After watching the final episode of Hard Knocks, and cornerback D.J. Reed’s comments about the defense potentially being on the level of the 1985 Bears, Sal says enough is enough.
The Jets need to simply shut their mouths and get ready to play, before they stick their own foot in their mouth.
“It’s just too much.” Sal said. “It’s hard to criticize them for Hard Knocks, because they didn’t choose Hard Knocks.
“Come on, it’s enough. All the Jets talk. I’d like to see some kind of humility from them, where you’re saying, ‘come on guys, we haven’t accomplished squat.’ Yet it’s, ‘Bleep this, this is the way we should be feeling, we’re the best defense this, best defense that,’ and it’s like, come on guys, you haven’t been to the playoffs in 13 years!”
Sal believes the Jets have placed a target on their own back, some of it due to no fault of their own, but the team does seem to be leaning into the hype a little too much, and should take a page out of the book of their crosstown rivals when it comes to the preseason noise.
“I do think teams are gonna be going more after the Jets because of all the hype,” Sal said. “Some of it isn’t their fault, but some of it is…they have set the expectations so high, they’re setting themselves up for disaster.
“They already have the target on their back. Just shut up and go freaking play, like the Giants do. Daboll doesn’t say squat. Even dating back to last year, Saleh running his mouth about keeping receipts. How did that work out? Look at how Daboll runs things. Under the radar, and they went way further.”