August. It’s a very particular month in the life of an ordinary Jets fan: Football comes back, the excitement starts to poke around and the feeling is that the new season is definitely going to be better than the last one.
Then, the inevitable happens, putting everyone on their knees: an unpleasant injury to a key player.
The victim, this time, was 3rd-year offensive lineman Mekhi Becton, who fractured his knee cap during practice on Monday and is probably out for the season, according to head coach Robert Saleh.
Bad news. Awful news.