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Wealthy Cimini, ESPN Employees Author
The New York Jets have misplaced 14 straight video games to the New England Patriots. Sufficient is sufficient, in accordance with Jets broad receiver Garrett Wilson.
“It is time that issues change round right here,” Wilson mentioned Tuesday throughout his weekly look on ESPN New York’s “Bart & Hahn” present. “I do not like speaking about it an excessive amount of, however this is among the first steps. Fourteen straight is unacceptable. That is unacceptable. I am 0-2 towards them. That is unacceptable.”
The Jets (1-1) will get an opportunity to finish the streak Sunday at MetLife Stadium.
“I inherited — I walked right into a crew that, we’ve not overwhelmed the Patriots,” the 2022 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Yr mentioned. “I really feel like that is why they introduced me right here, introduced me and Sauce [Gardner] right here and the fellows right here — to make issues like that change. It is time we do what we receives a commission for.”
Wilson wasn’t sufficiently old to drive the final time the Jets beat the Patriots. It was Dec. 27, 2015, when he was 15 years previous.
The streak is on the verge of historic ranges. With a win, the Patriots (0-2) would tie their longest win streak versus any single opponent in franchise historical past. It additionally would tie the NFL’s longest energetic profitable streak towards one opponent. The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs have gained 15 straight over the Denver Broncos.
The longest streak in league historical past is 20 — the Miami Dolphins (1970-1979) over the Buffalo Payments.
“It’s going to gas me all through the week, truthfully,” mentioned Wilson, who has scored the Jets’ solely two touchdowns this season.
Quarterback Zach Wilson, making his second begin for the injured Aaron Rodgers, has performed a few of his worst video games towards the Patriots — a four-interception recreation (2021) and a three-interception recreation (2022).
His most notorious outing towards them got here final Nov. 20, when he accomplished solely 9 of twenty-two passes for 77 yards — a 10-3 loss. Within the postgame information convention, he declined to simply accept any accountability for the loss. Three days later, he was benched for the primary time in his profession.
