A lot of Jets fans feel very pessimistic about the team right now, and that is understandable.

But believe it or not, there are a number of reasons to be optimistic about the future of the team.

We're talking reasons for Jets optimism today on Locked On Jets.

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$150 in bonus bets if your first $5 bet wins. Well, today's show we're going to talk about reasons

Jets fans should be optimistic as the calendar turns from 2024 to 2025. And I feel like this show

is necessary to do because there's a lot

of pessimism right now in the New York Jets fan base. And that's completely understandable. The Jets currently

on the longest playoff drought, not just in the NFL, but in any of the four major North American

professional sports leagues. And they are coming off just a tremendously disappointing

season. A lot of Jets fans were expecting big things this year from this team. And the team ended up

going five and 12 and it leads to us turning the page, another new coaching staff in front office

coming in, another new quarterback coming in the end of the Aaron Rogers era. And there are a lot of fans out there who wanted Rogers to return. I was not among them. But I do feel like, despite everything I just said, there are some really positive signs for this franchise. And I'm not going to mention a couple of things. I'm not going to mention the decision to move on from Rogers, although I think it wasn't positive for the franchise.

I think that, you know, we can debate that a lot, and we probably will continue to debate that

a lot in the days and weeks ahead. But I think there are other things to discuss. I'm also not going

to discuss the new coaching staff and the new front office, even though I do think the odds are very high. The Jets are going to have better coaching this year. I mean, everybody always says that when they have a first year coach because usually you fired a bad coach. You assume the new guy is going to come in to be better. That doesn't always work out. But based on what the Jets had last year, where they essentially weren't coached for, you know, three quarters of the season.

After they fired Robert Sala, Jeff Oldberg was pulled in all sorts of different directions.

The Jets, it wasn't so much they had bad coaching.

It almost felt like they had no coaching for much of last season.

It stands the reason the Jets coaching is going to be better.

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