Jets need to respond with statement Week 2 win before things get ugly
NY Post
Does the season end with a loss?
It does not.
As a Jets fan, you know this. You know that a few of the more satisfying seasons in Jets history started off slowly. You recall 1981, which started 0-3 before the Sack Exchange flexed its muscles and ultimately delivered the first playoff berth after a 12-year drought. You recall 1998, which started 0-2 including — for disciples of symmetry — an opening-week loss in San Francisco, and ended in the AFC Championship game.
You might even recall 2002, which began with a win but then descended into hell, 1-4 and 2-5, before Chad Pennington fell out of the sky and before long was beating Peyton Manning in a playoff game — a home playoff game, the last one the Jets have ever participated in — 41-0.
So yes, the Jets can lose at Tennessee on Sunday — they can fall to 0-2, they can lose to a Titans team that looked positively dreadful last week in Chicago, and to a quarterback, Will Levis, who played so poorly you half expected he was wearing “GSH” on his left sleeve the way Bears players do — and it won’t be the end of the world, or the end of the season.
It’ll just feel that way.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.