The Basement View

  Joe Douglas and Robert Saleh should be auditioning for their jobs with the New York Jets. In year three of a new General Manager and Head Coach the team on the field should be contending for a Super Bowl. The Jets where well on their way to doing so and, poof, those hopes lasted 75 seconds. Now, they find themselves in the same position that they were in last year. Yearning for average quarterback play with a failed number two overall pick as their signal caller as the team around the quarterback is ready to compete with the best in the league. Zach Wilson is again the captain of this ship that is primed for the playoffs but won’t get there because Wilson is not good enough to get his squad to the postseason. Again, Joe Douglas and Robert Saleh find themselves in the same position that they were in last season backing a player that could ultimately get them both fired. But both will be back next season in their same positions. This time it’ll be in a do or die season. Aaron Rodgers g

  After all the anticipation, the buildup, the hype, the Hard Knocks, it lasted four plays. A New York Jets season that was supposed to be different began in a way every Jet fan thought to themselves “of course this had to happen to us, why can’t we have nice things!”   Enter Zach Wilson. The season basically ending on a medical cart ride back to the Jets locker room with the Golden Boy aboard. Or so we thought. Following the air being sucked out of MetLife Stadium on the first drive of the game for the green and white, the defense put on their hard hats. Writing much of the same script as last season—putting the offense on their backs and carrying them to the finish line. Every opportunity to make a play defensively it happened. And when the offense needed to answer the bell; the reigning Rookie Offensive Player of Year, Garrett Wilson, delivered with perhaps the greatest catch for the Jets since MetLife Stadium opened. Tack on kicker Greg Zuerlein making all three of his field goal t

    Last year was not a good year for this column. Only one of the six picks from last year hit and it happened to be the defending Super Bowl Champions that came in as (-120) to win just 11 games. There is a similar team in this years’ crop of teams, but we are aiming to not only cash on the only favorite in the field, but to go as close to perfect as possible. So, as we flush last years’ Over/Under Column down the toilet, let’s start anew. All numbers found on DraftKings Sportsbook.   Seattle O/U 9.5: OVER (+125) Seattle was featured last year and blew through their win total surprising the entire football world following the Russell Wilson trade. Well, everyone but the Seahawks themselves threw them aside. Seattle, scouting their own, knew they would be better off without Wilson as their signal caller. Following the trade something incredible happened. Something even the Seattle brass could not have foreseen. Geno Smith last season was the league’s most efficient passer and propelle