What are the odds? Jets home dogs vs. 0-3 Broncs
Professional oddsmakers poured more gasoline on the Jets dumpster fire by making Gang Green a home underdog on a short week to another winless team.
You have to be a special brand of terrible to be a 2.5point underdog to the 0-3 Broncos, who will limp into MetLife Stadium Thursday without their starting quarterback, future Hall of Fame pass rusher, top wide receiver and possibility their dual-threat running back.
Westgate Superbook, William Hill, betMGM and DraftKings all have the Broncos favored in this primetime matchup.
The Jets have hit rock bottom.
How else can you explain why by oddsmakers think that a team led by Jeff Driskel or Brett Rypien has a better shot of winning than Adam Gase's club?
Driskel, who has a grand total of one win in his fiveyear career, was benched in favor of Rypien in Sunday's blowout loss to the Buccaneers. Rypien was elevated from the practice squad days earlier. Bortles, who is 24-49 as a starter, was signed off the scrap heap last week after Lock went down.
It's unclear which quarterback will start against the Jets. Regardless, Gang Green should be embarrassed that oddsmakers think so little of them.
It's no surprise that a game between teams with a combined 0-6 record has the lowest over/under in Week 4 (40 points), but the Jets can't be worse than a team with Driskel or Rypien at the helm, can they?
Driskel, who has lost his last six starts, went 17 for 30 for 176 yards, one touchdown and interception against Tampa Bay before being pulled in the fourth quarter. Rypien, who undrafted in 2019, threw eight consecutive completions in his first game before getting intercepted in the end zone.
Jets and Broncos quarterbacks each were sacked in the endzone for a safety and threw picks in the end zone in Week 3.
Can it get worse for the Jets, who have the worst point differential (minus-57) through three weeks?
They've become the undisputed laughingstock of the NFL.