There was no shortage of anger & frustration to go around on the Jets sideline during last week’s 15-10 loss to Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots. The most prominent one being the “Wilson vs. Wilson” exchange, as Jets star WR Garrett Wilson was seen giving QB Zach Wilson an earful. That said, Garrett Wilson already got out in front of the situation, speaking with the media after the game to express his confidence in his quarterback:
“Oh yea, come on now. That’s my dawg,” Garrett Wilson said. “I have all the confidence in the world in him. We got to figure it out on offense as a whole.”
That phrase “figure it out on offense as a whole” ringing all the more true, as it seems RB Breece Hall has also hit the media spotlight showing discontent at the play of his QB. Hall was seen liking a viral post on X by user Optimistic Jets. The caption of the video read “What in the world happened to Zach Wilson?”
The post has since disappeared from his list of likes, but as Dov Kleiman just showed, the internet is fast and it is forever. In Kleiman’s recent post—which has been viewed by more than 488,000 people, he displayed screenshots of the Hall liking the post by Optimistic Jets. The engagements in the comment section have been a mixed bag, with some pointing out Hall’s struggles in providing a run game & others calling for Robert Saleh’s job.
This level of perceived frustration out of Jets players didn’t just happen because Aaron Rodgers suffered a season-ending Achilles injury. No, we have to go back to last year. In 2022, when Wilson was speaking with the media after games, he reportedly would refuse to accountability for his poor quarterback play. That would be the beginning of the rift that would serve to divide Wilson from his teammates. He’d be benched shortly after that, but his time on the bench would be short-lived.
Saleh recently came out and said there’s no shortage of confidence in the locker room, but hard to imagine much of anyone really believing that right now.
Update: #Jets RB Breece Hall "Liked" a video-tweet that is captioned with: "What in the world happened to Zach Wilson?"
Looks like maybe some of the reports on the locker room issues are true? https://t.co/RPjZuHcWXX pic.twitter.com/RUwHMIE98r
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) September 28, 2023