It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. Not like this. Not against Bill Belichick. Not against the New England Patriots. Not against a Pats team with Tom Brady long gone while currently torturing the NFC South.
Especially not while Sam Darnold is slinging it in his second life down in the Carolinas.
Although it’s happened quite frequently over the last decade, the New York Jets’ home-opener simply shouldn’t unfold with the most rabid “J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets!” chants coming from the swamp-backdropped North Jersey parking lots at noon ET.