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After a 4-13 season in 2021, the 2022 New York Jets schedule should be slightly easier than most, and the team added a lot of pieces in the offseason that should make it better. However, the wins and losses, in the end, will likely depend almost solely on the development of second-year quarterback Zach Wilson.  

General manager Joe Douglas added some solid, but not flashy, pieces in free agency. Signings like offensive guard Laken Tomlinson, tight end C.J. Uzomah, and safety D.J. Reed didn’t make huge headlines but did make the team better.

The 2022 NFL Draft is where the team truly did work.

It ended up with the fourth-highest mark in Sportcasting’s final NFL draft grade point averages. The Jets did so on the strength of three first-round picks — Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner (CB, Cincinnati), Garrett Wilson (WR, Ohio State), and Jermaine Johnson II (DE, Florida State) — and getting the draft’s best running back in the second with Iowa State’s Breece Hall.

While the draft was great, so was last year’s, and that only resulted in four Ws.

Gang Green now has as much talent, if not more, as any team in the AFC East outside of the Buffalo Bills. There are no more excuses for head coach Robert Saleh or Wilson.

Can Wilson take the next step and get the most out of all the talent around him? And is Saleh a head coach who can lead his team to the promised land?

2022 New York Jets Schedule

WeekGameDateTimeChannel
1vs. Baltimore RavensSunday, Sept. 111:00 p.m. ETCBS
2@ Cleveland BrownsSunday, Sept. 181:00 p.m. ETCBS
3vs. Cincinnati BengalsSunday, Sept. 251:00 p.m. ETCBS
4@ Pittsburgh SteelersSunday, Oct. 21:00 p.m. ETCBS
5vs. Miami DolphinsSunday, Oct. 91:00 p.m. ETCBS
6@ Green Bay PackersSunday, Oct. 161:00 p.m. ETFOX
7@ Denver BroncosSunday, Oct. 234:05 p.m. ETCBS
8vs. New England PatriotsSunday, Oct. 301:00 p.m. ETCBS
9vs. Buffalo BillsSunday, Nov. 61:00 p.m. ETCBS
10Bye WeekN/AN/AN/A
11@ New England PatriotsSunday, Nov. 201:00 p.m. ETCBS
12vs. Chicago BearsSunday, Nov. 271:00 p.m. ETFOX
13@ Minnesota VikingsSunday, Dec. 41:00 p.m. ETCBS
14@ Buffalo BillsSunday, Dec. 111:00 p.m. ETCBS
15vs. Detroit LionsSunday, Dec. 181:00 p.m. ETFOX
16vs. Jacksonville JaguarsThursday, Dec. 228:15 p.m. ETPrime Video
17@ Seattle SeahawksSunday, Jan. 14:05 p.m. ETFOX
18@ Miami DolphinsTBDTBDTBD

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Tim Crean started writing about sports in 2016 and joined Sportscasting in 2021. He excels with his versatile coverage of the NFL and soccer landscape, as well as his expertise breaking down sports media, which stems from his many years downloading podcasts before they were even cool and countless hours spent listening to Mike & The Mad Dog and The Dan Patrick Show, among other programs.

As a longtime self-professed sports junkie who even played DII lacrosse at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York, Tim loves reading about all the latest sports news every day and considers it a dream to write about sports professionally. He’s a lifelong Buffalo Bills fan from Western New York who mistakenly thought, back in the early ’90s, that his team would be in the Super Bowl every year. He started following European soccer — with a Manchester City focus — in the early 2000s after spending far too much time playing FIFA.

When he’s not enjoying a round of golf or coaching youth soccer and flag football, Tim likes reading the work of Bill Simmons, Tony Kornheiser, Chuck Klosterman, and Tom Wolfe.