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1 week ago | ganggreennation.com | MacGregor Wells

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Good morning Gang Green Nation! It’s official. Aaron Rodgers will be beginning the 2025 NFL season back in MetLife Stadium, as the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers’ starting quarterback against the New York Jets. The so-called revenge game for both Rodgers and former Steelers quarterback Justin Fields, now starting for the Jets, will get all kinds of hype, to which I respond, yawn.

1 week ago | ganggreennation.com | MacGregor Wells

Kara Durrette/Getty Images Good morning Gang Green Nation! There’s optimism, and then there’s fantasy. Pete Martuneac, writing for the Sporting News, has gone over the deep end, living in a fantasy world. In an article below, Martuneac speculates that Will McDonald may hit 17 sacks this season and Breece Hall may get 2000 scrimmage yards. Those two things are very unlikely, but Martuneac doesn’t stop there. He speculates Justin Fields could be contending for an All Pro nod.

1 week ago | ganggreennation.com | MacGregor Wells

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images Good morning Gang Green Nation! The New York Jets have brought in three new hires in their analytics department. That doubles the department size from last year. As analytics have become an increasingly important tool for NFL teams, the Jets have lagged behind, often seemingly making half-hearted token efforts without really prioritizing this new tool. Perhaps the new hires are a sign the Jets are finally ready to embrace analytics.

1 week ago | ganggreennation.com | MacGregor Wells

Photo by Timothy T Ludwig/Getty Images Good morning Gang Green Nation! As the NFL offseason continues to creep in this petty pace from day to day, Jets writers continue to project things for the Jets that don’t seem to fit what the new Jets regime is trying to accomplish. Today we get suggestions the Jets might trade for Micah Parsons and the Jets should sign Amari Cooper. These kinds of splashy moves seem to me the antithesis of the entire offseason approach taken by Aaron Glenn et al.

2 weeks ago | ganggreennation.com | MacGregor Wells

Photo by Timothy T Ludwig/Getty Images Good morning Gang Green Nation! It’s National Salary Cap Day. Yeah, that’s not a thing, but today is June 2, when salary cap space from post June 1 cuts hits the books in the NFL. With the additional cap space provided by the Jets cutting Aaron Rodgers and C.J. Mosley, the New York Jets now have more than $36 million in 2025 cap space according to Overthecap.com. The good news: the Jets now have the fourth most 2025 cap space in the NFL.