The 2021 NFL offseason was easy for the New York Jets, whose activities were guaranteed to be rewarded with a passing grade. The preceding two-win campaign sank the franchise to depths so low that anything short of contraction of the franchise would’ve been a step in the right direction – and even some of the more masochistic fans of Gang Green probably wouldn’t have fully ruled out the possibility, at the very least.
Assessing this ongoing offseason will require some overtime. It came after another year that featured only marginal improvement by conventional means (doubling the prior year’s win total only produced four victories) but nuggets of hope were buried in the carnage, not least of which was the late stabilizing of new franchise quarterback Zach Wilson‘s NFL infancy.