Yes, the Jets can beat the Dallas Cowboys this Sunday, and the path to victory is history

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It is Friday, October 3rd, 2025, and I'm your host, John B, from ganggreennation.com. Thank you so much for making the show your first listener, first watch every day. A big shout out to you every day. This is a daily podcast covering the New York Jets with two episodes each day through the week, Monday, through Friday. The Jets take on the Dallas Cowboys this weekend at MetLife Stadium. Week 5 action kickoff time scheduled for 1 p.m. Eastern on Sunday at the Meadowlands. On today's show, we're going to preview the game. We're going to talk about whether or not this could finally be the start of a Jets turnaround. We'll talk about what the Jets need to do to win this game. And we'll talk about the potential for history to repeat itself. That's where we will start. I think we all know the current situation right now for

the New York Jets. This is an O-N-4 football team. It is an O-N-4 football team that has looked terrible. It is an O-N-4 football team that, frankly, has looked hopeless through the first four weeks of the season. It's a team of the first-year coach who is not getting results. And now the Dallas cowboys are coming to town to face this oh and four football team at metlife stadium if that sounds

familiar you know who is not getting results. And now the Dallas Cowboys are coming to town to face this O-N-4 football team at MetLife Stadium. If that sounds familiar, it should. This was the scenario the Jets found themselves in six years ago in 2019. They were 0-N-4. It was Adam Gase's first year as Jets head coach. And I don't think I need to remind you how bad things were in the gays era, how hopeless things looked in the gays era. A pretty good Dallas team, in fact, came to MetLife Stadium, and the Jets ended up beating them 24 to 22. It was a shocking result heading into that game. Nobody really thought the Jets had a chance to win. I don't think there are a lot of Jets fans who are optimistic about this game on Sunday, but I don't think it's because of Dallas. This Dallas team is honestly not that great. They're one two and one. Their one victory was against a really lousy Giants team, a Giants team that might be as bad as the Jets. I know they beat the Chargers last week, but I thought that was more about the Chargers than anything that the Giants did. But it's just difficult to envision the Jets winning a game the way they've played through the first four weeks of the season. But I'm here to tell you it can happen. You know, there's an old saying in the NFL any given Sunday, and it's true. And there are reasons it's true. I mentioned this on the show

yesterday with Marcus Mosier, our crossover show with Locked-on Cowboys, that the talent gap in the

NFL is very small. The distance between a good NFL player and a bad NFL player, tiny.

You know, and this is not like college. Sometimes you watch colleges where you get like a team in the

SEC or the Big Ten.

They play against some small conference team.

And it's just a total mismatch.

And the big conference team could play a terrible game and still win by four touchdowns

because the talent gap is just so enormously large.

That is not the case in the National Football League.

You see it happen all the time. It feels like every week we see some result. People go, how did that happen? Well, the answer is simple. Again, the talent gap is small. And if the better team plays its A game, it's going to win most of the time. But if the better team in an NFL game does not play its A game and the worst team does play its A game, the talent gap small enough that the worst team can win games. So I think that's what the Jets are looking for this Sunday. And again, I don't want to make the Cowboys out to be some sort of dominant team because the Cowboys have a lot of their own issues. You know, you can go back and listen to my podcast yesterday with Marcus Mosier. We did our weekly crossover show. But you also have to remember that NFL games can swing

on a couple of plays. And six years ago, when the Cowboys came to MetLife Stadium, the Jets jumped out

to a 21-3 lead. And they got that 21-3 lead on three touchdown drives, one of which was a really long drive. They just got the ball with over 11 minutes left in the first quarter. It was their first drive of the game. They scored a touchdown on the first play in the second quarter. They just got to get a strong. They know there's this inordinately long drive. Then there was a touchdown from Sam, Donald, to Robbie Anderson for 92 yards. Then the Jets got a

touchdown before the half of the two-minute drill. In the two-minute situation, things are always

been unusual. Sometimes fluky things shifted NFL game. And we saw that a couple of weeks ago in Tampa

Bay when the Jets almost came back from 20 down to beat the Buccaneers. We saw an Al-Lizarre

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