NFL World Declares Jets' Season Over After Embarrassing Loss to Patriots

Aaron Rodgers and the Jets fell to 2-6 with a 25-22 loss to the Patriots.
Aaron Rodgers and the Jets fell to 2-6 with a 25-22 loss to the Patriots. / David Butler II-Imagn Images

The New York Jets are getting hammered on social media.

In Week 8, Aaron Rodgers and his team suffered a brutal loss to a bad New England Patriots team. It was another embarrassing defeat that dropped the Jets to 2-6 on the season. Despite having a healthy Rodgers, firing the underperforming Robert Saleh and trading for Davante Adams, Gang Green is still terrible.

The Jets lost 25-22 despite holding the Patriots to 247 yards of total offense. They outgained their opponents by nearly 100 yards, and limited New England to 3.9 yards per play while averaging 5.9 themselves. The Patriots lost starting quarterback Drake Maye early, and neither team turned the ball over. There is zero reason New York should have lost that game. But they found a way.

The NFL world took to X (formerly Twitter) to rip the franchise for being awful and essentially declare the team's season over.

The condemnation is fair. The team is less than the sum of its parts. With Rodgers, Adams, Garrett Wilson, and Breece Hall, the offense should be better. Meanwhile, the defense has never really been this squad's problem. Still, they can't win games.

The Jets are the NFL's biggest disappointment this season.


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Ryan Phillips
RYAN PHILLIPS

Ryan Phillips is a senior writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He has worked in digital media since 2009, spending eight years at The Big Lead before joining SI in 2024. Phillips also co-hosts The Assembly Call Podcast about Indiana Hoosiers basketball and previously worked at Bleacher Report. He is a proud San Diego native and a graduate of Indiana University’s journalism program.