Sam Darnold had his toenail removed.
His memory of a nightmare performance remains.
But that memory is not necessarily all bad news for live-and-learn Jets coach Adam Gase, who will not tell his quarterback to burn the tape after a 33-0 loss to the Patriots on “Monday Night Football”.
“I have a lot of confidence in Sam bouncing back from this,” Gase said Tuesday. “It’s tough when you go through this originally. Then you go back and watch the tape, figure out your mistakes, move on to the next game, put a good game on tape.