Many Jets questions will be answered during first-place Bills clash after tumultuous week
Woody Johnson will sit in his owner’s suite at MetLife Stadium on Monday night when his Jets play the Bills and hope the magic button he pressed this week produces, well, some magic.Jeff Ulbrich, the defensive coordinator Johnson promoted when he fired Robert Saleh on Tuesday, will stand on the sideline as an NFL head coach for the first time, hoping he can make a difference for the 2-3 Jets as they play for first place in the AFC East.Todd Downing, the quarterbacks coach who was elevated to play-caller, will sit in the coach’s box on press level calling plays for the first time, hoping to produce touchdowns for an offense that hasn’t produced enough of them.Quarterback Aaron Rodgers will be on the field, taking in the plays Downing calls, hoping the new synergy gives the wayward offense new life.Nathaniel Hackett, the offensive coordinator and BFOAR (best friend of Aaron Rodgers) who had his play-calling duties stripped away and given to Downing, will be at MetLife Stadium with a role yet to be known.Saleh, presumably, will be sitting at home, without a team to coach for the first time in three-plus years, either watching his former team or not, but knowing in his heart that it’s a talented team still with a chance to make some noise this season.It’s been a turbulent week around the Jets, and many questions still persist, beginning with how the team will respond and react to the internal unrest when it finally gets onto the field Sunday night.Usually, when head coaches are fired — particularly in mid-season — the teams are in a state chaos and/or a free fall in the standings.Yes, the Jets enter this game having lost in each of the past weeks, but they’re hardly a team in chaos. A win over the 3-2 Bills on Monday night and the Jets are in first place in the AFC East, tied with the Bills at 3-3 — and with the early head-to-head tiebreaker edge.How will the players react to the sudden change and the emotions of Saleh being fired?“The message is pl...