The Jets are getting respect from the people who know, the linesmakers. Reed can’t shut down Justin Jefferson and Adam Thielen? Could White quickly turn into a pumpkin as he did in his four-interception disaster against Buffalo last season?īut there’s also this. Could this be the game the productive pass rush can’t get to Kirk Cousins and corners Sauce Gardner and D.J.

So now the Jets, 7-4 and currently in position for an AFC wild-card berth, head to Minnesota for perhaps their toughest matchup of the season. That would have sounded like a lot of hot gas because Wilson was the brake.

To start Wilson again would have been to make a liar of the coach whenever he’d tell the team, “best players play.” Oh, really, except at the most important position? It also would have made a mockery of Saleh’s “All Gas, No Brake” mantra. It was a potentially toxic situation that Saleh corrected just before it reached epidemic proportions. The players went all-in on Mike White, making it seem as if they have known all along the wrong guy was quarterbacking the team. That theory played out to an extent in the Jets’ 31-10 rout of the depleted Bears. Last week in this space I posited that Robert Saleh made the right call in benching Zach Wilson because it would enable all of the other players to concentrate on their own jobs rather than fixate on what Wilson was doing and saying. NFL Week 2 predictions: Picks against spread for every game NFL Week 3 predictions: Picks against spread for every game NFL Week 4 predictions: Picks against spread for every game NFL Week 5 predictions: Picks against spread for every game NFL Week 6 predictions: Picks against spread for every game

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