FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – Brant Boyer had been waiting a long time for the Jets special teams’ unit to have the type of game it had Monday night.
So long that the first thing the special teams coach said during his weekly news conference was, “You can all say it: It’s about damn time.”
Boyer is in his fourth season, but it had been nearly six years since the Jets scored a special teams touchdown. Andre Roberts returned a punt 78 yards for a score in the Jets’ victory over the Lions to end that drought.
The Jets haven’t had a good special teams unit in years.