Freefalling Jets break ESPNers as miserable season continues: ‘Blow this thing up’

Much like every other Jets fan, the stars of ESPN’s “Get Up” have seen enough of the fledgling 2-6 team.

When dissecting the Jets’ latest loss Sunday to the equally woeful Patriots, panelists Dan Orlovsky, Mike Greenberg, Damien Woody and former Jets coach Rex Ryan deemed the Aaron Rodgers experiment a complete failure and implored owner Woody Johnson to “blow this thing up.”

“The Aaron Rodgers era is over. It’s officially over with the New York Jets. This team is worse this year than when Zach Wilson last year [was] playing the quarterback position,” Woody said on Monday’s installment, referencing the club’s 2021 first-round bust.

“… They’re poorly coached. In the run game, they don’t even know the guys they have to block, and Aaron Rodgers is just a shell of himself.”

Woody, a former Jets offensive lineman, then reiterated a critical point he made last week that this Jets roster, while stacked with notable names including Rodgers, Davante Adams and Haason Reddick, is just that, “a roster.”

“They’re a bunch of hired mercenaries out there that have popular names on the back of their jersey but they don’t play as a team. And it’s about time for everyone at 1 Jets Drive to understand that it’s time to blow this thing up,” he said.

Ryan, who coached the Jets from 2009 to 2014 and made back-to-back AFC Championship appearances, pulled no punches, calling the offense a “joke” and the defense “damn overrated.”

“The team is horribly coached. Absolutely horribly coached,” he said.

The Jets have been in a free fall for much of October, which saw the dismissal of head coach Robert Saleh after a 2-3 start.

Saleh was replaced by defensive coordinator Jeff Ulrbrich, who has now lost his first three games as interim head coach.

Entering must-win territory in Week 8, the Jets held a 22-17 lead late in the fourth quarter Sunday before the Patriots rallied for a last-minute touchdown that would put them ahead, 25-22.

The loss — the Jets’ fifth straight — made them “the first team since 2012 to lose with zero giveaways and less than 250 yards allowed,” per ESPN Research.

“The Jets lost a game yesterday that is impossible to lose,” Orlovsky said on “Get Up.”

“It’s impossible to have a box score that they did and lose that game yesterday.”

Perhaps the most damning ᴀssessment of the AFC East basement dwellers belonged to Greenberg, a longtime Jets fan, who summed up the 2024 squad as “one of the greatest, most colossal and embarrᴀssing failures in sports history.”

“The New York Jets turned over their entire franchise to [Aaron Rodgers] and it got much, much worse. Like, embarrᴀssingly worse. What they’re doing is embarrᴀssing to watch. I’ve been following this team 50 years, I’ve never been as embarrᴀssed to say that I’m a fan or to say that I believed in them as I have been this season and yesterday, in particular,” Greenberg said.

Rodgers, 40, arrived at the Jets in April 2023 to much fanfare coupled with Super Bowl aspirations.

His first season in New York lasted four plays after he suffered a season-ending Achilles injury in Week 1 that year.

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