{"id":360914,"date":"2025-09-12T01:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/360914\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T01:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:35:12","slug":"brandon-stephens-knows-what-he-he-needs-to-do-after-ugly-jets-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/360914\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Stephens knows what he he needs to do after ugly Jets debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Stephens has taken responsibility for his messy Jets debut in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/07\/sports\/aaron-rodgers-gets-last-laugh-in-steelers-thrilling-win-over-jets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">34-32 loss to the Steelers<\/a>, and he isn\u2019t trying to overcomplicate what\u2019s needed to make up for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake plays on the ball,\u201d he told The Post after Jets practice Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did everything that everybody else in the stands saw,\u201d he added. \u201cPlays that I\u2019m in great position, just gotta finish those plays. Yeah, I just gotta play my style of football, our style of football, and make the plays I need to make.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It could become a complicated issue for the Jets after Stephens \u2014 due to coverage issues and \u201cbad eyes,\u201d as defensive coordinator Steve Wilks termed it \u2014 allowed five completions for 60 yards and two touchdowns across seven targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Stephens has taken responsibility for his messy Jets debut in the 34-32 loss to the Steelers, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[7,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,9,3248,22352],"class_list":{"0":"post-360914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-jets","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkjets","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-steve-wilks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115188762274658923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}