The Jets imagine.
A stroll round their locker room and a few conversations with their gamers and that perception is obvious. There’s a way they fear nothing, that they really feel as in the event that they’re going to take this season deeper than a Jets season has been taken lately.
The Jets are 3-2, above .500 for the primary time since 2017.
After all that and about $50 will get you a parking spot in somebody’s yard adjoining to Lambeau Discipline in Inexperienced Bay for the Jets-Packers sport this Sunday.
There’s a long way to go. “Marathon, not a dash,’’ as Invoice Parcells was fond of claiming.
However, oh, what a win over Aaron Rodgers and the Packers would do for these upstart Jets.
“It will put the league on discover,’’ linebacker Quincy Williams instructed The Submit on Friday. “Confidence would go up. We’ve been speaking all 12 months about not being the identical previous Jets, so it will be an announcement sport for us.’’
Operating again Michael Carter, solely in his second season, however a level-headed, emotional chief, initially instructed The Submit: “It’ll make us 4-2.’’
Then he added: “Our confidence is already up and it’s going to be unwavering all through the season. If we go up there and win, outdoors this locker room it will be an even bigger deal.’’
Defensive deal with Sheldon Rankins, one of many sages within the Jets’ locker room, agreed with Carter.
“For us, a win up there would do nothing however verify what we imagine,” he instructed The Submit. “However a win would undoubtedly herald these outsiders, the those that didn’t imagine we are able to win some of these video games. It will validate issues for outsiders.’’
Rankins likes what he sees round him contained in the locker room.
“I feel a win [in Green Bay] will proceed to substantiate what everybody in right here believes,’’ he mentioned. “I’m a giant believer in not over-blowing one sport. It’s vital for us to grasp that occurring the highway and getting a win in opposition to a group like Inexperienced Bay does quite a bit for us, nevertheless it shouldn’t change the way in which we already imagine in ourselves and what we will be.
“A win up there does nothing however verify what all of us imagine we are able to obtain. If we go up there and get a win, that’ll proceed to construct on that.’’
The specter of taking part in at Lambeau Discipline, which will probably be a primary for most of the younger Jets, provides to the juice of this sport, as does going through Rodgers.
“For those who observe soccer in any respect, you perceive the lore of a lace like Lambeau Discipline and all the good gamers which have performed there,’’ Rankins mentioned. “However when the ball is kicked off, we’re taking part in soccer whether or not it’s a parking zone, Lambeau Discipline or a apply discipline.
“There’s some lore connected to it, however regardless of the place we’re taking part in soccer our goal is to win one other sport.
A Jets win would equal their 2021 victory complete in a mere six video games.
“Now we have an opportunity to actually make an announcement,’’ linebacker C.J. Mosley mentioned. “Going into Lambeau Discipline … we’re at some extent proper now the place we’re competing to win video games and beat large groups at their place. Now, it’s all about proudly owning that second, as a result of we’ve earned it.
“Now, we’ve obtained to execute and maintain it constructing.’’
Security Will Parks mentioned he believes “each sport is an announcement sport — particularly on this group the way in which it has been going earlier than this 12 months.
“Clearly, Inexperienced Bay has been within the playoffs yearly [11 of the past 13 year] and is all the time combating for the No. 1 seed within the NFC. However that is nearly us and what we are able to management, what we are able to do to set ourselves up in a tricky place to play in opposition to a terrific quarterback.
“I feel a win there would transcend this group to the subsequent stage the place we need to go. Getting into there and getting a ‘W’ in Inexperienced Bay at Lambeau could be one of the crucial historic moments in Jets historical past.’’
