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This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowher on Fox Sports Radio.

All right. Here we go. It is a Friday baby. Hope you enjoyed that Josh Allen interview on the facility. That was great. Live in Los Angeles, it's the herd, wherever you may be, and however, you may be listening. Thanks for making us part of your day. You know, I drove into work today, Jay Mack, knowing how happy you would be. And sometimes when a C student gets an A, there's no reason to be cynical. Wow. There's no reason to be judgmental. Wow. The standard for Jet quarterback play over the last seven, eight years, has been so low. You should feel great today. All right. You're a Jets fan. You should feel great. You should be happy today. You're choosing violence early, huh? The standard. Come on. Rogers was lights out last night, Colin. All right. So what's interesting about the NFL, I said this yesterday, we kind of know how it's going to end up, but week to week you don't know what happens. And so before the season started, Jay Mack and I went back and forth, and I said, I think the Jets are going to be a nine-ish

10-win team. I think they'll be in the playoff race with Miami for that wild card spot. Buffalo's

going to win the division, and they're already in first place. I said they'll be in that wild card

spot until week 16, 17, 18. And that's what I thought. And so last night's game in August looked like we thought it would look in August.

Aaron at home against the terrible Patriots team.

But when New England beat Cincinnati, I'm sitting there thinking, hey, New England's got a bite.

They're terrible.

Bill Belichick left Gerard Mayo a mess.

New England is talentless on offense.

So, nothing personal, but Aaron teams at home against a talentless New England team on a short week with a rookie head coach.

So here's where the Jets are.

They got crushed by a really good team.

They crushed a really bad team.

And they had a real tug on the road against an average team.

That's what they are.

But we know that Aaron is at his best when he's comfortable and playing with the lead at home,

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