Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner will not be shying away from excessive expectations for the 2024 season.
“I really feel like we are able to win a championship, a Tremendous Bowl,” Gardner mentioned. “We’ve obtained the blokes. We’ve obtained the coaches. We’ve obtained all the pieces we want. The coaching employees, all the pieces that it takes for us to have the ability to get to the place we wish to get to.”
Gardner mentioned he felt the identical manner getting into final season.
These excessive hopes led to Week 1 when Aaron Rodgers tore his left Achilles tendon.
However these hopes are actually again with a wholesome Rodgers and what the Jets hope is an improved roster.
Coach Robert Saleh is unfazed by a schedule that features six prime-time video games within the first 11 weeks of the season.
“No response. You’re taking them as they arrive,” he mentioned. “The schedule comes out, each staff has issues on their schedule that they need to take care of. We’ve obtained some issues we’re excited to take care of.”
Saleh had mentioned in March he hoped the staff may very well be extra underneath the radar this yr.
With all these prime-time video games, that’s not taking place.
“It’s New York,” Saleh mentioned. “There’s at all times going to be pleasure. It’s superior that we’re checked out in that mild. On the similar time, none of it issues until we deal with the method and going day-to-day and making an attempt to be the perfect we are able to.”
There have been stories that the Jets tried to rent somebody above offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett this offseason.
Saleh declined to deal with the newest report, referring to feedback he made in March that it was not true.
Hackett mentioned he feels Saleh has religion in him and that he was concerned in the entire interviews of potential teaching candidates on offense.
“That is what I’d inform you,” Hackett mentioned. “I don’t know what these stories are, and I don’t know the place their sources got here from. I do know what occurred with us. It was nice. We had a variety of conversations. We obtained to speak to a variety of totally different folks. It’s that easy. It’s already been addressed.”
Notable absences at Tuesday’s OTA: RB Breece Corridor, DT Quinnen Williams, DE Haason Reddick and DT Javon Kinlaw. These are voluntary practices. … OT Morgan Moses, G Alijah Vera-Tucker, G John Simpson and DT Leki Foto had been engaged on a aspect area with trainers.
