The New York Jets are the only winless team remaining in the NFL this season.
Quinnen Williams didn’t hold back when asked to explain why the Jets are in the cellar.
“We are 0-5, and the defense, to me, has been the problem and the reason we are 0-5. To be as a unit, to be as a team, we have to pull that together, especially on defense, to make sure that we do the necessary things that we can do … It is one of those things, like when you’re 0-5, no matter where you’re at, you have to fix things. When you are probably the worst defense in the league, no matter where you’re at, you have to fix things if you want to win football games and go into the right direction,” Williams told the media.
Williams Says It’s on the Players Now
“AG [Aaron Glenn], coach [Steve] Wilks, and also all of our position coaches gave us all of the solutions to those [defensive] problems. It’s on us as a unit, as a team, as the leader on the defense, the players on defense, to take those solutions and apply them every single day and every single week, and also apply them on Sundays. So that is kind of the main focus and main objective right now,” Williams told the media.
Things Have Gone Catastrophically Bad for the Jets on Defense
Things have gotten so bad that the team is catching strays from the brother of a former head coach.
David Saleh, the brother of ex-Jets HC Robert Saleh, went after the green and white on social media this week.
“Last year, the Jets were 2-3 playing for first place in their division when @woodyjohnson4 declared that ‘the best roster in franchise history needed a spark.’ Since then, the Jets defense has gone from first to worst, donning a record of 3-14,” David Saleh posted.
The stats back up Saleh’s claim.
ESPN’s Bill Barnwell shared the details on X previously Twitter.
“Across their final 17 games with Robert Saleh, the Jets had the league’s best defense by points per drive and EPA per play. In their subsequent 17 games without Saleh, the Jets have had the league’s worst defense by the same metrics,” Barnwell revealed.
Insider Unloads Depressing Slew of Jets Defensive Futility Facts
ESPN’s Rich Cimini wrote, “The Jets are surrendering 31.4 points per game, the fourth-worst start after five games in team history, per ESPN Research. The worst was 1979 (32.8), but that team had the pieces to what would become known as the New York Sack Exchange.”
“Glenn is only the fourth coach in the Super Bowl era whose team has allowed at least 27 points in each of his first five games as a coach. The others: Darrell Bevell, Jimmy Johnson and Jack Patera,” Cimini added.
The most disconcerting news from Cimini’s piece is that several players admitted to him that they experienced a “here we go again” mentality when things have gone wrong this year.
If the Jets have any hopes of turning this season around from a respectability standpoint, it has to start on the defensive side of the ball.
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