Jets look for flying start with Davante Adams as wiggle room evaporates

PITTSBURGH — The Jets have managed to change the conversation after their past two losses.Now, they just need a win. They come here at 2-4 to face the 4-2 Steelers with their new wide receiver Davante Adams a week after changing head coaches.

The move from Robert Saleh to Jeff Ulbrich did not result in a win Monday night against Buffalo.We’ll see if the arrival of Adams can snap the three-game losing skid. The Jets know their wiggle room is gone, and they need to start winning the close games they have been losing. “It’s understood,” team captain C.J.

Mosley said.“We’ve got Davante here.

We’ve got everything we need.There’s no more excuses to be had or said.

It’s time for us to find a way to win a game.It doesn’t have to be pretty.

It doesn’t have to be a blowout.We just have to find a way.” Adams is reunited with quarterback Aaron Rodgers, and the Jets are hoping those two can recapture the magic they shared for eight seasons in Green Bay.

The Jets need something.Amazingly, they have scored 113 points this season, the same total they had through six games last season with Zach Wilson at quarterback. Adams missed the past three weeks in Las Vegas with a hamstring injury that many suspected was exaggerated as he waited to be traded.

He practiced fully with the Jets this week and should have a large role in this game. Rodgers and Adams have spent the week getting reacquainted, staying at Rodgers house and the two driving into work together. “He sat next to me in the team meeting [Wednesday], and I turned to him and just said, ‘Man, how crazy is this?’ ” Rodgers said.“Something that when we get together in the offseasons we joke about, but it never seemed like a possibility or going to happen, so it’s good to be with him.

He has a presence about him that’s palpable when he steps onto the walk-through field, a practice field or in a meeting.“Obviously, he brings clout and accolades from somebody who’s been at...