{"id":812457,"date":"2026-03-14T20:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/812457\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T20:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:09:17","slug":"big-questions-still-loom-for-jets-as-offseason-overhaul-takes-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/812457\/","title":{"rendered":"Big questions still loom for Jets as offseason overhaul takes shape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s start off this conversation by reminding everyone of where we are on the calendar.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s mid-March, not mid-August or even mid-June. The Jets won\u2019t play a football game that counts for six months. So there\u2019s plenty of time for GM Darren Mougey and coach Aaron Glenn to alter their roster, most notably in next month\u2019s draft, when they have four picks in the top 44.<\/p>\n

But the Jets did make major changes to their roster this week in free agency, and it\u2019s fun to ask whether we feel like they are actually better than last year\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not an easy question to answer. On paper, I feel like last year\u2019s team had more talent. Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams were stars in the middle of their primes. Demario Davis and Minkah Fitzpatrick are accomplished<\/a> football players, but they are on the back end of their careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s start off this conversation by reminding everyone of where we are on the calendar. It\u2019s mid-March, not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[1469,7,1507,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,89225,2592,9,2833,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-812457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-darren-mougey","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-geno-smith","11":"tag-jets","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-jets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkjets","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nfl-free-agency-2026","18":"tag-nfl-free-agency","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-columnists","21":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116229345606622324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812457","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=812457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}