Are New York Jets fans to believe that\u2014under no circumstances whatsoever\u2014the team they so unconditionally love could not find 2025 season success? Based on some of the social media retorts, automated bot or not, many would say, \u201cYes, my team had no chance at 2025 success,\u201d and there are many who hold steadfast to this belief.<\/p>\n
Consider the following offense for a moment:<\/p>\n
QB: Aaron Rodgers<\/p>\n
RB: Breece Hall, Braelon Allen, Isaiah Davis<\/p>\n
WR: Davante Adams, Garrett Wilson, Allen Lazard, Arian Smith<\/p>\n
TE: Mason Taylor, Jeremy Ruckert<\/p>\n
OL: Olu Fashanu, John Simpson, Josh Myers, Joe Tippmann, Armand Membou<\/p>\n
When evaluating this offense with the Jets\u2019 current staff, led by Aaron Glenn, I agree with the naysayers: It simply would not have worked. <\/p>\n
Now, let\u2019s evaluate the same offense with a singular key addition:<\/p>\n
HC: Mike McCarthy<\/p>\n
QB: Aaron Rodgers<\/p>\n
RB: Breece Hall, Braelon Allen, Isaiah Davis<\/p>\n
WR: Davante Adams, Garrett Wilson, Allen Lazard, Arian Smith<\/p>\n
TE: Mason Taylor, Jeremy Ruckert<\/p>\n
OL: Olu Fashanu, John Simpson, Josh Myers, Joe Tippmann, Armand Membou<\/p>\n
Honestly, do the majority of football fans view this offense and think, \u201cOh, this unit could never lead a team to the playoffs?\u201d If so, those folks have allowed their minds to reach a level of corruption that would make the \u201cBatman Begins\u201d version of Gotham blush. <\/p>\n
This is a legitimate NFL offense, led by a legitimate offensive architect. Mike McCarthy is a damn Super Bowl champion. Aaron Rodgers is a Super Bowl MVP. <\/p>\n
By the way, as told by Rodgers on \u201cThe Pat McAfee Show,\u201d the reason Glenn didn\u2019t want him was that the Hall of Famer might compromise his messaging. Yet, Glenn\u2019s handpicked replacement, Justin Fields, is reportedly not interested in taking on a subpackage role due to injury concerns.<\/p>\n
That is a real thing, correct? I have to make sure I\u2019m not taking those crazy pills again, which happens more often than I\u2019d like to admit.<\/p>\n
What are we doing here, New York Jets?<\/p>\n
For context, here\u2019s what the Pittsburgh Steelers offense currently looks like:<\/p>\n
OC: Arthur Smith (the offensive architect and play-caller)<\/p>\n
QB: Aaron Rodgers<\/p>\n
RB: Jaylen Warren, Kenneth Gainwell<\/p>\n
WR: DK Metcalf, Calvin Austin, Marquez Valdez-Scantling, Adam Thielen<\/p>\n
TE: Pat Freiermuth, Jonnu Smith<\/p>\n
OL: Dylan Cook, Isaac Seumalo, Zach Frazier, Mason McCormick, Troy Fautanu<\/p>\n
Again, what are we doing here? <\/p>\n
Why does everything have to be so tricky, so convoluted to the point that the franchise is eager to do things the \u201charder way,\u201d as opposed to floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee? <\/p>\n
Look at who the so-called \u201cdecrepit\u201d Rodgers was throwing to on Sunday night. With DK Metcalf suspended, Rodgers threw for 294 yards and a touchdown on 31 of 47 passing, while targeting MVS and the corpse of Adam Thielen. <\/p>\n
Does everybody understand what we\u2019re watching? Arthur Smith and Todd Monken just decided to go blow-for-blow here, scheming up guys everywhere. The offensive play-callers just took over the game, bc it was that TIME in the game to do so (once the heart of the game fractured).<\/p>\n
\u2014 Robby Sabo (@RobbySabo) January 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Pat Freiermuth is a solid tight end, and the running backs are solid as well, but who, in their right mind (while not off their meds), could ever make the argument that the Steelers offense listed above is more talented than what the Jets offense could have been in this alternate reality of a distant universe?<\/p>\n It\u2019s impossible. Yet, the Jets continue to chase their tail, believing a long, drawn-out rebuilding process is required<\/a>. <\/p>\n How is it possible that a \u201cwashed\u201d quarterback like this could win 10 games with so little help around him? Set aside the Holy Water for a moment: What sort of black magic did a witch unleash on Pittsburgh? <\/p>\n Maybe, just maybe, the old-man quarterback lifted the Jets<\/a> as a team last year\u2014as incredible as that may be. Then again, it makes all the sense in the world when the front office and coaching staff had been slowly but surely taken part\u2014starting with Rex Hogan in January 2024. <\/p>\n Now, in January 2026, it seems the main goal is to enhance the talent on this roster.<\/p>\n Hey guys, here\u2019s an unsolicited and plainly put heads up: The days of talent alone driving team success are over. What Jimmy Johnson did in the early 1990s occurred in a completely different world, one driven mainly by the absence of a salary cap. <\/p>\n These days, each roster\u2019s talent is so evenly spread across the board that it\u2019s scary. (And don\u2019t think for one moment that the Pittsburgh defense is that much better than what the Jets defense had coming into the season, especially for those who are still tricked by Jalen Ramsey\u2019s name-brand recognition.)<\/p>\n Romanticizing \u201cthe plan,\u201d<\/a> as opposed to merely fielding the best roster, coupled with identifying the head-coaching traits that provide the best chance at success, is all the Jets have targeted in the last decade and a half.<\/p>\n It should not be this difficult. The evidence that \u201cbig ships turn quickly<\/a>\u201d is grossly abundant across the league. <\/p>\n Thus, New York Jets fans have predictably found themselves near the ledge. A solid percentage of the fanbase actually believes the task of turning the franchise around is some herculean effort that could only be achieved in some storybook fashion. <\/p>\n It\u2019s why the non-Jet, Rodgers, who\u2019s so often villainized in the mainstream, was last offseason\u2019s symbol of page turning. <\/p>\n It\u2019s why any apparent Garrett Wilson<\/a> controversy came back with all-out fury on the side of the \u201chomegrown Jet.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s why the Jets\u2019 decision to hire Mike Tannenbaum and The 33rd Team, despite clear potential conflict-of-interest of the highest order, was so widely accepted. <\/p>\n It\u2019s also why calls for Rex Ryan can still be heard from that very ledge\u2014as anything resembling the team\u2019s \u201clast moment of success\u201d is nostalgia-based.<\/p>\n It\u2019s why a conquering Jets legend (Glenn) returning home to take on this herculean task sold so well. <\/p>\n Rodgers returning to the Jets isn\u2019t even the point. That\u2019s what\u2019s so frustrating yet frightening here. The fact that he did win 10 games and the AFC North has nothing to do with the Jets\u2019 failures. <\/p>\n Rather, it\u2019s the Jets\u2019 processes and decisions related to Aaron Rodgers that encapsulate the perfect example of what ails the Jets organization. <\/p>\n From the outset, once Woody Johnson\u2019s New York Jets announced their most recent head coaching search, the process appeared to be off-kilter. With so much unnecessary noise surrounding the organization\u2014fit for a midday soap opera\u2014the idea that a \u201ckick-ass dude\u201d was required ran rampant. <\/p>\n Well, since Rex Ryan left town, coming off his fourth-straight failed season (as the league continued to change on him, with quarterbacks releasing the ball quicker, making it more challenging to hit home with those blitzes), all the Jets have targeted have been kick-ass dudes (for the most part). <\/p>\n Save for Adam Gase, every head coaching hire has come from the defensive side of the ball\u2014in a league where offensive efficiency is, by far, the most impactful driver of success<\/a>.<\/p>\n A year ago, Jets X-Factor pleaded with the Jets to seek \u201cinnovation,\u201d instead of \u201cmotivation,\u201d<\/a> when conducting its head coaching search. Today, we preach from the same gospel. <\/p>\n For the New York #Jets<\/a>, it’s simple: For the love of god, come to the realization that it’s no longer 2005. Whether it’s Aaron Glenn now or Robert Saleh before him, the organization’s mindset is forever stuck in an old-school-type mold that doesn’t fit today’s sport.<\/p>\n \u2014 Robby Sabo (@RobbySabo) January 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Hope and a staunch belief in the process\u2014a picturesque storyline imagined purely due to how incorrectly Herculean the organization believes this turnaround task actually is\u2014is killing the New York Jets. <\/p>\n The truth of the matter is much simpler: It\u2019s about logic, reality, and smarts. Trade in the belief and focus on the proper messaging for actual football smarts. That\u2019s all it\u2019s about these days\u2014the days firmly featuring a drastically different sport. <\/p>\n Only once has this ownership group deviated from its usual defensive-minded, leader-of-men course. It happened in 2019, when Adam Gase was hired with the express intent of developing a promising young quarterback. <\/p>\n It was also in 2019 when Mike McCarthy didn\u2019t \u201cinterview well\u201d with the Jets, per reports at the time. <\/p>\n If that\u2019s the case, wouldn\u2019t one assume the organization is seeking the wrong things in coaches these days? After all, again, the guy is a Super Bowl champ, and he won 12 games three straight seasons under Jerry Jones. <\/p>\n Perhaps he couldn\u2019t conjure up the proper run-through-a-wall emotions that Jets leadership believes are still critical in this all-too-foreign NFL. Robert Saleh sure could. We know damn well Rex Ryan did. <\/p>\n If Aaron Glenn didn\u2019t, then what was it that drew them to the CEO-type head coaching candidate?<\/p>\n The Jets didn\u2019t even interview Mike McCarthy last January. <\/p>\n Oh, sheesh, it just occurred to me that more than one alternate universe is possible. Just wait until Sam Darnold\u2019s Seattle Seahawks get to the Super Bowl. I shudder at the thought, especially for those who believe \u201chaving a legit quarterback or not\u201d is based purely on the individual playing the position.<\/p>\n \u201cI am not going to waver on my beliefs of what I think wins games in this league,\u201d said Aaron Glenn after the game. <\/p>\n That is precisely the New York #Jets<\/a> problem\u2014the head coach taking his preconceived notion of a specific way to play (or team identity) into the season, and\u2026<\/p>\n