked about having the arrogance that they will (will) be a profitable group. Sunday’s victory, as inconceivable because it was, gave them tangible proof that they will win.
Now they’ve obtained to construct on it or they’ll cut back the importance of Sunday’s win.
“Shedding could be contagious, but in addition profitable could be contagious,’’ linebacker C.J. Mosley stated. “You could possibly simply really feel that power after we got here in [to the locker room after the win in Cleveland]. This win was actually for our younger guys. They balled out. I hope this sport lets them know that we'd like them to play like that each single week to get to the place we need to go. It’s going to take all people, particularly the youthful guys.’’
Depart it to one of many youngest guys of all on the roster, second-year operating again Michael Carter, to talk a few of the sagest phrases of all within the aftermath of the win.
“We look to get pleasure from this win — we do recognize it, we recognize it rather a lot,’’ Carter stated. “However it’s not the Tremendous Bowl. It’s Week 2. We’ve obtained to win subsequent week and we’ve obtained to attempt to put some momentum collectively after which … who is aware of? We would look again in six weeks and say, ‘Hey, we went six for six.’
“We’re a assured group. We had unwavering confidence [Sunday], and as an alternative of simply having confidence we exuded it.’’
Carter, in no disrespectful approach in any respect, chided those that portrayed the sky falling after the Jets misplaced their season opener to the Ravens.
“I do know you [reporters] have a job to do, however you all have been taking one loss just a little too critically,’’ he stated. “I can’t blame you. I wasn’t right here two years earlier than. However [the previous losing] shouldn't be our fault. We’re right here to alter that.’’
It, in fact, goes to take a couple of win to alter that narrative, however Sunday was place to begin. The Jets performed a consultant sport towards the Browns, notably on offense and particular groups — the 2 models that in the end gained the sport.
However, till 90 seconds remained within the sport, it regarded prefer it wasn’t going to be ok because the Browns had pulled away late within the fourth quarter earlier than committing a calamity of psychological errors that opened the door for the Jets to drag off the victory.
The trick for Saleh this week is, whereas encouraging his gamers to soak within the win, to additionally be sure they notice they have been getting ready to being 0-2 and that the play needs to be even higher this week.
The Giants managed to deal with the prosperity of their season-opening upset victory at Tennessee with a second consecutive win Sunday towards the Panthers — albeit an unsightly win, however a win nonetheless to get to 2-0.
“The hardest factor to do on this league — particularly while you haven’t had a whole lot of success — is to learn to take care of success and transfer onto the subsequent web page,’’ Saleh stated Monday.
Defensive deal with John Franklin-Myers known as Sunday’s win “a terrific step of confidence’’ for a younger group making an attempt to determine the best way to win.
“These guys obtained to grasp what it feels wish to win; they obtained a style of it,’’ he stated.
“You’ve obtained to learn to win,’’ tight finish Tyler Conklin stated. “That’s one thing all group groups need to do. [Sunday] was a step in the suitable path to show that to ourselves that we’re by no means out of a sport and irrespective of the state of affairs is we are able to win it. That the primary one to get the momentum going. We knew we might do it and we went on the market and we proved it.
“Now maintain constructing the momentum.’’
Use it. Don’t lose it.
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