Brandon: Can Jets even field a squad?
Week 10 — Jets at Bucs
Final Score: Bucs 31, Jets 21 DeSean Jackson has 175 yards receiving and backpedals into the end zone on each of his two TD scores. Jameis Winston throws for 325 yards. Jets fans argue with Bucs fans about Darrelle Revis: Was he worse in Tampa in 2013 or New York in 2016? 0-16 is looking real.
Record: 0-10 Phew!
Week 12 — Panthers at Jets
Final Score: Panthers 24, Jets 14 Rookies Christian McCaffrey and Brooklyn’s Curtis Samuel rip apart the Jets defense, combining for 250 yards and three touchdowns. With the Giants off after having played on Thanksgiving night, Brandon Marshall shows up in the Jets locker room and picks a fight with Sheldon Richardson.
Record: 0-11
Week 13 — Chiefs at Jets
Final Score: Chiefs 35, Jets 10 At the Saturday night team meeting, Todd Bowles displays a picture of ex-Chief Jeremy Maclin and warns his players not to invite Andy Reid if they are planning to get married. Rookie QB Patrick Mahomes comes off the bench and completes a 60-yard TD pass to Tyreek Hill, who creates a 15-yard cushion on Buster Skrine. Jets fans starting chanting, “We Want Revis. We Want Revis.” Well, not really.
Record: 0-12
Week 14 — Jets at Broncos
Final Score: Broncos 30, Jets 10
Richardson Snapchats himself on the bench in the fourth quarter eating a hot dog. Bowles doesn’t fine him but warns hot dogs during games could cause indigestion. Peyton Manning tweets that after watching the Jets defense he wishes he was still playing.
Record: 0-13
Week 15 — Jets at Saints
Final Score: Saints 49, Jets 28 Hackenberg throws four touchdowns and four interceptions. Drew Brees throws for 480 yards – hey, it’s Drew Brees in the Superdome, he does that – and Adams, the rookie from nearby LSU, is embarrassed and says he may petition the NCAA to get his eligibility restored.
Record: 0-14
Week 16 — Chargers at Jets
Final Score: Chargers 13, Jets 12
Only two to go to 0-16. Ho-hoho. The Jets set a Record: when only 12,874 fans show up at MetLife on Christmas Eve day. The Jets clinch the No. 1 pick. No other team has fewer than two victories. New kicker Roberto Aguayo, the Jets fifth kicker of the season, misses a BRANDON MARSHALL is keeping up on the affairs of the Jets.
Gang Green has dumped a slew of players with sizable salaries — Marshall included — and this week they added veterans David Harris and Eric Decker to that list. Now with the Giants, Marshall is wondering if his former team has enough players left to field a team.
“I am happy where I’m at now and the Jets will be all right. Will they have enough people to line up? Man, that’s the question,” Marshall told TMZ. “I think eventually they’ll be all right but I don’t know if they’re gonna have enough men to line up.”
Marshall also told the website he’s spoken with new teammate Odell Beckham, who hasn’t been at OTAs, and told him, “Keep being awesome. Keep rocking out.”
Marshall, who said he didn’t know of any contract situation involving Beckham, doesn’t seem at all bothered that Beckham has been in Los Angeles working out and put a massive label on the receiver.
“He’s the biggest superstar our game has ever seen in the history of football,” Marshall said of Beckham, “and I’m happy to be his teammate lined up on the other side. Go doublecoverage him, send all the coverage to him and I’ll be back side, me and (Sterling Shepard) one-on-one and we’ll be happy.” — Tasch 30-yarder with no time left. Record: 0-15
Week 17 — Jets at Patriots
Final Score: Patriots 35, Jets 0 The Pats have the No. 1 seed locked up, but Bill Belichick shows no mercy and plays Brady the entire game. It’s New Years’ Eve and Belichick is partying like it’s Jan. 4, 2000, the day he resigned as head coach of the NYJ. Johnson shows up for the first time in two months and announces Bowles and GM Mike Maccagnan will return. “I’m pleased with the progress,” he says. “We didn’t have any butt fumbles.” Then he gets on a plane back to London.
Record: 0-16