We all know that the 80,000-pound green elephant inside MetLife Stadium is that hardly anybody outside of Zach Wilson and his immediate family are excited about him getting the starting assignment …
At the top, let’s start with this: You are entitled to act any way you want on Sunday, at least within reasonable boundaries of good taste and good behavior. You have paid for your ticket. Some of you will have crossed a couple of bridges and paid a ransom of tolls just to reach MetLife Stadium.
Most of you will spend a good six or seven hours, maybe more — counting pregame tailgate and postgame cornhole — outside on a day when the mercury may sneak into the mid-30s, but no higher. You do this happily, because a meaningful game on December the 18th is all you would have asked for back in the dog days of August.
Both Santa — and Saleh — have been good to you, but you have been good to the Jets, too. You’ve put in your time. You’ve waited for a day like this, a game with the Lions with playoff ramifications, with real table stakes. You’ve endured a blurry rush of lousy football and empty seasons. This is your day. You will lose your voice one way or another, either the easy way or the hard way .
Now the kid gets a mulligan because Mike White’s ribs — and almost a dozen doctors — agree he can’t play football Sunday. So the huddle belongs to Wilson again. “The worst has already happened, right? For me, personally,” Wilson said Friday. “I’m going to just have fun and whatever happens, happens. I’m going to do whatever is best for the team, and that’s out of my control if they make that change down the road.
Well, in truth, the worst could still be in front of him. He could scuffle his first few drives Sunday afternoon. The Lions could certainly take an early lead, the way the Bears took an early lead on the Jets the last time they played at MetLife, in White’s first start. Zach Wilson speaks with the media after Jets practice in Florham Park, N.J.That’s up to you, honestly.
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