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Previewing the Jets’ opposition: Buffalo Bills

The Buffalo Bills have been dethroned as the AFC East champions but are still heading to the postseason, so the Jets could see plenty of rotation from a team than beat them 30-10 back in September.

Let’s break down the Bills’ roster going position by position:

Quarterbacks

The reigning MVP, Josh Allen, hasn’t been as good this year as he was last year, as he’s thrown 10 interceptions. However, he’s actually posted better numbers for completion percentage, passing yards per game, yards per attempt and quarterback rating. He has also rushed for more yards and touchdowns on his way to another pro bowl appearance.

Reports indicate that Allen might not play the whole game on Sunday, which potentially puts backup Mitchell Trubisky into the spotlight.

Trubisky has 57 starts in his NFL career but is just 0-2 in the past three seasons and last won a start back in 2022 with Pittsburgh. He’s thrown just six passes all year.

The Bills don’t have a number three on the roster or practice squad, so Allen may be need to stay alert if he leaves the game, in case Trubisky gets hurt.

Offensive Line

Buffalo has had a healthy offensive line for most of the year, as they brought back a group that already had plenty of experience of playing together.

The interior trio of David Edwards at left guard, O’Cyrus Torrence on the right and Connor McGovern at center have all played over 1,000 snaps for the second year in a row. McGovern has yet to give up a sack.

The tackles are Spencer Brown and Dion Dawkins. For the fifth straight year, Dawkins was voted to the pro bowl. That’s despite the fact that he leads the Bills with six sacks allowed and 10 offensive penalties.

The only reserves to start any games were backup tackle Ryan Van Demark and Alec Anderson, who each started against Pittsburgh when Dawkins and Brown were both out. Van Demark also started two other games in place of Brown. Anderson can also play inside or as a jumbo package tight end.

Backup center Sedrick Van Pran-Granger has only played 22 snaps all year and sixth round rookie Chase Lundt has played just three snaps. Lundt is now on injured reserve so Tylan Grable is now on the roster in his place.

Running Backs

James Cook is heading back to the pro bowl as well, as he leads the NFL with 1,606 rushing yards this year. He also has 14 total touchdowns and has caught 33 passes.

Ray Davis rushed for 442 yards as a rookie, including 97 against the Jets, but he hasn’t played as much this year and has less than 150 rushing yards. Davis and Ex-Jet Ty Johnson might get more action than usual on Sunday if the Bills opt to rest Cook down the stretch. Johnson is a solid third down back who has accounted for 19 first downs this year.

Fullback Reggie Gilliam has touched the ball just once all year, on a two-yard catch.

Pass catchers

Wide receiver Khalil Shakir and tight end Dalton Kincaid have been Allen’s most reliable weapons this year. Shakir leads the team with 72 catches and over 700 receiving yards, while Kincaid has a team-high five touchdown catches.

There is good depth at the tight end position with Dawson Knox and rookie Jackson Hawes having caught three touchdowns each, and they could be needed this week with Kincaid listed as questionable. However, at the wide receiver position the Bills have had a variety of options that have failed to maintain a starting role.

Keon Coleman looked like he was going to break out earlier in the season but he’s been increasingly unreliable over the course of the year and was recently benched for disciplinary reasons. He has 36 catches, though.

Josh Palmer has 21 catches, Tyrell Shavers has been in and out of the rotation despite averaging over 16 yards per catch, Curtis Samuel is on injured reserve and Elijah Moore was released. Due to this uncertainty the Bills added veteran Brandin Cooks and re-signed Gabe Davis in the middle of the season. Cooks stepped up with a 100-yard game last week against the Eagles.

Ex-Jet Mecole Hardman has also seen action off the practice squad in recent weeks and undrafted rookie tight end Keleki Latu was recently added to the roster.

Defensive Line

Buffalo’s big offseason addition – Joey Bosa – has formed a good partnership on the edge with Gregory Rousseau. While Rousseau leads the team with seven sacks and 23 hits, Bosa leads them in tackles for loss and leads the entire league with five forced fumbles. He is listed as questionable though.

Former starter AJ Epenesa provides useful depth along with Javon Solomon. However, third round rookie Landon Jackson is now on injured reserve, as is Michael Hoecht, who played in just two games after coming off the suspended list and then tore his Achilles.

The Bills have been without Ed Oliver for most of the season, forcing rookie Deone Walker into the starting lineup alongside veteran Daquan Jones.

Buffalo has plenty of experienced options on the bench with Larry Ogunjobi, Jordan Phillips and recent Jets cast-off Phidarian Mathis. Rookie TJ Sanders has also featured in the rotation and started on Sunday with Jones inactive. Jones is out again and Phillips is questionable, so Sanders may get another start.

Linebackers

Matt Milano and Terrel Bernard are the starters at the linebacker position with Milano currently playing a full-time role. However, Shaq Thompson and Dorian Williams also get regular playing time and that will be the case again on Sunday because Bernard has been ruled out.

Milano has 3.5 sacks in 12 games but Williams and Bernard have seen a drop in playing time and production as each had over 100 tackles in 2024.

Joe Andreessen is also on the roster but his primary role is on special teams.

Defensive Backs

The Bills have a solid trio of cornerbacks with Christian Benford and Tre’Davious White on the outside and Taron Johnson in the slot. White leads the team with 10 pass breakups and Benford has two defensive touchdowns.

The only backup to receive any significant playing time has been first round pick Maxwell Hairston. Cam Lewis and fifth round rookie Jordan Hancock can also back up at the cornerback positions although each has played more at the safety position.

Cole Bishop, who leads the team in tackles and interceptions, starts at safety with Jordan Poyer, although Poyer was inactive and Lewis started in his place against the Eagles. Poyer is out again on Sunday.

Darnell Savage and Sam Franklin are also available to provide depth at safety but Damar Hamlin is on injured reserve.

Special Teams

The Bills have been without injured kicker Tyler Bass all season and his replacement Michael Prater missed the last few games due to injury. In his absence, Michael Badgley had a key missed extra point in a one-point loss to the Eagles and was released a few days ago. Prater, who has missed five kicks all season, is expected back on Sunday.

Punters Brad Robbins and Cameron Johnston were released earlier in the season with the much more effective Mitch Wishnowsky taking over that role.

The Brandon Codrington experiment is basically over as the Bills have had Shakir as their punt returner and Davis as the kickoff returner for the bulk of the season. Davis, who is backed up by Johnson, currently leads the league in return average and had a 97 yard touchdown.

Franklin has been productive in a primary gunner role. Andreessen, Gilliam and Williams are the Bills’ other leading tacklers in kick coverage.

Source: https://www.ganggreennation.com/new.../previewing-the-jets-opposition-buffalo-bills

 

[New York Jets]

New York Jets Flight Connections 01/03/26

Happy Saturday, Jets fans!

Here are the links to kick off this final weekend of the 2025 Jets season.

Randy Lange – Isaiah Williams Named Jets 2025 Curtis Martin Team MVP

Randy Lange – Team Award Recipients Well Represented by the Big Men in the Trenches

Eric Allen – Jets Carrying O-Line Continuity into Week 18 Matchup

Michael David Smith – Jets name receiver and returner Isaiah Williams their team MVP

Michael Nania – Jets’ CFP Recap: How did top 3 QB targets perform?

Joe Blewett – ‘Oh, The Pain!’: Jets’ latest film session is sure to boggle the mind

Connor Long – NY Jets returner Isaiah Williams voted Curtis Martin Team MVP

Connor Long – Did CFP shift Jets’ draft sights to defensive star?

Antwan Staley – 5 college players who could help the Jets in 2026

Colin Martin – TE Mason Taylor, CB Qwan’tez Stiggers among Jets ruled out for Week 18 game vs. Bills

Justin Fried – Tanner Engstrand believes Jets offense has ‘good foundation’ in place despite brutal season

Justin Fried – This Jets fan argument against drafting a quarterback is deeply flawed

Justin Melo – Players who won’t return to the New York Jets’ offense in 2026

Paul Edsen Jr. – 2-Time Super Bowl Champion Backup QB Named Option for Jets

Here are your missed connections from yesterday.

Have a great Saturday!

Source: https://www.ganggreennation.com/new-york-jets-news/90636/new-york-jets-flight-connections-01-03-26

 

[New York Jets]

Jets fans think Aaron Glenn should be one and done

Expectations were low for the Jets heading into Aaron Glenn’s first year as head coach. Yet there’s a strong argument to be made that the team has still come up short of expectations.

The Jets had the worst December point differential in NFL history and are the first team in over fifty years to lose four straight games.

It isn’t clear how this will impact Glenn’s job status, but these struggles clearly have had an impact on fan sentiment. A majority of Jets fans who voted in our SB Nation Reacts survey this week say Glenn should be fired after his first season as head coach.

Overall we have seen a steep drop in fan confidence as the result of this losing streak.

Four weeks ago despite the team’s 3-9 record, fan confidence was at 75 percent. The month of December changed everything at least as far as fan confidence goes. It’s true of both the team in general and the coach.

Source: https://www.ganggreennation.com/new...fans-think-aaron-glenn-should-be-one-and-done

 

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Jets save their worst for last: Season-ending loss to Bills gets ugly

I hate to say it, but I wanted to see the Jets lose in Week 18 to the Buffalo Bills.

It was only partially dude to positioning in the NFL Draft. Of course, as a result of the 35-8 loss combined with the Giants’ win over the Cowboys, the Jets did clinch the number two overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. A win would have dropped the Jets by a couple of slots.

There was more to it, though. Over the years I’ve seen the Jets sell false hope over and over based on meaningless late season wins.

The Jets used a couple of narrow wins over bad opponents in 2019 to validate their decision to give Adam Gase a second season. In 2023 pulling out fourth quarter victories over bottom three opponents Washington and New England allowed the Jets to pound their chests over winning 7 games without Aaron Rodgers.

At the start of the season, I felt that how the Jets finished the season would likely be more important than how they started. This was a young roster full of players who were likely to struggle at the start of the year. Perhaps these game reps that resulted in early struggles would produce results in December.

Of course we saw how the season played out. The Jets traded two of their three stars at the deadline. The third spent the second half of the season on the sidelines injured. There were other injuries to key players. By this game, the Jets weren’t fielding an NFL caliber roster.

Still, I find the way the Jets finished the season difficult to defend. The personnel situation was ugly. You couldn’t expect many wins. In fact, you would expect the team to get blown out a fair share. All of this should be acknowledged.

At the same time the Jets weren’t the first team in history to have a thin roster decimated by injury. There are other teams pressed to putting practice squaders on the field in late season games.

Yet the Jets made history through their thorough lack of competitiveness.

History makers: The Jets …

Become the first team in NFL history to lose 5 straight games by 23+ points within a single season.

#Jets

— Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) January 5, 2026

I don’t care who you are. There’s no excuse to get annihilated like this week after week after week. There was never a ray of light anywhere in the last month of the season.

The roster might have been dismal, but the Bills played their backups in this game. Are we to accept that losing by 27 points to Buffalo’s B team is the best the Jets could do? Is it all right that the Jets made Mitchell Trubisky look like Josh Allen?

I know the cynics will say that the Jets were subtly executing a tank.

It doesn’t say good things about a team when people assume you were tanking because it isn’t possible to be that bad organically.

I have to question the premise as well. After all, the Jets wouldn’t have needed to tank so glaringly in order to lose games. There are also some pretty clear signs that it wasn’t a tank. Take the nonsensical timeout Aaron Glenn called near the end of the first half. It served no purpose to win or lose the game. The most logical explanation to me is that Aaron Glenn is in over his head generally speaking and it shows itself in moments like this where he lost track of the game situation.

This roster doesn’t just need work. It needs a complete reconstruction.

Unfortunately, I’m not sure how anybody can trust that this coaching staff is capable of successfully overseeing such a reconstruction.

It can be difficult to separate talent issues from coaching issues. I do have to ask a question, though. Where is the value added by the coaches?

I don’t see any area where this team is better than it would be without the current coaching staff. Would the Jets be losing by 50 instead of 27 if not for Glenn’s coaching? I tend to doubt it.

The depths this team sunk to are frankly unfathomable. The Rich Kotite Era is generally viewed as the low point in modern Jets history. Kotite’s 1996 team lost by an average of 11 points per game. Glenn’s team in 2025? They lost by 11.9 points per game.

I don’t know what Glenn or his coaches do well. I don’t know how you can bring them back and expect things to get better. I don’t know how they can be trusted to take on such a monumental roster overhaul.

During this game, we heard an old standby of any failed Jets coaching tenure. During a blowout, the game announcers recalled speaking to Glenn during the week and were told that despite the team’s performance, there is a plan to improve. I think I have heard a version of this from every failed Jets coach right at the point it was clear their career with the team was circling the drain. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard it in year one before.

As usual, the Jets are asking us not to believe our lying eyes and trust the people in charge. As usual, we are being told that things will turn around once the people in charge are able to use the assets they have stockpiled.

It doesn’t sound like any change is in sight so I guess we have to hope for the best.

Glenn and his coaching staff certainly haven’t done anything to provide real confidence so hope is all we have.

Source: https://www.ganggreennation.com/new...or-last-season-ending-loss-to-bills-gets-ugly

 

[New York Jets]

New York Jets 2026 opponents: Home, away matchups confirmed

The New York Jets will play a last-place schedule in 2026. The New England Patriots used theirs to go from worst to first in 2025, so there is hope? Anyway, as the season is over, we have the final slots for the teams New York will play in 2026.

New York Jets 2026 opponents​

The Bills will always do the home-and-home series with the other three AFC East teams, so the New England Patriots, Miami Dolphins, and Buffalo Bills are on the docket.

The three-year rotation brings together the AFC West and the AFC East in 2026, so the Denver Broncos, Los Angeles Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs, and the Las Vegas Raiders will all be Jets opponents in 2026.

The four-year rotation with the NFC divisions will have the AFC East playing the NFC North. The Minnesota Vikings, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, and Chicago Bears are all on New York’s schedule.

The three final opponents are determined by division finish. The fourth-place team in the AFC South and the AFC North will play the Jets along with the fourth-place team in the NFC West. That puts the Tennessee Titans and Cleveland Browns on the schedule along with the Arizona Cardinals.

New York Jets 2026 home game schedule​

The Jets will have eight home games in 2026 as the NFC will get the extra home game this season.

• New England Patriots
• Miami Dolphins
• Buffalo Bills
• Denver Broncos
• Las Vegas Raiders
• Green Bay Packers
• Minnesota Vikings
• Cleveland Browns

New York Jets 2026 away game schedule​

• New England Patriots
• Miami Dolphins
• Buffalo Bills
• Kansas City Chiefs
• Los Angeles Chargers
• Chicago Bears
• Detroit Lions
• Tennessee Titans
• Arizona Cardinals

Source: https://www.ganggreennation.com/new...pponents-2026-afc-east-nfc-home-away-matchups

 

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Keep Aaron Glenn, Build the Environment, and Stop Fearing the “Ruined QB”

Jets fans have been trained to fear one thing above all else. That a coaching staff will somehow ruin the next young quarterback. It’s an understandable anxiety given the last two decades. But it’s also a misunderstanding of how quarterbacks are actually developed in the NFL. History shows, again and again, that quarterbacks are shaped far more by their environment than by the reputation of their coaches. Coaching matters but it is not the primary factor that determines whether a young QB survives his first few seasons.

There is no secret technique that a coach teaches which permanently damages a quarterback. Footwork can be adjusted. Reads change with every system. Aggressiveness and conservatism are driven by game script, not philosophy. If bad coaching truly ruined quarterbacks, we would see the same mechanical or mental failures replicated across multiple QBs under the same staff. That simply doesn’t happen. What does happen consistently is this. Quarterbacks behind bad offensive lines, without reliable weapons, develop panic habits. They speed up their internal clock, bail from clean pockets, abandon progressions, and play hero ball. That isn’t coaching failure it’s survival.

Over the last 30 years, the pattern is remarkably consistent. Rookie quarterbacks who entered the league with a top-20 offensive line and at least functional skill support either a 900-yard-level receiver plus a productive running back, or two legitimate receivers almost universally reached the playoffs within their first three seasons as starters. Coaching reputation didn’t matter. Some of those coaches were later fired. Some were considered average at best. The environment created a stable floor for development. The only consistent exceptions were truly generational outliers who succeeded despite chaos, or quarterbacks whose early growth years were derailed by major injury.

That’s why the Jets’ focus should not be on fearing Aaron Glenn as some existential developmental risk. Glenn may or may not become a great head coach, but history strongly suggests he is not capable of ruining a quarterback who is properly supported. If the Jets fail their next QB, it won’t be because of terminology or drills. It will be because they once again asked a young passer to function without protection, balance, or answers.

The real path forward is obvious. Solidify the offensive line not with patchwork optimism, but with real, dependable talent. Bring back Breece Hall, who stabilizes game script and keeps defenses honest. Add a true No. 2 wide receiver who wins on time and gives the quarterback a reliable outlet. Quarterbacks don’t need miracles to develop. They need competence. Keeping Aaron Glenn isn’t the gamble. Failing to finally build a functional offensive environment is.

Source: https://www.ganggreennation.com/gen...he-environment-and-stop-fearing-the-ruined-qb

 

[New York Jets]

The Jets have begun signing players to reserve/future contracts. What does that mean?

If you are paying close attention, you will see in the days ahead that the Jets are signing players to reserve/futures contracts. The process has already begun.

We've signed the following players to reserve/future contracts

— New York Jets (@nyjets) January 5, 2026

You might wonder what this means.

To answer the question, we first must talk about the NFL calendar. The maximum number of players a team is allowed to have on its roster varies. Between the start of the league year in March and cutdown day in August, teams are allowed to carry 90 players on their roster. Between cutdown day and the start of the next league year, teams can only roster 53 players.

A reserve/future contract allows the Jets and other teams to sign players for the next season. Even though the 2025 season is over, the Jets technically still have to keep their roster at 53 players until the new league year begins in March.

When a player signs a reserve/future deal, he is signing a contract that starts in March. He doesn’t count against the roster until the contract kicks in upon the beginning of the new league year.

These contracts allow the Jets to start filling out their training camp rosters early rather than wait until March when they will be occupied with other things. They also give players certainty that they will be in an NFL training camp.

Any player who is currently a free agent can sign a reserve/future deal. This includes players who ended the season on the practice squad. The practice squad ceases to exist upon the conclusion of the final game of the season so the Jets need to sign any players they want to keep to a reserve/future contract.

Source: https://www.ganggreennation.com/new...-reserve-future-contracts-what-does-that-mean