You wish to shut the hole within the AFC East? You wish to be taken severely as contenders?
Give long-suffering Jets followers one thing to cheer about and feed off their vitality once they do and win a rattling recreation at house.
Nobody appeared ahead to strolling into Gillette Stadium when Tom Brady and Invoice Belichick had been ready in ambush. Nobody relishes visiting Lambeau Subject, frozen tundra or not, with Aaron Rodgers lurking there. Arrowhead Stadium isn’t solely a sea of purple, Patrick Mahomes makes magic there.
When will anybody begin fearing MetLife Stadium understanding that the Jets of Robert Saleh and Zach Wilson will likely be greeting them inside?
How about Sunday?
How about “J-E-T-S! Jets! Jets! Jets!” not falling on deaf ears, and the way a few staff and a stadium rising up collectively towards the Dolphins?
“We bought an incredible fan base, they at all times present as much as the video games at MetLife. … We had been simply speaking about it, we gotta win one at house for them,” Sauce Gardner advised The Submit. “Which may make some diehard Jets followers really feel like, ‘Why they hold successful away however they ain’t successful at house?’
“We undoubtedly talked about it as a staff. We gotta win at house, undoubtedly.”
It says one thing concerning the Jets that they confirmed up in Cleveland and in Pittsburgh as street warriors. It says one thing else concerning the Jets that they're 0-2 at house this season, and 0-12 within the division the previous two years means 0-6 within the division at house the previous two years.
Saleh is 3-8 at house, and a kind of wins got here when he was sidelined with COVID-19 whereas tight ends and assistant coach Ron Middleton assumed head-coaching duties. Since 2016, the Jets are 17-34 at house.
“We gotta give ’em one thing to cheer for,” Garrett Wilson mentioned. “We haven’t received at house, and that’s gotta be an emphasis for us. We bought an incredible fan base come out and help, and we wish to give them one thing to cheer for.”
The 1998 Invoice Parcells Jets misplaced their first house recreation earlier than reeling off eight straight wins, together with a 38-24 divisional playoff victory over the Tom Coughlin Jaguars. The 2009 and 2010 Rex Ryan Jets had been 4-4 and 5-3, respectively, at house on their strategy to back-to-back AFC Championship video games. The 1968 Broadway Joe Jets had been 6-1 at house earlier than beating the Oakland Raiders, 27-23, at a frigid, wind-blown Shea Stadium to advance to Tremendous Bowl III.
“No matter guys are doing on the street, guys have to be doing at house to get ’em prepared for a house recreation,” middle Connor McGovern advised The Submit. “I’m unsure what that's, however we gotta determine that out and ensure we will win at house ’trigger that needs to be the place you win most video games, and proper now we’re successful on the street and shedding at house. We have to win wherever we go.”
The 1986 Tremendous Bowl XXI Giants are the gold customary for an intimidating native soccer home of horrors — 10-0, together with a 49-3 shattering of the 49ers and a 17-0 domination of the Redskins within the playoffs at Giants Stadium.
“That’s what good groups do,” Phil Simms mentioned. That’s what good crowds do too. “The followers had been so into it that that was a giant benefit, little question,” Simms recalled.
For the exorbitant value of their tickets, Jets followers this season have been subjected to:
Lamar Jackson slinging TDs.
Quinnen Williams raging on the sidelines at defensive position coach Aaron Whitecotton.
Joe Flacco beneath siege, and a solitary garbage-time landing within the opener.
Zach Wilson’s dramatic fourth-quarter comeback towards the Steelers ought to purchase him shelter from the “We wish [Mike] White” chants, not less than till his first decide. It’s the child’s 2022 house opener, keep in mind.
“We gotta defend the home,” operating again Michael Carter mentioned.
Jets followers deserve higher.
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