Sauce Gardner wasn’t entirely sure how many touchdown passes Aaron Rodgers threw on Sunday. All Gardner knew was that it was too many.
Four, Gardner was told.
“That’s unacceptable,” Gardner said. “Us as a defense, we got to be better.”
It was an odd season debut for the Jets, considering how they’ve played in recent years. These weren’t the Zach Wilson-led Jets where touchdowns were few and far between. Justin Fields made plays with his arm and legs and Breece Hall was elusive, explosive and looked better than he did at any point last season.
The Jets scored 32 points on a Pittsburgh defense that was being hyped as one of the best — and they still lost .
The previous eight times that the Jets scored at least 30 points, they won. This was over a 3 1/2-year stretch, which shows h