Jets fantasy football roster going absolutely nowhere

PITTSBURGH — Momentum is such a precious thing in sports. It must be handled with extreme care, because it’s so elusive. The Jets had it against the Steelers late in the first half Sunday night.They had control of the game.

The Steelers were on the ropes. The Jets were in position to right their season that had been off-kilter for the first six games, sputtering at 2-4 entering the night. They were in position to defeat the Steelers on the road and then go to New England and take care of the lowly Patriots next Sunday and their record would be 4-4, back to .500.And then they would be on that “run’’ they’ve been talking about. The Jets had the momentum and then they got careless with it. Their most important, highest-profile player, quarterback Aaron Rodgers, was the guilty party in giving it away. And the end result was a disgusting, distasteful and potentially destructive 37-15 loss at Acrisure Stadium. It left the Jets and their fantasy football roster at 2-5 and in a four-game losing spiral. It, too, left team owner Woody Johnson seemingly out of phone-a-friend options. Johnson is on record touting the Jets current roster as the greatest collection of players he’s had on his team in his 24 years as its owner. He spent the past two weeks firing his head coach, Robert Saleh, in an effort to “spark’’ the team and then this past week trading for high-profile receiver Davante Adams, who made a rather quiet Jets debut Sunday night. Now what? That was the Jets’ rally-cry motto last season.

Now it takes on a completely different tone thanks to the gift Rodgers gave to the Steelers in this game. Leading 15-6 and driving, Rodgers threw a pass intended for receiver Garrett Wilson into traffic in the middle of the field that was picked off by Pittsburgh cornerback Beanie Bishop Jr. Bishop stepped in front of Wilson and plucked the ball out of the air with his left hand with 1:15 remaining in the half.Sign up for Inside the Jets by...