Adam Gase could have snapped. Who would blame him if he did?
The Jets head coach could have looked like a dead coach walking as he stood before his players last week and explained to them that their franchise quarterback, Sam Darnold, was going to be out indefinitely with mononucleosis, likely leaving them as a dead team walking.
This on top of the fact the Jets had lost starting receiver Quincy Enunwa for the season to a career-threatening neck injury and the team’s best defensive player and one of its prized offseason acquisitions, linebacker C.J. Mosley, was out with a groin injury.