Sunday at MetLife Stadium, two teams that had low expectations entering the season meet,

one of them is actually exceeding those expectations.

We're breaking down Jets Panthers today on our Locked-on NFL crossover show.

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Welcome, Jets fans and Panthers fans.

I'm John Bucco, the host of Lockdown Jets, alongside Julian Counsel, the host of Lockdown Panthers. We're here to get you ready for the Carolina Panthers coming to MetLife Stadium this Sunday to take on the New York Jets. You should know the crossover Thursday is presented by prize picks. Download the prize picks app today and use code Lockdown NFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Well, Julian, great to be with you. I think the last time

the Jets and Panthers met, it was the season opener in 2021. It was Sam Darnold's debut with the Panthers,

Zach Wilson's debut with the Jets, and very different times in some ways and in other ways,

not so different because the Jets are still terrible. Yeah, some things change. Some things stay the same.

And that certainly, unfortunately, has been the case up there for the Jets. As you looked at it,

that was dubbed as the Sam Darnold revenge game. And if you watch Sam back when Adam Gase was

just doing a terrible job as head coach up there in New York.

I mean, he wasn't good.

It wasn't like the Jets had any reason to believe that Sam would be what he is today.

And Zach Wilson, that did not work out as well.

And now you guys are trying out Justin Field. So I certainly feel for you and all the Jets fans out there as it just never seems to be getting any better in

Sunday against Denver watching that one when I was in the press box at Carolina

waiting for the game that they played recently against Dallas just like, man, what

what on earth am I watching here?

But for Carolina, things have actually been on the up and up.

So things at least have changed for the Panther since that time. And honestly, you talk about it, that was 2021. That's the last time Carolina was 500. And coincidentally, here they are 500 after that win against Dallas on Sunday. Well, we have a, we have plenty of time to go into the disaster. The 2025 New York guys. Let's start it up with some positivity. What's the big story in Carolina this week? Yeah, the big story really is the fact that they have won back-to-back games. And as I just mentioned a moment ago, they were 500 for the first time since week 10 of the 2021 season. And the last time that they had a three-game winning streak, and that would occur if they win this game on Sunday,

was when they started off the 2021 season with a win against the Jets there in week one here in

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