The New York Jets are a complete mess and Week 17 showed it once again. Even though they tend to play well against the Buffalo Bills, yesterday’s game was not the case. The Jets allowed 40 points before Aaron Rodgers was benched and former Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor stepped in and helped the Jets score two touchdowns. Taylor had two passing touchdowns to Garrett Wilson and tight end Tyler Conklin.
This Jets team fell apart this year, especially after they made the clearly wrong choice to fire Robert Saleh after five games. Since firing Saleh, the Jets have only won two games under Jeff Ulbrich. Not only do they need to find a new head coach, but they also need to find a new general manager after firing Joe Douglas after Week 11.
Overall, the Jets can’t seem to do anything right. Infact, they might even mess up keeping one of their bright young receivers in Garrett Wilson, should Aaron Rodgers return as the Jets’ starting quarterback. According to Trey Wingo, per Ian Rapoport, there is chance that Garrett Wilson may want out of New York.
There’s so much more dysfunction that the Jets have rather than just in their game against the Bills, but their Week 17 performance was pitiful when it came to playing disciplined football.
The Jets’ lack discipline and the Bills took advantage of it
According to Rich Cimini, the Jets had 16 accepted penalties against the Bills in Week 17 which is the most they had since 2018 when they played against the Green Bay Packers. To make matters worse for them, the Jets also had 27 accepted penalties against their two games against the Bills this season. That is the most by a team against a single opponent since 2015.
Jets had 16 accepted penalties, their most in a game since 2018 (Week 16 vs Green Bay)#Jets committed 27 accepted penalties in 2 games against the Bills, the most by one team against a single opponent since 2015.
— Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) December 29, 2024
The Jets had 11 penalties in their Week 6 game against the Bills which also cost them potential scoring drives. For a team that had Super Bowl aspirations and having the roster to do it, they completely fell apart and they are closer to a rebuild than they are a playoff contender.
It will be very interesting to see what the Jets do this coming offseason because they are starting from the ground up once again and it doesn’t look like it will be a quick rebuild either.