Same Old Jets?

No judge would ever rule that an NFL owner be forced to sell his team because of poor on-field performance (sadly). Such is the saving grace for Ambassador Robert Wood Johnson IV and his teenage heirs, Brick and Jack, who reportedly have the ear of their old man regarding personnel hirings and firings as the team continues to stack losing seasons. New York sports has seen its recent share of fail...

Three cornerstone New York Jets – Jamien Sherwood, Sauce Gardner, and Garrett Wilson – have already been (Sherwood) or are set to be (Gardner and Wilson) rewarded during the 2025 offseason with an honor few modern Jets rarely see: a second contract to stay in the Meadowlands. This trio of former Jets GM Joe Douglas’ draftees has proven in their early careers to be worthy of such monumental raises...

The New York Jets have not won the AFC East since 2002, tied for the second-longest existing drought in the NFL. In that 23-year timeframe, the Jets have not led or held a share of first place in the East at any point past Halloween. They’ve gone 47-85 against the Bills, Dolphins, and Patriots.  In a league where parity reigns and only four teams occupy each division, Jet ineptitude has been parti...

Darren Mougey was an undrafted free agent quarterback fresh out of San Diego State the last time his new team, the New York Jets, reached the postseason. As Jet fortunes sank for a decade and a half, the now-40-year-old Mougey hung up his cleats and steadily rose through the ranks in the Denver Broncos organization, from a scouting intern to the role of assistant GM beginning in 2022. At just 40 y...

Part of a dream draft class in 2022, second-round selection Breece Hall exploded onto the stage for Gang Green and became the team’s top offensive threat within weeks. A midseason ACL tear derailed a Rookie of the Year-winning campaign, and in the wake of that injury, Hall has both tantalized and frustrated fans who placed big bets on his future production. Like for so many of the heralded young J...

Insanity is: Being a New York Jets fan, and Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results Twice in the last 17 years, the Jets have rolled the dice in acquiring aging quarterbacks from the Green Bay Packers. In New York, Brett Favre showed his dick, while Aaron Rodgers often acted like one. In his third act, Favre was able to jump to Minnesota and lead a team to within one victor...

Aside from long snapper Thomas Hennessy, defensive tackle Quinnen Williams is the longest tenured New York Jet remaining as the new front office and coaching staff arrive at One Jets Drive. Entering the prime of his career at age 27, Williams was a Pro Bowler in 2024 by reputation more than performance: he had half as many sacks as his All-Pro season in 2022, and the Jets could hardly stop the run...

New Head Coach Aaron Glenn made perhaps his most high-profile coaching hire in bringing in veteran Defensive Coordinator Steve Wilks to run the schemes Glenn implemented in Detroit with growing success. Wilks is well-liked and well-traveled, having been the rare NFL head coach sacked after just one season in Arizona. In the six years since his surprising dismissal from the desert, he has assisted...

Coming off an exciting and unexpected run to the AFC Championship game, the New York Jets moved from raucous Giants Stadium to brand-new MetLife Stadium in 2010. In true partnership with the New York Giants, $1.6 billion and enough concrete to cover 2.1 million square feet were poured into a new home: one that would have all the great modern amenities of the new wave of American sports stadiums, f...

Former QB, cerebral, lives in the film room – all describe the next offensive coordinator of the New York Jets, Tanner Engstrand. The 42-year-old enters to fix a unit that fizzled under former OC Nathaniel Hackett and with a Hall of Fame quarterback in Aaron Rodgers leading the way. The Jets finished a season even in the Top-20 in scoring offense since 2015. In the nine seasons since, they’ve rank...

January 12, 1969. The AFL Champion New York Jets, behind future Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath, win Super Bowl III despite being 18-point underdogs to the NFL’s Baltimore Colts. Three days earlier, Broadway Joe raised eyebrows at the Miami Touchdown Club when he proclaimed, “We’re gonna win the game, I guarantee it.” What didn’t the handicappers know? What did Namath know? And after the most...

In January, Aaron Glenn became only the second New York Jets player – and first since Walt Michaels – to also be hired as head coach. The three-time Pro Bowl cornerback comes home to mould a talented yet underachieving Jets squad who had sky-high hopes for 2024, only to endure an all-time Same Old Jets? season that cleaned out the front office and coaching staff by year’s end. Glenn learned at the...

A brand-new front office and coaching regime have arrived at One Jets Drive, and their very first major free agent signing was quarterback Justin Fields. A tremendous athlete and five-star college recruit, the 26-year-old Fields has yet to put down firm roots in his five-year NFL tenure. Is Fields the uncovered successor to Joe Namath that fans have clamored for 50 years and counting, or is it Sam...

On the eve of the 2025 New York Jets season, two lifelong pals prepare to enter an imaginary courtroom to litigate the fate of their favorite football team. Join Kyle Richard and Nicholas Walz as they describe the origins of their Jet fandom, why they're taking their 13 cases in front of an all-star judging circuit, and everything else listeners can expect from the Same Old Jets? podcast.