The NFL season is about at its midway level, and lots of groups are nonetheless clinging to the concept that they’ll flip issues round and put tough first halves behind them earlier than getting scorching and making a run towards the playoffs.
One staff just lately took the best step in that course, however one analyst isn’t falling for it and believes it’s giving its followers false hope.
On Friday morning, ESPN Radio’s Evan Cohen stated that Thursday evening’s victory over the Houston Texans was the false hope evening for the New York Jets, saying “You had this sport simply mere days earlier than the commerce deadline, as a result of inevitably what’s going to occur right here is the Jets are simply going to ‘Jet’ and so they’re going to seek out methods to lose video games arising that they need to not lose and so they’re going to create controversies that ought to not occur, and inevitably, they will be manner worse than you anticipate that they might be based mostly on the false hope that final evening provides you.”
He added that the Texans are both banged up or not that good, so Jets followers shouldn’t be feeling nice about this.
Cohen believes the staff ought to nonetheless promote on the commerce deadline as a result of the Jets have loads of gamers who might fetch them a good haul on the open market, however the staff gained’t achieve this and it’ll wind up hurting them much more in the long term.
It’s a miserable take for a staff that simply ended a 5-game shedding streak towards one of many higher groups within the NFL, however we’ll see over the approaching weeks if the Jets actually do have what it takes to show issues round.