It’s horror film season, so it is just applicable that the Jets got here again to life on Thursday night time like Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger.
Simply while you although they have been lifeless …
It was just one victory for the Jets, however the 21-13 defeat of the Texans on Thursday retains the heartbeat of their season alive. It felt near over with Sunday’s loss in New England. Their file continues to be a dismal 3-6, however there’s now a glimmer of hope that will not have existed had they misplaced Thursday.
There was lots of discuss in regards to the Jets being within the darkness. Just a little mild is now seen.
“If you play like that I feel it generates some confidence,” interim coach Jeff Ulbrich mentioned, “and it generates some momentum, so each these issues are going to be integral, and going ahead there was some hope too, previous to that second half, so generally while you put it collectively it creates some ‘we will actually get this performed,’ so it’s one thing that I actually consider will carry us ahead right here.”
The Jets now enter the better portion of their schedule after a tough first two months. They solely have one group on their remaining schedule that’s above .500 — the Payments. But it surely goes past simply the standard of the opponent. The Jets schedule has been a gauntlet within the early a part of the season with 9 video games in 53 days. They’ve had two Monday night time video games, two Thursday night time video games, one Sunday night time sport, a visit to London, a visit to the West Coast and two street video games following Monday night time video games.
Soccer groups are creatures of behavior and the Jets haven’t been in a position to have regular weeks of apply by enjoying on Thursday twice and Monday twice and having the journey to London. When proprietor Woody Johnson fired coach Robert Saleh after 5 video games, that was disruptive to the schedule, as effectively.
Now, issues look just a little extra regular. They solely have two video games within the subsequent 30 days. They’ve the mini-bye this week and gained’t play the Cardinals till Nov. 10. They then play the Colts on Nov. 17 earlier than their actual bye week. The subsequent sport after that’s Dec. 1 towards the Seahawks.
They solely have yet one more prime-time sport on the schedule with the Colts sport slated for “Sunday Evening Soccer,” however there’s a probability the NFL will flex a greater matchup into that slot. Nonetheless, the Jets don’t have any extra Thursdays or Mondays on the schedule. They need to be capable of discover a common apply rhythm and in addition this can permit a few of their older gamers additional relaxation to heal up. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been coping with knee, ankle and hamstring accidents since Week 4.
“I feel at any time when you may get in a rhythm, and just a little extra routine and schedule, I feel it might assist,” Ulbrich mentioned. “It for positive can, however in the end, and I do know it’s coach discuss, however Arizona is all I’m specializing in. That’s, once more, just like the world could finish after this Cardinals sport, that’s all I’m apprehensive about is that this sport.”
The Arizona journey is their final lengthy one. The final three street video games are in Miami, Jacksonville and Buffalo.
Whereas it’s untimely to assume this victory has instantly flipped issues round for the Jets, the AFC playoff image does stay large open. There are three groups who will not be main their division with three losses within the AFC proper now (Broncos, Ravens, Chargers), the Colts are 4-4 and the Bengals and Dolphins every have 5 losses.
The Jets have used up all of their margin for error. However the Jets quieted issues down with the second half on Thursday night time and relieved some stress.
“It’s extra flipping the stress into confidence and momentum,” Ulbrich mentioned. “I feel there’s a giant distinction between the 2. For my part there’s productive paranoia that generally you may have in these moments, and it lets you work that a lot tougher and examine that many extra packing containers, and be that rather more thorough in all the things that we do, however generally it may be suffocating, so generally just a little success like this could translate and transition that stress into extra optimistic vitality and confidence, which hopefully we’ll create on this group proper now.”
