New York Jets To End Season Making an attempt To Spoil Miami Dolphins’ Playoff Probabilities

The New York Jets can solely play spoiler. That’s as they end what was as soon as a promising season Sunday in Miami in opposition to the Dolphins, who’re taking part in for his or her playoff lives and should find yourself utilizing a journeyman quarterback they simply signed on Wednesday.

And that, of us, is why the road has moved from Jets +1 to Jets – 1 or -1 1/2 over the course of this week. You assume Gang Inexperienced’s followers being down on Zach Wilson is a significant deal? Properly, the bettors and the foremost sportsbooks should not being all that enamored with the backup to Tua Tagovailoa and Teddy Bridgewater.

If fortunes had been a bit kinder to every of those groups, Zach Wilson and Tagovailoa could be matching up in a sport that will have had postseason seeding implications. However Wilson has been bolted to the bench, and Tagovailoa is within the concussion protocol as soon as once more and has not been practising this week.

A win by the Jets would finish Miami’s season, whereas a win by the Dolphins and a loss by New England in opposition to Buffalo would get Miami in because the No. 7 seed, which might earn them a wild card matchup in opposition to Buffalo, Kansas Metropolis, or Cincinnati. With the NFL schedule a multitude due to the occasions of Monday night time in Cincinnati, seeding within the AFC won’t be decided till the league decides if and when the Payments-Bengals sport will likely be resumed.

For now, it seems Mike White would be the beginning quarterback for the Jets. Wilson has been taking part in with the apply squad, which normally means he will likely be on ice — regardless that coach Robert Saleh issued a robust endorsement Wednesday of the 23-year-old signal-caller.

Robert Saleh says Jets will develop Zach Wilson ‘by way of hell or excessive water’ through @nypostsports

— Brian Costello (@BrianCoz) January 5, 2023

Why Have The Strains Moved So A lot?

Typically, a staff taking part in at residence with a postseason berth at stake going up in opposition to a staff that’s ending its season would point out a robust propensity for the house staff to win. However the Dolphins are in quarterback hell. Skylar Thompson is taking snaps with the primary unit in apply. That’s due to Tagovailoa being within the concussion protocol and backup Teddy Bridgewater unable to throw a soccer due to a dislocated pinkie finger he sustained final Sunday.

Mike Glennon has been signed as an emergency backup, and Thompson might be the starter if Bridgewater’s situation doesn’t enhance. Thompson, a rookie from Kansas State who was chosen within the seventh spherical of the final NFL draft, went 12-fo-24 for 104 yards with one TD cross and one interception after Bridgewater was harm in opposition to the Pats. It was his sixth look of the season and the third during which he performed significant minutes.

Thompson had his fifth cross in opposition to New England picked off. Although he threw a 4-yard TD cross to Mike Gesicki with 1:04 remaining, the Dolphins didn’t get well the following onside kick and misplaced their fifth in a row.

The Jets additionally enter this sport with a five-game shedding streak. Their season went south once they got here up 5 factors brief at Minnesota on Dec. 4 to start a slide that additionally has consists of losses to the Payments, Lions, Jaguars, and Seahawks. New York scored simply 3 factors in opposition to Jacksonville and 6 in opposition to Seattle, which is why this sport has the second-lowest over/underneath on the board this weekend: 38 1/2.

New York has gone underneath in 4 straight and 9 of 11, and Miami has alternated going over and underneath in every of its final seven video games. The 38 1/2 line is three factors decrease than any earlier Dolphins sport this season.

See you at @HardRockStadium on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/UairM7GLql

— Miami Dolphins (@MiamiDolphins) January 2, 2023

Of the 9 sportsbooks licensed in New York, Draft Kings and Resorts World have the road at Jets – 1 1/2. The seven others have it Jets -1.

Wilson’s Future in New York

The struggling quarterback will likely be inactive Sunday within the staff’s season finale at Miami, with Mike White beginning a second straight sport and Joe Flacco the backup. Nonetheless, coach Robert Saleh insisted Wednesday that Wilson nonetheless has a future with the franchise.

“Zach has acquired all of the expertise on the planet, and we’ve got all the boldness on the planet in him,” Saleh stated. “It’s similar to I’ve stated from this ‘reset,’ we’re going to grind with him, we’re. And thru hell or excessive water, we’re going to determine methods to get him to the place we all know he may be.”

Some followers and media have labeled the No. 2 choose within the 2021 draft a bust, and his statistics assist that. Wilson has 15 touchdowns and 18 interceptions with a 55.2 completion charge and a 72.8 quarterback ranking in 22 begins.

The low season will deliver no matter it can deliver, together with a verdict on whether or not Saleh was speaking Wilson up with a purpose to maintain his commerce worth up. As for Sunday, Saleh has religion in his Jets.

“One factor I like about this league is that when these gamers put these helmets on, they’re professionals — they get it,” Jets coach Robert Saleh stated. “The concept gamers tank, they don’t present up, they don’t play arduous, I don’t imagine in it as a result of these guys are placing tape on the market for 31 different groups to see, for followers to see, for everybody to see. There’s lots of satisfaction in gamers, there’s lots of satisfaction in coaches, to go on the market, and no matter your report, to go on the market and do your best possible. So, I’m not apprehensive about our guys getting up for this sport and making an attempt to play spoiler.”

Saleh and Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel are good buddies, and coached collectively in Houston and San Francisco. Saleh joked that he would like to knock McDaniel from playoff competition.

“Wouldn’t it be good to have McDaniel hanging out with me poolside in a pair weeks? You’re rattling proper it could,” Saleh stated. “However actually, it’s extra about us, and ensuring that we’re targeted on ending the season sturdy and being our best possible, and no matter occurs, occurs.”