YOU can panic, and you will. YOU are the long-suffering Jets fan and it’s what you do. It’s your Pavlovian response to crisis.
YOU have endured too many summers of hope that transform suddenly into autumns of hopelessness or winters of your discontent. Or both.
YOU have been forced to live through Eli Manning delivering two Super Bowl championships to the Giants and, worse, Tom Brady lifting four Lombardi Trophies for the Patriots. And guess who’s coming back Sunday from his Deflategate suspension?
YOU can panic because your journeyman quarterback is revisiting his vagabond NFL journey, and Ben Roethlisberger and Antonio Brown are waiting in ambush Sunday in Pittsburgh, followed by a Monday Nighter in Arizona against a rested Cardinals team that will be desperate to climb out of its own hole.