Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner is just not shying away from excessive expectations for the 2024 season.
“I really feel like we are able to win a championship, a Tremendous Bowl,” Gardner stated. “We’ve obtained the blokes. We’ve obtained the coaches. We’ve obtained every little thing we’d like. The coaching employees, every little thing that it takes for us to have the ability to get to the place we wish to get to.”
Gardner stated he felt the identical approach coming into final season.
These excessive hopes resulted in Week 1 when Aaron Rodgers tore his left Achilles tendon.
However these hopes at the moment are again with a wholesome Rodgers and what the Jets hope is an improved roster.
Coach Robert Saleh is unfazed by a schedule that features six prime-time video games within the first 11 weeks of the season.
“No response. You are taking them as they arrive,” he stated. “The schedule comes out, each staff has issues on their schedule that they should cope with. We’ve obtained some issues we’re excited to cope with.”
Saleh had stated in March he hoped the staff might be extra underneath the radar this yr.
With all these prime-time video games, that’s not occurring.
“It’s New York,” Saleh stated. “There’s at all times going to be pleasure. It’s superior that we’re checked out in that mild. On the identical time, none of it issues until we deal with the method and going day-to-day and making an attempt to be one of the best we are able to.”
There have been experiences that the Jets tried to rent somebody above offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett this offseason.
Saleh declined to deal with the most recent report, referring to feedback he made in March that it was not true.
Hackett stated he feels Saleh has religion in him and that he was concerned in the entire interviews of potential teaching candidates on offense.
“That is what I might inform you,” Hackett stated. “I don’t know what these experiences are, and I don’t know the place their sources got here from. I do know what occurred with us. It was nice. We had numerous conversations. We obtained to speak to numerous completely different individuals. It’s that easy. It’s already been addressed.”
Notable absences at Tuesday’s OTA: RB Breece Corridor, DT Quinnen Williams, DE Haason Reddick and DT Javon Kinlaw. These are voluntary practices. … OT Morgan Moses, G Alijah Vera-Tucker, G John Simpson and DT Leki Foto had been engaged on a aspect area with trainers.
