It's crazy how we are already half way through the NFL season, but this could not be a more perfect time to give the New York Jets my team of the week for week 9! The Jets shocked the world this past week with their major upset over the Buffalo Bills to improve to 6-3 on the campaign.
As a Jets fan, in previous years win have been hard to come by, but this season is a new season and this isn't the same old Jets. Not only are they winning games, but they are beating good teams and are actually being spoken about in the playoff race in November and not being discussed about being in the top 10 of the NFL draft for once.
They came into this previous Sunday as the heavy underdogs against arguably the best team in the NFL and defied the odds by upsetting the Bills at home. To many around the league, this was portrayed as a David vs. Goliath and the Jets were David.
The defense proved to the rest of the league why they deserve to be in the conversation for the best defense in the entire NFL, if not top 5. Zach Wilson really needed a bounce back week after his horrendous game against the Patriots and although he did not put up Mahomes or Allen like numbers he played exactly how the Jets needed him to play.
Yet the rest of the league still is sleeping on this team with a lot of analysts keeping them out of their top 10 power rankings. But that is exactly what the Jets thrive off of, getting disrespected. No one and I mean nobody had them having an over .500 record going into the bye week and look at them they are 6-3, playing their best football in 7 years!
The NFL regular season is about halfway done and in past years, the Jets would not be spoken about in November as a playoff contender. It's a delight to Jets fans including myself that we do not need to look at Mel Kiper's top 10 mock draft and see the Jets there because as Michael Clemons said, "the Jets are coming to play."
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