This loss was extra embarrassing for Robert Saleh and the Jets
Well, FAIR is fair. Turns out Jets cornerback D.J. Reed was right. Reed, youll recall, said this during the summer: I think we have the potential to be the best defense in the NFL and honestly I think we can be historical. Not just the best defense in the league, but I think we can have a historical defense like the 85-86 Bears.
Hes heard about that a lot, but Im here to tell you hes probably right, actually.
I think man-for-man, the 23 Jets defense is better than the 85 Super Bowl Shufflers.
Of course, Mike Singletary is 65.
Wilber Marshall is 61. Richard Dent is 63.
Gary Fencik is 69.
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Its no laughing matter, of course. The Jets got clobbered again Thursday night, lashed at the lake by the Browns in Cleveland, 37-20.
There were the usual suspects to blame a near-comical offense, some abysmal coaching across the board.
4Robert Saleh’s defense flopped in the Jets’ 37-20 loss to the Browns. Getty ImagesMost of the season, it was easy and, most nights, right to feel sorry for the Jets defense, which has had its moments this year.
And if you give yourself a few minutes, you might even be able to remember a few of them.
But a week after trying desperately to hand a football game to the Commanders, two weeks after the Dolphins made them look like they were playing 8-on-11 all afternoon, the Jets opted not to waste any time and allowed Joe Flacco !!! to taunt them and tooth them all across a rollicking first half which turned a sold-out Cleveland Browns Stadium into an early New Years celebration.
It wasnt good enough, a chastened Robert Saleh said. All the way across the board.
4David NJoku runs with the ball after making a reception during the Jets’ loss. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters ConThe Jets looked positively hapless in that first half, hopeless against the spells of Flacco, who was driving carpools two months ago and, as it turns out, might have been a useful phone call 3 months ago.
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Good for Flacco, who has become the best story in the homestretch of this NFL season and is easy to root for.
Hes made all five defenses hes faced looked like they turned their watches back to 2014 or so, and this was his fourth straight 300-plus yard game (296 coming in the first half).
But the Jets were supposed to be different.
Remember, this was a defense that in its head coachs own regrettable words had made a regular habit of allegedly embarrassing the NFLs best quarterbacks. Glacial Joe Flacco? Surely they would make mincemeat out of glacial Joe Flacco.
Turns out the jokes on them. And on Saleh.
4Former Jet Elijah Moore catches a touchdown pass past D.J. Reed during the Jets’ loss. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters ConOnly, this isnt so funny. Its actually not even remotely amusing. Remember, the one thread of hope the Jets have been able to sell this year is the what-if fantasy of if this defense had had Aaron Rodgers watching its six all season long and vice versa.
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The Rodgers part of that fantasy evaporated four snaps into the season.
The other half dissolved on a mild night in Cleveland, four days before a New Year that suddenly cant come fast enough.
The defense is what allows for the fantasy that things can be better next year, when the Jets have already publicly vowed that they will run it all back, that all the principals will be back in the house Joe Douglas, Robert Saleh, Aaron Rodgers.
And it was a positively dreadful night for the first two of those holdovers Douglas having to watch Flacco fillet his team, knowing hell have to answer for why he didnt call Flacco at halftime of the opener and offer a plane ticket to Florham Park; Saleh watching his defense look ordinary in its best moments and deplorable in its worst.
Ive got to figure it out, Saleh said.
4Robert Saleh greets Joe Flacco after the Jets’ loss to the playoff-bound Browns. APRodgers was stoic as he paced the sidelines.
At some point, you have to wonder if he has fully realized what hes signed up for here.
Heres what hes signed up for: a team of prophets.
Reed was right: if you line his defense up against the 60-somethings wearing their old Bears jerseys, take the Jets. And Saleh, he has shown that he can absolutely identify what an embarrassment looks like.
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