Coming off an exciting and unexpected run to the AFC Championship game, the New York Jets

moved from raucous Giants Stadium to brand-new MetLife Stadium in 2010. In true partnership

with the New York Giants, $1.6 billion and enough concrete to cover 2.1 million square feet

were poured into a new home: one which would have all the great modern amenities of the new

wave of American sports stadiums, for two of the NFL’s more talented teams.

Fifteen years have passed since the opening of the cavernous, no-frills confines of MetLife, and

both the Jets and Giants have enjoyed zero home field advantage: the Jets themselves are 10

games under .500, with a record of 57-67 and zero home playoff games. Season ticket holders

moving across the Meadowlands parking lot were treated to new and costly PSLs and ticket

prices that climbed every year, ultimately opting for the couch in a new age of massive

flatscreen TVs and a booming resale ticket market – one which visiting fans of more successful

franchises had no problem capitalizing upon. These days, the crowd for every Jet home game is

up for grabs, and the road team usually wins.

Can MetLife Stadium be reclaimed by Jets faithful, or are there too many swirling headwinds in

the arena to reverse the tide and its Same Old Jets? It’s Ladies’ Night at SOJ, and the

Honorable Judges Victoria and Halli – longtime fans and suffering spouses - will decide the

case.

Former QB, cerebral, lives in the film room – all describe the next offensive coordinator of the

New York Jets, Tanner Engstrand. The 42-year-old enters to fix a unit that fizzled under former

OC Nathaniel Hackett and with a Hall of Fame quarterback in Aaron Rodgers leading the way.

The Jets finished a season even in the Top-20 in scoring offense since 2015. In the nine

seasons since, they’ve ranked in the NFL’s bottom-five six times.

Still, Engstrand is “100% confident” he’s the man for the job. Is he? Our courtroom duo and the

Honorable Judge CJ Pukala, Host of The 4 Line, try to understand if a passing game

coordinator working under the premier offensive mind in the current NFL, Ben Johnson, really

was a main force in the success of Detroit’s high-octane attack of the last several years. If so

valuable, why did the Lions promote a different internal hire to OC? Why didn’t Johnson recruit

Engstrand to Chicago? And most of all, why are the Jets once more putting their faith in a coach

who has yet to call a play in an NFL game? Is it Same Old Jets, or did Aaron Glenn and Darren

Mougey uncover a gem?

January 12, 1969. The AFL Champion New York Jets, behind future Hall of Fame quarterback

Joe Namath, win Super Bowl III despite being 18-point underdogs to the NFL’s Baltimore Colts.

Three days earlier, Broadway Joe raised eyebrows at the Miami Touchdown Club when he

proclaimed “We’re gonna win the game, I guarantee it.”

What didn’t the handicappers know? What did Namath know? And after the most legendary bet

ever made on the New York Jets proved to be a winner, how has it come to be that the

franchise has been the NFL’s preeminent star-crossed loser ever since?

Do you believe in lifelong curses? One of our counselors does. The Honorable Judge Dom

DeAngelo, host of the 1 Of A Kind With RVD podcast and longtime Jets fanatic, rules on

whether 82-year-old Joe Namath’s continued existence ensures failure for the Jets.

In January, Aaron Glenn became only the second New York Jets player – and first since Walt

Michaels – to also be hired as head coach. The three-time Pro Bowl cornerback comes home to

mold a talented-yet-underachieving Jets squad who had sky high hopes for 2024, only to

endure an all-time Same Old Jets season which cleaned out the front office and coaching staff

by year’s end.

Glenn learned at the hand of Bill Parcells and has stewarded the Jets thus far in a no-nonsense

way that would make “The Big Tuna” smile. Is Glenn the coach that takes New York back to the

playoffs, or dare it be said – the Super Bowl? Or, like Parcells and every one of the 20 coaches

since Weeb Ewbank, will he manage to fizzle out and join the graveyard of tormented

successors? Counselors Richard and Walz argue the case in front of the Honorable Judges

Snowball and Johnny Boy, hosts of JetsWorldWide.

A brand-new front office and coaching regime have arrived at One Jets Drive, and their very first

major free agent signing was quarterback Justin Fields. A tremendous athlete and five-star

college recruit, the 26-year-old Fields has yet to put down firm roots in his five-year NFL tenure.

Is Fields the uncovered successor to Joe Namath that fans have clamored for 50 years and

counting, or is it Same Old Jets at the quarterback position yet again? Counselors Richard and

Walz argue the case in front of the Honorable Judge Garrett, longtime friend of the show and

diehard Pittsburgh Steelers fan. Judge Garrett paid keen attention to Fields’ play in 2024 and

provides his verdict on the eve of the 2025 football season.

On the eve of the 2025 New York Jets season, two lifelong pals prepare to enter an imaginary courtroom to litigate the fate of their favorite football team.Join Kyle Richard and Nicholas Walz as they describe the origins of their Jet fandom, why they're taking their 13 cases in front of an all-star judging circuit, and everything else listeners can expect from the Same Old Jets? podcast.