When the Jets and Giants tangle within the preseason finale Friday evening at MetLife Stadium, it will likely be unimaginable to not discover a marked distinction in star energy.
Rex Ryan barged and blustered his method onto the tabloid again pages and web for some time, and also you had to concentrate to the Jets round right here once they reached back-to-back AFC Championship video games sandwiched between the 2 Tom Coughlin-Eli Manning Giants Tremendous Bowl championships.
Then the shedding started in earnest, and Woody Johnson made the transfer for Aaron Rodgers, and right here got here the highlight, right here got here the Arduous Knocks summer time, Rodgers fanboying over Liev Schreiber, teammates and membership officers fanboying over Rodgers, right here got here primetime video games, and right here got here Joe Namath providing to have his No. 12 unretired so Rodgers might put on the quantity he’ll take into Canton as a Packer.
You couldn’t blame the proprietor, not after Mark Sanchez fizzled and the younger Geno Smith had his jaw damaged within the locker room and Sam Darnold didn’t have sufficient time to develop right into a Tremendous Bowl MVP and Zach Wilson had been a colossal bust at a place that had lengthy been the franchise Achilles’ heel.
