Jets would ‘run through a wall’ for Jeff Ulbrich right now

The game had been over for some 45 minutes and the Jets postgame locker room was buzzing for a change. 

The Jets’ 21-13 win over the Texans Thursday night at MetLife Stadium ended a five-game losing streak. It had been a long month for the Jets, who’d fallen to 2-6 and were on the brink of garbage time to this season. 

For Jeff Ulbrich, who was named Jets interim coach when head coach Robert Saleh was fired after a 2-3 start, the past month had to have felt like a year or three. 

The Jets lost their first three games under the watch of Ulbrich, a football lifer as a former player who was put in a very difficult position with the hasty, poorly timed coaching change by team owner Woody Johnson. 

Saleh should not have been fired in the first place last month, but that’s a moot point now. 

Ulbrich, whom Saleh brought to the Jets and to whom he remains extremely close, saw his defense playing madly inconsistently in his first three games as the head coach.